Skill Issue
Teaching Robots to Play Counter-Strike
Conference Season
2026
Talk Formats
Conference Talk (45mins)
Robotics
Do you wish you had an equal that can play Counterstrike just as godlike as you? Thanks to recent development in Robot Foundation Models (RFMs), robots can learn how to play video games just like you, imitating your best and worst behavior.
In this talk, we show you how you can use imitation learning to teach an RFM to play arbitrary games. We draw first blood with an introduction into Robot Foundation Models. You’ll learn how they work, what kind of data they are designed to process and how that makes NVIDIA’s GR00T perfect for playing video games. After that we quick scope the concept of imitation learning, what kind of data we need to train our Gr00t and how we can collect it from games. Finally, we’ll tell the story of leveling up our model from total noob to global elite - one failure at a time - and share all the things that we learned along the way. To close the game, we challenge one member of the audience to beat xXx_GR00T_xXx live on stage in a 1v1.
In this talk, we show you how you can use imitation learning to teach an RFM to play arbitrary games. We draw first blood with an introduction into Robot Foundation Models. You’ll learn how they work, what kind of data they are designed to process and how that makes NVIDIA’s GR00T perfect for playing video games. After that we quick scope the concept of imitation learning, what kind of data we need to train our Gr00t and how we can collect it from games. Finally, we’ll tell the story of leveling up our model from total noob to global elite - one failure at a time - and share all the things that we learned along the way. To close the game, we challenge one member of the audience to beat xXx_GR00T_xXx live on stage in a 1v1.
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Munich, Germany