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Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Kun Liu , Huiyuan Fu , Zheng Zhang , Huanpu Yin

Following its success in natural language processing and computer vision, foundation models that are pre-trained on large-scale multi-task datasets have also shown great potential in robotics. However, most existing robot foundation models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Rujia Yang , Geng Chen , Chuan Wen , Yang Gao

This article proposes a method for learning and robotic replication of dynamic collaborative tasks from offline videos. The objective is to extend the concept of learning from demonstration (LfD) to dynamic scenarios, benefiting from widely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Francesco Iodice , Yuqiang Wu , Wansoo Kim , Fei Zhao , Elena De Momi , Arash Ajoudani

Learning generalizable visual representations from Internet data has yielded promising results for robotics. Yet, prevailing approaches focus on pre-training 2D representations, being sub-optimal to deal with occlusions and accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Shizhe Chen , Ricardo Garcia , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Planning for robotic manipulation requires reasoning about the changes a robot can affect on objects. When such interactions can be modelled analytically, as in domains with rigid objects, efficient planning algorithms exist. However, in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Angelina Wang , Thanard Kurutach , Kara Liu , Pieter Abbeel , Aviv Tamar

Robots often struggle to generalize from a single demonstration due to the lack of a transferable and interpretable spatial representation. In this work, we introduce TReF-6, a method that infers a simplified, abstracted 6DoF Task-Relevant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yuxuan Ding , Shuangge Wang , Tesca Fitzgerald

A key challenge in robot manipulation lies in developing policy models with strong spatial understanding, the ability to reason about 3D geometry, object relations, and robot embodiment. Existing methods often fall short: 3D point cloud…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Xuewu Lin , Tianwei Lin , Lichao Huang , Hongyu Xie , Yiwei Jin , Keyu Li , Zhizhong Su

We aim to teach robots to perform simple object manipulation tasks by watching a single video demonstration. Towards this goal, we propose an optimization approach that outputs a coarse and temporally evolving 3D scene to mimic the action…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Vladimir Petrik , Mohammad Nomaan Qureshi , Josef Sivic , Makarand Tapaswi

RGB-based imitation learning requires many demonstrations to generalize to unseen objects or scenes, motivating research into intermediate representations to improve generalization for robotic manipulation. Visual foundation models enable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Thomas Lips , Marco Moletta , Michael C. Welle , Danica Kragic , Francis wyffels

Despite the recent success of modern imitation learning methods in robot manipulation, their performance is often constrained by geometric variations due to limited data diversity. Leveraging powerful 3D generative models and vision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jiawei Zhang , Kaizhe Hu , Yingqian Huang , Yuanchen Ju , Zhengrong Xue , Huazhe Xu

End-to-end learning for visual robotic manipulation is known to suffer from sample inefficiency, requiring large numbers of demonstrations. The spatial roto-translation equivariance, or the SE(3)-equivariance can be exploited to improve the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Hyunwoo Ryu , Hong-in Lee , Jeong-Hoon Lee , Jongeun Choi

Learning from human demonstrations is an emerging trend for designing intelligent robotic systems. However, previous methods typically regard videos as instructions, simply dividing them into action sequences for robotic repetition, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Te Cui , Tianxing Zhou , Zicai Peng , Mengxiao Hu , Haoyang Lu , Haizhou Li , Guangyan Chen , Meiling Wang , Yufeng Yue

Learning long-horizon manipulation tasks efficiently is a central challenge in robot learning from demonstration. Unlike recent endeavors that focus on directly learning the task in the action domain, we focus on inferring what the robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Adrian Röfer , Nick Heppert , Abhinav Valada

Grasping is a complex process involving knowledge of the object, the surroundings, and of oneself. While humans are able to integrate and process all of the sensory information required for performing this task, equipping machines with this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Matthew Veres , Medhat Moussa , Graham W. Taylor

Grasping is one of the most fundamental challenging capabilities in robotic manipulation, especially in unstructured, cluttered, and semantically diverse environments. Recent researches have increasingly explored language-guided…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Zebin Jiang , Tianle Jin , Xiangtong Yao , Alois Knoll , Hu Cao

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

We present a cross robot visuomotor learning framework that integrates diffusion policy based control with 3D semantic scene representations from D3Fields to enable category level generalization in manipulation. Its modular design supports…

Robotic manipulation in complex open-world scenarios requires both reliable physical manipulation skills and effective and generalizable perception. In this paper, we propose a method where general purpose pretrained visual models serve as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-27 Coline Devin , Pieter Abbeel , Trevor Darrell , Sergey Levine

Imitation learning has emerged as a crucial ap proach for acquiring visuomotor skills from demonstrations, where designing effective observation encoders is essential for policy generalization. However, existing methods often struggle to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yikai Tang , Haoran Geng , Sheng Zang , Pieter Abbeel , Jitendra Malik

Current volumetric biomedical foundation models struggle to generalize as public 3D datasets are small and do not cover the broad diversity of medical procedures, conditions, anatomical regions, and imaging protocols. We address this by…

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