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A real-to-sim-to-real approach for more precise home robots. Full video:

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David Yenicelik2 years ago

Whats the latent embedding? Is it interpretable in any way? Is there even one?

Zeno Mercer2 years ago

Here for it!

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this is badass

Kiran Prabhu2 years ago

Cool!!!

Vincent Valentine (CEO of UnOpen.ai)2 years ago

Intriguing approach! Have you explored its scalability for complex environments?

Fang Jiading2 years ago

How do you assign physical properties into the reconstructed objects to make it simulate-able?

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