AtomEgo: Exploring Ego-Robot Integration for Embodied Foundation Model Pretraining
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arXiv:2609.21461v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied foundation models are constrained by the limited scale and diversity of robot demonstrations, motivating the use of large-scale egocentric human interaction data. However, how to effectively incorporate such data into embodied-model pre-training remains unclear because of substantial embodiment and action-space gaps between humans and robots. We present AtomEgo, a systematic study of ego--robot co-training supported by a curated corpus of approximately 2,659 hours and a scalable data processing pipeline. Across vision--language--action
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.21461v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied foundation models are constrained by the limited scale and diversity of robot demonstrations, motivating the use of large-scale egocentric human interaction data.
- However, how to effectively incorporate such data into embodied-model pre-training remains unclear because of substantial embodiment and action-space gaps between humans and robots.
- We present AtomEgo, a systematic study of ego--robot co-training supported by a curated corpus of approximately 2,659 hours and a scalable data processing pipeline.
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