ZifanZhao2004/robot-learning-landscape

🤖 Robot Learning Landscape

An interactive map of how robots learn to act — plus an animated unified-model story, a chronological evolution timeline, and focused VLM / world-model views.

• —🎬 Unified Story — a smooth animated walkthrough from classical control to RL/IL, generative action heads, VLM/VLA foundation policies, world models, and the current unified robot-model stack. It includes a 165-paper evidence matrix and source links.
• —🧪 Algorithm Lab — a synchronized explainer for every Robot, VLM, and World Model landscape node: stepper, animation, formulas, code snippets, and plain-language trace move together, following the DiT / cross-attention explainer style.
• —🗒️ Study Plan — a lecture-notes learning workspace: a 13-week roadmap (Gantt overview with per-module progress tracked from checked exercises/self-tests), an 8-module curriculum with lecture text, formulas, exercises, and local notes, plus reference pages for math prerequisites, interview prep (company loops + question bank), and an 8-step explanation standard. Direct jumps into the visualizations.
• —🧬 Contribution Atlas — an animated, contribution-first history across Robot, VLM, and World Model work: each step shows the prior reference point, the new work, and the smallest conceptual/algorithmic delta that mattered.
• —🌌 Robot Landscape — a constellation of 35 methods across 14 families (Imitation Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Offline RL, Inverse RL, World Models, Sequence Models, Goal-Conditioned, Hierarchical, Meta-Learning, LLM/VLM, Classical Control, VLA, Sim-to-Real, and Representation Pretraining). Click a star for a plain-English explanation, a looping mini-animation of what the robot is doing, the equations (with related equations in its family), how it connects to other methods, and a link to the best explainer.
• —⏳ Evolution Timeline — 53 milestones (1922–2025) showing what was developed from what; hover to trace a method's lineage, click any card to read its best explainer.
• —👁️ / 🧭 / 🌍 / 📚 / 🆚 — VLM Landscape, VLM Axes, World Models, My Reading, and Compare round out the eleven-tab app.

Toggle between the views with the bar at the top.