Robot learning · industrial manipulation

What actually works in robot learning — with evidence.

Which learning algorithm has been shown to work, on which robot, for which task — and how strong that evidence is. Every row links to its source and is tagged sim, lab, pilot or production.

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Simulation: 0
Lab: 12
Pilot: 2
Production: 0

14 of 14 reviewed results come from real hardware.

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Task

Pick-and-place, insertion, bin picking, packaging… what has been tried for each.

Robot

Arms, humanoids and hands, reviewed from a learning point of view: SDK, sim support, data.

Algorithm

Imitation learning, VLAs, RL, sim-to-real — plain-English and what they need to work.

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