Stanford Seminar - Single-Life Robot Deployment: Adapting On-the-Fly to Novel Scenarios

Stanford Online: University Courses & Lectures · Oct 23, 2026 · 24m

January 19, 2024Annie Chen of Stanford UniversityA major obstacle to the broad application of robots is their inability to adapt to unexpected circumstances, which limits their uses largely to tightly controlled environments. Even equipped with prior experience and pre-training, robots will inevitably encounter out-of-distribution (OOD) situations at deployment time that may require a large amount of on-the-fly adaptation. In this talk, I will first motivate and introduce the problem setting of single-life deployment, which provides a natural setting to study the challenge of autonomously…