Deep reinforcement learning for robotics: A survey of real-world successes

C Tang, B Abbatematteo, J Hu… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Reinforcement learning (RL), particularly its combination with deep neural networks,
referred to as deep RL (DRL), has shown tremendous promise across a wide range of …

Robot learning from randomized simulations: A review

F Muratore, F Ramos, G Turk, W Yu… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The rise of deep learning has caused a paradigm shift in robotics research, favoring
methods that require large amounts of data. Unfortunately, it is prohibitively expensive to …

Foundation models in robotics: Applications, challenges, and the future

R Firoozi, J Tucker, S Tian… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
We survey applications of pretrained foundation models in robotics. Traditional deep
learning models in robotics are trained on small datasets tailored for specific tasks, which …

Extreme parkour with legged robots

X Cheng, K Shi, A Agarwal… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Humans can perform parkour by traversing obstacles in a highly dynamic fashion requiring
precise eye-muscle coordination and movement. Getting robots to do the same task requires …

Eureka: Human-level reward design via coding large language models

YJ Ma, W Liang, G Wang, DA Huang, O Bastani… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Large Language Models (LLMs) have excelled as high-level semantic planners for
sequential decision-making tasks. However, harnessing them to learn complex low-level …

Learning agile soccer skills for a bipedal robot with deep reinforcement learning

T Haarnoja, B Moran, G Lever, SH Huang… - Science Robotics, 2024 - science.org
We investigated whether deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) is able to synthesize
sophisticated and safe movement skills for a low-cost, miniature humanoid robot that can be …

A survey of zero-shot generalisation in deep reinforcement learning

R Kirk, A Zhang, E Grefenstette, T Rocktäschel - Journal of Artificial …, 2023 - jair.org
The study of zero-shot generalisation (ZSG) in deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) aims to
produce RL algorithms whose policies generalise well to novel unseen situations at …

Rvt: Robotic view transformer for 3d object manipulation

A Goyal, J Xu, Y Guo, V Blukis… - Conference on Robot …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
For 3D object manipulation, methods that build an explicit 3D representation perform better
than those relying only on camera images. But using explicit 3D representations like voxels …

Legged locomotion in challenging terrains using egocentric vision

A Agarwal, A Kumar, J Malik… - Conference on robot …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Animals are capable of precise and agile locomotion using vision. Replicating this ability
has been a long-standing goal in robotics. The traditional approach has been to decompose …

Learning quadrupedal locomotion on deformable terrain

S Choi, G Ji, J Park, H Kim, J Mun, JH Lee… - Science Robotics, 2023 - science.org
Simulation-based reinforcement learning approaches are leading the next innovations in
legged robot control. However, the resulting control policies are still not applicable on soft …