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We introduce a novel system for human-to-robot trajectory transfer that enables robots to manipulate objects by learning from human demonstration videos. The system consists of four modules. The first module is a data collection module that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Sai Haneesh Allu , Jishnu Jaykumar P , Ninad Khargonkar , Tyler Summers , Jian Yao , Yu Xiang

Humans can leverage physical interaction to teach robot arms. This physical interaction takes multiple forms depending on the task, the user, and what the robot has learned so far. State-of-the-art approaches focus on learning from a single…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Shaunak A. Mehta , Dylan P. Losey

Learning robot manipulation from abundant human videos offers a scalable alternative to costly robot-specific data collection. However, domain gaps across visual, morphological, and physical aspects hinder direct imitation. To effectively…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yangcen Liu , Woo Chul Shin , Yunhai Han , Zhenyang Chen , Harish Ravichandar , Danfei Xu

Humans and animals are capable of learning a new behavior by observing others perform the skill just once. We consider the problem of allowing a robot to do the same -- learning from a raw video pixels of a human, even when there is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Tianhe Yu , Chelsea Finn , Annie Xie , Sudeep Dasari , Tianhao Zhang , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

We propose the first framework to learn control policies for vision-based human-to-robot handovers, a critical task for human-robot interaction. While research in Embodied AI has made significant progress in training robot agents in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Sammy Christen , Wei Yang , Claudia Pérez-D'Arpino , Otmar Hilliges , Dieter Fox , Yu-Wei Chao

Robot-to-human object handover is an important step in many human robot collaboration tasks. A successful handover requires the robot to maintain a stable grasp on the object while making sure the human receives the object in a natural and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Zixi Wang , Zeyi Liu , Nicolas Ouporov , Shuran Song

We propose to learn to generate grasping motion for manipulation with a dexterous hand using implicit functions. With continuous time inputs, the model can generate a continuous and smooth grasping plan. We name the proposed model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Jianglong Ye , Jiashun Wang , Binghao Huang , Yuzhe Qin , Xiaolong Wang

Reinforcement learning (RL) holds great promise for enabling autonomous acquisition of complex robotic manipulation skills, but realizing this potential in real-world settings has been challenging. We present a human-in-the-loop…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Jianlan Luo , Charles Xu , Jeffrey Wu , Sergey Levine

Controlling hands in high-dimensional action space has been a longstanding challenge, yet humans naturally perform dexterous tasks with ease. In this paper, we draw inspiration from the concept of internal model exhibited in human behavior…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Tong Wu , Shoujie Li , Chuqiao Lyu , Kit-Wa Sou , Wang-Sing Chan , Wenbo Ding

This paper investigates humanoid whole-body dexterous manipulation, where the efficient collection of high-quality demonstration data remains a central bottleneck. Existing teleoperation systems often suffer from limited portability,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Liang Heng , Yihe Tang , Jiajun Xu , Henghui Bao , Di Huang , Yue Wang

Data scarcity fundamentally limits the generalization of bimanual dexterous manipulation, as real-world data collection for dexterous hands is expensive and labor-intensive. Human manipulation videos, as a direct carrier of manipulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Juncheng Mu , Sizhe Yang , Yiming Bao , Hojin Bae , Tianming Wei , Linning Xu , Boyi Li , Huazhe Xu , Jiangmiao Pang

Robot manipulation is an important part of human-robot interaction technology. However, traditional pre-programmed methods can only accomplish simple and repetitive tasks. To enable effective communication between robots and humans, and to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Haoxu Zhang , Parham M. Kebria , Shady Mohamed , Samson Yu , Saeid Nahavandi

Imitation learning is a promising approach to help robots acquire dexterous manipulation capabilities without the need for a carefully-designed reward or a significant computational effort. However, existing imitation learning approaches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Abhineet Jain , Jack Kolb , J. M. Abbess , Harish Ravichandar

Dexterous manipulation remains a challenging robotics problem, largely due to the difficulty of collecting extensive human demonstrations for learning. In this paper, we introduce \textsc{Gen2Real}, which replaces costly human demos with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Kai Ye , Yuhang Wu , Shuyuan Hu , Junliang Li , Meng Liu , Yongquan Chen , Rui Huang

How can robots learn dexterous grasping skills efficiently and apply them adaptively based on user instructions? This work tackles two key challenges: efficient skill acquisition from limited human demonstrations and context-driven skill…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Liangzhi Shi , Yulin Liu , Lingqi Zeng , Bo Ai , Zhengdong Hong , Hao Su

Imitation learning from human motion capture (MoCap) data provides a promising way to train humanoid robots. However, due to differences in morphology, such as varying degrees of joint freedom and force limits, exact replication of human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Wenshuai Zhao , Yi Zhao , Joni Pajarinen , Michael Muehlebach

Functional grasping is essential for humans to perform specific tasks, such as grasping scissors by the finger holes to cut materials or by the blade to safely hand them over. Enabling dexterous robot hands with functional grasping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Linyi Huang , Hui Zhang , Zijian Wu , Sammy Christen , Jie Song

Universal grasping with multi-fingered dexterous hands is a fundamental challenge in robotic manipulation. While recent approaches successfully learn closed-loop grasping policies using reinforcement learning (RL), the inherent difficulty…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Haoqi Yuan , Ziye Huang , Ye Wang , Chuan Mao , Chaoyi Xu , Zongqing Lu

Learning dexterous and agile policy for humanoid and dexterous hand control requires large-scale demonstrations, but collecting robot-specific data is prohibitively expensive. In contrast, abundant human motion data is readily available…

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