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The ability to robustly grasp a variety of objects is essential for dexterous robots. In this paper, we present a framework for zero-shot dynamic dexterous grasping using single-view visual inputs, designed to be resilient to various…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Hui Zhang , Zijian Wu , Linyi Huang , Sammy Christen , Jie Song

A dexterous hand capable of generalizable grasping objects is fundamental for the development of general-purpose embodied AI. However, previous methods focus narrowly on low-level grasp stability metrics, neglecting affordance-aware…

Dexterous manipulation is a critical aspect of human capability, enabling interaction with a wide variety of objects. Recent advancements in learning from human demonstrations and teleoperation have enabled progress for robots in such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Shuqi Zhao , Xinghao Zhu , Yuxin Chen , Chenran Li , Lichen Xie , Xiang Zhang , Mingyu Ding , Masayoshi Tomizuka

This article investigates the challenge of achieving functional tool-use grasping with high-DoF anthropomorphic hands, with the aim of enabling anthropomorphic hands to perform tasks that require human-like manipulation and tool-use.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Wei Wei , Peng Wang , Sizhe Wang

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

Humans coordinate the abundant degrees of freedom (DoFs) of hands to dexterously perform tasks in everyday life. We imitate human strategies to advance the dexterity of multi-DoF robotic hands. Specifically, we enable a robot hand to grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Kunpeng Yao , Aude Billard

Daily objects embedded in a contextual environment are often ungraspable initially. Whether it is a book sandwiched by other books on a fully packed bookshelf or a piece of paper lying flat on the desk, a series of nonprehensile pregrasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Sirui Chen , Albert Wu , C. Karen Liu

Grasping large and flat objects (e.g. a book or a pan) is often regarded as an ungraspable task, which poses significant challenges due to the unreachable grasping poses. Previous works leverage Extrinsic Dexterity like walls or table edges…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Chengzhong Ma , Houxue Yang , Hanbo Zhang , Zeyang Liu , Chao Zhao , Jian Tang , Xuguang Lan , Nanning Zheng

Recently, reinforcement learning has led to dexterous manipulation skills of increasing complexity. Nonetheless, learning these skills in simulation still exhibits poor sample-efficiency which stems from the fact these skills are learned…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Gagan Khandate , Cameron Mehlman , Xingsheng Wei , Matei Ciocarlie

Complex and contact-rich robotic manipulation tasks, particularly those that involve multi-fingered hands and underactuated object manipulation, present a significant challenge to any control method. Methods based on reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Kelvin Xu , Zheyuan Hu , Ria Doshi , Aaron Rovinsky , Vikash Kumar , Abhishek Gupta , Sergey Levine

In this paper, we address the problem of task-oriented grasping for humanoid robots, emphasizing the need to align with human social norms and task-specific objectives. Existing methods, employ a variety of open-loop and closed-loop…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Dimitrios Dimou , José Santos-Victor , Plinio Moreno

We study the problem of functional retargeting: learning dexterous manipulation policies to track object states from human hand-object demonstrations. We focus on long-horizon, bimanual tasks with articulated objects, which is challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Zhao Mandi , Yifan Hou , Dieter Fox , Yashraj Narang , Ajay Mandlekar , Shuran Song

To fully utilize the versatility of a multi-fingered dexterous robotic hand for executing diverse object grasps, one must consider the rich physical constraints introduced by hand-object interaction and object geometry. We propose an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Albert Wu , Michelle Guo , C. Karen Liu

The versatility and adaptability of human grasping catalyze advancing dexterous robotic manipulation. While significant strides have been made in dexterous grasp generation, current research endeavors pivot towards optimizing object…

Dexterous grasping of unseen objects in dynamic environments is an essential prerequisite for the advanced manipulation of autonomous robots. Prior advances rely on several assumptions that simplify the setup, including environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yannick Burkhardt , Qian Feng , Jianxiang Feng , Karan Sharma , Zhaopeng Chen , Alois Knoll

Functional grasping with dexterous robotic hands is a key capability for enabling tool use and complex manipulation, yet progress has been constrained by two persistent bottlenecks: the scarcity of large-scale datasets and the absence of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Xingyi He , Adhitya Polavaram , Yunhao Cao , Om Deshmukh , Tianrui Wang , Xiaowei Zhou , Kuan Fang

Dexterous multi-fingered hands can accomplish fine manipulation behaviors that are infeasible with simple robotic grippers. However, sophisticated multi-fingered hands are often expensive and fragile. Low-cost soft hands offer an appealing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Abhishek Gupta , Clemens Eppner , Sergey Levine , Pieter Abbeel

Enabling multi-fingered robots to grasp and manipulate objects with human-like dexterity is especially challenging during the dynamic, continuous hand-object interactions. Closed-loop feedback control is essential for dexterous hands to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Dongying Tian , Xiangbo Lin , Yi Sun

Achieving diverse and stable dexterous grasping for general and deformable objects remains a fundamental challenge in robotics, due to high-dimensional action spaces and uncertainty in perception. In this paper, we present D3Grasp, a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Keyu Wang , Bingcong Lu , Zhengxue Cheng , Hengdi Zhang , Li Song

Manipulating objects to achieve desired goal states is a basic but important skill for dexterous manipulation. Human hand motions demonstrate proficient manipulation capability, providing valuable data for training robots with multi-finger…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Yuanpei Chen , Chen Wang , Yaodong Yang , C. Karen Liu