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most citedToward General-Purpose Robots via Foundation Models: A Survey and Meta-Analysis

26 citations · 26 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.RO2025

Your Learned Constraint is Secretly a Backward Reachable Tube

Mohamad Qadri, Gokul Swamy, Jonathan Francis +2

Inverse Constraint Learning (ICL) is the problem of inferring constraints from safe (i.e., constraint-satisfying) demonstrations. The hope is that these inferred constraints can th…

cs.CV2024

Object and Contact Point Tracking in Demonstrations Using 3D Gaussian Splatting

Michael Büttner, Jonathan Francis, Helge Rhodin +1

This paper introduces a method to enhance Interactive Imitation Learning (IIL) by extracting touch interaction points and tracking object movement from video demonstrations. The ap…

cs.RO2024

Multi-Modal 3D Scene Graph Updater for Shared and Dynamic Environments

Emilio Olivastri, Jonathan Francis, Alberto Pretto +2

The advent of generalist Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Vision Models (VLMs) have streamlined the construction of semantically enriched maps that can enable robots to groun…

cs.RO2024

Towards Open-World Mobile Manipulation in Homes: Lessons from the Neurips 2023 HomeRobot Open Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation Challenge

Sriram Yenamandra, Arun Ramachandran, Mukul Khanna +42

In order to develop robots that can effectively serve as versatile and capable home assistants, it is crucial for them to reliably perceive and interact with a wide variety of obje…

cs.RO2023★ 26 cited

Toward General-Purpose Robots via Foundation Models: A Survey and Meta-Analysis

Yafei Hu, Quanting Xie, Vidhi Jain +20

Building general-purpose robots that operate seamlessly in any environment, with any object, and utilizing various skills to complete diverse tasks has been a long-standing goal in…