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Workhorse addresses challenges in humanoid robots planning contact-rich whole-body manipulation by learning from human demonstrations without a robot present. It uses a visual planner to predict key body poses and a reinforcement-learning tracker to execute these on the robot.
Workhorse addresses challenges in humanoid robots planning contact-rich whole-body manipulation by learning from human demonstrations without a robot present. It uses a visual planner to predict key body poses and a reinforcement-learning tracker to execute these on the robot.
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Humanoid robots still struggle to plan contact-rich whole-body manipulation from egocentric RGB and proprioception. Workhorse learns such manipulation from robot-free human demonstrations. A visual planner predicts five-link targets: the poses of the torso, both wrists, and both feet. A reinforcement-learning...
This approach improves humanoid robots' ability to perform complex, coordinated movements by leveraging human data, potentially advancing their manipulation capabilities in real-world tasks. Separately training the planner and tracker on human poses offers a novel method for robust robot control.
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