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most citedQT-Opt: Scalable Deep Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based Robotic Manipulation

713 citations · 1.6k across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.CV2025

Locate 3D: Real-World Object Localization via Self-Supervised Learning in 3D

Sergio Arnaud, Paul McVay, Ada Martin +19

We present LOCATE 3D, a model for localizing objects in 3D scenes from referring expressions like "the small coffee table between the sofa and the lamp." LOCATE 3D sets a new state…

cs.RO2025

DexterityGen: Foundation Controller for Unprecedented Dexterity

Zhao-Heng Yin, Changhao Wang, Luis Pineda +11

Teaching robots dexterous manipulation skills, such as tool use, presents a significant challenge. Current approaches can be broadly categorized into two strategies: human teleoper…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Sparsh: Self-supervised touch representations for vision-based tactile sensing

Carolina Higuera, Akash Sharma, Chaithanya Krishna Bodduluri +8

In this work, we introduce general purpose touch representations for the increasingly accessible class of vision-based tactile sensors. Such sensors have led to many recent advance…

cs.RO2023

Neural feels with neural fields: Visuo-tactile perception for in-hand manipulation

Sudharshan Suresh, Haozhi Qi, Tingfan Wu +9

To achieve human-level dexterity, robots must infer spatial awareness from multimodal sensing to reason over contact interactions. During in-hand manipulation of novel objects, suc…

cs.HC2023★ 15 cited

Habitat 3.0: A Co-Habitat for Humans, Avatars and Robots

Xavier Puig, Eric Undersander, Andrew Szot +20

We present Habitat 3.0: a simulation platform for studying collaborative human-robot tasks in home environments. Habitat 3.0 offers contributions across three dimensions: (1) Accur…

cs.RO2023

What do we learn from a large-scale study of pre-trained visual representations in sim and real environments?

Sneha Silwal, Karmesh Yadav, Tingfan Wu +10

We present a large empirical investigation on the use of pre-trained visual representations (PVRs) for training downstream policies that execute real-world tasks. Our study involve…

cs.RO2023★ 2 cited

Deep RL at Scale: Sorting Waste in Office Buildings with a Fleet of Mobile Manipulators

Alexander Herzog, Kanishka Rao, Karol Hausman +37

We describe a system for deep reinforcement learning of robotic manipulation skills applied to a large-scale real-world task: sorting recyclables and trash in office buildings. Rea…

cs.RO2023

USA-Net: Unified Semantic and Affordance Representations for Robot Memory

Benjamin Bolte, Austin Wang, Jimmy Yang +3

In order for robots to follow open-ended instructions like "go open the brown cabinet over the sink", they require an understanding of both the scene geometry and the semantics of…

cs.RO2021★ 565 cited

How to Train Your Robot with Deep Reinforcement Learning; Lessons We've Learned

Julian Ibarz, Jie Tan, Chelsea Finn +3

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising approach for autonomously acquiring complex behaviors from low level sensor observations. Although a large portion of de…

cs.RO2020

Action Image Representation: Learning Scalable Deep Grasping Policies with Zero Real World Data

Mohi Khansari, Daniel Kappler, Jianlan Luo +2

This paper introduces Action Image, a new grasp proposal representation that allows learning an end-to-end deep-grasping policy. Our model achieves grasp success on re…

cs.RO2019★ 18 cited

Quantile QT-Opt for Risk-Aware Vision-Based Robotic Grasping

Cristian Bodnar, Adrian Li, Karol Hausman +2

The distributional perspective on reinforcement learning (RL) has given rise to a series of successful Q-learning algorithms, resulting in state-of-the-art performance in arcade ga…

cs.LG2019★ 15 cited

Watch, Try, Learn: Meta-Learning from Demonstrations and Reward

Allan Zhou, Eric Jang, Daniel Kappler +7

Imitation learning allows agents to learn complex behaviors from demonstrations. However, learning a complex vision-based task may require an impractical number of demonstrations.…

cs.RO2019★ 1 cited

Learning Probabilistic Multi-Modal Actor Models for Vision-Based Robotic Grasping

Mengyuan Yan, Adrian Li, Mrinal Kalakrishnan +1

Many previous works approach vision-based robotic grasping by training a value network that evaluates grasp proposals. These approaches require an optimization process at run-time…

cs.RO2018

Sim-to-Real via Sim-to-Sim: Data-efficient Robotic Grasping via Randomized-to-Canonical Adaptation Networks

Stephen James, Paul Wohlhart, Mrinal Kalakrishnan +6

Real world data, especially in the domain of robotics, is notoriously costly to collect. One way to circumvent this can be to leverage the power of simulation to produce large amou…

cs.LG2018★ 713 cited

QT-Opt: Scalable Deep Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based Robotic Manipulation

Dmitry Kalashnikov, Alex Irpan, Peter Pastor +8

In this paper, we study the problem of learning vision-based dynamic manipulation skills using a scalable reinforcement learning approach. We study this problem in the context of g…

cs.LG2017★ 10 cited

Multi-Task Domain Adaptation for Deep Learning of Instance Grasping from Simulation

Kuan Fang, Yunfei Bai, Stefan Hinterstoisser +2

Learning-based approaches to robotic manipulation are limited by the scalability of data collection and accessibility of labels. In this paper, we present a multi-task domain adapt…

cs.LG2017★ 1 cited

Using Simulation and Domain Adaptation to Improve Efficiency of Deep Robotic Grasping

Konstantinos Bousmalis, Alex Irpan, Paul Wohlhart +9

Instrumenting and collecting annotated visual grasping datasets to train modern machine learning algorithms can be extremely time-consuming and expensive. An appealing alternative…

cs.LG2016★ 136 cited

Collective Robot Reinforcement Learning with Distributed Asynchronous Guided Policy Search

Ali Yahya, Adrian Li, Mrinal Kalakrishnan +2

In principle, reinforcement learning and policy search methods can enable robots to learn highly complex and general skills that may allow them to function amid the complexity and…

cs.RO2016★ 12 cited

Path Integral Guided Policy Search

Yevgen Chebotar, Mrinal Kalakrishnan, Ali Yahya +3

We present a policy search method for learning complex feedback control policies that map from high-dimensional sensory inputs to motor torques, for manipulation tasks with discont…

cs.RO2015★ 80 cited

Probabilistic Object Tracking using a Range Camera

Manuel Wüthrich, Peter Pastor, Mrinal Kalakrishnan +2

We address the problem of tracking the 6-DoF pose of an object while it is being manipulated by a human or a robot. We use a dynamic Bayesian network to perform inference and compu…