arXiv Machine Learning By John Woods, Hasti Seifi

SkillComposer: Learning Reusable Skills for Natural-Language Robot Programming

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arXiv:2608. 14944v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Natural-language interfaces can lower the barrier to programming robots, but existing systems struggle when users request complex tasks.

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