7 papers
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Gameplay Filters: Robust Zero-Shot Safety through Adversarial Imagination
Duy P. Nguyen, Kai-Chieh Hsu, Wenhao Yu +2
Despite the impressive recent advances in learning-based robot control, ensuring robustness to out-of-distribution conditions remains an open challenge. Safety filters can, in prin…