MIT Home Robot iPhone Scan
MIT researchers unveil RialTo, an innovative new system for enhancing real-world imitation learning policies for home robots via reinforcement learning in “digital twin” simulation environments constructed on the fly from small amounts of real-world data.



The real-to-sim-to-real pipeline takes advantage of the iPhone’s easy-to-use interface for quickly scanning and constructing digital twins of real-world environments. A novel “inverse distillation” procedure was then used by the researchers to bring real-world demonstrations into simulated environments for efficient fine-tuning, with minimal human intervention and engineering required.

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MIT Home Robot iPhone Scan

We evaluate RialTo across a variety of robotic manipulation problems in the real world, such as robustly stacking dishes on a rack, placing books on a shelf and four other tasks. RialTo increases (over 67%) in policy robustness without requiring extensive human data collection,” said the researchers.

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