Robotics and embodied AI

Manipulation, locomotion, sim-to-real transfer and autonomous driving: learning systems that have to survive physics.

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Berkeley AI Research
Nov 1, 2025

RL without TD learning

In this post, I’ll introduce a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm based on an “alternative” paradigm: divide and conquer . Unlike traditional methods, this algorithm is not based on temporal difference (TD) learning (which has scalability challenges ), and scales well to long-horizon tasks.

OpenAI Blog
Nov 7, 2018

Learning concepts with energy functions

We’ve developed an energy-based model that can quickly learn to identify and generate instances of concepts, such as near, above, between, closest, and furthest, expressed as sets of 2d points. Our model learns these concepts after only five demonstrations.