Minutes of supervised play bootstrap hours of autonomous robot practice

A cloned play policy collects contact-rich data and guides world-model planning for pushing and multifingered object reorientation.

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Botao He · Yiming Dou · Yiannis Aloimonos · Jitendra Malik · Akash Sharma · Ruoshi Liu

Amazon Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR) · University of Maryland, College Park

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He and colleagues present DSP, a framework that learns safe, goal-agnostic play from minutes of human operation, then runs that policy autonomously to gather hours of robot experience.

The authors trained a probabilistic, state-conditioned play policy through behavior cloning, using human play rather than demonstrations of specific tasks.

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From Amazon Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR) and University of Maryland, College Park · Part of Robot World Models, now 31 papers

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A robot learns dexterous manipulation by mimicking minutes of human play, then autonomously practices to train a world model and guide control.

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