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The control of robots for manipulation tasks generally relies on visual input. Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) enable the use of natural language instructions to condition visual input and control robots in a wider range of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Chenglin Cui , Chaoran Zhu , Changjae Oh , Andrea Cavallaro

This work studies the challenge of transfer animations between characters whose skeletal topologies differ substantially. While many techniques have advanced retargeting techniques in decades, transfer motions across diverse topologies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Ling-Hao Chen , Yuhong Zhang , Zixin Yin , Zhiyang Dou , Xin Chen , Jingbo Wang , Taku Komura , Lei Zhang

Grounding the common-sense reasoning of Large Language Models (LLMs) in physical domains remains a pivotal yet unsolved problem for embodied AI. Whereas prior works have focused on leveraging LLMs directly for planning in symbolic spaces,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yanwei Wang , Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Jiayuan Mao , Michael Hagenow , Julie Shah

Skill effect models for long-horizon manipulation tasks are prone to failures in conditions not covered by training data distributions. Therefore, enabling robots to reason about and learn from failures is necessary. We investigate the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yixuan Huang , Novella Alvina , Mohanraj Devendran Shanthi , Tucker Hermans

Adapting robot trajectories based on human instructions as per new situations is essential for achieving more intuitive and scalable human-robot interactions. This work proposes a flexible language-based framework to adapt generic robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Anurag Maurya , Tashmoy Ghosh , Ravi Prakash

Humans seamlessly fuse anticipatory planning with immediate feedback to perform successive mobile manipulation tasks without stopping, achieving both high efficiency and reliability. Replicating this fluid and reliable behavior in robots…

Traditional robot simulators focus on physical process modeling and realistic rendering, often suffering from high computational costs, inefficiencies, and limited adaptability. To handle this issue, we concentrate on behavior simulation in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jianan Wang , Bin Li , Jingtao Qi , Xueying Wang , Fu Li , Hanxun Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) and strong vision models have enabled rapid research and development in the field of Vision-Language-Action models that enable robotic control. The main objective of these methods is to develop a generalist…

We want a multi-robot team to complete complex tasks in minimum time where the locations of task-relevant objects are not known. Effective task completion requires reasoning over long horizons about the likely locations of task-relevant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Abhish Khanal , Abhishek Paudel , Hung Pham , Gregory J. Stein

This work presents an extended framework for learning-based bipedal locomotion that incorporates a heuristic step-planning strategy guided by desired torso velocity tracking. The framework enables precise interaction between a humanoid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 William Suliman , Ekaterina Chaikovskaia , Egor Davydenko , Roman Gorbachev

Learning diverse manipulation skills for real-world robots is severely bottlenecked by the reliance on costly and hard-to-scale teleoperated demonstrations. While human videos offer a scalable alternative, effectively transferring…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Han Zhou , Jinjin Cao , Liyuan Ma , Xueji Fang , Guo-jun Qi

Embodied long-horizon manipulation requires robotic systems to process multimodal inputs-such as vision and natural language-and translate them into executable actions. However, existing learning-based approaches often depend on large,…

Task-oriented dialogue is difficult in part because it involves understanding user intent, collecting information from the user, executing API calls, and generating helpful and fluent responses. However, for complex tasks one must also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Stefania Raimondo , Christopher Pal , Xiaotian Liu , David Vazquez , Hector Palacios

As the number of robots in our daily surroundings like home, office, restaurants, factory floors, etc. are increasing rapidly, the development of natural human-robot interaction mechanism becomes more vital as it dictates the usability and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Pradip Pramanick , Hrishav Bakul Barua , Chayan Sarkar

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable abilities in logical reasoning, in-context learning, and code generation. However, translating natural language instructions into effective robotic control policies remains a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Utsav Singh , Pramit Bhattacharyya , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Recent advances in metric, semantic, and topological mapping have equipped autonomous robots with semantic concept grounding capabilities to interpret natural language tasks. This work aims to leverage these new capabilities with an…

This paper presents a framework for fast and robust motion planning designed to facilitate automated driving. The framework allows for real-time computation even for horizons of several hundred meters and thus enabling automated driving in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Zlatan Ajanovic , Bakir Lacevic , Barys Shyrokau , Michael Stolz , Martin Horn

A long-standing goal in robotics is to build robots that can perform a wide range of daily tasks from perceptions obtained with their onboard sensors and specified only via natural language. While recently substantial advances have been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Oier Mees , Lukas Hermann , Wolfram Burgard

In this work, we develop intuitive controls for editing the style of 3D objects. Our framework, Text2Mesh, stylizes a 3D mesh by predicting color and local geometric details which conform to a target text prompt. We consider a disentangled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Oscar Michel , Roi Bar-On , Richard Liu , Sagie Benaim , Rana Hanocka

Although deep reinforcement learning has recently been very successful at learning complex behaviors, it requires a tremendous amount of data to learn a task. One of the fundamental reasons causing this limitation lies in the nature of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Zhenshan Bing , Alexander Koch , Xiangtong Yao , Kai Huang , Alois Knoll