Multi-Goal Reinforcement Learning: Challenging robotics environments and request for research
Summary
OpenAI introduces a suite of challenging multi-goal reinforcement learning tasks for robotics using Fetch and Shadow Dexterous Hand hardware, integrated with OpenAI Gym, along with research directions for improving RL algorithms.
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