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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…
Human2LocoMan: Learning Versatile Quadrupedal Manipulation with Human Pretraining
Yaru Niu, Yunzhe Zhang, Mingyang Yu +11
Quadrupedal robots have demonstrated impressive locomotion capabilities in complex environments, but equipping them with autonomous versatile manipulation skills in a scalable way…
Bridging Perception and Action: Spatially-Grounded Mid-Level Representations for Robot Generalization
Jonathan Yang, Chuyuan Kelly Fu, Dhruv Shah +3
In this work, we investigate how spatially grounded auxiliary representations can provide both broad, high-level grounding as well as direct, actionable information to improve poli…
LocoTouch: Learning Dynamic Quadrupedal Transport with Tactile Sensing
Changyi Lin, Yuxin Ray Song, Boda Huo +9
Quadrupedal robots have demonstrated remarkable agility and robustness in traversing complex terrains. However, they struggle with dynamic object interactions, where contact must b…
Chain-of-Modality: Learning Manipulation Programs from Multimodal Human Videos with Vision-Language-Models
Chen Wang, Fei Xia, Wenhao Yu +6
Learning to perform manipulation tasks from human videos is a promising approach for teaching robots. However, many manipulation tasks require changing control parameters during ta…
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…
QuietPaw: Learning Quadrupedal Locomotion with Versatile Noise Preference Alignment
Yuyou Zhang, Yihang Yao, Shiqi Liu +7
When operating at their full capacity, quadrupedal robots can produce loud footstep noise, which can be disruptive in human-centered environments like homes, offices, and hospitals…
Versatile Locomotion Skills for Hexapod Robots
Tomson Qu, Dichen Li, Avideh Zakhor +2
Hexapod robots are potentially suitable for carrying out tasks in cluttered environments since they are stable, compact, and light weight. They also have multi-joint legs and varia…
Vision Language Models are In-Context Value Learners
Yecheng Jason Ma, Joey Hejna, Ayzaan Wahid +15
Predicting temporal progress from visual trajectories is important for intelligent robots that can learn, adapt, and improve. However, learning such progress estimator, or temporal…
Learning Multi-Agent Loco-Manipulation for Long-Horizon Quadrupedal Pushing
Yuming Feng, Chuye Hong, Yaru Niu +6
Recently, quadrupedal locomotion has achieved significant success, but their manipulation capabilities, particularly in handling large objects, remain limited, restricting their us…
Agile Continuous Jumping in Discontinuous Terrains
Yuxiang Yang, Guanya Shi, Changyi Lin +8
We focus on agile, continuous, and terrain-adaptive jumping of quadrupedal robots in discontinuous terrains such as stairs and stepping stones. Unlike single-step jumping, continuo…
Mobility VLA: Multimodal Instruction Navigation with Long-Context VLMs and Topological Graphs
Hao-Tien Lewis Chiang, Zhuo Xu, Zipeng Fu +19
An elusive goal in navigation research is to build an intelligent agent that can understand multimodal instructions including natural language and image, and perform useful navigat…
LocoMan: Advancing Versatile Quadrupedal Dexterity with Lightweight Loco-Manipulators
Changyi Lin, Xingyu Liu, Yuxiang Yang +6
Quadrupedal robots have emerged as versatile agents capable of locomoting and manipulating in complex environments. Traditional designs typically rely on the robot's inherent body…
PIVOT: Iterative Visual Prompting Elicits Actionable Knowledge for VLMs
Soroush Nasiriany, Fei Xia, Wenhao Yu +20
Vision language models (VLMs) have shown impressive capabilities across a variety of tasks, from logical reasoning to visual understanding. This opens the door to richer interactio…
Creative Robot Tool Use with Large Language Models
Mengdi Xu, Peide Huang, Wenhao Yu +7
Tool use is a hallmark of advanced intelligence, exemplified in both animal behavior and robotic capabilities. This paper investigates the feasibility of imbuing robots with the ab…
A Unified Perspective on Multiple Shooting In Differential Dynamic Programming
He Li, Wenhao Yu, Tingnan Zhang +1
Differential Dynamic Programming (DDP) is an efficient computational tool for solving nonlinear optimal control problems. It was originally designed as a single shooting method and…