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Reinforcement learning (RL) and sim-to-real transfer have advanced rigid-object manipulation. However, policies remain brittle for articulated mechanisms due to contact-rich dynamics that require both stable grasping and simultaneous free…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Soofiyan Atar , Daniel Huang , Florian Richter , Michael Yip

We address the problem of safely solving complex bimanual robot manipulation tasks with sparse rewards. Such challenging tasks can be decomposed into sub-tasks that are accomplishable by different robots concurrently or sequentially for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Minghao Zhang , Pingcheng Jian , Yi Wu , Huazhe Xu , Xiaolong Wang

Dexterous robotic hands enable robots to perform complex manipulations that require fine-grained control and adaptability. Achieving such manipulation is challenging because the high degrees of freedom tightly couple hand and arm motions,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ying Feng , Hongjie Fang , Yinong He , Jingjing Chen , Chenxi Wang , Zihao He , Ruonan Liu , Cewu Lu

Robots are required to autonomously respond to changing situations. Imitation learning is a promising candidate for achieving generalization performance, and extensive results have been demonstrated in object manipulation. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Ayumu Sasagawa , Kazuki Fujimoto , Sho Sakaino , Toshiaki Tsuji

Achieving robust grasping with dexterous hands remains challenging, especially when manipulation involves dynamic forces such as impacts, torques, and continuous resistance--situations common in real-world tool use. Existing methods largely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Harsh Gupta , Mohammad Amin Mirzaee , Wenzhen Yuan

Autonomous manipulation in everyday tasks requires flexible action generation to handle complex, diverse real-world environments, such as objects with varying hardness and softness. Imitation Learning (IL) enables robots to learn complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Masato Kobayashi , Thanpimon Buamanee , Takumi Kobayashi

Bimanual robotic manipulation is a long-standing challenge of embodied intelligence due to its characteristics of dual-arm spatial-temporal coordination and high-dimensional action spaces. Previous studies rely on pre-defined action…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Huayi Zhou , Ruixiang Wang , Yunxin Tai , Yueci Deng , Guiliang Liu , Kui Jia

Aiming to replicate human-like dexterity, perceptual experiences, and motion patterns, we explore learning from human demonstrations using a bimanual system with multifingered hands and visuotactile data. Two significant challenges exist:…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Toru Lin , Yu Zhang , Qiyang Li , Haozhi Qi , Brent Yi , Sergey Levine , Jitendra Malik

Most object manipulation strategies for robots are based on the assumption that the object is rigid (i.e., with fixed geometry) and the goal's details have been fully specified (e.g., the exact target pose). However, there are many tasks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Shengzeng Huo , Fangyuan Wang , Luyin Hu , Peng Zhou , Jihong Zhu , Hesheng Wang , David Navarro-Alarcon

Robotic dual-arm twisting is a common but very challenging task in both industrial production and daily services, as it often requires dexterous collaboration, a large scale of end-effector rotating, and good adaptivity for object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Weibang Bai , Ningshan Zhang , Baoru Huang , Ziwei Wang , Francesco Cursi , Ya-Yen Tsai , Bo Xiao , Eric Yeatman

Magnetically actuated robots provide a promising untethered platform for navigation in confined environments, enabling biological studies and targeted micro-delivery. However, dexterous manipulation in complex structures remains…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Yongchen Wang , Kangyi Lu , Lan Wei , Dandan Zhang

Leveraging human motion data to impart robots with versatile manipulation skills has emerged as a promising paradigm in robotic manipulation. Nevertheless, translating multi-source human hand motions into feasible robot behaviors remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhecheng Yuan , Tianming Wei , Langzhe Gu , Pu Hua , Tianhai Liang , Yuanpei Chen , Huazhe Xu

This work developed collaborative bimanual manipulation for reliable and safe human-robot collaboration, which allows remote and local human operators to work interactively for bimanual tasks. We proposed an optimal motion adaptation to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Ruoshi Wen , Quentin Rouxel , Michael Mistry , Zhibin Li , Carlo Tiseo

Robotic dexterous manipulation requires continuously reconciling objectives and constraints defined on heterogeneous geometric spaces: a robot controlled on a $\mathbb{R}^7$ configuration manifold may need to track end effector poses on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Albert Wu , Riccardo Bonalli , Thomas Lew , C. Karen Liu

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

Learning dexterous bimanual manipulation policies critically depends on large-scale, high-quality demonstrations, yet current paradigms face inherent trade-offs: teleoperation provides physically grounded data but is prohibitively…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Huayi Zhou , Kui Jia

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

Dual-arm manipulation is an area of growing interest in the robotics community. Enabling robots to perform tasks that require the coordinated use of two arms, is essential for complex manipulation tasks such as handling large objects,…

Bimanual manipulation is challenging due to precise spatial and temporal coordination required between two arms. While there exist several real-world bimanual systems, there is a lack of simulated benchmarks with a large task diversity for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Markus Grotz , Mohit Shridhar , Tamim Asfour , Dieter Fox

Bimanual manipulation, fundamental to human daily activities, remains a challenging task due to its inherent complexity of coordinated control. Recent advances have enabled zero-shot learning of single-arm manipulation skills through…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ziyin Xiong , Yinghan Chen , Puhao Li , Yixin Zhu , Tengyu Liu , Siyuan Huang