Counterfactual videos teach humanoids to handle unfamiliar objects

PRISM expands four human demonstrations into 256 synthetic interactions, then converts them into physically plausible training trajectories for real-world deployment.

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Zihan Wang · Zhen Wu · Pieter Abbeel · Rocky Duan · Jitendra Malik · Carmelo Sferrazza · +3 more

Amazon FAR · UC Berkeley · Carnegie Mellon University · Stanford

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The authors present PRISM, a real-to-sim-to-real pipeline for training humanoid robots from a small number of human interaction videos.

Starting with four real videos of people carrying boxes, the authors used video-to-video generation to create 256 counterfactual clips.

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Counterfactual video generation turns a handful of real videos into a diverse training set that lets a humanoid pick up, carry, and drop novel objects zero-shot.

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