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Octo
Octo is a transformer-based robot policy trained on a diverse mix of 800k robot trajectories.
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About Octo
Octo is a transformer-based robot policy pretrained on 800,000 real-world robot trajectories. It serves as a generalist manipulation model that can be fine-tuned or used as a starting point for various robotic tasks. The model is open-source and implemented in Python.
Best for
Robotics researchers and developers seeking a versatile pretrained manipulation policy
Use cases
- Fine-tuning for specific robot manipulation tasks
- Zero-shot generalization to novel environments or objects
- Starting point for imitation learning research
Notes
1,660 stars on GitHub. Last updated 2024-07-31. Licensed MIT.
Pros
- Pretrained on a large and diverse dataset of robot trajectories
- Transformer architecture enables handling of varied input sequences
- Open-source community project with active development
Cons
- Requires substantial GPU resources for inference and fine-tuning
- Performance depends on the similarity of target tasks to training data
- Not optimized for real-time control loops without additional optimization
Key facts
What we have checked
- Latest version
- 1.5 (released 24 May 2024)
- Days since the last commit
- 829
- GitHub forks
- 285
- GitHub stars
- 1,819
- Days to a first reply on issues
- 267.9
- Open issues
- 89
- Releases in the last 90 days
- 0
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Stars and usage
How Octo is growing
1,660 to 1,819
Health and security
Is Octo looked after, and what do its setup files show
Health score
19 out of 100
| Part | Points | What we saw |
|---|---|---|
| Recent activity | 0 of 30 | Last push 829 days ago |
| Releases | 0 of 15 | 0 releases in 90 days |
| Issue replies | 0 of 20 | First reply in 267.9 days (median) |
| Maintainer | 15 of 15 | Owned by an organisation |
| Official source | Not counted | MCP servers only |
Alternatives
Alternatives to Octo
| Record | Type | How we know | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| LeRobotThis is an alternative to it | Open source | Named in the listing | Not dated |
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Changelog
What changed
Released 1.5
Released 0.1.0
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