Russ Tedrake's CoRL talk: deploy robots early, train on intervention data to scale

DominiqueCAPaul · x · 2026-11-11

Russ Tedrake's CoRL talk was called the most interesting robot deployment talk so far. Three takeaways:

Stronger models need fewer interventions over the same deployment window, yet improve faster when retrained on that intervention data (chart shows mean time between interventions over 34 hours: 1.36h remote time at 100k training demos vs 2.22h at 1k)
They deploy as early as possible — even if that means a remote teleoperator permanently supervises the robot
To lower the robot-to-supervisor ratio, they train a separate head on the same policy that predicts when it needs help

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