Never-Ending Behavior-Cloning Agent for Robotic Manipulation
Embodied robots struggle with 3D scene understanding and human-level task generalization in unstructured environments due to reliance on multimodal observations. Method: This paper proposes a lifelong language-conditioned behavioral cloning framework tailored for real-world scenarios. It introduces the first lifelong behavioral cloning paradigm; designs a skill-sharing semantic rendering and representation distillation module to mitigate 3D representation blind spots; and develops a skill-specific evolutionary planner enabling human-like incremental knowledge embedding in a low-rank latent space. Contribution/Results: Evaluated on a newly established lifelong manipulation benchmark, the method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art approaches. The code, dataset, and visualization results are publicly released, demonstrating strong cross-task sequential adaptability and robustness to continual learning.