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A fundamental challenge in embodied intelligence is developing expressive and compact state representations for efficient world modeling and decision making. However, existing methods often fail to achieve this balance, yielding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mingyu Liu , Jiuhe Shu , Hui Chen , Zeju Li , Canyu Zhao , Jiange Yang , Shenyuan Gao , Hao Chen , Chunhua Shen

If a robot is supposed to roam an environment and interact with objects, it is often necessary to know all possible objects in advance, so that a database with models of all objects can be generated for visual identification. However, this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-10-05 Laura Steinert , Jens Hoefinghoff , Josef Pauli

From refrigerators to kitchen drawers, humans interact with articulated objects effortlessly every day while completing household chores. For automating these tasks, service robots must be capable of manipulating arbitrary articulated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Russell Buchanan , Adrian Röfer , João Moura , Abhinav Valada , Sethu Vijayakumar

Recent progress in human-robot collaboration makes fast and fluid interactions possible, even when human observations are partial and occluded. Methods like Interaction Probabilistic Movement Primitives (ProMP) model human trajectories…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Longxin Chen , Juan Rojas , Shuangda Duan , Yisheng Guan

Tactile sensing is critical to fine-grained, contact-rich manipulation tasks, such as insertion and assembly. Prior research has shown the possibility of learning tactile-guided policy from teleoperated demonstration data. However, to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Kelin Yu , Yunhai Han , Qixian Wang , Vaibhav Saxena , Danfei Xu , Ye Zhao

Model-based control requires an accurate model of the system dynamics for precisely and safely controlling the robot in complex and dynamic environments. Moreover, in the presence of variations in the operating conditions, the model should…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Alessandro Saviolo , Jonathan Frey , Abhishek Rathod , Moritz Diehl , Giuseppe Loianno

The ability to reflect on and correct failures is crucial for robotic systems to interact stably with real-life objects.Observing the generalization and reasoning capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), previous approaches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Chuyan Xiong , Chengyu Shen , Xiaoqi Li , Kaichen Zhou , Jeremy Liu , Ruiping Wang , Hao Dong

Imitation learning of robot policies from few demonstrations is crucial in open-ended applications. We propose a new method, Interaction Warping, for learning SE(3) robotic manipulation policies from a single demonstration. We infer the 3D…

Learning robot manipulation from human videos is appealing due to the scale and diversity of human demonstrations, but transferring such demonstrations to executable robot behavior remains challenging. Prior work either relies on robot data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yifan Han , Jianxiang Liu , Haoyu Zhang , Yuqi Gu , Yunhan Guo , Wenzhao Lian

Tactile predictive models can be useful across several robotic manipulation tasks, e.g. robotic pushing, robotic grasping, slip avoidance, and in-hand manipulation. However, available tactile prediction models are mostly studied for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Willow Mandil , Kiyanoush Nazari , Amir Ghalamzan E

In this paper, we propose the problem of collaborative perception, where robots can combine their local observations with those of neighboring agents in a learnable way to improve accuracy on a perception task. Unlike existing work in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Yen-Cheng Liu , Junjiao Tian , Chih-Yao Ma , Nathan Glaser , Chia-Wen Kuo , Zsolt Kira

Robots are required to autonomously respond to changing situations. Imitation learning is a promising candidate for achieving generalization performance, and extensive results have been demonstrated in object manipulation. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Ayumu Sasagawa , Kazuki Fujimoto , Sho Sakaino , Toshiaki Tsuji

This paper comprehensively surveys research trends in imitation learning for contact-rich robotic tasks. Contact-rich tasks, which require complex physical interactions with the environment, represent a central challenge in robotics due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Toshiaki Tsuji , Yasuhiro Kato , Gokhan Solak , Heng Zhang , Tadej Petrič , Francesco Nori , Arash Ajoudani

This paper introduces ACTLLM (Action Consistency Tuned Large Language Model), a novel approach for robot manipulation in dynamic environments. Traditional vision-based systems often struggle to learn visual representations that excel in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Jing Bi , Lianggong Bruce Wen , Zhang Liu , Chenliang Xu

This article presents a method for learning well-coordinated Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) from Human-Human Interactions (HHI). We devise a hybrid approach using Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) as the latent space priors for a Variational…

We explore the problem of estimating the mass distribution of an articulated object by an interactive robotic agent. Our method predicts the mass distribution of an object by using the limited sensing and actuating capabilities of a robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-20 K. Niranjan Kumar , Irfan Essa , Sehoon Ha , C. Karen Liu

Knowledge Tracing (KT) aims to predict learners' future performance from past interactions. While recent KT approaches have improved via learning item representations aligned with Knowledge Components, they overlook the procedural dynamics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Jun Seo , Sangwon Ryu , Heejin Do , Hyounghun Kim , Gary Geunbae Lee

Active soft bodies can affect their shape through an internal actuation mechanism that induces a deformation. Similar to recent work, this paper utilizes a differentiable, quasi-static, and physics-based simulation layer to optimize for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Lingchen Yang , Byungsoo Kim , Gaspard Zoss , Baran Gözcü , Markus Gross , Barbara Solenthaler

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

Assistive robots enable people with disabilities to conduct everyday tasks on their own. However, these tasks can be complex, containing both coarse reaching motions and fine-grained manipulation. For example, when eating, not only does one…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Hong Jun Jeon , Dylan P. Losey , Dorsa Sadigh