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Haritheja Etukuru

3 accepted papers

2026

Contact-Anchored Policies: Contact Conditioning Creates Strong Robot Utility Models

RSS 2026poster

The prevalent paradigm in robot learning attempts to generalize across environments, embodiments, and tasks with language prompts at runtime. A fundamental tension limits this approach: language is often too abstract to guide the concrete physical understanding required for robust manipulation. In t…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Robot Utility Models: General Policies for Zero-Shot Deployment in New Environments

ICRA 2025

Robot models, particularly those trained with large amounts of data, have recently shown a plethora of real-world manipulation and navigation capabilities. Several independent efforts have shown that given sufficient training data in an environment, robot policies can generalize to demonstrated vari

Cited by 49SourcecodeScholar
2024

Behavior Generation with Latent Actions

ICML 2024spotlight

Generative modeling of complex behaviors from labeled datasets has been a longstanding problem in decision-making. Unlike language or image generation, decision-making requires modeling actions – continuous-valued vectors that are multimodal in their distribution, potentially drawn from uncurated so…