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Dexterous hands enable concurrent prehensile and nonprehensile manipulation, such as holding one object while interacting with another, a capability essential for everyday tasks yet underexplored in robotics. Learning such long-horizon,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Hao Jiang , Yue Wu , Yue Wang , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Daniel Seita

Reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved great success in dexterous grasping, significantly improving grasp performance and generalization from simulation to the real world. However, fine-grained functional grasping, which is essential for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Chuan Mao , Haoqi Yuan , Ziye Huang , Chaoyi Xu , Kai Ma , Zongqing Lu

Manipulating articulated tools, such as tweezers or scissors, has rarely been explored in previous research. Unlike rigid tools, articulated tools change their shape dynamically, creating unique challenges for dexterous robotic hands. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Wei Xu , Yanchao Zhao , Weichao Guo , Xinjun Sheng

Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods have been proven successful in solving manipulation tasks autonomously. However, RL is still not widely adopted on real robotic systems because working with real hardware entails additional challenges,…

In this work, we aim to learn dexterous manipulation of deformable objects using multi-fingered hands. Reinforcement learning approaches for dexterous rigid object manipulation would struggle in this setting due to the complexity of physics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Sizhe Li , Zhiao Huang , Tao Chen , Tao Du , Hao Su , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

Deep Reinforcement Learning has shown its capability to solve the high degrees of freedom in control and the complex interaction with the object in the multi-finger dexterous in-hand manipulation tasks. Current DRL approaches prefer sparse…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Lingfeng Tao , Jiucai Zhang , Xiaoli Zhang

Dextrous in-hand manipulation with a multi-fingered robotic hand is a challenging task, esp. when performed with the hand oriented upside down, demanding permanent force-closure, and when no external sensors are used. For the task of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Johannes Pitz , Lennart Röstel , Leon Sievers , Berthold Bäuml

Deep learning has provided new ways of manipulating, processing and analyzing data. It sometimes may achieve results comparable to, or surpassing human expert performance, and has become a source of inspiration in the era of artificial…

Deep reinforcement learning has shown its advantages in real-time decision-making based on the state of the agent. In this stage, we solved the task of using a real robot to manipulate the cube to a given trajectory. The task is broken down…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Qingfeng Yao , Jilong Wang , Shuyu Yang

Human hands play a central role in interacting, motivating increasing research in dexterous robotic manipulation. Data-driven embodied AI algorithms demand precise, large-scale, human-like manipulation sequences, which are challenging to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Kailin Li , Puhao Li , Tengyu Liu , Yuyang Li , Siyuan Huang

Robotic dexterous hands are central to contact-rich manipulation, with rapid progress driven by advances in hardware, sensing, control, simulation, and data generation. However, existing studies are often developed under different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Weiguang Zhao , Tian Liang , Xihao Guo , Rui Zhang , Irwin King , Kaizhu Huang

Dexterous manipulation is a crucial yet highly complex challenge in humanoid robotics, demanding precise, adaptable, and sample-efficient learning methods. As humanoid robots are usually designed to operate in human-centric environments and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Edgar Welte , Rania Rayyes

Performing in-hand, contact-rich, and long-horizon dexterous manipulation remains an unsolved challenge in robotics. Prior hand dexterity works have considered each of these three challenges in isolation, yet do not combine these skills…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hung-Chieh Fang , Amber Xie , Jennifer Grannen , Kenneth Llontop , Dorsa Sadigh

Current end-to-end deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) approaches require jointly learning perception, decision-making and low-level control from very sparse reward signals and high-dimensional inputs, with little capability of incorporating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Vibhavari Dasagi , Robert Lee , Serena Mou , Jake Bruce , Niko Sünderhauf , Jürgen Leitner

Many objects, such as tools and household items, can be used only if grasped in a very specific way - grasped functionally. Often, a direct functional grasp is not possible, though. We propose a method for learning a dexterous pre-grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Dmytro Pavlichenko , Sven Behnke

When transferring a Deep Reinforcement Learning model from simulation to the real world, the performance could be unsatisfactory since the simulation cannot imitate the real world well in many circumstances. This results in a long period of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Wenxing Liu , Hanlin Niu , Robert Skilton , Joaquin Carrasco

We propose a novel framework for Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) in modular robotics using traditional robotic tools that extend state-of-the-art DRL implementations and provide an end-to-end approach which trains a robot directly from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Risto Kojcev , Nora Etxezarreta , Alejandro Hernández , Víctor Mayoral

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is a viable solution for automating repetitive surgical subtasks due to its ability to learn complex behaviours in a dynamic environment. This task automation could lead to reduced surgeon's cognitive…

Reliable and stable locomotion has been one of the most fundamental challenges for legged robots. Deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) has emerged as a promising method for developing such control policies autonomously. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Sehoon Ha , Peng Xu , Zhenyu Tan , Sergey Levine , Jie Tan

Multi-fingered robotic hands have potential to enable robots to perform sophisticated manipulation tasks. However, teaching a robot to grasp objects with an anthropomorphic hand is an arduous problem due to the high dimensionality of state…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Federico Ceola , Elisa Maiettini , Lorenzo Rosasco , Lorenzo Natale