multi-agents with different types

[xubo92]

Hi @mattdeitke

Thanks a lot for your previous answers!

Does robothor now support using two agents but with different types? say I wanna spawn a locobot and a drone in same scene and they move using their own actions. Is this possible?

Thanks! Xubo

[mattdeitke]

Hi @xubo92,

Not yet. While RoboTHOR (and iTHOR, ManipulaTHOR) work with multiple agents of the same type (e.g., multiple locobots, drones, or default agents), they still don't yet support mixing and matching between the agent types (e.g., 1 drone, 2 locobots).

This is, however, in the roadmap, and would also enable a few other useful features (such as Ghost agents, which could follow an agent). To support it, it would require a bit of a refactor of the whole multi-agent setup. I would expect support for it in the coming months. Depending on the urgency/use case, we might be able to add a specific workaround sooner with a private/custom release.

[xubo92]

Hi @mattdeitke

Thanks for the answers!

Yeah, this is kinda a customized feature needed in one of my project which we want to highlight the different ability between a drone and a locobot. Not very urgent though, hopefully there will be a support next month.

Thanks!

[Karthika-Arumugam]

Hi @mattdeitke,

I am a beginner. In the current project I am working, we are in need of one default agent and one drone agent. As per your previous comments few months before, I believe this feature will be out soon. Could you please tell when can we expect the different type multi-agent support in AI2Thor. Thanks