3 papers
cs.RO2025
The Reality Gap in Robotics: Challenges, Solutions, and Best Practices
Elie Aljalbout, Jiaxu Xing, Angel Romero +9
Machine learning has facilitated significant advancements across various robotics domains, including navigation, locomotion, and manipulation. Many such achievements have been driv…
cs.RO2025
Refinery: Active Fine-tuning and Deployment-time Optimization for Contact-Rich Policies
Bingjie Tang, Iretiayo Akinola, Jie Xu +6
Simulation-based learning has enabled policies for precise, contact-rich tasks (e.g., robotic assembly) to reach high success rates (~80%) under high levels of observation noise an…
cs.RO2025
SRSA: Skill Retrieval and Adaptation for Robotic Assembly Tasks
Yijie Guo, Bingjie Tang, Iretiayo Akinola +3
Enabling robots to learn novel tasks in a data-efficient manner is a long-standing challenge. Common strategies involve carefully leveraging prior experiences, especially transitio…