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most citedRobotic Table Tennis: A Case Study into a High Speed Learning System

18 citations · 45 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

Gemini Robotics 1.5: Pushing the Frontier of Generalist Robots with Advanced Embodied Reasoning, Thinking, and Motion Transfer

Gemini Robotics Team, Abbas Abdolmaleki, Saminda Abeyruwan +169

General-purpose robots need a deep understanding of the physical world, advanced reasoning, and general and dexterous control. This report introduces the latest generation of the G…

cs.RO2025

SAS-Prompt: Large Language Models as Numerical Optimizers for Robot Self-Improvement

Heni Ben Amor, Laura Graesser, Atil Iscen +7

We demonstrate the ability of large language models (LLMs) to perform iterative self-improvement of robot policies. An important insight of this paper is that LLMs have a built-in…

cs.RO2025★ 6 cited

Gemini Robotics: Bringing AI into the Physical World

Gemini Robotics Team, Saminda Abeyruwan, Joshua Ainslie +115

Recent advancements in large multimodal models have led to the emergence of remarkable generalist capabilities in digital domains, yet their translation to physical agents such as…

cs.RO2024★ 3 cited

Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis

David B. D'Ambrosio, Saminda Abeyruwan, Laura Graesser +24

Achieving human-level speed and performance on real world tasks is a north star for the robotics research community. This work takes a step towards that goal and presents the first…

cs.RO2023★ 18 cited

Robotic Table Tennis: A Case Study into a High Speed Learning System

David B. D'Ambrosio, Jonathan Abelian, Saminda Abeyruwan +32

We present a deep-dive into a real-world robotic learning system that, in previous work, was shown to be capable of hundreds of table tennis rallies with a human and has the abilit…

cs.RO2023★ 2 cited

Agile Catching with Whole-Body MPC and Blackbox Policy Learning

Saminda Abeyruwan, Alex Bewley, Nicholas M. Boffi +9

We address a benchmark task in agile robotics: catching objects thrown at high-speed. This is a challenging task that involves tracking, intercepting, and cradling a thrown object…

cs.RO2022★ 2 cited

GoalsEye: Learning High Speed Precision Table Tennis on a Physical Robot

Tianli Ding, Laura Graesser, Saminda Abeyruwan +5

Learning goal conditioned control in the real world is a challenging open problem in robotics. Reinforcement learning systems have the potential to learn autonomously via trial-and…

cs.RO2022★ 12 cited

i-Sim2Real: Reinforcement Learning of Robotic Policies in Tight Human-Robot Interaction Loops

Saminda Abeyruwan, Laura Graesser, David B. D'Ambrosio +6

Sim-to-real transfer is a powerful paradigm for robotic reinforcement learning. The ability to train policies in simulation enables safe exploration and large-scale data collection…

cs.AI2014★ 1 cited

Off-Policy General Value Functions to Represent Dynamic Role Assignments in RoboCup 3D Soccer Simulation

Saminda Abeyruwan, Andreas Seekircher, Ubbo Visser

Collecting and maintaining accurate world knowledge in a dynamic, complex, adversarial, and stochastic environment such as the RoboCup 3D Soccer Simulation is a challenging task. K…