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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

The inherent difficulty and limited scalability of collecting manipulation data using multi-fingered robot hand hardware platforms have resulted in severe data scarcity, impeding research on data-driven dexterous manipulation policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Wenbin Bai , Qiyu Chen , Xiangbo Lin , Jianwen Li , Quancheng Li , Hejiang Pan , Yi Sun

Leveraging human motion data to impart robots with versatile manipulation skills has emerged as a promising paradigm in robotic manipulation. Nevertheless, translating multi-source human hand motions into feasible robot behaviors remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhecheng Yuan , Tianming Wei , Langzhe Gu , Pu Hua , Tianhai Liang , Yuanpei Chen , Huazhe Xu

Dexterous multi-fingered hands are extremely versatile and provide a generic way to perform a multitude of tasks in human-centric environments. However, effectively controlling them remains challenging due to their high dimensionality and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Aravind Rajeswaran , Vikash Kumar , Abhishek Gupta , Giulia Vezzani , John Schulman , Emanuel Todorov , Sergey Levine

Dexterous manipulation has received considerable attention in recent research. Predominantly, existing studies have concentrated on reinforcement learning methods to address the substantial degrees of freedom in hand movements. Nonetheless,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Hengxu Yan , Haoshu Fang , Cewu Lu

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

Imitation learning is a promising approach to help robots acquire dexterous manipulation capabilities without the need for a carefully-designed reward or a significant computational effort. However, existing imitation learning approaches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Abhineet Jain , Jack Kolb , J. M. Abbess , Harish Ravichandar

Achieving human-like dexterous robotic manipulation remains a central goal and a pivotal challenge in robotics. The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has allowed rapid progress in robotic manipulation. This survey summarizes the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Gaofeng Li , Ruize Wang , Peisen Xu , Qi Ye , Jiming Chen

When human acquire physical skills (e.g., tennis) from experts, we tend to first learn from merely observing the expert. But this is often insufficient. We then engage in practice, where we try to emulate the expert and ensure that our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Yunhai Han , Zhenyang Chen , Kyle A Williams , Harish Ravichandar

In recent years, we have seen an emergence of data-driven approaches in robotics. However, most existing efforts and datasets are either in simulation or focus on a single task in isolation such as grasping, pushing or poking. In order to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Pratyusha Sharma , Lekha Mohan , Lerrel Pinto , Abhinav Gupta

Reinforcement learning and sim-to-real transfer have made significant progress in dexterous manipulation. However, progress remains limited by the difficulty of simulating complex contact dynamics and multisensory signals, especially…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Elvis Hsieh , Wen-Han Hsieh , Yen-Jen Wang , Toru Lin , Jitendra Malik , Koushil Sreenath , Haozhi Qi

We introduce CyberDemo, a novel approach to robotic imitation learning that leverages simulated human demonstrations for real-world tasks. By incorporating extensive data augmentation in a simulated environment, CyberDemo outperforms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Jun Wang , Yuzhe Qin , Kaiming Kuang , Yigit Korkmaz , Akhilan Gurumoorthy , Hao Su , Xiaolong Wang

Dexterous manipulation of objects in virtual environments with our bare hands, by using only a depth sensor and a state-of-the-art 3D hand pose estimator (HPE), is challenging. While virtual environments are ruled by physics, e.g. object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Guillermo Garcia-Hernando , Edward Johns , Tae-Kyun Kim

Large-scale egocentric video datasets capture diverse human activities across a wide range of scenarios, offering rich and detailed insights into how humans interact with objects, especially those that require fine-grained dexterous…

Dexterity is often seen as a cornerstone of complex manipulation. Humans are able to perform a host of skills with their hands, from making food to operating tools. In this paper, we investigate these challenges, especially in the case of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Aditya Kannan , Kenneth Shaw , Shikhar Bahl , Pragna Mannam , Deepak Pathak

Controlling hands in high-dimensional action space has been a longstanding challenge, yet humans naturally perform dexterous tasks with ease. In this paper, we draw inspiration from the concept of internal model exhibited in human behavior…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Tong Wu , Shoujie Li , Chuqiao Lyu , Kit-Wa Sou , Wang-Sing Chan , Wenbo Ding

Dexterous teleoperation plays a crucial role in robotic manipulation for real-world data collection and remote robot control. Previous dexterous teleoperation mostly relies on hand retargeting to closely mimic human hand postures. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Yuhao Lin , Yi-Lin Wei , Haoran Liao , Mu Lin , Chengyi Xing , Hao Li , Dandan Zhang , Mark Cutkosky , Wei-Shi Zheng

Visual imitation learning provides a framework for learning complex manipulation behaviors by leveraging human demonstrations. However, current interfaces for imitation such as kinesthetic teaching or teleoperation prohibitively restrict…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Sarah Young , Dhiraj Gandhi , Shubham Tulsiani , Abhinav Gupta , Pieter Abbeel , Lerrel Pinto

Planning physically feasible dexterous hand manipulation is a central challenge in robotic manipulation and Embodied AI. Prior work typically relies on object-centric cues or precise hand-object interaction sequences, foregoing the rich,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhenhao Zhang , Jiaxin Liu , Ye Shi , Jingya Wang

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