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FoldBack: Self-Correcting Masked Generative Policy for Long-Horizon Garment Folding
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- FoldBack is a robot control system that detects and fixes failed garment grasps mid-task without retraining, achieving 75% folding success versus 46% for prior methods.
- Why it matters
- Roboticists building long-horizon manipulation systems need recovery mechanisms that work without collecting failure demonstrations or retraining base policies.
- Watch out
- Results come from 33 real garments across six categories; generalization to novel garment types, materials, or robot morphologies remains untested.
- inference
- serving
- long-horizon
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