Robot learns manipulation tasks from scratch in minutes with AI-generated 3D models

ZeroBot builds a complete object mesh from a single view and uses parallel reinforcement learning to master tasks like grasping and articulated manipulation in about two minutes.

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Ivan Kapelyukh · Xiaohan Zhang · Stephen James · Laura Herlant · Edward Johns

Imperial College London · Robotics and AI Institute

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Kapelyukh et al.

The authors address a challenging problem: a robot must manipulate a novel object to a specified goal pose, with zero demonstrations, zero policy pre-training, and zero prior object models.

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From Imperial College London and Robotics and AI Institute

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ZeroBot enables robot manipulation learning from scratch in minutes using image-to-3D generative models and parallel RL.

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