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Embodied AI 101

Embodied AI 101

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A Thousand Tasks, One Day, and the Case Against Learning Everything End to End

Aug 1, 202632 min

HUG: Turning Everyday Human Grasps Into a Robot-Ready Prior

Aug 1, 202633 min

SkillPlug: Teaching Robot Policies to Reuse the Moves Between Tasks

Aug 1, 202637 min

Expand Before You Compress: TEAM-VLA's Training-Free Shortcut to Faster Robot Policies

Aug 1, 202628 min

One Policy, Three Bodies, Zero Messages: Inside CHORUS

Jul 29, 202628 min

Anchor the Semantics, Align the Actions: A Better Way to Fine-Tune VLAs

Jul 29, 202635 min

Learning the Rule, Not the Gait: Stick-Insect Behavior as a Portable Robot Objective

Jul 29, 202630 min

Two Brains Under Pressure: How UnderwaterVLA Connects Language Models to AUV Control

Jul 29, 202630 min

From Demo to Duty: RL-100's Real-World Reinforcement Learning Flywheel

Jul 29, 202633 min

Distilling a Swarm into 158 Million Parameters: Inside MiniUAV-VLA

Jul 29, 202633 min

Imagining Locomotion: Learning a Neural World Model for Legged Robots

Jul 23, 202633 min

One Model to See, Plan, and Act: Introducing EO-1 for Embodied AI

Jul 23, 202627 min

Video-Action Models for Robot Learning

Jul 23, 202616 min

FastDSAC: Unlocking the Potential of Maximum Entropy RL in High-Dimensional Humanoid Control

Jul 22, 202625 min

A Minimalist Retargeting-Guided Reinforcement Learning Recipe for Dexterous Manipulation

Jul 22, 202640 min

DexNDM: Closing the Reality Gap for Dexterous In-Hand Rotation

Jul 22, 202630 min

Learning Multi-Modal Trajectory Policies for Data-Efficient Robotic Manipulation

Jul 22, 202628 min

ACE: Agentic Control for Embodied Manipulation via Zero-shot Workflow Reasoning

Jul 21, 202646 min

Let the Body Follow: Coupled Egocentric Control for Whole-Body Robot Teleoperation

Jul 21, 202618 min

GigaWorld-Policy-0.5: An Efficient Mixture-of-Transformers Policy for Real-Time Robot Control

Jul 20, 202635 min

Xiaomi-Robotics-1: A Scalable Vision-Language-Action Foundation Model for Mobile Manipulation

Jul 20, 202620 min

Local Policies Enable Zero-shot Long-Horizon Manipulation

Jul 19, 202633 min

Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based Dexterous Manipulation on Humanoids

Jul 19, 202636 min

UniTracker: A Universal Motion Tracking Framework for Humanoid Robots

Jul 19, 202626 min

ViTacFormer: Dexterous Manipulation via Active Vision and High-Resolution Touch Sensing

Jul 19, 202623 min

Masked IRL: LLM-Guided Reward Disambiguation from Demonstrations and Language

Jul 19, 202627 min

FlowDAgger: Human-in-the-Loop Adaptation of Generative Robot Policies in Latent Space

Jul 19, 202616 min

RoboTTT: End-to-End Robotic Assembly with Test-Time Training

Jul 18, 202623 min

Xiaomi-Robotics-U0: A 38B World-Foundation Model for Unified Embodied Perception and Synthesis

Jul 18, 202627 min

SpatialPoint: Spatial-Aware Point Prediction for Embodied Localization

Jul 18, 202622 min

Multi-AUV Scene-Adaptive Embodied Intelligence for Multi-Target Tracking

Jul 18, 202645 min

Speedup Patch: Learning a Plug-and-Play Policy to Accelerate Embodied Manipulation

Jul 17, 202642 min

R3DP: Real-Time 3D-Aware Policy for Embodied Manipulation

Jul 17, 202626 min

VistaVLA: Geometry- and Semantic-Aware 3D Gaussian-Grounded VLA for Robotic Manipulation

Jul 17, 202643 min

SKooP: Symmetric Koopman Predictions for Legged Robot Reinforcement Learning

Jul 17, 202639 min

RobotTT: A Tactile Transformer for Dexterous Manipulation

Jul 17, 202621 min

TAC-LOCO: Unified Whole-Body Control for Contact-Aware Locomotion and Manipulation

Jul 16, 202621 min

TACTIC: Contact-Centric Control for Whole-Arm Manipulation

Jul 16, 202644 min

SIEVE: Structure-Aware Data Selection for Imitation Learning with VLAs

Jul 16, 202612 min

DexMachina: RL for Long-Horizon Bimanual Dexterous Policies

Jul 16, 202626 min

Genie Envisioner: A Unified World Foundation Platform for Robotic Manipulation

Jul 16, 202626 min

RoboTTT: Test-Time Training for Visuomotor Policies

Jul 15, 202638 min

HY-Embodied-VLM-1.0: Efficient Physical-World Agents

Jul 15, 202630 min

Learning Unified Force and Position Control for Legged Loco-Manipulation

Jul 15, 202640 min

HapticVLA: Extending Vision-Language-Action Models to Contact-Rich Tasks Without Touch Sensors

Jul 14, 202629 min

AnoleVLA: Lightweight VLA with Deep State Space Models for Mobile Manipulation

Jul 14, 202631 min

ABot-N1: Visual Language Navigation Foundation Model

Jul 14, 202639 min

ABot-AgentOS: A General-Purpose Robotic Agent Operating System

Jul 14, 202627 min

Trust Region Policy Distillation (TOP-D)

Jul 13, 202633 min

HANDOFF: Humanoid Agentic Task-Space Whole-Body Control via Distilled Complementary Teachers

Jul 13, 202626 min