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We propose to perform imitation learning for dexterous manipulation with multi-finger robot hand from human demonstrations, and transfer the policy to the real robot hand. We introduce a novel single-camera teleoperation system to collect…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Yuzhe Qin , Hao Su , Xiaolong Wang

We present OrbiSim, a novel robotic simulation paradigm that redefines world models as a fully differentiable physics engine for embodied intelligence. Unlike prior world models that focus on unconstrained imagination in latent or visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jiajian Li , Jingyuan Huang , Junru Gong , Qi Wang , Xiaokang Yang , Yunbo Wang

World models allow autonomous agents to plan and explore by predicting the visual outcomes of different actions. However, for robot manipulation, it is challenging to accurately model the fine-grained robot-object interaction within the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Fangqi Zhu , Hongtao Wu , Song Guo , Yuxiao Liu , Chilam Cheang , Tao Kong

Exploiting the promise of recent advances in imitation learning for mobile manipulation will require the collection of large numbers of human-guided demonstrations. This paper proposes an open-source design for an inexpensive, robust, and…

Achieving human-level dexterity in robotic hands remains a fundamental challenge for enabling versatile manipulation across diverse applications. This extended abstract presents BiDexHand, a cable-driven biomimetic robotic hand that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Zhengyang Kris Weng

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

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

Robots are becoming a vital ingredient in society. Some of their daily tasks require dual-arm manipulation skills in the rapidly changing, dynamic and unpredictable real-world environments where they have to operate. Given the expertise of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Èric Pairet , Paola Ardón , Frank Broz , Michael Mistry , Yvan Petillot

We present ContainerGym, a benchmark for reinforcement learning inspired by a real-world industrial resource allocation task. The proposed benchmark encodes a range of challenges commonly encountered in real-world sequential decision making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Abhijeet Pendyala , Justin Dettmer , Tobias Glasmachers , Asma Atamna

Mobile manipulation in robotics is challenging due to the need of solving many diverse tasks, such as opening a door or picking-and-placing an object. Typically, a basic first-principles system description of the robot is available, thus…

The advancement of computer vision and machine learning has made datasets a crucial element for further research and applications. However, the creation and development of robots with advanced recognition capabilities are hindered by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Zhengcheng Shen , Yi Gao , Linh Kästner , Jens Lambrecht

We address goal-based imitation learning, where the aim is to output the symbolic goal from a third-person video demonstration. This enables the robot to plan for execution and reproduce the same goal in a completely different environment.…

Learning from human demonstration is an effective approach for learning complex manipulation skills. However, existing approaches heavily focus on learning from passive human demonstration data for its simplicity in data collection.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Philipp Wu , Yide Shentu , Qiayuan Liao , Ding Jin , Menglong Guo , Koushil Sreenath , Xingyu Lin , Pieter Abbeel

Mobile Manipulation (MM) systems are ideal candidates for taking up the role of a personal assistant in unstructured real-world environments. Among other challenges, MM requires effective coordination of the robot's embodiments for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Snehal Jauhri , Jan Peters , Georgia Chalvatzaki

We present WebGym, the largest-to-date open-source environment for training realistic visual web agents. Real websites are non-stationary and diverse, making artificial or small-scale task sets insufficient for robust policy learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hao Bai , Alexey Taymanov , Tong Zhang , Aviral Kumar , Spencer Whitehead

Eye-in-hand cameras have shown promise in enabling greater sample efficiency and generalization in vision-based robotic manipulation. However, for robotic imitation, it is still expensive to have a human teleoperator collect large amounts…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Moo Jin Kim , Jiajun Wu , Chelsea Finn

We introduce controlgym, a library of thirty-six industrial control settings, and ten infinite-dimensional partial differential equation (PDE)-based control problems. Integrated within the OpenAI Gym/Gymnasium (Gym) framework, controlgym…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Xiangyuan Zhang , Weichao Mao , Saviz Mowlavi , Mouhacine Benosman , Tamer Başar

In the field of robotic manipulation, deep imitation learning is recognized as a promising approach for acquiring manipulation skills. Additionally, learning from diverse robot datasets is considered a viable method to achieve versatility…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Heecheol Kim , Yoshiyuki Ohmura , Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Recent work has demonstrated the ability of deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms to learn complex robotic behaviours in simulation, including in the domain of multi-fingered manipulation. However, such models can be challenging to…

Deploying humanoid robots to interact with real-world environments--such as carrying objects or sitting on chairs--requires generalizable, lifelike motions and robust scene perception. Although prior approaches have advanced each capability…