A review of robot learning for manipulation: Challenges, representations, and algorithms

O Kroemer, S Niekum, G Konidaris - Journal of machine learning research, 2021 - jmlr.org
A key challenge in intelligent robotics is creating robots that are capable of directly
interacting with the world around them to achieve their goals. The last decade has seen …

Robocat: A self-improving generalist agent for robotic manipulation

K Bousmalis, G Vezzani, D Rao, CM Devin… - … on Machine Learning …, 2023 - openreview.net
The ability to leverage heterogeneous robotic experience from different robots and tasks to
quickly master novel skills and embodiments has the potential to transform robot learning …

Toward next-generation learned robot manipulation

J Cui, J Trinkle - Science robotics, 2021 - science.org
The ever-changing nature of human environments presents great challenges to robot
manipulation. Objects that robots must manipulate vary in shape, weight, and configuration …

Robustness via retrying: Closed-loop robotic manipulation with self-supervised learning

F Ebert, S Dasari, AX Lee, S Levine… - Conference on robot …, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
Prediction is an appealing objective for self-supervised learning of behavioral skills,
particularly for autonomous robots. However, effectively utilizing predictive models for …

Bridgedata v2: A dataset for robot learning at scale

HR Walke, K Black, TZ Zhao, Q Vuong… - … on Robot Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
We introduce BridgeData V2, a large and diverse dataset of robotic manipulation behaviors
designed to facilitate research in scalable robot learning. BridgeData V2 contains 53,896 …

Language-conditioned imitation learning for robot manipulation tasks

S Stepputtis, J Campbell, M Phielipp… - Advances in …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Imitation learning is a popular approach for teaching motor skills to robots. However, most
approaches focus on extracting policy parameters from execution traces alone (ie, motion …

Robocat: A self-improving foundation agent for robotic manipulation

K Bousmalis, G Vezzani, D Rao, C Devin… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The ability to leverage heterogeneous robotic experience from different robots and tasks to
quickly master novel skills and embodiments has the potential to transform robot learning …

Q-attention: Enabling efficient learning for vision-based robotic manipulation

S James, AJ Davison - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite the success of reinforcement learning methods, they have yet to have their
breakthrough moment when applied to a broad range of robotic manipulation tasks. This is …

The foundation of efficient robot learning

LP Kaelbling - Science, 2020 - science.org
The past 10 years have seen enormous breakthroughs in machine learning, resulting in
game-changing applications in computer vision and language processing. The field of …

Model learning for robot control: a survey

D Nguyen-Tuong, J Peters - Cognitive processing, 2011 - Springer
Abstract Models are among the most essential tools in robotics, such as kinematics and
dynamics models of the robot's own body and controllable external objects. It is widely …