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Training vision-based manipulation policies that are robust across diverse visual environments remains an important and unresolved challenge in robot learning. Current approaches often sidestep the problem by relying on invariant…

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We present PoseDiff, a conditional diffusion model that unifies robot state estimation and control within a single framework. At its core, PoseDiff maps raw visual observations into structured robot states-such as 3D keypoints or joint…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Haozhuo Zhang , Michele Caprio , Jing Shao , Qiang Zhang , Jian Tang , Shanghang Zhang , Wei Pan

Diffusion-model-based text-guided image generation has recently made astounding progress, producing fascinating results in open-domain image manipulation tasks. Few models, however, currently have complete zero-shot capabilities for both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Sijia Li , Chen Chen , Haonan Lu

We introduce specialized diffusion-based generative models that capture the spatiotemporal dynamics of fine-grained robotic surgical sub-stitch actions through supervised learning on annotated laparoscopic surgery footage. The proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Mehmet Kerem Turkcan , Mattia Ballo , Filippo Filicori , Zoran Kostic

A key challenge in scaling up robot learning to many skills and environments is removing the need for human supervision, so that robots can collect their own data and improve their own performance without being limited by the cost of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Chelsea Finn , Sergey Levine

People often watch videos on the web to learn how to cook new recipes, assemble furniture or repair a computer. We wish to enable robots with the very same capability. This is challenging; there is a large variation in manipulation actions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Hejia Zhang , Jie Zhong , Stefanos Nikolaidis

Soft object manipulation tasks in domestic scenes pose a significant challenge for existing robotic skill learning techniques due to their complex dynamics and variable shape characteristics. Since learning new manipulation skills from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Junjia Liu , Zhihao Li , Wanyu Lin , Sylvain Calinon , Kay Chen Tan , Fei Chen

Humanoid robots capable of autonomous operation in diverse environments have long been a goal for roboticists. However, autonomous manipulation by humanoid robots has largely been restricted to one specific scene, primarily due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yanjie Ze , Zixuan Chen , Wenhao Wang , Tianyi Chen , Xialin He , Ying Yuan , Xue Bin Peng , Jiajun Wu

We seek to learn a generalizable goal-conditioned policy that enables zero-shot robot manipulation: interacting with unseen objects in novel scenes without test-time adaptation. While typical approaches rely on a large amount of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Homanga Bharadhwaj , Roozbeh Mottaghi , Abhinav Gupta , Shubham Tulsiani

Recent advances in skill learning has propelled robot manipulation to new heights by enabling it to learn complex manipulation tasks from a practical number of demonstrations. However, these skills are often limited to the particular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Quantao Yang , Michael C. Welle , Danica Kragic , Olov Andersson

Precise manipulation that is generalizable across scenes and objects remains a persistent challenge in robotics. Current approaches for this task heavily depend on having a significant number of training instances to handle objects with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Nikolaos Tsagkas , Jack Rome , Subramanian Ramamoorthy , Oisin Mac Aodha , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu

Robotic manipulation tasks often rely on static cameras for perception, which can limit flexibility, particularly in scenarios like robotic surgery and cluttered environments where mounting static cameras is impractical. Ideally, robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Xiatao Sun , Francis Fan , Yinxing Chen , Daniel Rakita

We present a cross robot visuomotor learning framework that integrates diffusion policy based control with 3D semantic scene representations from D3Fields to enable category level generalization in manipulation. Its modular design supports…

Generalizing to long-horizon manipulation tasks in a zero-shot setting remains a central challenge in robotics. Current multimodal foundation based approaches, despite their capabilities, typically fail to decompose high-level commands into…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Ke Ye , Jiaming Zhou , Yuanfeng Qiu , Jiayi Liu , Shihui Zhou , Kun-Yu Lin , Junwei Liang

Unsupervised and self-supervised objectives, such as next token prediction, have enabled pre-training generalist models from large amounts of unlabeled data. In reinforcement learning (RL), however, finding a truly general and scalable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Seohong Park , Tobias Kreiman , Sergey Levine

The success of image generative models has enabled us to build methods that can edit images based on text or other user input. However, these methods are bespoke, imprecise, require additional information, or are limited to only 2D image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Rahul Sajnani , Jeroen Vanbaar , Jie Min , Kapil Katyal , Srinath Sridhar

A key challenge for an agent learning to interact with the world is to reason about physical properties of objects and to foresee their dynamics under the effect of applied forces. In order to scale learning through interaction to many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Iman Nematollahi , Oier Mees , Lukas Hermann , Wolfram Burgard

Building effective imitation learning methods that enable robots to learn from limited data and still generalize across diverse real-world environments is a long-standing problem in robot learning. We propose Equibot, a robust,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jingyun Yang , Zi-ang Cao , Congyue Deng , Rika Antonova , Shuran Song , Jeannette Bohg

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful priors for image editing tasks such as inpainting and local modification, where the objective is to generate realistic content that remains consistent with observed regions. In particular, zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Badr Moufad , Navid Bagheri Shouraki , Alain Oliviero Durmus , Thomas Hirtz , Eric Moulines , Jimmy Olsson , Yazid Janati

Robots have the capability to collect large amounts of data autonomously by interacting with objects in the world. However, it is often not obvious \emph{how} to learning from autonomously collected data without human-labeled supervision.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Coline Devin , Payam Rowghanian , Chris Vigorito , Will Richards , Khashayar Rohanimanesh