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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

This study introduces a novel language-guided diffusion-based learning framework, DexTOG, aimed at advancing the field of task-oriented grasping (TOG) with dexterous hands. Unlike existing methods that mainly focus on 2-finger grippers,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jieyi Zhang , Wenqiang Xu , Zhenjun Yu , Pengfei Xie , Tutian Tang , Cewu Lu

Dexterous multi-fingered robotic hands can perform a wide range of manipulation skills, making them an appealing component for general-purpose robotic manipulators. However, such hands pose a major challenge for autonomous control, due to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Henry Zhu , Abhishek Gupta , Aravind Rajeswaran , Sergey Levine , Vikash Kumar

We present DexCanvas, a large-scale hybrid real-synthetic human manipulation dataset containing 7,000 hours of dexterous hand-object interactions seeded from 70 hours of real human demonstrations, organized across 21 fundamental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xinyue Xu , Jieqiang Sun , Jing , Dai , Siyuan Chen , Lanjie Ma , Ke Sun , Bin Zhao , Jianbo Yuan , Sheng Yi , Haohua Zhu , Yiwen Lu

Optimizing behaviors for dexterous manipulation has been a longstanding challenge in robotics, with a variety of methods from model-based control to model-free reinforcement learning having been previously explored in literature. Perhaps…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Sridhar Pandian Arunachalam , Sneha Silwal , Ben Evans , Lerrel Pinto

Object manipulation is a basic element in everyday human lives. Robotic manipulation has progressed from maneuvering single-rigid-body objects with firm grasping to maneuvering soft objects and handling contact-rich actions. Meanwhile,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Leidi Zhao , Raheem Lawhorn , Siddharth Patil , Steve Susanibar , Lu Lu , Cong Wang , Bo Ouyang

We propose a physics-based method for synthesizing dexterous hand-object interactions in a full-body setting. While recent advancements have addressed specific facets of human-object interactions, a comprehensive physics-based approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Jona Braun , Sammy Christen , Muhammed Kocabas , Emre Aksan , Otmar Hilliges

Dexterous manipulation remains one of the most challenging problems in robotics, requiring coherent control of high-DoF hands and arms under complex, contact-rich dynamics. A major barrier is embodiment variability: different dexterous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ke Zhang , Lixin Xu , Chengyi Song , Junzhe Xu , Xiaoyi Lin , Zeyu Jiang , Renjing Xu

Achieving diverse and stable dexterous grasping for general and deformable objects remains a fundamental challenge in robotics, due to high-dimensional action spaces and uncertainty in perception. In this paper, we present D3Grasp, a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Keyu Wang , Bingcong Lu , Zhengxue Cheng , Hengdi Zhang , Li Song

Multi-step dexterous manipulation is a fundamental skill in household scenarios, yet remains an underexplored area in robotics. This paper proposes a modular approach, where each step of the manipulation process is addressed with dedicated…

How should a robot direct active vision so as to ensure reliable grasping? We answer this question for the case of dexterous grasping of unfamiliar objects. By dexterous grasping we simply mean grasping by any hand with more than two…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Ermano Arruda , Jeremy Wyatt , Marek Kopicki

In this paper, we introduce RealDex, a pioneering dataset capturing authentic dexterous hand grasping motions infused with human behavioral patterns, enriched by multi-view and multimodal visual data. Utilizing a teleoperation system, we…

Dexterous grasping of unseen objects in dynamic environments is an essential prerequisite for the advanced manipulation of autonomous robots. Prior advances rely on several assumptions that simplify the setup, including environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yannick Burkhardt , Qian Feng , Jianxiang Feng , Karan Sharma , Zhaopeng Chen , Alois Knoll

Robotic dexterous grasping is a challenging problem due to the high degree of freedom (DoF) and complex contacts of multi-fingered robotic hands. Existing deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based methods leverage human demonstrations to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Qingtao Liu , Yu Cui , Qi Ye , Zhengnan Sun , Haoming Li , Gaofeng Li , Lin Shao , Jiming Chen

We propose to perform imitation learning for dexterous manipulation with multi-finger robot hand from human demonstrations, and transfer the policy to the real robot hand. We introduce a novel single-camera teleoperation system to collect…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Yuzhe Qin , Hao Su , Xiaolong Wang

To fully utilize the versatility of a multi-fingered dexterous robotic hand for executing diverse object grasps, one must consider the rich physical constraints introduced by hand-object interaction and object geometry. We propose an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Albert Wu , Michelle Guo , C. Karen Liu

In hand object reorientation provides capability for dexterous manipulation, requiring robust control policies to manage diverse object geometries, maintain stable grasps, and execute precise complex orientation trajectories. However, prior…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Jun Wan , Xing Liu , Yunlong Dong

Scaling dexterous robot learning is constrained by the difficulty of collecting high-quality demonstrations across diverse operators. Existing wearable interfaces often trade comfort and cross-user adaptability for kinematic fidelity, while…

The ability to robustly grasp a variety of objects is essential for dexterous robots. In this paper, we present a framework for zero-shot dynamic dexterous grasping using single-view visual inputs, designed to be resilient to various…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Hui Zhang , Zijian Wu , Linyi Huang , Sammy Christen , Jie Song

In-hand object manipulation is challenging to simulate due to complex contact dynamics, non-repetitive finger gaits, and the need to indirectly control unactuated objects. Further adapting a successful manipulation skill to new objects with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Yunbo Zhang , Alexander Clegg , Sehoon Ha , Greg Turk , Yuting Ye