Existing texture datasets for tactile sensing primarily consist of sensor readings from a specific sensor interacting with available surfaces/objects rather than describing the textures themselves, limiting fair comparison between tactile sensors and hindering reproducible research. In this work, we introduce a 3D-prin...
Dexter R. Shepherd, Nicolas Herzig, Phil Husbands et al.· 0 citations
The Very Big Video Reasoning (VBVR) Dataset is introduced, an unprecedentedly large-scale resource spanning 200 curated reasoning tasks following a principled taxonomy and over one million video clips, approximately three orders of magnitude larger than existing datasets.
Maijunxian Wang, Rui-Si Wang, Ju-Yi Lin et al.· arXiv.org· 28 citations· ⚡5
Experimental results demonstrate that ForgetMimic effectively eliminates memory of designated motions while maintaining the normal operation of all other motions, and identifies and resolves two key training mechanisms in robot control that lead to unlearning failure.
Xu-Kun Luan, Zhong-Xiang Lei, Chen Gong et al.· 0 citations
Control barrier functions (CBF) are a popular safety filter to ensure safety for nonlinear dynamical systems. However, when the system is subject to uncertainties and disturbances, this requires the use of robust variants of CBFs, which can be difficult to construct and can be overly conservative, especially for high-d...
Oswin So, Eric Yu, Chuchu Fan· 0 citations
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Robotic assembly in high-mixture settings requires adaptable systems that can handle diverse parts, yet current approaches typically rely on policies specialized to each insertion task. Although this can reach high success rates, it makes the process of deploying systems for new problems tedious and time consuming. We...
Advances in generative modeling have recently been extensively employed in robotics for policy learning. In particular, Conditional Flow Matching (CFM) trained with expert demonstrations has been shown to outperform existing methods on robot manipulation benchmarks. While prior work has mainly focused on single-task se...
Shreya Deshmukh, Imen Mahdi, Nick Heppert et al.· 0 citations
A three-stage pipeline that transforms abundant unlabelled observation-trajectory pairs into a substrate for language-conditioned control and achieves a Driving Score of 87.98 and a Success Rate of 70.46%, matching or surpassing fully supervised baselines on the closed-loop Bench2Drive benchmark.
Alexey Zakharov, Kemal Oksuz, P. Dokania· 0 citations
Safety to Competence (S2C), a two-stage RL framework that separates safety synthesis from competitive task learning, is proposed and it is proved that perfect filtering preserves policy non-exploitability when all players commit to safe maneuvers.
Rui-Han Wu, Rui Yang, Donggeon David Oh et al.· 1 citation
Action-chunked visuomotor policies predict overlapping trajectories, so every executed action is covered by several predictions. Temporal ensembling smooths execution by combining these predictions with an exponentially weighted mean. One corrupted prediction can move the aggregate without bound: its breakdown point is...
Robotic embodiment encompasses the sensing, kinematics, dynamics, geometry, actuation, and control through which an agent physically interacts with the world. These properties vary across robots and change over time. We argue that general embodied intelligence requires learning that accumulates across these differences...
Personalizing exoskeleton assistance across operating conditions is constrained by the time and physical effort required to collect user feedback. We examined whether a user's preference landscape varies smoothly across operating conditions and when this continuity supports learning from limited feedback. We propose Co...
Sunin Baek, Sung-Woon Park, Daekyum Kim· 0 citations
A deep discrete-time dissipative recurrent neural network (DissipNet) that explicitly enforces dissipativity, a key property related to stability and energy dissipation, through structural weight constraints and a dedicated training algorithm is proposed.
A new system identifies and corrects unreliable object descriptions stored in a robot’s memory, improving the robot’s ability to interact with its environment.
Robots are getting smarter, but how can their hardware match that growth? New Microsoft Research findings show that moving AI inference beyond the robot can improve task success, boost efficiency, and support more advanced physical AI workloads. The post Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics appeared first on Microsoft Research.