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    "headline": "Minutes of Play Seed Hours of Robot Practice",
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    "dek": "DSP clones a brief human play policy, lets the robot collect its own interaction data and uses that policy to guide model-predictive control.",
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    "body_text": "Contact-rich robot learning needs experience, but collecting it through task-specific demonstrations or reinforcement learning can be expensive. Dexterity from Supervised Play starts with minutes of human play, clones that behavior and then deploys it to gather hours of autonomous interaction for a world model. The same play policy proposes candidate actions for model-predictive control, and a distilled policy can learn through self-play inside the model. On real underactuated pushing and in-hand reorientation, the authors report a 69.6 percent success-rate improvement over hindsight behavior cloning and performance comparable to reinforcement learning with 490 times less interaction data. Those results are task-specific, not a claim of general robot autonomy.",
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