Public research sourceStanfordVision and Learning Lab
Stanford BEHAVIOR-1K: Teaching Household Tasks
First understand what Stanford researchers are trying to learn through Vision and Learning Lab, why the question matters, how they test it, and what the result cannot prove. Give a simulated household robot one chore and see whether it can finish when objects start in different places. The student then completes A household-robot mission app that turns a task request into a safe action sequence and shows state, failure, and help requests. For a college application or interview, the student separates the source research from their feature, interface, tests, failures, and revisions. Available online or in person in Apgujeong, in one-to-one or small-group formats.
University and lab names show where each public project came from. CIT independently designed these courses; they are not official university courses, partnerships, or endorsements.
8guided sessions
8-20 hoursto the first small project
Advancedrecommended level
Not requiredphysical robot
Primary routes
Choose the student's primary AI education and portfolio route
CIT keeps the international-school route first, followed by the separate science and gifted-school route.
CIT lessons can run online across Korea and overseas or in person in Apgujeong. The student owns the question, code, tests and explanation; classes do not guarantee admission, selection or awards, and online delivery never changes an institution's submission rules.
What object conditions and action order does a household robot need to check to finish a chore?
Choose one household chore and define the object conditions and action order a robot must check. Compare success when the starting layout changes.
Students first use a small working example to understand the researchers' question, method, and evidence. A controlled change helps identify what the student's extension must solve. The student then implements a useful feature, connects an operator interface, and tests the integrated application in normal, boundary, and failure cases.
What will the student complete?
A household-robot mission app that turns a task request into a safe action sequence and shows state, failure, and help requests
The final package includes runnable instructions, the feature and interface design, normal and failure tests, one documented revision, and a three-minute explanation in the student's own words.
Feature
A feature that checks household-object state, chooses the next action, and recovers or requests help when a requirement is not met
Operator interface
A household-task screen showing before-and-after object states, action order, success conditions, and failure reasons as cards
Optional LLM boundary
Optional: an LLM drafts a household plan using only allowed object and action cards. The student must verify state conditions and approve it before execution.
Integrated result
A household-robot mission app that turns a task request into a safe action sequence and shows state, failure, and help requests
Four ideas explained in this course
01a chore for the robot
02conditions required for success
03current object states
04action order that finishes the task
Eight introductory sessions
Understand the research, then build and test a working robotics application
The 20 courses are eight-session CIT studios in which students understand a public university or lab project, confirm a working example, and then turn it into a small robotics application with a useful feature and an operator interface. Selected courses add an optional LLM explanation tool that can read run records but cannot control the robot. RoboMaster has 28 sessions, and implementation scope is adjusted to each student's experience and computer access.
Understand the source
01
Check the computer and files needed
02
Choose one chore and room
Measure and compare
03
Define object states and success conditions
04
Track how actions change object states
Build a feature
05
Change only the objects' starting positions
06
Implement the student-owned feature: A feature that checks household-object state, chooses the next action, and recovers or requests help when a requirement is not met
Integrate and demonstrate
07
Build the operator interface: A household-task screen showing before-and-after object states, action order, success conditions, and failure reasons as cards. Add the bounded assistant: Optional: an LLM drafts a household plan using only allowed object and action cards. The student must verify state conditions and approve it before execution.
08
Integrate, test, and demonstrate: A household-robot mission app that turns a task request into a safe action sequence and shows state, failure, and help requests
Public project used in class
See the exact version CIT reviewed
Public projects can change over time. To keep the class example consistent, CIT uses version 78980ee463b9 of StanfordVL/BEHAVIOR-1K. CIT checked it on 2026-08-14; it was created on 2026-08-05. Usage-rights note: Repository uses multiple asset and code terms; verify each component.
licence Repository uses multiple asset and code terms; verify each component
text files 3,548
The student opens the household-task definitions from a Stanford lab and explains why deciding what counts as success is the hard part. In class the project is separated into five boxes (input, memory, process, output, control). The lesson opens one of them, changes one value, and leaves the rest closed.
InputWhat comes in?
The human-written task definition, and the scene configuration that opens it
Memoryopened hereWhat persists?
The objects in the scene and the list of states they may hold: wet, hot, open are decided here
ProcessWhat transforms?
Physics, state updates, and the check that decides whether the task is finished
OutputWhat leaves, and who uses it?
Observations, the success flag, and the rendered scene
ControlWhat decides when anything runs?
The controller settings that turn a command into joint motion, and the part that decides when a step advances
The files the lesson opens, by name. The course is not a walk through the repository; it opens a chosen few and says which.
One value moves and everything else stays. The right-hand column is the prediction written before the run, not a result; the work is reconciling the two.
The universities and labs named here made the open projects this course reads. CIT designed the course independently; it is not an official, affiliated, or endorsed course.
Clear answers about what students do, what they need, and where the project came from.
Is Stanford BEHAVIOR-1K: Teaching Household Tasks an official course from Stanford Vision and Learning Lab?
University and lab names show where each public project came from. CIT independently designed these courses; they are not official university courses, partnerships, or endorsements.
Is hardware required?
Not required. The course starts with a robot on the computer or a saved recording of a completed run. Computer guidance: Strong NVIDIA GPU and large assets recommended.
What background should a student have?
Recommended level: Advanced. Students should be able to follow a guided Python example, test one controlled change, and then build and explain a small feature and interface.
What will the student make?
The completed project is A household-robot mission app that turns a task request into a safe action sequence and shows state, failure, and help requests. The student implements A feature that checks household-object state, chooses the next action, and recovers or requests help when a requirement is not met and A household-task screen showing before-and-after object states, action order, success conditions, and failure reasons as cards. Optional: an LLM drafts a household plan using only allowed object and action cards. The student must verify state conditions and approve it before execution.
How can the student use this project in a college application?
Explain the source research question, method, evidence, and limits first. Then separate the student's own feature and interface decisions, normal and failure tests, revisions, and next question. The source institution's name does not imply affiliation or guarantee admission.
Which project version does the course use?
CIT reviewed version 78980ee463b9 of StanfordVL/BEHAVIOR-1K on 2026-08-14. That version was created on 2026-08-05. We keep this version during class so the example does not change unexpectedly, and we check the setup again before teaching.
Can Stanford BEHAVIOR-1K: Teaching Household Tasks be taken online or in person, one-to-one or in a small group?
Yes. This course is offered online and in person at CIT in Apgujeong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, with one-to-one and small-group options. Placement and current availability are confirmed after a readiness consultation.
Is this a good first project for this student?
Before placement, we check the student's coding and math experience, available computer, interests, and ability to explain what happened.
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