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Anatomy of a Robot Demonstration Dataset

A robot demonstration dataset can align images and other observations with recorded actions, organize them into trajectories, and supply schemas, task or environment context, statistics and subset labels. These files are inputs to learning algorithms, not learned policies themselves, and the presence of rewards or termination signals alone does not independently confirm successful task completion.

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How can we tell whether a robot has learned a skill?

A practical framework for assessing robot skill claims through defined success, held-out tasks, varied conditions, physical tests and recovery.

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