DALL-E-Bot: Introducing Web-Scale Diffusion Models to Robotics

We introduce the first work to explore web-scale diffusion models for robotics. DALL-E-Bot enables a robot to rearrange objects in a scene, by first inferring a text description of those objects, then generating an image representing a natural, human-like arrangement of those objects, and finally ph...

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Published in:IEEE robotics and automation letters 2023-07, Vol.8 (7), p.1-8
Main Authors: Kapelyukh, Ivan, Vosylius, Vitalis, Johns, Edward
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
AI-Based Methods
Big Data in Robotics and Automation
Deep Learning in Grasping and Manipulation
Image segmentation
Pipelines
Predictive models
Robotics
Robots
Task analysis
Training
Visualization
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Summary:We introduce the first work to explore web-scale diffusion models for robotics. DALL-E-Bot enables a robot to rearrange objects in a scene, by first inferring a text description of those objects, then generating an image representing a natural, human-like arrangement of those objects, and finally physically arranging the objects according to that goal image. We show that this is possible zero-shot using DALL-E, without needing any further example arrangements, data collection, or training. DALL-E-Bot is fully autonomous and is not restricted to a pre-defined set of objects or scenes, thanks to DALL-E's web-scale pre-training. Encouraging real-world results, with both human studies and objective metrics, show that integrating web-scale diffusion models into robotics pipelines is a promising direction for scalable, unsupervised robot learning. Videos are available on our webpage at: https://www.robot-learning.uk/dall-e-bot .
ISSN:2377-3766
2377-3766
DOI:10.1109/LRA.2023.3272516