RoboPapers

Ep#90: From Capable Controllers to Deployable Humanoid Systems

Ep#89: Contact Grounded Policy

Ep#88: DexSkin: High-Coverage Conformable Robotic Skin for Learning Contact-Rich Manipulation

Ep#87: MolmoAct 2: An open foundation for robots that work in the real world

Ep#86: RISE: Self-Improving Robot Policy with Compositional World Model

Ep#85: Tutor Intelligence

Ep#84: Robometer: Scaling General-Purpose Robotic Reward Models via Trajectory Comparisons

Ep#83: PointWorld: Scaling 3D World Models for In-The-Wild Robotic Manipulation

Ep#82: SimTooReal: An Object-Centric Policy for Zero-Shot Dexterous Tool Manipulation

Ep#81: mimic-video: Video-Action Models for Generalizable Robot Control Beyond VLAs

Ep#80: LATENT: Learning Athletic Humanoid Tennis Skills from Imperfect Human Motion Data

Ep#79: Rhoda AI - Causal Video Models Are Data-Efficient Robot Policy Learners

Ep#78: Three Eras of Robot Learning

Ep#77: DreamDojo: A Generalist Robot World Model from Large-Scale Human Videos

Ep#76: OmniXtreme: Breaking the Generality Barrier in High-Dynamic Humanoid Control

Ep#75: TOPReward: Token Probabilities as Hidden Zero-Shot Rewards for Robotics

Ep#74: Weave Robotics

Ep#73: VideoManip: Dexterous Manipulation Policies from RGB Human Videos via 3D Hand-Object Trajectory Reconstruction

Ep#72: SONIC: Supersizing Motion Tracking for Natural Humanoid Whole-Body Control

SONIC (Supersizing Motion Tracking for Natural Humanoid Whole Body Control) introduces a universal humanoid controller designed to enable general-purpose robotic movement. Research scientist Zhengyi Luo explains that the system scales motion tracking by utilizing 700 hours of motion capture data, increased compute, and...

Ep#71: Build Your Own Robot

The "Yore" mobile manipulator project provides an open-source, modular platform designed to lower the barrier for robotics research. Built for under $10,000, the robot utilizes accessible components like tabletop lifts and FRC-grade wheels to ensure affordability and ease of repair. The design prioritizes a slender for...