𝜋₀: A Vision-Language-Action Flow Model for General Robot Control

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π 0 subscript 𝜋 0 \pi_{0} italic_π start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT : A Vision-Language-Action Flow Model for General Robot Control Physical Intelligence Kevin Black, Noah Brown, Danny Driess, Adnan Esmail, Michael Equi, Chelsea Finn, Niccolo Fusai, Lachy Groom, Karol Hausman, Brian Ichter, Szymon Jakubczak, Tim Jones, Liyiming Ke, Sergey Levine, Adrian Li-Bell, Mohith Mothukuri, Suraj Nair, Karl Pertsch, Lucy Xiaoyang Shi, James Tanner, Quan Vuong, Anna Walling, Haohuan Wang, Ury Zhilinsky https://physicalintelligence.company/blog/pi0 Physical Intelligence, San Francisco, California,

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