Controlling diverse robots by inferring Jacobian fields with deep networks.

Sizhe Lester Li, Annan Zhang, Boyuan Chen, Hanna Matusik, Chao Liu, Daniela Rus, Vincent Sitzmann

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Article in Nature, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Sizhe Lester LiComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. sizheli@mit.edu.ORCID 0009-0000-1857-1520

Annan ZhangComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6664-9417

Boyuan ChenComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Hanna MatusikComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Chao LiuComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9912-4729

Daniela RusComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5473-3566

Vincent SitzmannComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. sitzmann@mit.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-0107-5704

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mirroring the complex structures and diverse functions of natural organisms is a long-standing challenge in robotics

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Deep LearningNeural Networks, ComputerRoboticsBiomimetic Materials

Identifiers

PMID40562933

DOI10.1038/s41586-025-09170-0

PMCPMC12221969

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