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In this work, we propose algorithms and methods that enable learning dexterous object manipulation using simulated one- or two-armed robots equipped with multi-fingered hand end-effectors. Using a parallel GPU-accelerated physics simulator…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Aleksei Petrenko , Arthur Allshire , Gavriel State , Ankur Handa , Viktor Makoviychuk

We use reinforcement learning (RL) to learn dexterous in-hand manipulation policies which can perform vision-based object reorientation on a physical Shadow Dexterous Hand. The training is performed in a simulated environment in which we…

Retrieving objects buried beneath multiple objects is not only challenging but also time-consuming. Performing manipulation in such environments presents significant difficulty due to complex contact relationships. Existing methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Fengshuo Bai , Yu Li , Jie Chu , Tawei Chou , Runchuan Zhu , Ying Wen , Yaodong Yang , Yuanpei Chen

Robotic in-hand manipulation has been a long-standing challenge due to the complexity of modelling hand and object in contact and of coordinating finger motion for complex manipulation sequences. To address these challenges, the majority of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Tingguang Li , Krishnan Srinivasan , Max Qing-Hu Meng , Wenzhen Yuan , Jeannette Bohg

Training agents to autonomously learn how to use anthropomorphic robotic hands has the potential to lead to systems capable of performing a multitude of complex manipulation tasks in unstructured and uncertain environments. In this work, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Henry Charlesworth , Giovanni Montana

Robotic dexterous manipulation is a challenging problem due to high degrees of freedom (DoFs) and complex contacts of multi-fingered robotic hands. Many existing deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based methods aim at improving sample…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Qingtao Liu , Zhengnan Sun , Yu Cui , Haoming Li , Gaofeng Li , Lin Shao , Jiming Chen , Qi Ye

Enabling multi-fingered robots to grasp and manipulate objects with human-like dexterity is especially challenging during the dynamic, continuous hand-object interactions. Closed-loop feedback control is essential for dexterous hands to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Dongying Tian , Xiangbo Lin , Yi Sun

Teaching a multi-fingered dexterous robot to grasp objects in the real world has been a challenging problem due to its high dimensional state and action space. We propose a robot-learning system that can take a small number of human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Zoey Qiuyu Chen , Karl Van Wyk , Yu-Wei Chao , Wei Yang , Arsalan Mousavian , Abhishek Gupta , Dieter Fox

Dexterous manipulation with anthropomorphic robot hands remains a challenging problem in robotics because of the high-dimensional state and action spaces and complex contacts. Nevertheless, skillful closed-loop manipulation is required to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Malte Mosbach , Kara Moraw , Sven Behnke

Dexterous robotic hands enable robots to perform complex manipulations that require fine-grained control and adaptability. Achieving such manipulation is challenging because the high degrees of freedom tightly couple hand and arm motions,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ying Feng , Hongjie Fang , Yinong He , Jingjing Chen , Chenxi Wang , Zihao He , Ruonan Liu , Cewu Lu

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 in-hand manipulation in robotics, particularly with multi-fingered robotic hands, poses significant challenges due to the intricate avoidance of collisions among fingers and the object being manipulated. Collision-free paths for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xiao Gao , Kunpeng Yao , Farshad Khadivar , Aude Billard

Reinforcement Learning (RL) training is predominantly conducted in cost-effective and controlled simulation environments. However, the transfer of these trained models to real-world tasks often presents unavoidable challenges. This research…

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

Dexterous manipulation requires careful reasoning over extrinsic contacts. The prevalence of deforming tools in human environments, the use of deformable sensors, and the increasing number of soft robots yields a need for approaches that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Mark Van der Merwe , Miquel Oller , Dmitry Berenson , Nima Fazeli

Manipulating objects with two multi-fingered hands has been a long-standing challenge in robotics, due to the contact-rich nature of many manipulation tasks and the complexity inherent in coordinating a high-dimensional bimanual system. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Toru Lin , Zhao-Heng Yin , Haozhi Qi , Pieter Abbeel , Jitendra Malik

Dexterous manipulation is a fundamental capability for robotic systems, yet progress has been limited by hardware trade-offs between precision, compactness, strength, and affordability. Existing control methods impose compromises on hand…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Anya Zorin , Irmak Guzey , Billy Yan , Aadhithya Iyer , Lisa Kondrich , Nikhil X. Bhattasali , Lerrel Pinto

Manipulating objects to achieve desired goal states is a basic but important skill for dexterous manipulation. Human hand motions demonstrate proficient manipulation capability, providing valuable data for training robots with multi-finger…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Yuanpei Chen , Chen Wang , Yaodong Yang , C. Karen Liu

This paper identifies and addresses the problems with naively combining (reinforcement) learning-based controllers and state estimators for robotic in-hand manipulation. Specifically, we tackle the challenging task of purely tactile,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Lennart Röstel , Johannes Pitz , Leon Sievers , Berthold Bäuml

In-hand manipulation using multiple dexterous fingers is a critical robotic skill that can reduce the reliance on large arm motions, thereby saving space and energy. This letter focuses on in-grasp object movement, which refers to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Mingrui Yu , Yongpeng Jiang , Chen Chen , Yongyi Jia , Xiang Li