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Achieving generalizable bimanual manipulation requires systems that can learn efficiently from minimal human input while adapting to real-world uncertainties and diverse embodiments. Existing approaches face a dilemma: imitation policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Huayi Zhou , Kui Jia

Dexterous manipulation with anthropomorphic robot hands remains a challenging problem in robotics because of the high-dimensional state and action spaces and complex contacts. Nevertheless, skillful closed-loop manipulation is required to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Malte Mosbach , Kara Moraw , Sven Behnke

While imitation learning provides us with an efficient toolkit to train robots, learning skills that are robust to environment variations remains a significant challenge. Current approaches address this challenge by relying either on large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Siddhant Haldar , Jyothish Pari , Anant Rai , Lerrel Pinto

Successful generalist Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models rely on effective training across diverse robotic platforms with large-scale, cross-embodiment, heterogeneous datasets. To facilitate and leverage the heterogeneity in rich, diverse…

Modern machine learning systems rely on large datasets to attain broad generalization, and this often poses a challenge in robot learning, where each robotic platform and task might have only a small dataset. By training a single policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Ria Doshi , Homer Walke , Oier Mees , Sudeep Dasari , Sergey Levine

Human-robot studies are expensive to conduct and difficult to control, and as such researchers sometimes turn to human-avatar interaction in the hope of faster and cheaper data collection that can be transferred to the robot domain. In…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Na Li , Robert Ross

Imitation learning offers a promising path for robots to learn general-purpose behaviors, but traditionally has exhibited limited scalability due to high data supervision requirements and brittle generalization. Inspired by recent advances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Soroush Nasiriany , Tian Gao , Ajay Mandlekar , Yuke Zhu

Imitation learning has demonstrated strong performance in robotic manipulation by learning from large-scale human demonstrations. While existing models excel at single-task learning, it is observed in practical applications that their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Wangtian Shen , Jinming Ma , Mingliang Zhou , Ziyang Meng

In this paper we present a self-supervised method for representation learning utilizing two different modalities. Based on the observation that cross-modal information has a high semantic meaning we propose a method to effectively exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Nawid Sayed , Biagio Brattoli , Björn Ommer

Image-to-video person re-identification identifies a target person by a probe image from quantities of pedestrian videos captured by non-overlapping cameras. Despite the great progress achieved,it's still challenging to match in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Zhongwei Xie , Lin Li , Xian Zhong , Luo Zhong

Embodied foundation models have achieved significant breakthroughs in robotic manipulation, yet they still depend heavily on large-scale robot demonstrations. Although recent works have explored leveraging human data to alleviate this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Chengyang Li , Kaiyi Xiong , Yuan Xu , Lei Qian , Yizhou Wang , Wentao Zhu

Learning universal policies from cross-embodied data remains a fundamental challenge in robotics. Although Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are pre-trained on large and diverse datasets, they typically rely on embodiment-specific…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Boyu Li , Chaoyi Xu , Haoqi Yuan , Xinrun Xu , Börje F. Karlsson , Dongbin Zhao , Haoran Li , Zongqing Lu

While language-guided image manipulation has made remarkable progress, the challenge of how to instruct the manipulation process faithfully reflecting human intentions persists. An accurate and comprehensive description of a manipulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Yasheng Sun , Yifan Yang , Houwen Peng , Yifei Shen , Yuqing Yang , Han Hu , Lili Qiu , Hideki Koike

Humans have an incredible ability to process and understand information from multiple sources such as images, video, text, and speech. Recent success of deep neural networks has enabled us to develop algorithms which give machines the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Dheeraj Peri , Shagan Sah , Raymond Ptucha

Imitation learning for robotic manipulation faces a fundamental challenge: the scarcity of large-scale, high-quality robot demonstration data. Recent robotic foundation models often pre-train on cross-embodiment robot datasets to increase…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Hongzhe Bi , Lingxuan Wu , Tianwei Lin , Hengkai Tan , Zhizhong Su , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Recent advancements in whole-body control through deep reinforcement learning have enabled humanoid robots to achieve remarkable progress in real-world chal lenging locomotion skills. However, existing approaches often struggle with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yuen-Fui Lau , Qihan Zhao , Yinhuai Wang , Runyi Yu , Hok Wai Tsui , Qifeng Chen , Ping Tan

Recent robot learning methods commonly rely on imitation learning from massive robotic dataset collected with teleoperation. When facing a new task, such methods generally require collecting a set of new teleoperation data and finetuning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xiang Zhu , Yichen Liu , Hezhong Li , Jianyu Chen

Imitation learning aims to extract knowledge from human experts' demonstrations or artificially created agents in order to replicate their behaviors. Its success has been demonstrated in areas such as video games, autonomous driving,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Boyuan Zheng , Sunny Verma , Jianlong Zhou , Ivor Tsang , Fang Chen

In this work, we explore self-supervised visual pre-training on images from diverse, in-the-wild videos for real-world robotic tasks. Like prior work, our visual representations are pre-trained via a masked autoencoder (MAE), frozen, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Ilija Radosavovic , Tete Xiao , Stephen James , Pieter Abbeel , Jitendra Malik , Trevor Darrell

Learning task models of bimanual manipulation from human demonstration and their execution on a robot should take temporal constraints between actions into account. This includes constraints on (i) the symbolic level such as precedence…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-27 Christian Dreher , Tamim Asfour