Visual Foresight for Robot Learning

In this project, we are developing methods that allow robots to learn entirely on their own, by playing with objects. The robot learns to imagine what the future will look like depending on what it does, and uses this visual foresight to plan. Using this method, the robot can learn to maneuver new objects around obstacles.

This Berkeley press release describes some of our work: http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/12/04/robots-see-into-their-future/

We will be presenting a live demo of the robot planning, as well as our work on meta-imitation learning, at the NIPS conference on Tuesday, December 5, 2017.