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Toyota Research Institute (TRI) - Large Behavior Models
United States
Tedrake's dual role at TRI and MIT CSAIL anchors TRI within the academic robotics ecosystem.
AffiliationToyota Motor Corporation
CountryUS
TypeCorporate
Research areasmanipulation, diffusion policies, large behavior models, sim2real
Flagship contributionDeveloped Large Behavior Models that piloted Boston Dynamics' electric Atlas humanoid with a single policy controlling both hands and feet, building on the earlier Diffusion Policy work.
Key peopleRuss Tedrake (SVP Large Behavior Models chez TRI, Toyota Professor au MIT), Ben Burchfiel (Senior Research Manager), Naveen Kuppuswamy (Senior Research Scientist, robotique tactile)
Open outputsDataset DROID (76 000 trajectoires, ~350h, effort inter-institutionnel avec 13 labos), licence CC-BY 4.0 avec code d'entraînement ; Drake, toolkit de simulation robotique open source.
CityLos Altos
Sources : Toyota Research Institute (2026-06)Robotics 24/7 (2025-01)Green Car Congress (2023-09-20)
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