MIT and NVIDIA Revolutionize Robot Training with HOVER and SkillGen

Nov 1, 2024, 04:14 PM

MIT has announced a breakthrough that could transform robot training. NVIDIA's GEAR lab has introduced HOVER, a versatile neural whole-body controller for humanoid robots, trained with just 1.5 million parameters. Utilizing NVIDIA's simulation suite, which accelerates physics by 10,000x, humanoids can learn a year's worth of motion in under an hour. Additionally, NVIDIA's SkillGen can train robots with just three human demonstrations, generating over 100 high-quality demos. Dr. Jim Fan introduced DexMimicGen, a synthetic data generator enabling humanoid robots to learn complex skills from minimal human input.