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Image: Mobile ALOHA project authors / Stanford University01teleoperationZipeng Fu, Tony Z. Zhao, Chelsea Finn
The paper presents a mobile bimanual teleoperation system and imitation-learning experiments for household-style tasks.
Image: Open X-Embodiment consortium / Google DeepMind and contributing research labs02robot learningOpen X-Embodiment Collaboration
The project aggregates robot demonstration data across institutions and studies models trained across different robot embodiments.
Image: RT-2 project authors / Google DeepMind03vision-language-action modelsAnthony Brohan, Noah Brown, Justice Carbajal, et al.
The paper describes vision-language-action models that represent robot actions alongside visual and language inputs.
Image: Diffusion Policy project authors — Cheng Chi, Zhenjia Xu, Siyuan Feng, Eric Cousineau, Yilun Du, Benjamin Burchfiel, Russ Tedrake, and Shuran Song04imitation learningCheng Chi, Zhenjia Xu, Siyuan Feng, et al.
The work applies diffusion models to generate robot action sequences from observations.
Image: Hugh Durrant-Whyte and Tim Bailey / IEEE05SLAMHugh Durrant-Whyte, Tim Bailey
A tutorial treatment of the probabilistic foundations and core formulations of SLAM.
Image: Google Research and X; research by Sergey Levine, Peter Pastor, Alex Krizhevsky, and Deirdre Quillen06robotic graspingSergey Levine, Peter Pastor, Alex Krizhevsky, Deirdre Quillen
The work studies closed-loop grasping learned from a large collection of robot interaction data.