4 papers
ORCA: A Platform for Open-Source Dexterity Research
Francesco Capuano, Maximilian Eberlein, Fabrice Bourquin +1
Robotics manipulation research increasingly focuses on two-finger parallel grippers for their effectiveness, affordability, and ease of teleoperation. Grippers are nonetheless limi…
stable-worldmodel: A Platform for Reproducible World Modeling Research and Evaluation
Lucas Maes, Quentin Le Lidec, Luiz Facury +9
World models are central to building agents that can reason, plan, and generalize beyond their training data. However, research on world models is currently fragmented, with dispar…
Robot Learning: A Tutorial
Francesco Capuano, Caroline Pascal, Adil Zouitine +2
Robot learning is at an inflection point, driven by rapid advancements in machine learning and the growing availability of large-scale robotics data. This shift from classical, mod…
SmolVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Affordable and Efficient Robotics
Mustafa Shukor, Dana Aubakirova, Francesco Capuano +11
Vision-language models (VLMs) pretrained on large-scale multimodal datasets encode rich visual and linguistic knowledge, making them a strong foundation for robotics. Rather than t…