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Enabling a robot to learn from human videos is hard; learning from a SINGLE human video is even harder, especially if you want to perform dexterous tasks. Hongyi Chen has a way -- learn more in our new episode on VideoManip ->

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Lizhi(Gary) Yang5 months ago

@chen_hongyi_ I remember this being one off the earliest works - the idea of learning inverse kinematic/dynamics has gone far

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