Five human videos can adapt robot policies within five minutes

Steertuning combines pretrained diffusion policies, brief fine-tuning and demonstration-guided action sampling to transfer new tasks from humans to a mobile manipulator.

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Billy Yan · Isaac Tu · Kelly Lee · Blake Chang · Kenny Ma · Kanad Patel · +5 more

New York University

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Yan and colleagues present Steertuning, a robot-learning system that adapts to a new task and environment using five egocentric human demonstrations, without task-specific robot demonstrations.

The authors pretrained a 400-million-parameter diffusion transformer on 100 hours of egocentric video recorded with Aria Gen 2 smart glasses.

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A 400M diffusion policy pretrained on 100 hours of egocentric human video learns new robot tasks from 5 demonstrations in under 5 minutes.

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