Transformer Transformer: A Unified Model for Motion-Conditioned Robot Co-Design
Not all robots are created equal — but what if you could design one for a specific task? We propose Transformer Transformer, a unified model that does exactly this: hand it a manipulation demonstration, and it generates a complete robot — every link, joint, motor, and inertial property — optimized for that motion. We fabricated one such design for cloth flinging on an ALOHA2 bimanual platform; it reduced tracking error by 73% and max joint speed by 30% versus the original.
- ▪Not all robots are created equal — but what if you could design one for a specific task?
- ▪We propose Transformer Transformer, a unified model that does exactly this: hand it a manipulation demonstration, and it generates a complete robot — every link, joint, motor, and inertial property — optimized for that motion.
- ▪We fabricated one such design for cloth flinging on an ALOHA2 bimanual platform; it reduced tracking error by 73% and max joint speed by 30% versus the original.
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| Canonical URL | https://transformer-transformer.github.io/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 29 Jul 2026 03:52:29 +0000 |
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Not all robots are created equal — but what if you could design one for a specific task? We propose Transformer Transformer, a unified model that does exactly this: hand it a manipulation demonstration, and it generates a complete robot — every link, joint, motor, and inertial property — optimized for that motion. We fabricated one such design for cloth flinging on an ALOHA2 bimanual platform; it reduced tracking error by 73% and max joint speed by 30% versus the original. Behind that result is a diffusion transformer trained on RoboTokens, a unified tokenization of robot embodiments, states, and actions. The same architecture spans embodiment spaces (wheeled bimanual, quadrupeds, humanoids) and use cases (embodiment generation, cross-embodiment control).
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