Published in ArXiv, 2025
We design a robotic wrist for rapid teleoperation and effective control for imitative learning
Also appeared as: Project Site
Recommended citation: (2025). "Martin Peticco, Gabriella Ulloa, John Marangola, Nitish Dashora, Pulkit Agrawal." Under Review International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2026.
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Published in ArXiv, 2025
We pretrain value functions on internet-scale unstructured video data for efficient online RL for robotic manipulation.
Recommended citation: Nitish Dashora, Dibya Ghosh, Sergey Levine. (2025). "ViVa: Video-trained Value Functions for Guiding Online RL from Diverse Data." arxiv.
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Published in Conference on Robot Learning (Oral), 2023
We present a multi-robot visual navigation foundation model for effective fine-tuning and novel task adaptation.
Also appeared as: Oral Presentation at BayLearn, Live Demo at CoRL, Workshop Paper at NeurIPS, YouTube Video, and Project Site
Recommended citation: Dhruv Shah*, Ajay Sridhar*, Nitish Dashora*, Kyle Stachowicz, Kevin Black, Noriaki Hirose, Sergey Levine. (2023). "ViNT: A Large-Scale, Multi-Task Visual Navigation Backbone with Cross-Robot Generalization." In the proceedings of 2023 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL).
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Published in IPPC, LRSA @ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2023
DAgger-like imitative learning with model predictive path integral control works as an end-to-end navigation system.
Also appeared as: YouTube Video
Recommended citation: Nitish Dashora, Sunggoo Jung, Dhruv Shah, Valentin Ibars, Osher Lerner, Chanyoung Jung, Rohan Thakker, Nicholas Rhinehart, Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi. (2022). "Imitative Models for Passenger-Scale Autonomous Off-Road Driving." Presented at 2023 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
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Published in International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2022
Combining geometric costmaps and learned models improves long-range navigation in offroad environments.
Also appeared as: Workshop Paper at NeurIPS, YouTube Video, and Project Site
Recommended citation: Nitish Dashora*, Daniel Shin*, Dhruv Shah, Henry Leopold, David Fan, Ali Agha-Mohammadi, Nicholas Rhinehart, Sergey Levine. (2022). "Hybrid Imitative Planning with Geometric and Predictive Costs in Off-road Environments." In the proceedings of 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
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