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Observational learning is a promising approach to enable people without expertise in programming to transfer skills to robots in a user-friendly manner, since it mirrors how humans learn new behaviors by observing others. Many existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Elena Merlo , Marta Lagomarsino , Edoardo Lamon , Arash Ajoudani

We present a deep imitation learning framework for robotic bimanual manipulation in a continuous state-action space. A core challenge is to generalize the manipulation skills to objects in different locations. We hypothesize that modeling…

The goal of object-centric representation learning is to decompose visual scenes into a structured representation that isolates the entities. Recent successes have shown that object-centric representation learning can be scaled to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Aniket Didolkar , Andrii Zadaianchuk , Anirudh Goyal , Mike Mozer , Yoshua Bengio , Georg Martius , Maximilian Seitzer

Interactive robot learning is a challenging problem as the robot is present with human users who expect the robot to learn novel skills to solve novel tasks perpetually with sample efficiency. In this work we present a framework for robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Weiwei Gu , Suresh Kondepudi , Anmol Gupta , Lixiao Huang , Nakul Gopalan

Zero-shot execution of unseen robotic tasks is important to allowing robots to perform a wide variety of tasks in human environments, but collecting the amounts of data necessary to train end-to-end policies in the real-world is often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Shohin Mukherjee , Chris Paxton , Arsalan Mousavian , Adam Fishman , Maxim Likhachev , Dieter Fox

Transferring skills between different objects remains one of the core challenges of open-world robot manipulation. Generalization needs to take into account the high-level structural differences between distinct objects while still…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 M. Yunus Seker , Shobhit Aggarwal , Oliver Kroemer

Human-centered environments are rich with a wide variety of spatial relations between everyday objects. For autonomous robots to operate effectively in such environments, they should be able to reason about these relations and generalize…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Oier Mees , Nichola Abdo , Mladen Mazuran , Wolfram Burgard

Robots that learn manipulation skills from everyday human videos could acquire broad capabilities without tedious robot data collection. We propose a video-to-video translation framework that converts ordinary human-object interaction…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Hai Ci , Xiaokang Liu , Pei Yang , Yiren Song , Mike Zheng Shou

A generalist robot equipped with learned skills must be able to perform many tasks in many different environments. However, zero-shot generalization to new settings is not always possible. When the robot encounters a new environment or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Alexander Khazatsky , Ashvin Nair , Daniel Jing , Sergey Levine

Learning robot manipulation policies from raw, real-world image data requires a large number of robot-action trials in the physical environment. Although training using simulations offers a cost-effective alternative, the visual domain gap…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Yuekun Wu , Yik Lung Pang , Andrea Cavallaro , Changjae Oh

Humans are adept at learning new tasks by watching a few instructional videos. On the other hand, robots that learn new actions either require a lot of effort through trial and error, or use expert demonstrations that are challenging to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Vladimír Petrík , Makarand Tapaswi , Ivan Laptev , Josef Sivic

Robotic manipulation in complex open-world scenarios requires both reliable physical manipulation skills and effective and generalizable perception. In this paper, we propose a method where general purpose pretrained visual models serve as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-27 Coline Devin , Pieter Abbeel , Trevor Darrell , Sergey Levine

A novel skill learning approach is proposed that allows a robot to acquire human-like visuospatial skills for object manipulation tasks. Visuospatial skills are attained by observing spatial relationships among objects through…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-06-06 S. Reza Ahmadzadeh , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni , Petar Kormushev

We introduce a novel system for human-to-robot trajectory transfer that enables robots to manipulate objects by learning from human demonstration videos. The system consists of four modules. The first module is a data collection module that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Sai Haneesh Allu , Jishnu Jaykumar P , Ninad Khargonkar , Tyler Summers , Jian Yao , Yu Xiang

We present a method for learning a human-robot collaboration policy from human-human collaboration demonstrations. An effective robot assistant must learn to handle diverse human behaviors shown in the demonstrations and be robust when the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Chen Wang , Claudia Pérez-D'Arpino , Danfei Xu , Li Fei-Fei , C. Karen Liu , Silvio Savarese

Autonomous learning of object manipulation skills can enable robots to acquire rich behavioral repertoires that scale to the variety of objects found in the real world. However, current motion skill learning methods typically restrict the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Sergey Levine , Nolan Wagener , Pieter Abbeel

The growing interest in language-conditioned robot manipulation aims to develop robots capable of understanding and executing complex tasks, with the objective of enabling robots to interpret language commands and manipulate objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Hongkuan Zhou , Zhenshan Bing , Xiangtong Yao , Xiaojie Su , Chenguang Yang , Kai Huang , Alois Knoll

Robots learn as they interact with humans. Consider a human teleoperating an assistive robot arm: as the human guides and corrects the arm's motion, the robot gathers information about the human's desired task. But how does the human know…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-16 James F. Mullen , Josh Mosier , Sounak Chakrabarti , Anqi Chen , Tyler White , Dylan P. Losey

Manipulation planning is the task of computing robot trajectories that move a set of objects to their target configuration while satisfying physically feasibility. In contrast to existing works that assume known object templates, we are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Wei Gao , Russ Tedrake

Open-world object manipulation remains a fundamental challenge in robotics. While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated promising results, they rely heavily on large-scale robot action demonstrations, which are costly to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xiaotong Li , Gang Chen , Javier Alonso-Mora