Concepts & terms
Issue glossary
The key ideas in this issue, explained briefly.
- CaPtain
- An agent that calls software tools to control a robot.
- LIBERO and LIBERO-PRO
- Two robot-manipulation benchmark suites used to evaluate task success.
- software harness
- Tools, memory and constraints around a trained model.
- reinforcement learning
- Improving decisions through feedback on action outcomes.
- data representation
- The format of observations and commands that affects success.
- RJ45 connector
- A network connector used in the physical insertion trials.
- contact surface
- The part of an object where a finger applies force.
- Contact Imitation Interface
- A skill-transfer method based on contact geometry.
- TRACE
- A danger filter for person-following robot movement.
- Hourglass
- Shared navigation with a separate motion model for each robot.
- world model
- Software predicting how the scene changes after an action.
- SimplerEnv WidowX
- A separate robot-arm evaluation environment used to assess transfer without target-domain training.