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RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models Transfer Web Knowledge to Robotic Control

Vision-language models are trained to produce robot actions, exploring transfer from web-scale learning to robotic control.

Anthony Brohan et al.
2023-07 · Google · Research paper
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@misc{brohan2023vision,
  title = {RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models Transfer Web Knowledge to Robotic Control},
  author = {Anthony Brohan and Noah Brown and Justice Carbajal and Yevgen Chebotar and Xi Chen and Krzysztof Choromanski and Tianli Ding and Danny Driess and Avinava Dubey and Chelsea Finn and Pete Florence and Chuyuan Fu and Montse Gonzalez Arenas and Keerthana Gopalakrishnan and Kehang Han and Karol Hausman and Alexander Herzog and Jasmine Hsu and Brian Ichter and Alex Irpan and Nikhil Joshi and Ryan Julian and Dmitry Kalashnikov and Yuheng Kuang and Isabel Leal and Lisa Lee and Tsang-Wei Edward Lee and Sergey Levine and Yao Lu and Henryk Michalewski and Igor Mordatch and Karl Pertsch and Kanishka Rao and Krista Reymann and Michael Ryoo and Grecia Salazar and Pannag Sanketi and Pierre Sermanet and Jaspiar Singh and Anikait Singh and Radu Soricut and Huong Tran and Vincent Vanhoucke and Quan Vuong and Ayzaan Wahid and Stefan Welker and Paul Wohlhart and Jialin Wu and Fei Xia and Ted Xiao and Peng Xu and Sichun Xu and Tianhe Yu and Brianna Zitkovich},
  year = {2023},
  eprint = {2307.15818},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass = {cs.RO},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15818}
}

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