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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

Enabling robotic manipulation that generalizes to out-of-distribution scenes is a crucial step toward open-world embodied intelligence. For human beings, this ability is rooted in the understanding of semantic correspondence among objects,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yuanchen Ju , Kaizhe Hu , Guowei Zhang , Gu Zhang , Mingrun Jiang , Huazhe Xu

Given a demonstration, a robot should be able to generalize a skill to any object it encounters-but existing approaches to skill transfer often fail to adapt to objects with unfamiliar shapes. Motivated by examples of improved transfer from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Skye Thompson , Ondrej Biza , George Konidaris

In recent years, zero-shot and few-shot learning in visual grounding have garnered considerable attention, largely due to the success of large-scale vision-language pre-training on expansive datasets such as LAION-5B and DataComp-1B.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Sen Jia , Lei Li

Training vision-based manipulation policies that are robust across diverse visual environments remains an important and unresolved challenge in robot learning. Current approaches often sidestep the problem by relying on invariant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Sumeet Batra , Gaurav Sukhatme

Existing end-to-end approaches of robotic manipulation often lack generalization to unseen objects or tasks due to limited data and poor interpretability. While recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate strong commonsense…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zilong Xie , Jingyu Gong , Xin Tan , Zhizhong Zhang , Yuan Xie

The use of multi-camera views simultaneously has been shown to improve the generalization capabilities and performance of visual policies. However, the hardware cost and design constraints in real-world scenarios can potentially make it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Cihan Acar , Kuluhan Binici , Alp Tekirdağ , Yan Wu

Adaptive control for real-time manipulation requires quick estimation and prediction of object properties. While robot learning in this area primarily focuses on using vision, many tasks cannot rely on vision due to object occlusion. Here,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Ahalya Prabhakar , Stanislas Furrer , Lorenzo Panchetti , Maxence Perret , Aude Billard

Synthesizing visual content that meets users' needs often requires flexible and precise controllability of the pose, shape, expression, and layout of the generated objects. Existing approaches gain controllability of generative adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Xingang Pan , Ayush Tewari , Thomas Leimkühler , Lingjie Liu , Abhimitra Meka , Christian Theobalt

This study proposes an imitation learning method based on force and position information. Force information is required for precise object manipulation but is difficult to obtain because the acting and reaction forces cannnot be separated.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Tsuyoshi Adachi , Kazuki Fujimoto , Sho Sakaino , Toshiaki Tsuji

While visuomotor policy learning has advanced robotic manipulation, precisely executing contact-rich tasks remains challenging due to the limitations of vision in reasoning about physical interactions. To address this, recent work has…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Venkatesh Pattabiraman , Yifeng Cao , Siddhant Haldar , Lerrel Pinto , Raunaq Bhirangi

Intelligent vision control systems for surgical robots should adapt to unknown and diverse objects while being robust to system disturbances. Previous methods did not meet these requirements due to mainly relying on pose estimation and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Hongbin Lin , Bin Li , Chun Wai Wong , Juan Rojas , Xiangyu Chu , Kwok Wai Samuel Au

Instance segmentation with unseen objects is a challenging problem in unstructured environments. To solve this problem, we propose a robot learning approach to actively interact with novel objects and collect each object's training label…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Houjian Yu , Changhyun Choi

Building humanoid robots capable of generalizable whole-body loco-manipulation in the real world remains a fundamental challenge. Existing methods either rely on laborious task-specific reward engineering, rigidly replay reference motions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Tianshu Wu , Xiangqi Kong , Yue Chen , Qize Yu , Hang Ye , Jia Li , Yizhou Wang , Hao Dong

Task-oriented object grasping and rearrangement are critical skills for robots to accomplish different real-world manipulation tasks. However, they remain challenging due to partial observations of the objects and shape variations in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yichen Cai , Jianfeng Gao , Christoph Pohl , Tamim Asfour

Grasping objects of different shapes and sizes - a foundational, effortless skill for humans - remains a challenging task in robotics. Although model-based approaches can predict stable grasp configurations for known object models, they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Malte Mosbach , Sven Behnke

Robotic manipulation tasks often rely on static cameras for perception, which can limit flexibility, particularly in scenarios like robotic surgery and cluttered environments where mounting static cameras is impractical. Ideally, robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Xiatao Sun , Francis Fan , Yinxing Chen , Daniel Rakita

We aim to enable robot to learn object manipulation by imitation. Given external observations of demonstrations on object manipulations, we believe that two underlying problems to address in learning by imitation is 1) segment a given…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Zhen Zeng , Benjamin Kuipers

Tool use requires reasoning about the fit between an object's affordances and the demands of a task. Visual affordance learning can benefit from goal-directed interaction experience, but current techniques rely on human labels or expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Dylan Turpin , Liquan Wang , Stavros Tsogkas , Sven Dickinson , Animesh Garg

Understanding the world in terms of objects and the possible interplays with them is an important cognition ability, especially in robotics manipulation, where many tasks require robot-object interactions. However, learning such a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Stefano Ferraro , Pietro Mazzaglia , Tim Verbelen , Bart Dhoedt