SAIL: Scaling In-Context Imitation Learning

Introducing “Scaling In-Context Imitation Learning” (SAIL) to be presented at IROS2026. This work is a collaboration between Sakana AI and the University of Tokyo. Blog: https://pub.sakana.ai/sail Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.08269 What does a robot need before it can tackle a new task? Teaching a robot something new usually starts with collecting demonstrations and training a policy. But foundation models have already learned from vast amounts of images, text, and robotics-related data. We wanted to see how much of that knowledge we could draw out for robot control without changing the m