A single world model enables robots to insert unseen parts zero-shot

Training on 90 insertion tasks yields 56% zero-shot success, far outperforming model-free baselines.

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Nicklas Hansen · Iretiayo Akinola · Yijie Guo · Jie Xu · Bingjie Tang · Hao Su · +4 more

NVIDIA · University of California San Diego · University of Southern California

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The authors developed InsertionWM, a model-based reinforcement learning approach that learns a visual world model from raw camera observations and proprioceptive data.

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From NVIDIA and 2 others · Part of Robot World Models, now 3 papers

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A visual world model trained on up to 90 insertion tasks zero-shot assembles unseen objects with 56% success, far above a 7% model-free baseline.

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