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Video Generators are Robot Policies
Video generation models can serve as robot policies by predicting future behavior frames and extracting actions from them.
arxiv:2508.00795 v1 · 2025-08-01 · cs.RO
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learning to generate videos of robot behavior allows for the extraction of policies with minimal demonstration data, significantly improving robustness and sample efficiency
that the video generator produces videos whose implied actions are both feasible and optimal for the robot, without introducing dynamics that do not match the physical system
Training models to generate videos of robot actions produces policies that generalize better to new objects and tasks while using far less demonstration data than standard behavior cloning.
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