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Reproducing the diverse and agile locomotion skills of animals has been a longstanding challenge in robotics. While manually-designed controllers have been able to emulate many complex behaviors, building such controllers involves a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Xue Bin Peng , Erwin Coumans , Tingnan Zhang , Tsang-Wei Lee , Jie Tan , Sergey Levine

Understanding action correspondence between humans and robots is essential for evaluating alignment in decision-making, particularly in human-robot collaboration and imitation learning within unstructured environments. We propose a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Azizul Zahid , Jie Fan , Farong Wang , Ashton Dy , Sai Swaminathan , Fei Liu

Humans can leverage hierarchical structures to split a task into sub-tasks and solve problems efficiently. Both imitation and reinforcement learning or a combination of them with hierarchical structures have been proven to be an efficient…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Yaru Niu , Yijun Gu

Developing robotic systems capable of robustly executing long-horizon manipulation tasks with human-level dexterity is challenging, as such tasks require both physical dexterity and seamless sequencing of manipulation skills while robustly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Weikang Wan , Jiawei Fu , Xiaodi Yuan , Yifeng Zhu , Hao Su

Generalization to unseen real-world scenarios for robot manipulation requires exposure to diverse datasets during training. However, collecting large real-world datasets is intractable due to high operational costs. For robot learning to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zoey Chen , Zhao Mandi , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Mohit Sharma , Shuran Song , Abhishek Gupta , Vikash Kumar

Imitation Learning (IL) has emerged as a powerful approach in robotics, allowing robots to acquire new skills by mimicking human actions. Despite its potential, the data collection process for IL remains a significant challenge due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Hamidreza Kasaei , Mohammadreza Kasaei

Learning generalizable and robust behavior cloning policies requires large volumes of high-quality robotics data. While human demonstrations (e.g., through teleoperation) serve as the standard source for expert behaviors, acquiring such…

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

Automated planning enables robots to find plans to achieve complex, long-horizon tasks, given a planning domain. This planning domain consists of a list of actions, with their associated preconditions and effects, and is usually manually…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Maximilian Diehl , Chris Paxton , Karinne Ramirez-Amaro

Imitation learning from human motion capture (MoCap) data provides a promising way to train humanoid robots. However, due to differences in morphology, such as varying degrees of joint freedom and force limits, exact replication of human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Wenshuai Zhao , Yi Zhao , Joni Pajarinen , Michael Muehlebach

There has been substantial progress in humanoid robots, with new skills continuously being taught, ranging from navigation to manipulation. While these abilities may seem impressive, the teaching methods often remain inefficient. To enhance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Josua Spisak , Matthias Kerzel , Stefan Wermter

In the field of robot learning, coordinating robot actions through language instructions is becoming increasingly feasible. However, adapting actions to human instructions remains challenging, as such instructions are often qualitative and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Ryoga Oishi , Sho Sakaino , Toshiaki Tsuji

The goal of imitation learning is to mimic expert behavior without access to an explicit reward signal. Expert demonstrations provided by humans, however, often show significant variability due to latent factors that are typically not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Yunzhu Li , Jiaming Song , Stefano Ermon

Robots have been steadily increasing their presence in our daily lives, where they can work along with humans to provide assistance in various tasks on industry floors, in offices, and in homes. Automated assembly is one of the key…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Devesh K. Jha , Siddarth Jain , Diego Romeres , William Yerazunis , Daniel Nikovski

Robot learning has emerged as a promising tool for taming the complexity and diversity of the real world. Methods based on high-capacity models, such as deep networks, hold the promise of providing effective generalization to a wide range…

Video generation models are rapidly improving in their ability to synthesize human actions in novel contexts, holding the potential to serve as high-level planners for contextual robot control. To realize this potential, a key research…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 James Ni , Zekai Wang , Wei Lin , Amir Bar , Yann LeCun , Trevor Darrell , Jitendra Malik , Roei Herzig

Data scaling has revolutionized fields like natural language processing and computer vision, providing models with remarkable generalization capabilities. In this paper, we investigate whether similar data scaling laws exist in robotics,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yingdong Hu , Fanqi Lin , Pingyue Sheng , Chuan Wen , Jiacheng You , Yang Gao

In this paper, we report the results of our latest work on the automated generation of planning operators from human demonstrations, and we present some of our future research ideas. To automatically generate planning operators, our system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Maximilian Diehl , Karinne Ramirez-Amaro

Large-scale, high-quality interaction trajectories are essential for advancing mobile Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents. While existing methods typically rely on labor-intensive human demonstrations or automated model exploration to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Linjia Kang , Zhimin Wang , Yongkang Zhang , Duo Wu , Jinghe Wang , Ming Ma , Haopeng Yan , Zhi Wang

Imitation learning is a powerful paradigm for robot skill acquisition, yet conventional demonstration methods--such as kinesthetic teaching and teleoperation--are cumbersome, hardware-heavy, and disruptive to workflows. Recently, passive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Rohan Walia , Yusheng Wang , Ralf Römer , Masahiro Nishio , Angela P. Schoellig , Jun Ota