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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…

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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

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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…