Robotics Control Policies Require Expensive Human Teleoperation Demos to Train
Training robot control policies traditionally requires large datasets of human teleoperation demonstrations, which are expensive and slow to collect. Researchers and robotics engineers need methods that can learn from simulation or semantic priors alone. The gap between sim-trained policies and real-world performance remains a core bottleneck in embodied AI.
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