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FlashSAC is a fast and stable off-policy reinforcement learning algorithm that achieves the highest asymptotic performance in the shortest wall-clock time for high-dimensional robotic control. This ...

Abstract: Typical robot controllers assume firm ground, limiting their effectiveness in controlling robots on dynamic platforms such as trucks or ships. To address this limitation, we propose a ...

Abstract: Robot scooping is a challenging and important task in robotic tool manipulation research due to the complex relationship between the robot, the tool, and target objects/environment. Taking ...

Conventional robots navigate much like humans do, relying on detailed maps of the area they are in to get around. This allows the robot to maintain an accurate estimate of its own location, but comes ...

Insect-size drones are too small to lug around complex navigation systems. To help tiny autonomous fliers find their way home, researchers are taking their cues from honeybees with the Bee-Nav, ...

The closer robots get to people, the more vital it is for them to see, hear and react without missing a beat. Designing for a humanoid robot is one of the most complicated applications in robotics ...

Navigation remains a fundamental challenge for robots across diverse domains, including mobile robots, unmanned aerial vehicles, and autonomous driving systems. Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged ...

Most people think of Toyota and picture a Camry, a Tacoma, maybe a Prius. A 7-foot-2 robot shooting free throws at halftime of a professional basketball game? That's a harder image to conjure. But ...

Toyota’s CUE7 robot uses AI to learn basketball shooting through trial and error instead of fixed programming. The 7-foot-2 robot is lighter, faster and more agile ...

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The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world. Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the ...