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FAQs about Embodied AI 101:How many episodes does Embodied AI 101 have?The podcast currently has 267 episodes available.
July 15, 2026Learning Unified Force and Position Control for Legged Loco-ManipulationIntroduces a unified RL policy that jointly handles force and position control on quadrupedal and humanoid robots without force sensors, enabling position+force tracking, compliant behaviors, and force-aware imitation learning for contact-rich tasks....more41minPlay
July 14, 2026HapticVLA: Extending Vision-Language-Action Models to Contact-Rich Tasks Without Touch SensorsEnables contact-rich robotic manipulation using a VLA model trained with tactile sensing data but requiring no tactile input at inference time. Distills haptic knowledge into the vision-language-action policy....more30minPlay
July 14, 2026AnoleVLA: Lightweight VLA with Deep State Space Models for Mobile ManipulationProposes a lightweight VLA model leveraging deep state space models (SSMs) instead of transformers for efficient mobile manipulation. Targets resource-constrained deployment scenarios with competitive performance....more32minPlay
July 14, 2026ABot-N1: Visual Language Navigation Foundation ModelDecouples cognition from control in a VLM-based navigation policy, delivering 35% POI arrival gains and over 92% success rates in complex indoor and outdoor scenes....more40minPlay
July 14, 2026ABot-AgentOS: A General-Purpose Robotic Agent Operating SystemProvides scene-conditioned planning, context-isolated skill execution, multi-modal memory, and self-evolution capabilities for long-horizon embodied tasks....more28minPlay
July 13, 2026Trust Region Policy Distillation (TOP-D)Transforms unstable on-policy distillation into a stable training paradigm via dynamic proximal teacher construction, improving sample efficiency without additional computational overhead....more34minPlay
July 13, 2026HANDOFF: Humanoid Agentic Task-Space Whole-Body Control via Distilled Complementary TeachersA new humanoid whole-body control method that distills complementary teachers for agentic task-space control on humanoids. The approach enables robust whole-body coordination for complex manipulation tasks....more27minPlay
July 13, 2026EVA-Client: A Unified Framework for Real-Robot Policy IterationA unified open framework for real-robot policy iteration that integrates teleoperation data collection, model training, deployment, and evaluation into a single closed-loop pipeline....more26minPlay
July 13, 2026UniVR-34B: A Vision-Only Foundation Model for Physical TasksFirst large-scale model to learn complex physical dynamics, visual reasoning, and long-horizon planning directly from visual demonstrations without text chains; released with 310k SFT and 3k RL samples across 16 sources alongside the VR-X benchmark....more45minPlay
July 13, 2026CLAP: Converting Vision-Language Models into Vision-Language-Action Models via Language-Prompted ActionsConverts any pretrained vision-language model into a vision-language-action model with zero architectural changes by prepending natural-language action descriptions; reaches 90.8% success on LIBERO with a 2B model after less than 6 hours of post-training....more11minPlay
FAQs about Embodied AI 101:How many episodes does Embodied AI 101 have?The podcast currently has 267 episodes available.