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Telerobotic systems must adapt to new environmental conditions and deal with high uncertainty caused by long-time delays. As one of the best alternatives to human-level intelligence, Reinforcement Learning (RL) may offer a solution to cope…

Bimanual manipulation presents unique challenges compared to unimanual tasks due to the complexity of coordinating two robotic arms. In this paper, we introduce InterACT: Inter-dependency aware Action Chunking with Hierarchical Attention…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Andrew Lee , Ian Chuang , Ling-Yuan Chen , Iman Soltani

Observational learning requires an agent to learn to perform a task by referencing only observations of the performed task. This work investigates the equivalent setting in real-world robot learning where access to hand-designed rewards and…

Manipulation and locomotion are closely related problems that are often studied in isolation. In this work, we study the problem of coordinating multiple mobile agents to exhibit manipulation behaviors using a reinforcement learning (RL)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Ofir Nachum , Michael Ahn , Hugo Ponte , Shixiang Gu , Vikash Kumar

Eye-in-hand cameras have shown promise in enabling greater sample efficiency and generalization in vision-based robotic manipulation. However, for robotic imitation, it is still expensive to have a human teleoperator collect large amounts…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Moo Jin Kim , Jiajun Wu , Chelsea Finn

Recent robot learning methods commonly rely on imitation learning from massive robotic dataset collected with teleoperation. When facing a new task, such methods generally require collecting a set of new teleoperation data and finetuning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xiang Zhu , Yichen Liu , Hezhong Li , Jianyu Chen

Contact-rich manipulation is crucial for robots to perform tasks requiring precise force control, such as insertion, assembly, and in-hand manipulation. However, most imitation learning (IL) policies remain position-centric and lack…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Haizhou Ge , Yufei Jia , Zheng Li , Yue Li , Zhixing Chen , Ruqi Huang , Guyue Zhou

In this paper, we introduce RoboMIND (Multi-embodiment Intelligence Normative Data for Robot Manipulation), a dataset containing 107k demonstration trajectories across 479 diverse tasks involving 96 object classes. RoboMIND is collected…

While robot learning has demonstrated promising results for enabling robots to automatically acquire new skills, a critical challenge in deploying learning-based systems is scale: acquiring enough data for the robot to effectively…

Despite the considerable potential of reinforcement learning (RL), robotic control tasks predominantly rely on imitation learning (IL) due to its better sample efficiency. However, it is costly to collect comprehensive expert demonstrations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Hengyuan Hu , Suvir Mirchandani , Dorsa Sadigh

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 manipulation is essential for the widespread adoption of robots in industrial and home settings and has long been a focus within the robotics community. Advances in artificial intelligence have introduced promising learning-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Kelin Li , Shubham M Wagh , Nitish Sharma , Saksham Bhadani , Wei Chen , Chang Liu , Petar Kormushev

We present a unified framework for multi-task locomotion and manipulation policy learning grounded in a contact-explicit representation. Instead of designing different policies for different tasks, our approach unifies the definition of a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Shafeef Omar , Majid Khadiv

Robot manipulation is an important part of human-robot interaction technology. However, traditional pre-programmed methods can only accomplish simple and repetitive tasks. To enable effective communication between robots and humans, and to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Haoxu Zhang , Parham M. Kebria , Shady Mohamed , Samson Yu , Saeid Nahavandi

Imitation learning (IL) is a simple and powerful way to use high-quality human driving data, which can be collected at scale, to produce human-like behavior. However, policies based on imitation learning alone often fail to sufficiently…

Teleoperation is a cornerstone of embodied-robot learning, and bimanual dexterous teleoperation in particular provides rich demonstrations that are difficult to obtain with fully autonomous systems. While recent studies have proposed…

Teaching robots dexterous manipulation skills often requires collecting hundreds of demonstrations using wearables or teleoperation, a process that is challenging to scale. Videos of human-object interactions are easier to collect and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Tyler Ga Wei Lum , Olivia Y. Lee , C. Karen Liu , Jeannette Bohg

Purpose of review: Recent advances in sensing, actuation, and computation have opened the door to multi-robot systems consisting of hundreds/thousands of robots, with promising applications to automated manufacturing, disaster relief,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Yutong Wang , Mehul Damani , Pamela Wang , Yuhong Cao , Guillaume Sartoretti

Contact-rich tasks continue to present many challenges for robotic manipulation. In this work, we leverage a multimodal visuotactile sensor within the framework of imitation learning (IL) to perform contact-rich tasks that involve relative…

We introduce a simple new method for visual imitation learning, which allows a novel robot manipulation task to be learned from a single human demonstration, without requiring any prior knowledge of the object being interacted with. Our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Edward Johns