RoboPapers

By Chris Paxton and Michael Cho

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Chris Paxton & Michael Cho geek out over robotic papers with paper authors.

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Episode Date
Ep#87: MolmoAct 2: An open foundation for robots that work in the real world
Jun 18, 2026
Ep#86: RISE: Self-Improving Robot Policy with Compositional World Model
Jun 12, 2026
Ep#85: Tutor Intelligence
Jun 04, 2026
Ep#84: Robometer: Scaling General-Purpose Robotic Reward Models via Trajectory Comparisons
Jun 02, 2026
Ep#83: PointWorld: Scaling 3D World Models for In-The-Wild Robotic Manipulation
May 29, 2026
Ep#82: SimTooReal: An Object-Centric Policy for Zero-Shot Dexterous Tool Manipulation
May 27, 2026
Ep#81: mimic-video: Video-Action Models for Generalizable Robot Control Beyond VLAs
May 20, 2026
Ep#80: LATENT: Learning Athletic Humanoid Tennis Skills from Imperfect Human Motion Data
May 14, 2026
Ep#79: Rhoda AI - Causal Video Models Are Data-Efficient Robot Policy Learners
May 06, 2026
Ep#78: Three Eras of Robot Learning
May 05, 2026
Ep#77: DreamDojo: A Generalist Robot World Model from Large-Scale Human Videos
Apr 29, 2026
Ep#76: OmniXtreme: Breaking the Generality Barrier in High-Dynamic Humanoid Control
Apr 27, 2026
Ep#75: TOPReward: Token Probabilities as Hidden Zero-Shot Rewards for Robotics
Apr 23, 2026
Ep#74: Weave Robotics
Apr 20, 2026
Ep#73: VideoManip: Dexterous Manipulation Policies from RGB Human Videos via 3D Hand-Object Trajectory Reconstruction
Apr 18, 2026
Ep#72: SONIC: Supersizing Motion Tracking for Natural Humanoid Whole-Body Control
Apr 15, 2026
Ep#71: Build Your Own Robot
Apr 08, 2026
Ep#70: A Systematic Study of Data Modalities and Strategies for Co-training Large Behavior Models for Robot Manipulation
Apr 01, 2026
Ep#69: MolmoSpaces, an Open Ecosystem for Embodied AI
Mar 25, 2026
Ep#68: DreamZero: World Action Models are Zero-Shot Policies
Mar 20, 2026
Ep#67: Asimov - Open Source Humanoid
Mar 18, 2026
Ep#66: Ordered Action Tokenization
Mar 11, 2026
Ep#65: VLM4VLA: Revisiting Vision-Language Models in Vision-Language-Action Models
Mar 05, 2026
Ep#64: Project Instinct
Feb 26, 2026
Ep#63: NovaFlow: Zero-Shot Manipulation via Actionable Flow from Generated Videos
Feb 19, 2026
Ep#62: PolaRiS: Scalable Real-to-Sim Evaluations for Generalist Robot Policies
Feb 11, 2026
Ep#61: 1x World Model
Feb 04, 2026
Ep#60: Sim-to-Real Manipulation with VIRAL and Doorman
Jan 28, 2026
Ep#59: SAIL: Faster-than-Demonstration Execution of Imitation Learning Policies
Jan 21, 2026
Ep#58: RL-100: Performant Robotic Manipulation with Real-World Reinforcement Learning
Jan 14, 2026
Ep#57: Learning Dexterity from Human Videos with Gen2Act and SPIDER
Jan 06, 2026
Ep#56: GSWorld: Closed-Loop Photo-Realistic Simulation Suite for Robotic Manipulation
Dec 22, 2025
Ep#55: Trace Anything: Representing Any Video in 4D via Trajectory Fields
Dec 19, 2025
Ep#54: MemER: Scaling Up Memory for Robot Control via Experience Retrieval
Dec 17, 2025
Ep#53: Semantic World Models
Dec 15, 2025
Ep#52: Probe, Learn, Distill: Self-improving Vision-Language-Action Models
Dec 12, 2025
Ep#51: Humanoid Everyday
Dec 10, 2025
Ep#50: EMMA: Scaling Mobile Manipulation via Egocentric Human Data
Dec 08, 2025
Ep#49: Learning a Unified Policy for Position and Force Control in Legged Loco-Manipulation
Dec 05, 2025
Ep#48: VisualMimic: Visual Humanoid Loco-Manipulation via Motion Tracking and Generation
Dec 04, 2025
Ep#47: ResMimic: From General Motion Tracking to Humanoid Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation via Residual Learning
Dec 02, 2025
Ep#46: ManiFlow: A General Robot Manipulation Policy via Consistency Flow Training
Dec 01, 2025
Ep#45: HERMES: Human-to-Robot Embodied Learning From Multi-Source Motion Data for Mobile Dexterous Manipulation
Nov 25, 2025
Ep#44: From Pixels to Predicates: Learning Symbolic World Models via Pretrained Vision-Language Models
Nov 24, 2025
Ep#043: Attention-based map encoding for learning generalized legged locomotion
Nov 20, 2025
Ep#42: General Intuition
Nov 13, 2025
Ep#41: HITTER: A Humanoid Table Tennis Robot via Hierarchical Planning and Learning
Nov 05, 2025
Ep#40: Daxo Robotics
Nov 03, 2025
Ep#39: MolmoAct: An Action Reasoning Model that reasons in 3D space
Oct 28, 2025
Ep#38: Q Learning is Not Yet Scalable
Oct 24, 2025
Ep#37: AMPLIFY: Actionless Motion Priors for Robot Learning from Videos
Oct 21, 2025
Ep#36: Whole-Body Conditioned Egocentric Video Prediction
Oct 17, 2025
Ep#35: Reinforcement Learning with Action Chunking
Oct 08, 2025
Ep#34: RoboArena
Oct 03, 2025
Ep#33: A Smooth Sea Never Made a Skilled SAILOR: Robust Imitation via Learning to Search
Sep 26, 2025
Ep #32: GMT: General Motion Tracking for Humanoid Whole-Body Control
Sep 21, 2025
Ep#31: Vision in Action: Learning Active Perception from Human Demonstrations
Sep 17, 2025
Ep#30: R2S2: Unleashing Humanoid Reaching Potential via Real-world-Ready Skill Space
Sep 12, 2025
Ep#29: Exploring Low Cost Robots using LLM Agents
Sep 12, 2025
Ep#28: DreamGen: Unlocking Generalization in Robot Learning through Video World Models
Sep 09, 2025
Ep#27: DextrAH-RGB: Visuomotor Policies to Grasp Anything with Dexterous Hands
Sep 09, 2025
Ep#26: ManiSkill3: GPU Parallelized Robotics Simulation and Rendering for Generalizable Embodied AI
Sep 06, 2025
Ep#25: DexUMI: Using Human Hand as the Universal Manipulation Interface for Dexterous Manipulation
Sep 05, 2025
Ep#24: CLONE: Closed-Loop Whole-Body Humanoid Teleoperation for Long-Horizon Tasks
Sep 04, 2025
Ep#23: FALCON 🦅- Learning Force-Adaptive Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Sep 03, 2025
Ep#22: DexWild: Dexterous Human Interactions for In-the-Wild Robot Policies
Aug 27, 2025
Ep#21: TesserAct: Learning 4D Embodied World Models
Aug 24, 2025
Ep#20: VideoMimic: Visual imitation enables contextual humanoid control
Aug 22, 2025
Ep#19: Learning to Drive From a World Model
Aug 21, 2025
Ep#18 HuB: Learning Extreme Humanoid Balance
Aug 21, 2025
Ep#17: EgoZero: Robot Learning from Smart Glasses
Aug 17, 2025
Ep#16: TWIST: Teleoperated Whole-Body Imitation System
Aug 17, 2025
Ep#15: Navigation World Models
Aug 16, 2025
Ep#13: Instant Policy
Aug 15, 2025
Ep#12: VaViM and VaVAM: Autonomous Driving through Video Generative Modeling
Aug 14, 2025
Ep#14: In-Air Vehicle Maneuver for High-Speed Off-Road Navigation and VERTIFORMER
Aug 14, 2025
Ep#11: Sim-and-Real Co-Training: A Simple Recipe for Vision-Based Robotic Manipulation
Aug 14, 2025
Ep#10 Human Policy ~ Humanoid Policy
Aug 12, 2025
Ep#9: AutoEval: Autonomous Evaluation of Generalist Robot Manipulation Policies in the Real World
Aug 12, 2025
Ep#8: VGGT: Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer
Aug 08, 2025
Ep#7: AnyDexGrasp: General Dexterous Grasping for Different Hands with Human-level Learning Efficiency
Aug 08, 2025
Ep#6: FP3: A 3D Foundation Policy for Robotic Manipulation
Aug 08, 2025
Ep#5: R+X: Retrieval and Execution from Everyday Human Videos
Aug 08, 2025
Ep #4: Vision Language Models are In-Context Value Learners
Aug 08, 2025
Ep#3 Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based Dexterous Manipulation on Humanoids with Toru Lin
Aug 08, 2025
RoboPapers Episode 2: Robot Utility Models with Mahi Shafiullah
Aug 08, 2025
RoboPapers Episode 1: SAM2ACT with Jiafei Duan
Aug 08, 2025