/robotics-paper-list

A very personal selection of robotics papers

A very personal selection of robotics (and related) papers

Find the value of the papers on your own and don't be biased by anyone and any media, including me.

Paper are organized by topics and years. More to be added.

Control by Code Generation

2022

  • Socratic Models: Composing Zero-Shot Multimodal Reasoning with Language arxiv
  • Do As I Can, Not As I Say: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances paper

2023

  • Grounded Decoding: Guiding Text Generation with Grounded Models for Embodied Agents paper
  • VoxPoser: Composable 3D Value Maps for Robotic Manipulation with Language Models paper

Reward Function by Code Generation

2022

  • Code as Policies: Language Model Programs for Embodied Control arxiv

2023

  • Language to Rewards for Robotic Skill Synthesis arxiv
  • Eureka: Human-Level Reward Design via Coding Large Language Models arxiv

LLM as Reward Functions

2022

  • Can foundation models perform zero-shot task specification for robot manipulation? paper
  • Zero-Shot Reward Specification via Grounded Natural Language paper

2023

  • Vision-language models as success detectors paper
  • RoboCLIP: One Demonstration is Enough to Learn Robot Policies paper
  • Vision-Language Models as a Source of Rewards arxiv

End-to-End Foundation Policy Model

2021

  • CLIPORT: What and Where Pathways for Robotic Manipulation arxiv

2022

  • RT-1: Robotics Transformer for Real-World Control at Scale arxiv

2023

  • PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model arxiv
  • RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models Transfer Web Knowledge to Robotic Control arxiv

Datasets

2023

  • Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models website, arxiv

Cross-embodiment

2022

  • XIRL: Cross-embodiment Inverse Reinforcement Learning paper

2023

  • Polybot: Training One Policy Across Robots While Embracing Variability paper

Bi-manual Operation

2020

  • Deep Imitation Learning for Bimanual Robotic Manipulation arxiv

2023

  • Learning Fine-Grained Bimanual Manipulation with Low-Cost Hardware arxiv

Autonomous Agent / All Generated

  • GenSim: Generating Robotic Simulation Tasks via Large Language Models arxiv

World Model