Dense subtask labels improve robots’ long-horizon bimanual manipulation

FineART-VLA learns to predict intermediate steps, improving spatial grounding, task completion and transfer between robot platforms.

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Jade Choghari · Pepijn Kooijmans · Mansi Agarwal · Yusuf Umut Ciftci · Aseem Doriwala · Catherine Weaver · +5 more

Scale AI · Hugging Face · University of Southern California · Stanford University

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Choghari et al.

The authors collected 40,543 bimanual manipulation episodes spanning 1,718 hours and 151 tasks.

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Dense subtask supervision enables a bimanual vision-language-action policy to execute longer tasks, resolve spatial ambiguity, and transfer across robot platforms with less new data.

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