ICL Wins the First Prize ($60k) in ICRA Competition on Bimanual Packing

🎉 Exciting news from ICRA 2025! Our team won First Prize ($60k) in the Packing Track of the What Bimanual Teleoperation and Learning from Demonstration Can Do (WBCD) competition!
We developed a neuro-symbolic framework—called Skill Graph—that strategically decomposes the manipulation problem to leverage the best-suited method for each component:
🔹 Data-driven models for complex perception
🔹 Human knowledge for intuitive priors (e.g., “stacked bowls should be grasped from the interior”)
🔹 Assured and robust model-based robotics techniques, including fast motion planning and safe control
This hybrid approach enabled:
✅ Strong generalization across tasks (e.g., object types) and embodiments (e.g., robotic platforms and sensor configurations)—we trained on Unitree G1 and only accessed the competition setup 3 days before the event;
✅ Data efficiency—perception models were adapted with just one hour of retraining on a RTX 4060 laptop; skills are learned through one-shot key frame demonstrations.
âś… High reliability, achieving a >90% task success rate.
đź’ˇ We were also the only team to run in fully autonomous mode in the packing track during the competition!
Huge thanks to the amazing team that made this possible! 🙌