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: a Steerable Generalist Robotic Foundation Model with Emergent Capabilities
Physical Intelligence, Bo Ai, Ali Amin +85
We present a new robotic foundation model, called , that can enable strong out-of-the-box performance in a wide range of scenarios. can follow diverse language i…
: a VLA That Learns From Experience
Physical Intelligence, Ali Amin, Raichelle Aniceto +53
We study how vision-language-action (VLA) models can improve through real-world deployments via reinforcement learning (RL). We present a general-purpose method, RL with Experience…
: a Vision-Language-Action Model with Open-World Generalization
Physical Intelligence, Kevin Black, Noah Brown +33
In order for robots to be useful, they must perform practically relevant tasks in the real world, outside of the lab. While vision-language-action (VLA) models have demonstrated im…
RLDG: Robotic Generalist Policy Distillation via Reinforcement Learning
Charles Xu, Qiyang Li, Jianlan Luo +1
Recent advances in robotic foundation models have enabled the development of generalist policies that can adapt to diverse tasks. While these models show impressive flexibility, th…
: A Vision-Language-Action Flow Model for General Robot Control
Kevin Black, Noah Brown, Danny Driess +21
Robot learning holds tremendous promise to unlock the full potential of flexible, general, and dexterous robot systems, as well as to address some of the deepest questions in artif…
GenCHiP: Generating Robot Policy Code for High-Precision and Contact-Rich Manipulation Tasks
Kaylee Burns, Ajinkya Jain, Keegan Go +4
Large Language Models (LLMs) have been successful at generating robot policy code, but so far these results have been limited to high-level tasks that do not require precise moveme…
RT-Sketch: Goal-Conditioned Imitation Learning from Hand-Drawn Sketches
Priya Sundaresan, Quan Vuong, Jiayuan Gu +10
Natural language and images are commonly used as goal representations in goal-conditioned imitation learning (IL). However, natural language can be ambiguous and images can be over…
PIVOT: Iterative Visual Prompting Elicits Actionable Knowledge for VLMs
Soroush Nasiriany, Fei Xia, Wenhao Yu +20
Vision language models (VLMs) have shown impressive capabilities across a variety of tasks, from logical reasoning to visual understanding. This opens the door to richer interactio…
AutoRT: Embodied Foundation Models for Large Scale Orchestration of Robotic Agents
Michael Ahn, Debidatta Dwibedi, Chelsea Finn +24
Foundation models that incorporate language, vision, and more recently actions have revolutionized the ability to harness internet scale data to reason about useful tasks. However,…
Foundation Models in Robotics: Applications, Challenges, and the Future
Roya Firoozi, Johnathan Tucker, Stephen Tian +12
We survey applications of pretrained foundation models in robotics. Traditional deep learning models in robotics are trained on small datasets tailored for specific tasks, which li…
SARA-RT: Scaling up Robotics Transformers with Self-Adaptive Robust Attention
Isabel Leal, Krzysztof Choromanski, Deepali Jain +11
We present Self-Adaptive Robust Attention for Robotics Transformers (SARA-RT): a new paradigm for addressing the emerging challenge of scaling up Robotics Transformers (RT) for on-…
Foundations for Transfer in Reinforcement Learning: A Taxonomy of Knowledge Modalities
Markus Wulfmeier, Arunkumar Byravan, Sarah Bechtle +2
Contemporary artificial intelligence systems exhibit rapidly growing abilities accompanied by the growth of required resources, expansive datasets and corresponding investments int…
Chain of Code: Reasoning with a Language Model-Augmented Code Emulator
Chengshu Li, Jacky Liang, Andy Zeng +7
Code provides a general syntactic structure to build complex programs and perform precise computations when paired with a code interpreter - we hypothesize that language models (LM…
RT-Trajectory: Robotic Task Generalization via Hindsight Trajectory Sketches
Jiayuan Gu, Sean Kirmani, Paul Wohlhart +14
Generalization remains one of the most important desiderata for robust robot learning systems. While recently proposed approaches show promise in generalization to novel objects, s…
What Makes Pre-Trained Visual Representations Successful for Robust Manipulation?
Kaylee Burns, Zach Witzel, Jubayer Ibn Hamid +3
Inspired by the success of transfer learning in computer vision, roboticists have investigated visual pre-training as a means to improve the learning efficiency and generalization…
RoboVQA: Multimodal Long-Horizon Reasoning for Robotics
Pierre Sermanet, Tianli Ding, Jeffrey Zhao +18
We present a scalable, bottom-up and intrinsically diverse data collection scheme that can be used for high-level reasoning with long and medium horizons and that has 2.2x higher t…
Q-Transformer: Scalable Offline Reinforcement Learning via Autoregressive Q-Functions
Yevgen Chebotar, Quan Vuong, Alex Irpan +22
In this work, we present a scalable reinforcement learning method for training multi-task policies from large offline datasets that can leverage both human demonstrations and auton…
Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models
Embodiment Collaboration, Abby O'Neill, Abdul Rehman +291
Large, high-capacity models trained on diverse datasets have shown remarkable successes on efficiently tackling downstream applications. In domains from NLP to Computer Vision, thi…
RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models Transfer Web Knowledge to Robotic Control
Anthony Brohan, Noah Brown, Justice Carbajal +51
We study how vision-language models trained on Internet-scale data can be incorporated directly into end-to-end robotic control to boost generalization and enable emergent semantic…
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…
PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model
Danny Driess, Fei Xia, Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi +19
Large language models excel at a wide range of complex tasks. However, enabling general inference in the real world, e.g., for robotics problems, raises the challenge of grounding.…
Open-World Object Manipulation using Pre-trained Vision-Language Models
Austin Stone, Ted Xiao, Yao Lu +9
For robots to follow instructions from people, they must be able to connect the rich semantic information in human vocabulary, e.g. "can you get me the pink stuffed whale?" to thei…
Grounded Decoding: Guiding Text Generation with Grounded Models for Embodied Agents
Wenlong Huang, Fei Xia, Dhruv Shah +8
Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) has demonstrated the ability to learn and leverage Internet-scale knowledge through pre-training with autoregressive models. Unfortu…
Scaling Robot Learning with Semantically Imagined Experience
Tianhe Yu, Ted Xiao, Austin Stone +10
Recent advances in robot learning have shown promise in enabling robots to perform a variety of manipulation tasks and generalize to novel scenarios. One of the key contributing fa…