Robots plan object rearrangements by simulating thousands of options at test time

Simify reconstructs 3D scenes from a single RGB-D image and uses evolutionary search over parallel physics rollouts to find stable arrangements.

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Ivan Kapelyukh · Yafei Hu · Ran Gong · Brandon May · Tushar Kusnur · Laura Herlant · +3 more

Robotics and AI Institute · Imperial College London

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Kapelyukh et al.

The authors propose a test-time planning method that avoids task-specific training.

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Simify performs explicit spatial reasoning for robot manipulation at test time by reconstructing simulation-ready assets from a single RGB-D image and searching via parallel physics rollouts.

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