[R] Combining Thermodynamics and Diffusion Models for Collision-Free Robot Motion Planning

Researchers from Yonsei University and UC Berkeley recently developed a new AI method for enabling autonomous robots to navigate unfamiliar environments filled with obstacles using only visual data as input.

The key innovation is a customized diffusion model. Diffusion models can generate diverse motion plans by adding controlled noise. The researchers **tailored the model to mimic how heat avoids insulation when dispersing through space.**

Similar to heat navigating around insulators, this "collision-avoiding" diffusion model learns to predict robot motions that …

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