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Dexterous manipulation with contact-rich interactions is crucial for advanced robotics. While recent diffusion-based planning approaches show promise for simple manipulation tasks, they often produce unrealistic ghost states (e.g., the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Zhixuan Liang , Yao Mu , Yixiao Wang , Tianxing Chen , Wenqi Shao , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Ping Luo , Mingyu Ding

Recent advances in unsupervised learning for object detection, segmentation, and tracking hold significant promise for applications in robotics. A common approach is to frame these tasks as inference in probabilistic latent-variable models.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Yizhe Wu , Oiwi Parker Jones , Martin Engelcke , Ingmar Posner

Humanoid locomotion has advanced rapidly with deep reinforcement learning (DRL), enabling robust feet-based traversal over uneven terrain. Yet platforms beyond leg length remain largely out of reach because current RL training paradigms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yikai Wang , Tingxuan Leng , Changyi Lin , Shiqi Liu , Shir Simon , Bingqing Chen , Jonathan Francis , Ding Zhao

Dexterous grasp generation is a fundamental challenge in robotics, requiring both grasp stability and adaptability across diverse objects and tasks. Analytical methods ensure stable grasps but are inefficient and lack task adaptability,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yiyao Ma , Kai Chen , Kexin Zheng , Qi Dou

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…

Diffusion generative models have demonstrated remarkable success in visual domains such as image and video generation. They have also recently emerged as a promising approach in robotics, especially in robot manipulations. Diffusion models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Rosa Wolf , Yitian Shi , Sheng Liu , Rania Rayyes

We present AnchorDP3, a diffusion policy framework for dual-arm robotic manipulation that achieves state-of-the-art performance in highly randomized environments. AnchorDP3 integrates three key innovations: (1) Simulator-Supervised Semantic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Ziyan Zhao , Ke Fan , He-Yang Xu , Ning Qiao , Bo Peng , Wenlong Gao , Dongjiang Li , Hui Shen

Robots hold great promise for performing repetitive or hazardous tasks, but achieving human-like dexterity, especially in contact-rich and dynamic environments, remains challenging. Rigid robots, which rely on position or velocity control,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Malek Aburub , Cristian C. Beltran-Hernandez , Tatsuya Kamijo , Masashi Hamaya

Bimanual manipulation is crucial in robotics, enabling complex tasks in industrial automation and household services. However, it poses significant challenges due to the high-dimensional action space and intricate coordination requirements.…

Dexterous grasp synthesis must jointly satisfy functional intent and physical feasibility, yet existing pipelines often decouple semantic grounding from refinement, yielding unstable or non-functional contacts under object and pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yifan Han , Yichuan Peng , Pengfei Yi , Junyan Li , Hanqing Wang , Gaojing Zhang , Qi Peng Liu , Wenzhao Lian

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…

The human-like form of humanoid robots positions them uniquely to achieve the agility and versatility in motor skills that humans possess. Learning from human demonstrations offers a scalable approach to acquiring these capabilities.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Qiayuan Liao , Takara E. Truong , Xiaoyu Huang , Yuman Gao , Guy Tevet , Koushil Sreenath , C. Karen Liu

We present Dynamics-Guided Diffusion Model (DGDM), a data-driven framework for generating task-specific manipulator designs without task-specific training. Given object shapes and task specifications, DGDM generates sensor-less manipulator…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Xiaomeng Xu , Huy Ha , Shuran Song

End-to-end learning is emerging as a powerful paradigm for robotic manipulation, but its effectiveness is limited by data scarcity and the heterogeneity of action spaces across robot embodiments. In particular, diverse action spaces across…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Erik Bauer , Elvis Nava , Robert K. Katzschmann

Grasping is a fundamental skill in robotics with diverse applications across medical, industrial, and domestic domains. However, current approaches for predicting valid grasps are often tailored to specific grippers, limiting their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Roman Freiberg , Alexander Qualmann , Ngo Anh Vien , Gerhard Neumann

Coordinated multi-arm manipulation requires satisfying multiple simultaneous geometric constraints across high-dimensional configuration spaces, which poses a significant challenge for traditional planning and control methods. In this work,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Haolei Tong , Yuezhe Zhang , Sophie Lueth , Georgia Chalvatzaki

Recent work has demonstrated the potential of diffusion models in robot bimanual skill learning. However, existing methods ignore the learning of posture-dependent task features, which are crucial for adapting dual-arm configurations to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zhuo Li , Junjia Liu , Dianxi Li , Tao Teng , Miao Li , Sylvain Calinon , Darwin Caldwell , Fei Chen

Learning natural, animal-like locomotion from demonstrations has become a core paradigm in legged robotics. Despite the recent advancements in motion tracking, most existing methods demand extensive tuning and rely on reference data during…

Learning natural, animal-like locomotion from demonstrations has become a core paradigm in legged robotics. Despite the recent advancements in motion tracking, most existing methods demand extensive tuning and rely on reference data during…

We propose DemoDiffusion, a simple method for enabling robots to perform manipulation tasks by imitating a single human demonstration, without requiring task-specific training or paired human-robot data. Our approach is based on two…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Sungjae Park , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Shubham Tulsiani
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