Episodes

  • PoLAR: Factorizing Extent and Mode in Latent Actions for Robot Policy Learning
    Jun 29 2026
    Introduces PoLAR, a method that factorizes latent action representations into extent and mode components to improve robot policy learning efficiency and generalization.
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    13 mins
  • Continual Robot Policy Learning via Variational Neural Dynamics
    Jun 29 2026
    Proposes a variational neural dynamics framework for continual robot policy learning, enabling robots to acquire new skills without forgetting previously learned ones.
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    33 mins
  • PhysisForcing: Physics-Reinforced World Models for Robotic Manipulation
    Jun 29 2026
    Plug-and-play training framework that enforces physical plausibility in robotic video generation models, achieving SOTA on R-Bench, PAI-Bench, and EZS-Bench. Lifts WorldArena success rate from 16% to 24% with zero extra inference cost.
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    24 mins
  • Translation as a Bridging Action
    Jun 29 2026
    Replaces noisy 6DoF hand poses with relative wrist translation as a shared action space between cheap human videos and bimanual robots. Scales data-efficiently and outperforms full-pose baselines on manipulation tasks.
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    37 mins
  • Play2Perfect: Dexterous Play Pretraining for Precise Assembly
    Jun 28 2026
    Pre-trains a dexterous hand via unstructured 'play' interactions with objects, then fine-tunes for precise assembly tasks including 0.5 mm clearance insertions and furniture screwing, achieving 33x better sample efficiency than RL from scratch.
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    16 mins
  • Dexora: Open-Source VLA for High-DoF Bimanual Dexterity
    Jun 28 2026
    First open-source Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model for dual-arm, dual-hand 36-DoF dexterous manipulation, trained on 100K simulated and 10K real trajectories with strong cross-embodiment transfer capabilities.
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    38 mins
  • WorldVLA: Towards Autoregressive Action World Model
    Jun 28 2026
    Unifies VLA and world-modeling in a single autoregressive transformer that predicts both future images and actions. Outperforms separate VLA or world models on LIBERO simulation benchmarks.
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    29 mins
  • HumDex: Humanoid Dexterous Manipulation Made Easy
    Jun 28 2026
    HumDex targets humanoid dexterous manipulation, aiming to simplify the development of dexterous manipulation capabilities for humanoid robots.
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    33 mins