Open-source VLA + RL pipeline ranks 1st of 62 teams folding garments on a two-armed robot
chris_j_paxton · x · 2026-09-27
Ilia Larchenko is sharing his winning solution for the LeHome Challenge (ICRA 2026): 1st place among 62 teams in the simulation round and 2nd place overall, with a detailed walkthrough and open-source code. The task: teach a cheap two-armed robot to fold different garments in simulation and on a real robot. He trained a VLA policy with an RL loop to make it work. He will present at the Deformable Objects Manipulation workshop at IROS.
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