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Object handover is an important skill that we use daily when interacting with other humans. To deploy robots in collaborative setting, like houses, being able to receive and handing over objects safely and efficiently becomes a crucial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Daniel Frau-Alfaro , Julio Castaño-Amoros , Santiago Puente , Pablo Gil , Roberto Calandra

We describe a mobile manipulation hardware and software system capable of autonomously performing complex human-level tasks in real homes, after being taught the task with a single demonstration from a person in virtual reality. This is…

Imitation learning from human hand motion data presents a promising avenue for imbuing robots with human-like dexterity in real-world manipulation tasks. Despite this potential, substantial challenges persist, particularly with the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Chen Wang , Haochen Shi , Weizhuo Wang , Ruohan Zhang , Li Fei-Fei , C. Karen Liu

Humans' ability to smoothly switch between locomotion and manipulation is a remarkable feature of sensorimotor coordination. Leaning and replication of such human-like strategies can lead to the development of more sophisticated robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Jianzhuang Zhao , Francesco Tassi , Yanlong Huang , Elena De Momi , Arash Ajoudani

Recent advancements in teleoperation systems have enabled high-quality data collection for robotic manipulators, showing impressive results in learning manipulation at scale. This progress suggests that extending these capabilities to…

Dexterous in-hand manipulation remains a foundational challenge in robotics, with progress often constrained by the prevailing paradigm of imitating the human hand. This anthropomorphic approach creates two critical barriers: 1) it limits…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Sun Zhaole , Xiaofeng Mao , Jihong Zhu , Yuanlong Zhang , Robert B. Fisher

Dexterous manipulation is limited by both control and design, without consensus as to what makes manipulators best for performing dexterous tasks. This raises a fundamental challenge: how should we design and control robot manipulators that…

A significant barrier preventing model-based methods from achieving real-time and versatile dexterous robotic manipulation is the inherent complexity of multi-contact dynamics. Traditionally formulated as complementarity models,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Wanxin Jin

Physics-based manipulation in clutter involves complex interaction between multiple objects. In this paper, we consider the problem of learning, from interaction in a physics simulator, manipulation skills to solve this multi-step…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Wissam Bejjani , Mehmet R. Dogar , Matteo Leonetti

Dexterous manipulation through imitation learning has gained significant attention in robotics research. The collection of high-quality expert data holds paramount importance when using imitation learning. The existing approaches for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Dehao Wei , Huazhe Xu

Deep reinforcement learning has shown its advantages in real-time decision-making based on the state of the agent. In this stage, we solved the task of using a real robot to manipulate the cube to a given trajectory. The task is broken down…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Qingfeng Yao , Jilong Wang , Shuyu Yang

Dexterous manipulation remains one of the most challenging problems in robotics, requiring coherent control of high-DoF hands and arms under complex, contact-rich dynamics. A major barrier is embodiment variability: different dexterous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ke Zhang , Lixin Xu , Chengyi Song , Junzhe Xu , Xiaoyi Lin , Zeyu Jiang , Renjing Xu

Although humanoid and quadruped robots provide a wide range of capabilities, current control methods, such as Deep Reinforcement Learning, focus mainly on single skills. This approach is inefficient for solving more complicated tasks where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Maciej Stępień , Rafael Kourdis , Constant Roux , Olivier Stasse

Robotic manipulation stands as a largely unsolved problem despite significant advances in robotics and machine learning in recent years. One of the key challenges in manipulation is the exploration of the dynamics of the environment when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Tim Schneider , Boris Belousov , Georgia Chalvatzaki , Diego Romeres , Devesh K. Jha , Jan Peters

Multi-robot manipulation tasks involve various control entities that can be separated into dynamically independent parts. A typical example of such real-world tasks is dual-arm manipulation. Learning to naively solve such tasks with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Elie Aljalbout , Maximilian Karl , Patrick van der Smagt

We present Skill Transformer, an approach for solving long-horizon robotic tasks by combining conditional sequence modeling and skill modularity. Conditioned on egocentric and proprioceptive observations of a robot, Skill Transformer is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xiaoyu Huang , Dhruv Batra , Akshara Rai , Andrew Szot

Generating large-scale demonstrations for dexterous hand manipulation remains challenging, and several approaches have been proposed in recent years to address this. Among them, generative models have emerged as a promising paradigm,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Jianglong Ye , Keyi Wang , Chengjing Yuan , Ruihan Yang , Yiquan Li , Jiyue Zhu , Yuzhe Qin , Xueyan Zou , Xiaolong Wang

Kinematic retargeting from human hands to robot hands is essential for transferring dexterity from humans to robots in manipulation teleoperation and imitation learning. However, due to mechanical differences between human and robot hands,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Chendong Xin , Mingrui Yu , Yongpeng Jiang , Zhefeng Zhang , Xiang Li

In-hand manipulation using multiple dexterous fingers is a critical robotic skill that can reduce the reliance on large arm motions, thereby saving space and energy. This letter focuses on in-grasp object movement, which refers to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Mingrui Yu , Yongpeng Jiang , Chen Chen , Yongyi Jia , Xiang Li

Configurable robots are made up of robotic modules that can be assembled or can configure themselves into multiple robot configurations. In this research plan, a method for upper-body rehabilitation will be discussed in the form of a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-16 M. Hasanlu , M. Siavashi