Jiayuan Mao explains single-demonstration robot learning and 83% real-world generalization at IROS 2026

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Reporting on Jiayuan Mao’s IROS 2026 presentation, Leiphone describes research from UPenn, MIT, and Stanford on robot learning and compositional generalization. RAPID combines a coding agent with physics validation to learn complex non-grasping tasks from one human demonstration. In separate video-action research, the team introduced Temporal Ratio to measure attention to future versus current frames; adaptive guidance based on this metric raised average success on unseen compositional tasks with a real dual-arm robot from 71.8% to 83% without retraining.

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