Get hands dirty on VLA+Immitation + RL

I have about 10 years of experience in RL, though I haven’t been active in the field for the past 2 years.

Recently, I’ve been thinking about getting back into robotics, and your post caught my attention. I’m looking to get my hands dirty again, specifically with VLA.

My goal is to pick a problem, replicate something that already works end-to-end, and document it well. Here’s roughly what I want to do:
– Pick a task (preferably simulation)
– Try a pre-trained VLA-based approach and evaluate where it falls short
– Collect data and apply imitation learning
– Then use RL on the task and demonstrate improvement

Since I’ve been out of the loop for a bit, the main goal is to ramp up quickly and get practical again.

If you know of any existing repo that already solves an end-to-end problem (preferably in simulation), I’d really appreciate it if you could point me to it. Open to things like LeRobot or similar projects.