Self-driving laboratories for chemistry and materials science

G Tom, SP Schmid, SG Baird, Y Cao, K Darvish… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Self-driving laboratories (SDLs) promise an accelerated application of the scientific method.
Through the automation of experimental workflows, along with autonomous experimental …

Roboagent: Generalization and efficiency in robot manipulation via semantic augmentations and action chunking

H Bharadhwaj, J Vakil, M Sharma… - … on Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The grand aim of having a single robot that can manipulate arbitrary objects in diverse
settings is at odds with the paucity of robotics datasets. Acquiring and growing such datasets …

Sceneverse: Scaling 3d vision-language learning for grounded scene understanding

B Jia, Y Chen, H Yu, Y Wang, X Niu, T Liu, Q Li… - … on Computer Vision, 2025 - Springer
Abstract 3D vision-language (3D-VL) grounding, which aims to align language with 3D
physical environments, stands as a cornerstone in developing embodied agents. In …

Toward general-purpose robots via foundation models: A survey and meta-analysis

Y Hu, Q Xie, V Jain, J Francis, J Patrikar… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Building general-purpose robots that operate seamlessly in any environment, with any
object, and utilizing various skills to complete diverse tasks has been a long-standing goal in …

Transfer learning in robotics: An upcoming breakthrough? A review of promises and challenges

N Jaquier, MC Welle, A Gams, K Yao… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Transfer learning is a conceptually-enticing paradigm in pursuit of truly intelligent embodied
agents. The core concept—reusing prior knowledge to learn in and from novel situations—is …

Scaling robot learning with semantically imagined experience

T Yu, T Xiao, A Stone, J Tompson, A Brohan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recent advances in robot learning have shown promise in enabling robots to perform a
variety of manipulation tasks and generalize to novel scenarios. One of the key contributing …

Vima: Robot manipulation with multimodal prompts

Y Jiang, A Gupta, Z Zhang, G Wang, Y Dou, Y Chen… - 2023 - openreview.net
Prompt-based learning has emerged as a successful paradigm in natural language
processing, where a single general-purpose language model can be instructed to perform …

Physcene: Physically interactable 3d scene synthesis for embodied ai

Y Yang, B Jia, P Zhi, S Huang - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
With recent developments in Embodied Artificial Intelligence (EAI) research there has been
a growing demand for high-quality large-scale interactive scene generation. While prior …

Diagnosis, feedback, adaptation: A human-in-the-loop framework for test-time policy adaptation

A Peng, A Netanyahu, MK Ho, T Shu… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Policies often fail at test-time due to distribution shifts—changes in the state and reward that
occur when an end user deploys the policy in environments different from those seen in …

Viplanner: Visual semantic imperative learning for local navigation

P Roth, J Nubert, F Yang, M Mittal… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Real-time path planning in outdoor environments still challenges modern robotic systems
due to differences in terrain traversability, diverse obstacles, and the necessity for fast …