Berkeley PhD Thesis: Building Generalist Robots via Data, Policy, Cross-Embodiment & Memory
Berkeley PhD thesis presents a four-part framework for generalist robots: BridgeData V2 dataset (60k trajectories), Octo policy (800k demos, 29% better zero-shot), CrossFormer (single policy across 20 embodiments, 73% success), and MEM (multi-scale memory for 15-min tasks).
