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RAIL - Robotic AI & Learning Lab

United States

Chelsea Finn, Dhruv Shah and Kate Rakelly are among the lab's notable alumni; the separate 'Berkeley Humanoid' project belongs to Koushil Sreenath's Hybrid Robotics lab, not RAIL.

Updated 2026-07-10 · Last verified 2026-07-10

AffiliationUC Berkeley (EECS, au sein de BAIR)
CountryUS
TypeAcademic
Research areasreinforcement learning, offline RL, generalist manipulation, VLA
Flagship contributionReleased BridgeData V2, a dataset of over 60,000 manipulation trajectories across 24 environments with free-form natural language instructions, built for generalizable policy learning.
Key peopleSergey Levine (Professor, directeur du lab), Andrew Wagenmaker (postdoc)
Open outputsBridgeData V2 (dataset et code, GitHub rail-berkeley/bridge_data_v2), co-développement de Q-Transformer avec Google DeepMind, co-leadership d'Octo, SERL (Sample-Efficient Robotic RL) en open source.
CityBerkeley (Californie)

Sources : RAIL Lab (2026-07)UC Berkeley (2026-07)arXiv (2023-08)

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