Stanford AA289/ENGR319 - Robotics and Autonomous Systems Seminar - Stanford Seminar - Multitask Transfer in TRI’s Large Behavior Models for Dexterous Manipulation

April 25, 2025 Russ Tedrake, MIT Title: A Careful Examination of Multitask Transfer in TRI’s Large Behavior Models for Dexterous Manipulation Abstract: Many of us are collecting large scale multitask teleop demonstration data for manipulation, with the belief that it can enable rapidly deploying robots in novel applications and delivering robustness in the 'open world'. But rigorous evaluation of these models is a bottleneck. In this talk, I'll describe our recent efforts at TRI to quantify some of the key 'multitask hypotheses', and some of the tools that we've built in order to make key decisions about data, architecture, and hyperparameters more quickly and with more confidence. And, of course, I’ll bring some cool robot videos. About the speaker: https://locomotion.csail.mit.edu/russt.html More about the course can be found here: https://stanfordasl.github.io/robotics_seminar/ View the entire AA289 Stanford Robotics and Autonomous Systems Seminar playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rMeercb-kvGLUrOq4HR6BZD ► Check out the entire catalog of courses and programs available through Stanford Online: https://online.stanford.edu/explore View our Robotics and Autonomous Systems Graduate Certificate: https://online.stanford.edu/programs/robotics-and-autonomous-systems-graduate-certificate