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Human motion is highly diverse and dynamic, posing challenges for imitation learning algorithms that aim to generalize motor skills for controlling simulated characters. Previous methods typically rely on a universal full-body controller…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Yiming Huang , Zhiyang Dou , Lingjie Liu

Cross-embodiment imitation learning enables policies trained on specific embodiments to transfer across different robots, unlocking the potential for large-scale imitation learning that is both cost-effective and highly reusable. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Mingyo Seo , H. Andy Park , Shenli Yuan , Yuke Zhu , Luis Sentis

Humans and animals excel in combining information from multiple sensory modalities, controlling their complex bodies, adapting to growth, failures, or using tools. These capabilities are also highly desirable in robots. They are displayed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Matej Hoffmann

This paper focuses on transferring control policies between robot manipulators with different morphology. While reinforcement learning (RL) methods have shown successful results in robot manipulation tasks, transferring a trained policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Tianyu Wang , Dwait Bhatt , Xiaolong Wang , Nikolay Atanasov

Physical interactive robotics, ranging from wearable devices to collaborative humanoid robots, require close coordination between mechanical design and control. However, evaluating interactive dynamics is challenging due to complex human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Chenhui Zuo , Jinhao Xu , Michael Qian Vergnolle , Yanan Sui

While imitation learning has shown impressive results in single-task robot manipulation, scaling it to multi-task settings remains a fundamental challenge due to issues such as suboptimal demonstrations, trajectory noise, and behavioral…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yihang Zhu , Weiqing Wang , Shijie Wu , Ye Shi , Jingya Wang

Embodied agents can benefit from skills that guide object search, action execution, and state changes across diverse environments. Since embodied environments vary across layouts, object states, and other execution factors, these skills…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ruofei Ju , Xinrui Wang , Xin Ding , Yifan Yang , Hao Wu , Shiqi Jiang , Qianxi Zhang , Hao Wen , Xiangyu Li , Weijun Wang , Kun Li , Yunxin Liu , Haipeng Dai , Wei Wang , Ting Cao

We propose an approach for semantic imitation, which uses demonstrations from a source domain, e.g. human videos, to accelerate reinforcement learning (RL) in a different target domain, e.g. a robotic manipulator in a simulated kitchen.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Karl Pertsch , Ruta Desai , Vikash Kumar , Franziska Meier , Joseph J. Lim , Dhruv Batra , Akshara Rai

Embodied AI models often employ off the shelf vision backbones like CLIP to encode their visual observations. Although such general purpose representations encode rich syntactic and semantic information about the scene, much of this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Ainaz Eftekhar , Kuo-Hao Zeng , Jiafei Duan , Ali Farhadi , Ani Kembhavi , Ranjay Krishna

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

We present a scalable framework for cross-embodiment humanoid robot control by learning a shared latent representation that unifies motion across humans and diverse humanoid platforms, including single-arm, dual-arm, and legged humanoid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yashuai Yan , Dongheui Lee

We present R+X, a framework which enables robots to learn skills from long, unlabelled, first-person videos of humans performing everyday tasks. Given a language command from a human, R+X first retrieves short video clips containing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Georgios Papagiannis , Norman Di Palo , Pietro Vitiello , Edward Johns

Real-world tasks such as garment manipulation and table rearrangement demand robots to perform generalizable, highly precise, and long-horizon actions. Although imitation learning has proven to be an effective approach for teaching robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Shengjie Wang , Jiacheng You , Yihang Hu , Jiongye Li , Yang Gao

Integrating robots in complex everyday environments requires a multitude of problems to be solved. One crucial feature among those is to equip robots with a mechanism for teaching them a new task in an easy and natural way. When teaching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Daniel Tanneberg , Kai Ploeger , Elmar Rueckert , Jan Peters

Animals are able to imitate each others' behavior, despite their difference in biomechanics. In contrast, imitating the other similar robots is a much more challenging task in robotics. This problem is called cross domain imitation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Zhao-Heng Yin , Lingfeng Sun , Hengbo Ma , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Wu-Jun Li

Cross-embodiment learning from human demonstrations is hindered by the visual gap between human and robot embodiments. While self-supervised learning (SSL) backbones encode rich inter-class semantics of general objects, we show they fail to…

End-to-end learning is emerging as a powerful paradigm for robotic manipulation, but its effectiveness is limited by data scarcity and the heterogeneity of action spaces across robot embodiments. In particular, diverse action spaces across…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Erik Bauer , Elvis Nava , Robert K. Katzschmann

Diffusion models have demonstrated strong potential for robotic trajectory planning. However, generating coherent trajectories from high-level instructions remains challenging, especially for long-range composition tasks requiring multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Zhixuan Liang , Yao Mu , Hengbo Ma , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Mingyu Ding , Ping Luo

Surgical robot automation has attracted increasing research interest over the past decade, expecting its potential to benefit surgeons, nurses and patients. Recently, the learning paradigm of embodied intelligence has demonstrated promising…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Yonghao Long , Wang Wei , Tao Huang , Yuehao Wang , Qi Dou

Humanoid robots have the potential to mimic human motions with high visual fidelity, yet translating these motions into practical, physical execution remains a significant challenge. Existing techniques in the graphics community often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yashuai Yan , Esteve Valls Mascaro , Tobias Egle , Dongheui Lee