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Kevin Zakka

5 accepted papers

2025

Demonstrating MuJoCo Playground

RSS 2025poster

We introduce MuJoCo Playground, a fully open-source framework for robot learning built with MJX, with the express goal of streamlining simulation, training, and sim-to-real transfer onto robots. With a simple installation process, researchers can train policies in minutes on a single GPU. Playground…

Cited by 0PDFScholar
2024

PianoMime: Learning a Generalist, Dexterous Piano Player from Internet Demonstrations

CoRL 2024poster

In this work, we introduce PianoMime, a framework for training a piano-playing agent using internet demonstrations. The internet is a promising source of large-scale demonstrations for training our robot agents. In particular, for the case of piano-playing, Youtube is full of videos of professional…

Cited by 7SourceScholar
2023

RoboPianist: Dexterous Piano Playing with Deep Reinforcement Learning

CoRL 2023poster

Replicating human-like dexterity in robot hands represents one of the largest open problems in robotics. Reinforcement learning is a promising approach that has achieved impressive progress in the last few years; however, the class of problems it has typically addressed corresponds to a rather narro…

Cited by 47SourcecodeScholar
2021

XIRL: Cross-embodiment Inverse Reinforcement Learning

CoRL 2021oral

We investigate the visual cross-embodiment imitation setting, in which agents learn policies from videos of other agents (such as humans) demonstrating the same task, but with stark differences in their embodiments -- shape, actions, end-effector dynamics, etc. In this work, we demonstrate that it i…

Cited by 134SourcecodeScholar
2020

Form2Fit: Learning Shape Priors for Generalizable Assembly from Disassembly

ICRA 2020poster

Is it possible to learn policies for robotic assembly that can generalize to new objects? We explore this idea in the context of the kit assembly task. Since classic methods rely heavily on object pose estimation, they often struggle to generalize to new objects without 3D CAD models or task-specifi…

Cited by 143SourcecodeScholar