Robot Learning
Robot learning aims to enable robots to acquire new skills and adapt to diverse environments through learning, rather than explicit programming. Current research heavily focuses on improving data efficiency and generalization, employing techniques like transformer networks, diffusion models, and reinforcement learning algorithms (e.g., PPO, SAC) often combined with large language models and imitation learning from human demonstrations or simulations. This field is crucial for advancing robotics, enabling robots to perform complex tasks in unstructured settings and potentially revolutionizing various industries, from manufacturing and healthcare to logistics and home assistance.
Papers
UniT: Unified Tactile Representation for Robot Learning
Zhengtong Xu, Raghava Uppuluri, Xinwei Zhang, Cael Fitch, Philip Glen Crandall, Wan Shou, Dongyi Wang, Yu She
Body Transformer: Leveraging Robot Embodiment for Policy Learning
Carmelo Sferrazza, Dun-Ming Huang, Fangchen Liu, Jongmin Lee, Pieter Abbeel
A Backbone for Long-Horizon Robot Task Understanding
Xiaoshuai Chen, Wei Chen, Dongmyoung Lee, Yukun Ge, Nicolas Rojas, Petar Kormushev
Actra: Optimized Transformer Architecture for Vision-Language-Action Models in Robot Learning
Yueen Ma, Dafeng Chi, Shiguang Wu, Yuecheng Liu, Yuzheng Zhuang, Jianye Hao, Irwin King