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Motion-trail visualization of a robot arm executing Diffusion Policy on the Push-T benchmark with a red T-shaped block.
Image: Diffusion Policy project authors — Cheng Chi, Zhenjia Xu, Siyuan Feng, Eric Cousineau, Yilun Du, Benjamin Burchfiel, Russ Tedrake, and Shuran Song ↗
SCHOLARLY RECORD / ROBOTICS: SCIENCE AND SYSTEMS

Diffusion Policy: Visuomotor Policy Learning via Action Diffusion

Cheng Chi, Zhenjia Xu, Siyuan Feng, et al.

ConfirmedMar 2023Observatory review: Aug 20, 2026
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The work applies diffusion models to generate robot action sequences from observations.

Why it matters

It introduced a widely studied approach for learning multi-modal manipulation behavior from demonstrations.

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  • Columbia University
  • Toyota Research Institute
  • MIT

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