Gleb Zarin

Our team won the BEHAVIOR-1K Challenge at @NeurIPSConf It started as a random call with @zaringleb (who I didn't know back then), who told me about the competition and invited me to join the team, and turned into two months of evenings and weekends teaching the robot to do home chores in simulation. I learned a lot and tried out a few new VLA-related ideas I'd had in my head for a while. We will share our solution: tech report, code, model weights, and a detailed video about the competition and our approach soon. I will also present a summary of the approach at the NeurIPS 2025 BEHAVIOR-1K workshop this Sunday (online). But right now, you can watch a robot autonomously completing a bunch of tasks controlled by our policy, from simple 30-second to multi-step 10+ minutes problems. This video is cherry-picked; our score is 26% (including partial successes), and we will share more details, including failed attempts, later.

Really cool guide to Robot Learning from one of @LeRobotHF community member (shared on our discord) robot-learning.notion.site/robot-learnig-…

Sorrow for Ukrainian people, fear for my friends and lack of any hope for a meaningful future in my country is all that was left by Putin's war.

One example, the number one cause of death worldwide is cardiovascular disease. It takes 17 million lives a year en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c… And it is known for decades that CDC is a preventable disease thelancet.com/journals/lance… Alas, it is not "cool" or "smart" to speak about it.

The best answer to the question about an existential threat to humanity from AI is given by Steven Pinker. Absolutely agree with it, the question is a bs to look smart taking about. youtu.be/epQxfSp-rdU?t=…