Weekly robotics papers include a 1.3x BFM-Zero training speedup via mjlab
carlosdponx · x · 2026-07-27
A robotics roundup from the past week highlights several papers:
- A follow-up to RGMT with more flip motions, including tele-operation by an acrobat.
- A motion-tracking ablation study that largely confirms the currently published SOTA methods are still the best options.
- A new locomanipulation method, BFM.
- UFO, which looks unusual in presentation, but its main contribution is speeding up BFM-Zero training by 1.3x.
The poster notes that the speedup is not really from a new algorithmic breakthrough: the work moved training from Isaac Sim to mjlab, and the mjwarp acceleration delivered the big gains. The BFM-Zero team has already integrated the improvement upstream.
Related event: Recent Robotics Papers: Training Speedup and Motion Tracking(2 posts)→
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