FLOWER: Democratizing Generalist Robot Policies with Efficient Vision-Language-Action Flow Policies

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Experiment Videos

CALVIN

SIMPLER Benchmark

LIBERO

Bi-Manual Aloha

Transfer

Insertion

Real-World Generalization

Move the banana from right stove to sink. (FLOWER w/ bg distractors)

Move the banana from right stove to sink. (OpenVLA w/ bg distractors)

Open the oven door. (FLOWER w/ bg distractors)

Open the oven door. (OpenVLA w/ bg distractors)

Move the banana from right stove to sink. (FLOWER w/ flashlight)

Move the banana from right stove to sink. (OpenVLA w/ flashlight)

Move the pot from the right stove to sink. (FLOWER w/ flashlight)

Move the pot from the right stove to sink. (OpenVLA w/ flashlight)

Move the glove from right stove to sink. (FLOWER w/ novel objects)

Move the glove from right stove to sink. (OpenVLA w/ novel objects)

Move the red cup from right stove to sink. (FLOWER w/ novel objects)

Move the red cup from right stove to sink. (OpenVLA w/ novel objects)

Real-World Single-Task and Multi-Task Long Horizon Experiments

Representative evaluation videos of FLOWER on all 20 real-world tasks and 3 multi-task long horizon sequences.

Single Task

Move banana from right stove to oven tray

Move banana from right stove to sink

Move banana from sink to right stove

Move banana from tray to right stove (FAILURE)

Close the ice box

Close the microwave

Close the oven

Open the ice box

Open the microwave

Open the oven

Pick up toast and put it in the sink

Move pot from left stove to sink

Move pot from left to right stove

Move pot from right stove to sink

Move pot from right to left stove

Move pot from sink to left stove (FAILURE)

Move pot from sink to right stove

Pull the oven tray

Push the oven tray

Push down the toaster lever (FAILURE)

Multi-Task Long Horizon

See the appendix in the paper for a listing of individual tasks in each sequence.

Open/Close All sequence, video shows 6/6 evaluation.

Oven sequence, video shows 0/5 evaluation.

Stovetop Sink sequence, video show 3/5 evaluation.