Genie Centurion: Accelerating Scalable Real-World Robot Training with Human Rewind-and-Refine Guidance

TL;DR

Genie Centurion introduces a rewind-and-refine human guidance framework that enhances scalable robot training by reducing data requirements and enabling interactive learning with minimal human effort.

Contribution

This work presents a novel rewind-and-refine data collection paradigm that improves robot policy learning efficiency and scalability in real-world tasks.

Findings

Achieves up to 40% higher task success rates than existing methods.

Reaches comparable performance with less than half the data.

Demonstrates effective multi-robot scalable training.

Abstract

While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models show strong generalizability in various tasks, real-world deployment of robotic policy still requires large-scale, high-quality human expert demonstrations. However, data collection via human teleoperation requires continuous operator attention, which is costly, hard to scale. To address this, we propose Genie Centurion (GCENT), a scalable and general data collection paradigm based on human rewind-and-refine guidance, enabling robots' interactive learning in deployment. GCENT starts at an imperfect policy and improves over time. When the robot execution failures occur, GCENT allows robots to revert to a previous state with a rewind mechanism, after which a teleoperator provides corrective demonstrations to refine the policy. This framework supports a one-human-to-many-robots supervision scheme with a Task Sentinel module, which autonomously predicts task success and solicits human intervention when necessary. Empirical results show that GCENT achieves up to 40% higher task success rates than state-of-the-art data collection methods, and reaches comparable performance using less than half the data in long-horizon and precise tasks. We also quantify the data yield-to-effort ratio under multi-robot scenarios, demonstrating GCENT's potential for scalable and cost-efficient robot policy training in real-world environments.