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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

To realize human-robot collaboration, robots need to execute actions for new tasks according to human instructions given finite prior knowledge. Human experts can share their knowledge of how to perform a task with a robot through…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Chiori Hori , Puyuan Peng , David Harwath , Xinyu Liu , Kei Ota , Siddarth Jain , Radu Corcodel , Devesh Jha , Diego Romeres , Jonathan Le Roux

Learning from demonstrations is a promising paradigm for transferring knowledge to robots. However, learning mobile manipulation tasks directly from a human teacher is a complex problem as it requires learning models of both the overall…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Tim Welschehold , Nichola Abdo , Christian Dornhege , Wolfram Burgard

Learning from few demonstrations to develop policies robust to variations in robot initial positions and object poses is a problem of significant practical interest in robotics. Compared to imitation learning, which often struggles to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Haowen Sun , Han Wang , Chengzhong Ma , Shaolong Zhang , Jiawei Ye , Xingyu Chen , Xuguang Lan

Learning a generalist embodied agent capable of completing multiple tasks poses challenges, primarily stemming from the scarcity of action-labeled robotic datasets. In contrast, a vast amount of human videos exist, capturing intricate tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Haoran He , Chenjia Bai , Ling Pan , Weinan Zhang , Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li

We propose an architecture for learning complex controllable behaviors by having simple Policies Modulate Trajectory Generators (PMTG), a powerful combination that can provide both memory and prior knowledge to the controller. The result is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Atil Iscen , Ken Caluwaerts , Jie Tan , Tingnan Zhang , Erwin Coumans , Vikas Sindhwani , Vincent Vanhoucke

Imitation Learning is a promising paradigm for learning complex robot manipulation skills by reproducing behavior from human demonstrations. However, manipulation tasks often contain bottleneck regions that require a sequence of precise…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Ajay Mandlekar , Danfei Xu , Roberto Martín-Martín , Yuke Zhu , Li Fei-Fei , Silvio Savarese

Traditional imitation learning provides a set of methods and algorithms to learn a reward function or policy from expert demonstrations. Learning from demonstration has been shown to be advantageous for navigation tasks as it allows for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Christian Ellis , Maggie Wigness , John G. Rogers , Craig Lennon , Lance Fiondella

Large foundation models have recently emerged as a prominent focus of interest, attaining superior performance in widespread scenarios. Due to the scarcity of 3D data, many efforts have been made to adapt pre-trained transformers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yiwen Tang , Ray Zhang , Jiaming Liu , Zoey Guo , Dong Wang , Zhigang Wang , Bin Zhao , Shanghang Zhang , Peng Gao , Hongsheng Li , Xuelong Li

Video-Action Models (VAMs) have emerged as a promising framework for embodied intelligence, learning implicit world dynamics from raw video streams to produce temporally consistent action predictions. Although such models demonstrate strong…

In real-world action recognition systems, incorporating more attributes helps achieve a more comprehensive understanding of human behavior. However, using a single model to simultaneously recognize multiple attributes can lead to a decrease…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Juefeng Xiao , Tianqi Xiang , Zhigang Tu

Accurately predicting the dynamics of robotic systems is crucial for model-based control and reinforcement learning. The most common way to estimate dynamics is by fitting a one-step ahead prediction model and using it to recursively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Nathan O. Lambert , Albert Wilcox , Howard Zhang , Kristofer S. J. Pister , Roberto Calandra

Mobile manipulation is a fundamental capability that enables robots to interact in expansive environments such as homes and factories. Most existing approaches follow a two-stage paradigm, where the robot first navigates to a docking point…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Ziyu Shan , Yuheng Zhou , Gaoyuan Wu , Ziheng Ji , Zhenyu Wu , Ziwei Wang

Encouraged by the remarkable achievements of language and vision foundation models, developing generalist robotic agents through imitation learning, using large demonstration datasets, has become a prominent area of interest in robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Tongzhou Mu , Yijie Guo , Jie Xu , Ankit Goyal , Hao Su , Dieter Fox , Animesh Garg

In this work we propose an approach to learn a robust policy for solving the pivoting task. Recently, several model-free continuous control algorithms were shown to learn successful policies without prior knowledge of the dynamics of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Rika Antonova , Silvia Cruciani , Christian Smith , Danica Kragic

Learning from multiple domains is a primary factor that influences the generalization of a single unified robot system. In this paper, we aim to learn the trajectory prediction model by using broad out-of-domain data to improve its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Jiange Yang , Haoyi Zhu , Yating Wang , Gangshan Wu , Tong He , Limin Wang

In the context of multi-agent reinforcement learning, generalization is a challenge to solve various tasks that may require different joint policies or coordination without relying on policies specialized for each task. We refer to this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Hyungho Na , Kwanghyeon Lee , Sumin Lee , Il-Chul Moon

Transfer learning has the potential to reduce the burden of data collection and to decrease the unavoidable risks of the training phase. In this letter, we introduce a multirobot, multitask transfer learning framework that allows a system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Karime Pereida , Mohamed K. Helwa , Angela P. Schoellig

Imitation learning is an effective and safe technique to train robot policies in the real world because it does not depend on an expensive random exploration process. However, due to the lack of exploration, learning policies that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Ajay Mandlekar , Danfei Xu , Roberto Martín-Martín , Silvio Savarese , Li Fei-Fei

Teaching robots new skills quickly and conveniently is crucial for the broader adoption of robotic systems. In this work, we address the problem of one-shot imitation from a single human demonstration, given by an RGB-D video recording. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Nick Heppert , Max Argus , Tim Welschehold , Thomas Brox , Abhinav Valada