Google DeepMind @ CoRL 2023

Welcome to Atlanta! Here are where you can meet the Google DeepMind team at CoRL 2023.

Vincent Vanhoucke
4 min readNov 3, 2023

Workshops

Satellite Events

MuJoCo Meetup

RT-X / Open X-Embodiment Meetup

  • Open to all: Tuesday 1–1:45 PM, Main Conference Hotel in Muse 2.

Main Conference

Organizers

Jie Tan, David D’Ambrosio, Carolina Parada

Board

Vincent Vanhoucke (President), Raia Hadsell (Treasurer), Sergey Levine (Director)

ALOHA Demo at the Google DeepMind Booth

Keynotes

  • “Revising Moravec’s Paradox”, Chelsea Finn
  • “Bitter Lessons & Sweet Future in Robot Learning”, Karol Hausmann

Industry talk

“Open X-Embodiment and RT-X”, Quan Vuan and Chelsea Finn

Orals

Language to Rewards for Robotic Skill Synthesis

Wenhao Yu, Nimrod Gileadi, Chuyuan Fu, Sean Kirmani, Kuang-Huei Lee, Montse Gonzalez Arenas, Hao-Tien Lewis Chiang, Tom Erez, Leonard Hasenclever, Jan Humplik, Brian Ichter, Ted Xiao, Peng Xu, Andy Zeng, Tingnan Zhang, Nicolas Heess, Dorsa Sadigh, Jie Tan, Yuval Tassa, Fei Xia

Robots That Ask For Help: Uncertainty Alignment for Large Language Model Planners

Allen Z. Ren, Anushri Dixit, Alexandra Bodrova, Sumeet Singh, Stephen Tu, Noah Brown, Peng Xu, Leila Takayama, Fei Xia, Jake Varley, Zhenjia Xu, Dorsa Sadigh, Andy Zeng, Anirudha Majumdar

Posters

Q-Transformer: Scalable Offline Reinforcement Learning via Autoregressive Q-Functions

Yevgen Chebotar, Quan Vuong, Alex Irpan, Karol Hausman, Fei Xia, Yao Lu, Aviral Kumar, Tianhe Yu, Alexander Herzog, Karl Pertsch, Keerthana Gopalakrishnan, Julian Ibarz, Ofir Nachum, Sumedh Sontakke, Grecia Salazar, Huong T Tran, Jodilyn Peralta, Clayton Tan, Deeksha Manjunath, Jaspiar Singht, Brianna Zitkovich, Tomas Jackson, Kanishka Rao, Chelsea Finn, Sergey Levine

Contrastive Value Learning: Implicit Models for Simple Offline RL

Bogdan Mazoure, Benjamin Eysenbach, Ofir Nachum, Jonathan Tompson

RoboPianist: Dexterous Piano Playing with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Kevin Zakka, Philipp Wu, Laura Smith, Nimrod Gileadi, Taylor Howell, Xue Bin Peng, Sumeet Singh, Yuval Tassa, Pete Florence, Andy Zeng, Pieter Abbeel

Online Learning for Obstacle Avoidance

David Snyder, Meghan Booker, Nathaniel Simon, Wenhan Xia, Daniel Suo, Elad Hazan, Anirudha Majumdar

Navigation with Large Language Models: Semantic Guesswork as a Heuristic for Planning

Dhruv Shah, Michael Equi, Blazej Osinski, Fei Xia, Brian Ichter, Sergey Levine

Scaling Up and Distilling Down: Language-Guided Robot Skill Acquisition

Huy Ha, Pete Florence, Shuran Song

RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models Transfer Web Knowledge to Robotic Control

Anthony Brohan, Noah Brown, Justice Carbajal, Yevgen Chebotar, Xi Chen, Krzysztof Choromanski, Tianli Ding, Danny Driess, Avinava Dubey, Chelsea Finn, Pete Florence, Chuyuan Fu, Montse Gonzalez Arenas, Keerthana Gopalakrishnan, Kehang Han, Karol Hausman, Alexander Herzog, Jasmine Hsu, Brian Ichter, Alex Irpan, Nikhil Joshi, Ryan Julian, Dmitry Kalashnikov, Yuheng Kuang, Isabel Leal, Lisa Lee, Tsang-Wei Edward Lee, Sergey Levine, Yao Lu, Henryk Michalewski, Igor Mordatch, Karl Pertsch, Kanishka Rao, Krista Reymann, Michael Ryoo, Grecia Salazar, Pannag Sanketi, Pierre Sermanet, Jaspiar Singh, Anikait Singh, Radu Soricut, Huong Tran, Vincent Vanhoucke, Quan Vuong, Ayzaan Wahid, Stefan Welker, Paul Wohlhart, Jialin Wu, Fei Xia, Ted Xiao, Peng Xu, Sichun Xu, Tianhe Yu, Brianna Zitkovich

Open-World Object Manipulation using Pre-Trained Vision-Language Models

Austin Stone, Ted Xiao, Yao Lu, Keerthana Gopalakrishnan, Kuang-Huei Lee, Quan Vuong, Paul Wohlhart, Sean Kirmani, Brianna Zitkovich, Fei Xia, Chelsea Finn, Karol Hausman

Gesture-Informed Robot Assistance via Foundation Models

Li-Heng Lin , Yuchen Cui, Yilun Hao, Fei Xia, Dorsa Sadigh

Semantic Mechanical Search with Large Vision and Language Models

Satvik Sharma, Huang Huang, Kaushik Shivakumar, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Ryan Hoque, brian ichter, Ken Goldberg

Large Language Models as General Pattern Machines

Suvir Mirchandani, Fei Xia, Pete Florence, Brian Ichter, Danny Driess, Montserrat Gonzalez Arenas, Kanishka Rao, Dorsa Sadigh, Andy Zeng

Language to Rewards for Robotic Skill Synthesis

Wenhao Yu, Nimrod Gileadi, Chuyuan Fu, Sean Kirmani, Kuang-Huei Lee, Montse Gonzalez Arenas, Hao-Tien Lewis Chiang, Tom Erez, Leonard Hasenclever, Jan Humplik, Brian Ichter, Ted Xiao, Peng Xu, Andy Zeng, Tingnan Zhang, Nicolas Heess, Dorsa Sadigh, Jie Tan, Yuval Tassa, Fei Xia

Robots That Ask For Help: Uncertainty Alignment for Large Language Model Planners

Allen Z. Ren, Anushri Dixit, Alexandra Bodrova, Sumeet Singh, Stephen Tu, Noah Brown, Peng Xu, Leila Takayama, Fei Xia, Jake Varley, Zhenjia Xu, Dorsa Sadigh, Andy Zeng, Anirudha Majumdar

Geometry Matching for Multi-Embodiment Grasping

Maria Attarian, Muhammad Adil Asif, Jingzhou Liu, Ruthrash Hari, Animesh Garg, Igor Gilitschenski, Jonathan Tompson

General Part Assembly Planning

Yulong Li, Andy Zeng, Shuran Song

FindThis: Language-Driven Object Disambiguation in Indoor Environments

Arjun Majumdar, Fei Xia, Brian Ichter, Dhruv Batra, Leonidas Guibas

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Vincent Vanhoucke
Vincent Vanhoucke

Written by Vincent Vanhoucke

I am a Distinguished Engineer at Waymo, working on Machine Learning and Robotics. Previously head of robotics research at Google DeepMind.

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