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Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-11 M. Asif Rana , Daphne Chen , S. Reza Ahmadzadeh , Jacob Williams , Vivian Chu , Sonia Chernova

We introduce a simple new method for visual imitation learning, which allows a novel robot manipulation task to be learned from a single human demonstration, without requiring any prior knowledge of the object being interacted with. Our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Edward Johns

Teaching robots dexterous manipulation skills often requires collecting hundreds of demonstrations using wearables or teleoperation, a process that is challenging to scale. Videos of human-object interactions are easier to collect and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Tyler Ga Wei Lum , Olivia Y. Lee , C. Karen Liu , Jeannette Bohg

Imitating human demonstrations is a promising approach to endow robots with various manipulation capabilities. While recent advances have been made in imitation learning and batch (offline) reinforcement learning, a lack of open-source…

Robot learning of manipulation skills is hindered by the scarcity of diverse, unbiased datasets. While curated datasets can help, challenges remain in generalizability and real-world transfer. Meanwhile, large-scale "in-the-wild" video…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Chrisantus Eze , Christopher Crick

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

A critical bottleneck hindering further advancement in embodied AI and robotics is the challenge of scaling robot data. To address this, the field of learning robot manipulation skills from human video data has attracted rapidly growing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Junyi Ma , Erhang Zhang , Haoran Yang , Ditao Li , Chenyang Xu , Guangming Wang , Hesheng Wang

Humans can leverage physical interaction to teach robot arms. This physical interaction takes multiple forms depending on the task, the user, and what the robot has learned so far. State-of-the-art approaches focus on learning from a single…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Shaunak A. Mehta , Dylan P. Losey

Humans naturally "program" a fellow collaborator to perform a task by demonstrating the task few times. It is intuitive, therefore, for a human to program a collaborative robot by demonstration and many paradigms use a single demonstration…

Human-robot teaming (HRT) systems often rely on large-scale datasets of human and robot interactions, especially for close-proximity collaboration tasks such as human-robot handovers. Learning robot manipulation policies from raw,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yuekun Wu , Yik Lung Pang , Andrea Cavallaro , Changjae Oh

In this paper, we present a novel method of motion planning for performing complex manipulation tasks by using human demonstration and exploiting the screw geometry of motion. We consider complex manipulation tasks where there are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Dasharadhan Mahalingam , Nilanjan Chakraborty

Observing a human demonstrator manipulate objects provides a rich, scalable and inexpensive source of data for learning robotic policies. However, transferring skills from human videos to a robotic manipulator poses several challenges, not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Minttu Alakuijala , Gabriel Dulac-Arnold , Julien Mairal , Jean Ponce , Cordelia Schmid

Quadruped robots are progressively being integrated into human environments. Despite the growing locomotion capabilities of quadrupedal robots, their interaction with objects in realistic scenes is still limited. While additional robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Zhengmao He , Kun Lei , Yanjie Ze , Koushil Sreenath , Zhongyu Li , Huazhe Xu

Robot learning from demonstration (LfD) is a research paradigm that can play an important role in addressing the issue of scaling up robot learning. Since this type of approach enables non-robotics experts can teach robots new knowledge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Jangwon Lee

Learning from human demonstrations is an emerging trend for designing intelligent robotic systems. However, previous methods typically regard videos as instructions, simply dividing them into action sequences for robotic repetition, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Te Cui , Tianxing Zhou , Zicai Peng , Mengxiao Hu , Haoyang Lu , Haizhou Li , Guangyan Chen , Meiling Wang , Yufeng Yue

Manipulating objects with robotic hands is a complicated task. Not only the fingers of the hand, but also the pose of the robot's end effector need to be coordinated. Using human demonstrations of movements is an intuitive and…

We study the problem of teaching humanoid robots manipulation skills by imitating from single video demonstrations. We introduce OKAMI, a method that generates a manipulation plan from a single RGB-D video and derives a policy for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Jinhan Li , Yifeng Zhu , Yuqi Xie , Zhenyu Jiang , Mingyo Seo , Georgios Pavlakos , Yuke Zhu

This work introduces Robots Imitating Generated Videos (RIGVid), a system that enables robots to perform complex manipulation tasks--such as pouring, wiping, and mixing--purely by imitating AI-generated videos, without requiring any…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Shivansh Patel , Shraddhaa Mohan , Hanlin Mai , Unnat Jain , Svetlana Lazebnik , Yunzhu Li

Humans can learn to manipulate new objects by simply watching others; providing robots with the ability to learn from such demonstrations would enable a natural interface specifying new behaviors. This work develops Robot See Robot Do…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Justin Kerr , Chung Min Kim , Mingxuan Wu , Brent Yi , Qianqian Wang , Ken Goldberg , Angjoo Kanazawa

Recent advances in one-shot imitation learning have enabled robots to acquire new manipulation skills from a single human demonstration. While existing methods achieve strong performance on single-step tasks, they remain limited in their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Vijja Wichitwechkarn , Emlyn Williams , Charles Fox , Ruchi Choudhary