TANDEM mixes autonomous TAMP with on-demand teleoperation for 2.9× more demos
tomssilver · x · 2026-10-17
TANDEM addresses a pain point in VLA data collection: teleoperators waste time demonstrating actions robots already know. By combining autonomous task and motion planning (TAMP) with human teleoperation only when needed, it collects 2.9× more demonstrations with the same human effort. Details in an 8-tweet thread.
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