Vision-language-action models (VLAs) trained on large-scale robotic datasets have demonstrated strong performance on manipulation tasks, including bimanual tasks. However, because most public datasets ...

Abstract: Language-controlled policies enable robots to follow human language instructions and execute complex tasks. While language-conditioned imitation learning has proven effective in teaching ...

Outgoing D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith has been accused by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of manipulating crime data to maintain the appearance of low crime in the District.

Jeanine Pirro sounds off on DC crime data manipulation controversy U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro weighs in on the federal probe into alleged manipulation of D.C. crime data, rising national ...

Just after Christmas 2023, a chemist at the state public health laboratory admitted to her bosses that she had manipulated test results. In the coming weeks her supervisors at the Colorado Department ...

*A December 14 report from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform alleges that outgoing D.C. Police Chief Pamela A. Smith deliberately pressured her commanders to manipulate crime ...

WASHINGTON — The controversy surrounding the accuracy of Washington, D.C.'s crime statistics intensified tonight after the District’s top federal prosecutor publicly supported a Congressional ...

Members of a U.S. House committee criticized Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith's leadership and accused her of directing commanders to manipulate crime data. In an interim report, the ...

Mortgage-pricing data has gone digital. But when does transparency turn into coordination? In early October 2025, mortgage-technology provider Optimal Blue and three major lenders were sued in a ...

VITRA is a novel approach for pretraining Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for robotic manipulation using large-scale, unscripted, real-world videos of human hand activities. Treating human hand as ...

As the chief demographer at the nonprofit Data Center in New Orleans, Allison Plyer receives hundreds of data requests and questions each year. The Data Center compiles and analyzes data from multiple ...