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Dexterous multi-fingered hands can provide robots with the ability to flexibly perform a wide range of manipulation skills. However, many of the more complex behaviors are also notoriously difficult to control: Performing in-hand object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Anusha Nagabandi , Kurt Konoglie , Sergey Levine , Vikash Kumar

Dexterous manipulation of objects in virtual environments with our bare hands, by using only a depth sensor and a state-of-the-art 3D hand pose estimator (HPE), is challenging. While virtual environments are ruled by physics, e.g. object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Guillermo Garcia-Hernando , Edward Johns , Tae-Kyun Kim

We study the problem of functional retargeting: learning dexterous manipulation policies to track object states from human hand-object demonstrations. We focus on long-horizon, bimanual tasks with articulated objects, which is challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Zhao Mandi , Yifan Hou , Dieter Fox , Yashraj Narang , Ajay Mandlekar , Shuran Song

Robotic dexterous grasping is a challenging problem due to the high degree of freedom (DoF) and complex contacts of multi-fingered robotic hands. Existing deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based methods leverage human demonstrations to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Qingtao Liu , Yu Cui , Qi Ye , Zhengnan Sun , Haoming Li , Gaofeng Li , Lin Shao , Jiming Chen

While there have been significant strides in dexterous manipulation, most of it is limited to benchmark tasks like in-hand reorientation which are of limited utility in the real world. The main benefit of dexterous hands over two-fingered…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Ananye Agarwal , Shagun Uppal , Kenneth Shaw , Deepak Pathak

Imitation learning requires high-quality demonstrations consisting of sequences of state-action pairs. For contact-rich dexterous manipulation tasks that require dexterity, the actions in these state-action pairs must produce the right…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Claire Chen , Zhongchun Yu , Hojung Choi , Mark Cutkosky , Jeannette Bohg

Achieving human-like dexterous robotic manipulation remains a central goal and a pivotal challenge in robotics. The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has allowed rapid progress in robotic manipulation. This survey summarizes the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Gaofeng Li , Ruize Wang , Peisen Xu , Qi Ye , Jiming Chen

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

Dexterous manipulation tasks involving contact-rich interactions pose a significant challenge for both model-based control systems and imitation learning algorithms. The complexity arises from the need for multi-fingered robotic hands to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Zheyuan Hu , Aaron Rovinsky , Jianlan Luo , Vikash Kumar , Abhishek Gupta , Sergey Levine

A dexterous hand capable of grasping any object is essential for the development of general-purpose embodied intelligent robots. However, due to the high degree of freedom in dexterous hands and the vast diversity of objects, generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yiming Zhong , Qi Jiang , Jingyi Yu , Yuexin Ma

In robotic grasping, objects are often occluded in ungraspable configurations such that no pregrasp pose can be found, eg large flat boxes on the table that can only be grasped from the side. Inspired by humans' bimanual manipulation, eg…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Zhaole Sun , Kai Yuan , Wenbin Hu , Chuanyu Yang , Zhibin Li

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

Dexterous hands enable concurrent prehensile and nonprehensile manipulation, such as holding one object while interacting with another, a capability essential for everyday tasks yet underexplored in robotics. Learning such long-horizon,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Hao Jiang , Yue Wu , Yue Wang , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Daniel Seita

Deformable linear object (DLO) manipulation is needed in many fields. Previous research on deformable linear object (DLO) manipulation has primarily involved parallel jaw gripper manipulation with fixed grasping positions. However, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Sun Zhaole , Jihong Zhu , Robert B. Fisher

Skilled robotic manipulation benefits from complex synergies between non-prehensile (e.g. pushing) and prehensile (e.g. grasping) actions: pushing can help rearrange cluttered objects to make space for arms and fingers; likewise, grasping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Andy Zeng , Shuran Song , Stefan Welker , Johnny Lee , Alberto Rodriguez , Thomas Funkhouser

Humans can determine a proper strategy to grasp an object according to the measured physical attributes or the prior knowledge of the object. This paper proposes an approach to determining the strategy of dexterous grasping by using an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Bharath Rao , Hui Li , Krishna Krishnan , Enkhsaikhan Boldsaikhan , Hongsheng He

Dexterous in-hand manipulation is a peculiar and useful human skill. This ability requires the coordination of many senses and hand motion to adhere to many constraints. These constraints vary and can be influenced by the object…

Dexterous multi-fingered hands are extremely versatile and provide a generic way to perform a multitude of tasks in human-centric environments. However, effectively controlling them remains challenging due to their high dimensionality and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Aravind Rajeswaran , Vikash Kumar , Abhishek Gupta , Giulia Vezzani , John Schulman , Emanuel Todorov , Sergey Levine

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

Dexterous robotic hands have the capability to interact with a wide variety of household objects to perform tasks like grasping. However, learning robust real world grasping policies for arbitrary objects has proven challenging due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Zoey Qiuyu Chen , Karl Van Wyk , Yu-Wei Chao , Wei Yang , Arsalan Mousavian , Abhishek Gupta , Dieter Fox