CoRL 2021 local chair recalls three-table demo area as show grows into CoRL 2026
Ed__Johns · x · 2026-11-12
Edward Johns, local chair of CoRL 2021 in London, recalls introducing the first demo/exhibition area — a small corridor with just three tables — and shares footage of Norman Di Palo's live demo of one-shot imitation learning.
The accompanying paper, Learning Multi-Stage Tasks with One Demonstration via Self-Replay (CoRL 2021), proposes Self-Replay: after a single human demonstration, the robot learns an object-reaching phase, then open-loop replays the operator's actions while autonomously collecting image data, looping through all task stages — with no prior object knowledge. Real-world experiments show it solves everyday multi-stage tasks from one demo.
He contrasts this with the buzzing, packed exhibition floor at CoRL 2026, reflecting how far the robot-learning community has come.
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