HABIT is a large-scale robot demonstration dataset for human-present environments that elicits spatiotemporal synchronization, yielding, and gesture grounding behaviors absent from robot-only training data.
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$\pi_0$: A Vision-Language-Action Flow Model for General Robot Control
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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 artificial intelligence. However, bringing robot learning to the level of generality required for effective real-world systems faces major obstacles in terms of data, generalization, and robustness. In this paper, we discuss how generalist robot policies (i.e., robot foundation models) can address these challenges, and how we can design effective generalist robot policies for complex and highly dexterous tasks. We propose a novel flow matching architecture built on top of a pre-trained vision-language model (VLM) to inherit Internet-scale semantic knowledge. We then discuss how this model can be trained on a large and diverse dataset from multiple dexterous robot platforms, including single-arm robots, dual-arm robots, and mobile manipulators. We evaluate our model in terms of its ability to perform tasks in zero shot after pre-training, follow language instructions from people and from a high-level VLM policy, and its ability to acquire new skills via fine-tuning. Our results cover a wide variety of tasks, such as laundry folding, table cleaning, and assembling boxes.
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- abstract 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 artificial intelligence. However, bringing robot learning to the level of generality required for effective real-world systems faces major obstacles in terms of data, generalization, and robustness. In this paper, we discuss how generalist robot policies (i.e., robot foundation models) can address these challenges, and how we can design effective generalist robot policies for complex and highly dexterous tasks. We propose
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OPT-AIL provides the first provably efficient adversarial imitation learning algorithms under general function approximation, achieving polynomial expert sample and interaction complexity.
RoboLab is a new simulation benchmark with 120 tasks across visual, procedural, and relational axes that quantifies generalization gaps and perturbation sensitivity in task-generalist robotic policies.
OOPSIEVERSE is a new damage-aware simulation benchmark for household robot manipulation that converts contact, thermal, and fluid signals into task-agnostic damage metrics and demonstrates uses in safer policy learning and benchmarking.
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LIBERO-Safety supplies a scalable benchmark, data-generation pipeline, and 19,664-demonstration dataset that exposes a generalization-safety tension in current VLA models where diverse training improves collision avoidance but task success stays limited by trajectory quality and semantic understandi
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X-Tokenizer creates semantic action tokens via asymmetric residual quantization and contrastive pretraining on large trajectory data, outperforming prior methods like FAST on robotic tasks.
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