Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThree Ways to Buy Back Robot Data: Augment the Demonstration, Import the Semantics, Benchmark the Physics
Abstract Robots have the potential to assist people in homes, hospitals, warehouses, and factories, but today's systems still struggle to learn robus…
1 month, 1 week ago
UI-Mate: Show the Desktop Agent Once, Then Let It Replan
A 27B model that achieves one-shot doubling of strict success rates on long-horizon office automation tasks via demonstration-conditioned policy lear…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Frozen VLM That Learns Anyway: Inside Spatial Memory Agent
A parameter-update-free framework that distills verified experience into transferable spatial memory for frozen VLMs, achieving consistent gains acro…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The LLM Proposes, the Planner Disposes: VLA-SP for Verifiable Robot Manipulation
Abstract Cross-modal foundation models are increasingly used for robotic task understanding and planning. However, connecting multimodal observations…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
When Vision Cannot Know: MulPlanLM Lets Robot Planners Lift, Weigh, and Decide
MulPlanLM: multimodal robotic task planning with vision-language models and physical feedback In this episode of Embodied AI 101, we explore "When Vi…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Reading Trust in Motion: A Multimodal Perception Stack for Industrial HRC
Abstract Industry 5.0 promotes collaborative manufacturing environments where humans and robots work together, leveraging their complementary strengt…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Two MPCs, One Robot: Bézier Curves for Fast, Compliant Mobile Manipulation
Dual-arm mobile manipulators can transport and manipulate large objects with simple end-effectors. Interacting with dynamic environments subject to s…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Reward Behind the Gait: Learning Transferable Locomotion from a Few Stick-Insect Steps
Insect locomotion exhibits remarkable adaptability and flexibility despite the limited scale of its nervous system. This paper extracts and models un…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Beyond Looking Human: Bio-Functional Robot Design for Cross-Scale Dexterity and Tool Use
Dexterous hands and robotic manipulators as physical interfaces for diverse environments. Proposes bio-functional mimicry beyond structural biomimicr…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
LDA-1B and the Case for Never Throwing Robot Data Away
Scales a latent dynamics action model to 1B parameters by ingesting diverse embodied datasets into a unified training pipeline for generalist robot p…
1 month, 2 weeks ago