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In hazardous and remote environments, robotic systems perform critical tasks demanding improved safety and efficiency. Among these, quadruped robots with manipulator arms offer mobility and versatility for complex operations. However,…

While significant progress has been made on understanding hand-object interactions in computer vision, it is still very challenging for robots to perform complex dexterous manipulation. In this paper, we propose a new platform and pipeline…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Yuzhe Qin , Yueh-Hua Wu , Shaowei Liu , Hanwen Jiang , Ruihan Yang , Yang Fu , Xiaolong Wang

Dexterous robotic manipulator teleoperation is widely used in many applications, either where it is convenient to keep the human inside the control loop, or to train advanced robot agents. So far, this technology has been used in…

Aiming to replicate human-like dexterity, perceptual experiences, and motion patterns, we explore learning from human demonstrations using a bimanual system with multifingered hands and visuotactile data. Two significant challenges exist:…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Toru Lin , Yu Zhang , Qiyang Li , Haozhi Qi , Brent Yi , Sergey Levine , Jitendra Malik

This paper investigates humanoid whole-body dexterous manipulation, where the efficient collection of high-quality demonstration data remains a central bottleneck. Existing teleoperation systems often suffer from limited portability,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Liang Heng , Yihe Tang , Jiajun Xu , Henghui Bao , Di Huang , Yue Wang

Learning dexterous bimanual manipulation policies critically depends on large-scale, high-quality demonstrations, yet current paradigms face inherent trade-offs: teleoperation provides physically grounded data but is prohibitively…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Huayi Zhou , Kui Jia

Dexterous robotic manipulation remains a challenging domain due to its strict demands for precision and robustness on both hardware and software. While dexterous robotic hands have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in complex tasks,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Zilin Si , Kevin Lee Zhang , Zeynep Temel , Oliver Kroemer

Employing a teleoperation system for gathering demonstrations offers the potential for more efficient learning of robot manipulation. However, teleoperating a robot arm equipped with a dexterous hand or gripper, via a teleoperation system…

Dexterous manipulation is essential for real-world robot autonomy, mirroring the central role of human hand coordination in daily activity. Humans rely on rich multimodal perception--vision, sound, and language-guided intent--to perform…

Drone application for aerial manipulation is tested in such areas as industrial maintenance, supporting the rescuers in emergencies, and e-commerce. Most of such applications require teleoperation. The operator receives visual feedback from…

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

Learning generalizable robot manipulation policies, especially for complex multi-fingered humanoids, remains a significant challenge. Existing approaches primarily rely on extensive data collection and imitation learning, which are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Toru Lin , Kartik Sachdev , Linxi Fan , Jitendra Malik , Yuke Zhu

Teleoperation provides an effective way to collect robot data, which is crucial for learning from demonstrations. In this field, teleoperation faces several key challenges: user-friendliness for new users, safety assurance, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Jingxiang Guo , Jiayu Luo , Zhenyu Wei , Yiwen Hou , Zhixuan Xu , Xiaoyi Lin , Chongkai Gao , Lin Shao

Bimanual robotic manipulation is a long-standing challenge of embodied intelligence due to its characteristics of dual-arm spatial-temporal coordination and high-dimensional action spaces. Previous studies rely on pre-defined action…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Huayi Zhou , Ruixiang Wang , Yunxin Tai , Yueci Deng , Guiliang Liu , Kui Jia

Remote robot manipulation with human control enables applications where safety and environmental constraints are adverse to humans (e.g. underwater, space robotics and disaster response) or the complexity of the task demands human-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Claudia Pérez-D'Arpino , Rebecca P. Khurshid , Julie A. Shah

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

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

Achieving human-like dexterous manipulation remains a major challenge for general-purpose robots. While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models show potential in learning skills from demonstrations, their scalability is limited by scarce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yu Cui , Yujian Zhang , Lina Tao , Yang Li , Xinyu Yi , Zhibin Li

Dexterous manipulation tasks involving contact-rich interactions pose a significant challenge for both model-based control systems and imitation learning algorithms. The complexity arises from the need for multi-fingered robotic hands to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Zheyuan Hu , Aaron Rovinsky , Jianlan Luo , Vikash Kumar , Abhishek Gupta , Sergey Levine

A critical bottleneck limiting imitation learning in robotics is the lack of data. This problem is more severe in mobile manipulation, where collecting demonstrations is harder than in stationary manipulation due to the lack of available…