Towards Autonomous Bricklaying Using Boston Dynamics Spot

Autonomous robotic assembly of interlocking bricks demands seamless integration of long-horizon task reasoning, spatial grounding, and fine-grained manipulation. This paper presents BrickCraft, a compositional framework designed for long-horizon and generalizable interlocking brick assembly. BrickCraft models the assembly process using a relative formulation, where each step is anchored to a reference brick within the partial structure, thereby decomposing complex tasks into a finite set of reusable primitive skills. BrickCraft bridges the gap between high-level assembly plans and physical execution through situated manuals, which provide explicit spatial guidance for learned visuomotor skills by projecting the assembly intent onto real-time robot observations. Finally, BrickCraft employs a modular execution pipeline that chains these spatially grounded skills to accomplish long-horizon assembly tasks. Extensive experimental validations demonstrate that BrickCraft acquires proficient assembly skills from a limited set of demonstrations and effectively composes them for diverse long-horizon assembly tasks. The project website is available at https://intelligent-control-lab.github.io/BrickCraft.

Interlocking brick assembly provides a representative testbed for evaluating real-world robotic manipulation capabilities, where diverse structural designs, complex inter-step dependencies, intricate mechanical interactions and tight insertion tolerances pose substantial challenges. We present BrickCraft-Duo, a modular framework for long-horizon dual-arm collaborative assembly of interlocking bricks through data-efficient skill learning and composition. BrickCraft-Duo learns reusable single- and dual-arm assembly skills from diverse demonstrations, with bilateral symmetry alignment facilitating skill sharing across symmetric arms and assembly--support role assignments. Guided by stability-aware assembly reasoning, BrickCraft-Duo composes heterogeneous skills to achieve autonomous long-horizon execution, and further integrates human-in-the-loop correction for targeted skill refinement. The resulting system achieves long-horizon success rates of at least 60% and step-level completion rates of at least 95% across five real-world assembly tasks involving partially supported configurations, with horizons of up to nine steps. Project website: https://jichuan-yu.github.io/BrickCraft-Duo.

This paper presents a novel autonomous robotic assembly framework for constructing stable structures without relying on predefined architectural blueprints. Instead of following fixed plans, construction tasks are defined through targets and obstacles, allowing the system to adapt more flexibly to environmental uncertainty and variations during the building process. A reinforcement learning (RL) policy, trained using deep Q-learning with successor features, serves as the decision-making component. As a proof of concept, we evaluate the approach on a benchmark of 15 2D robotic assembly tasks of discrete block construction. Experiments using a real-world closed-loop robotic setup demonstrate the feasibility of the method and its ability to handle construction noise. The results suggest that our framework offers a promising direction for more adaptable and robust robotic construction in real-world environments.