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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

This work presents DemoBot, a learning framework that enables a dual-arm, multi-finger robotic system to acquire complex manipulation skills from a single unannotated RGB-D video demonstration. The method extracts structured motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yucheng Xu , Xiaofeng Mao , Elle Miller , Xinyu Yi , Yang Li , Zhibin Li , Robert B. Fisher

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

Deep reinforcement learning has shown its advantages in real-time decision-making based on the state of the agent. In this stage, we solved the task of using a real robot to manipulate the cube to a given trajectory. The task is broken down…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Qingfeng Yao , Jilong Wang , Shuyu Yang

We propose a sim-to-real framework for dexterous manipulation which can generalize to new objects of the same category in the real world. The key of our framework is to train the manipulation policy with point cloud inputs and dexterous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Yuzhe Qin , Binghao Huang , Zhao-Heng Yin , Hao Su , Xiaolong Wang

Dexterous robot hands offer rich opportunities for multifunctional manipulation, where a robot must execute multiple skills in sequence while maintaining control over previously grasped objects. Most prior work in dexterous manipulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ethan Foong , Yunshuang Li , Hao Jiang , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Daniel Seita

Dexterous manipulation of arbitrary objects, a fundamental daily task for humans, has been a grand challenge for autonomous robotic systems. Although data-driven approaches using reinforcement learning can develop specialist policies that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Wenlong Huang , Igor Mordatch , Pieter Abbeel , Deepak Pathak

A motion-based control interface promises flexible robot operations in dangerous environments by combining user intuitions with the robot's motor capabilities. However, designing a motion interface for non-humanoid robots, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Sunwoo Kim , Maks Sorokin , Jehee Lee , Sehoon Ha

Data scarcity remains a fundamental bottleneck for embodied intelligence. Existing approaches use large language models (LLMs) to automate gripper-based simulation generation, but they transfer poorly to dexterous manipulation, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Feng Chen , Zhuxiu Xu , Tianzhe Chu , Xunzhe Zhou , Li Sun , Zewen Wu , Shenghua Gao , Zhongyu Li , Yanchao Yang , Yi Ma

We present a method for teaching dexterous manipulation tasks to robots from human hand motion demonstrations. Unlike existing approaches that solely rely on kinematics information without taking into account the plausibility of robot and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Sungjae Park , Seungho Lee , Mingi Choi , Jiye Lee , Jeonghwan Kim , Jisoo Kim , Hanbyul Joo

Bimanual dexterous manipulation is a critical yet underexplored area in robotics. Its high-dimensional action space and inherent task complexity present significant challenges for policy learning, and the limited task diversity in existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Bohan Zhou , Haoqi Yuan , Yuhui Fu , Zongqing Lu

Sample efficient learning of manipulation skills poses a major challenge in robotics. While recent approaches demonstrate impressive advances in the type of task that can be addressed and the sensing modalities that can be incorporated,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Adrian Röfer , Iman Nematollahi , Tim Welschehold , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

Robotic dexterous grasping is the first step to enable human-like dexterous object manipulation and thus a crucial robotic technology. However, dexterous grasping is much more under-explored than object grasping with parallel grippers,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Ruicheng Wang , Jialiang Zhang , Jiayi Chen , Yinzhen Xu , Puhao Li , Tengyu Liu , He Wang

How can robots learn dexterous grasping skills efficiently and apply them adaptively based on user instructions? This work tackles two key challenges: efficient skill acquisition from limited human demonstrations and context-driven skill…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Liangzhi Shi , Yulin Liu , Lingqi Zeng , Bo Ai , Zhengdong Hong , Hao Su

Universal grasping with multi-fingered dexterous hands is a fundamental challenge in robotic manipulation. While recent approaches successfully learn closed-loop grasping policies using reinforcement learning (RL), the inherent difficulty…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Haoqi Yuan , Ziye Huang , Ye Wang , Chuan Mao , Chaoyi Xu , Zongqing Lu

This paper tackles the challenge of learning multi-goal dexterous hand manipulation tasks using model-based Reinforcement Learning. We propose Goal-Conditioned Probabilistic Model Predictive Control (GC-PMPC) by designing probabilistic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yingzhuo Jiang , Wenjun Huang , Rongdun Lin , Chenyang Miao , Tianfu Sun , Yunduan Cui

Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms can in principle acquire complex robotic skills by learning from large amounts of data in the real world, collected via trial and error. However, most RL algorithms use a carefully engineered setup in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Abhishek Gupta , Justin Yu , Tony Z. Zhao , Vikash Kumar , Aaron Rovinsky , Kelvin Xu , Thomas Devlin , Sergey Levine

Dexterous robotic hands have the capability to interact with a wide variety of household objects to perform tasks like grasping. However, learning robust real world grasping policies for arbitrary objects has proven challenging due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Zoey Qiuyu Chen , Karl Van Wyk , Yu-Wei Chao , Wei Yang , Arsalan Mousavian , Abhishek Gupta , Dieter Fox

Existing learning approaches to dexterous manipulation use demonstrations or interactions with the environment to train black-box neural networks that provide little control over how the robot learns the skills or how it would perform post…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Abhineet Jain , Jack Kolb , Harish Ravichandar

Object handover is an important skill that we use daily when interacting with other humans. To deploy robots in collaborative setting, like houses, being able to receive and handing over objects safely and efficiently becomes a crucial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Daniel Frau-Alfaro , Julio Castaño-Amoros , Santiago Puente , Pablo Gil , Roberto Calandra