arXiv:2608. 09138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While learned robotic policies hold promise for advancing generalizable manipulation, their practical deployment is often hindered by suboptimal execution speeds.
By David D. Yuan, Tony Z. Zhao, Kaylee Burns, Chelsea Finn
While learned robotic policies hold promise for advancing generalizable manipulation, their practical deployment is often hindered by suboptimal execution speeds. Imitation learning policies are inherently limited by hardware constraints and the speed of the operator during data collection.
arXiv:2512. 16861v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Long-horizon manipulation has been a long-standing challenge in the robotics community.
By Zihan Zhou, Animesh Garg, Ajay Mandlekar, Caelan Garrett
arXiv:2608. 01452v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dynamic manipulation is a critical capability for robots operating in complex and dynamic environments, where robots must interact with objects that are moving or require rapid adjustments.
By Haoran Liao, Pengyue Wang, Shuoyu Chen, Kehan Cheng, Xuhang Chen, Yuhao Lin, Mu Lin, Zhizhao Liang, Xiaoyi Fan, Chengyi Xing, Dan Niu, Yi-Lin Wei, Wei-Shi Zheng
Robot manipulation alternates between low-risk transit phases that call for fast execution and high-risk contact stages that demand slow, precise motion. Yet existing Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) only inherit a single fixed speed from training demonstrations.
arXiv:2606. 02194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distilling expert demonstration data into large generative models using behavioral cloning is a scalable approach to learning capable policies for robotic control, particularly for dexterous manipulation.
By Christian Scherer, Joe Watson, Theo Gruner, Daniel Palenicek, Ingmar Posner, Jan Peters