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Large-scale robot datasets have facilitated the learning of a wide range of robot manipulation skills, but these datasets remain difficult to collect and scale further, owing to the intractable amount of human time, effort, and cost…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Masoud Moghani , Mahdi Azizian , Animesh Garg , Yuke Zhu , Sean Huver , Ajay Mandlekar

Manipulation policies deployed in uncontrolled real-world scenarios are faced with great in-category geometric diversity of everyday objects. In order to function robustly under such variations, policies need to work in a category-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yirui Wang , Xiuwei Xu , Angyuan Ma , Bingyao Yu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Imitation learning is a promising approach for training humanoid robots to both walk and manipulate, but it requires a large number of demonstrations, which are time-intensive and difficult to collect via teleoperation. Existing…

Imitation learning from human demonstrations is an effective means to teach robots manipulation skills. But data acquisition is a major bottleneck in applying this paradigm more broadly, due to the amount of cost and human effort involved.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Zhenyu Jiang , Yuqi Xie , Kevin Lin , Zhenjia Xu , Weikang Wan , Ajay Mandlekar , Linxi Fan , Yuke Zhu

Large-scale and diverse datasets are vital for training robust robotic manipulation policies, yet existing data collection methods struggle to balance scale, diversity, and quality. Simulation offers scalability but suffers from sim-to-real…

Large-scale demonstration data has powered key breakthroughs in robot manipulation, but collecting that data remains costly and time-consuming. We present Constraint-Preserving Data Generation (CP-Gen), a method that uses a single expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Kevin Lin , Varun Ragunath , Andrew McAlinden , Aaditya Prasad , Jimmy Wu , Yuke Zhu , Jeannette Bohg

Despite substantial progress in text-driven 3D human motion synthesis, generating realistic multi-person interaction sequences remains challenging. Notably, body inter-penetration is a pervasive issue from both data acquisition to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Nan Lei , Yuan-Ming Li , Ling-An Zeng , Liang Xu , Zhi-Wei Xia , Hui-Wen Huang , Fa-Ting Hong , Wei-Shi Zheng

Training effective AI agents for multi-turn interactions requires high-quality data that captures realistic human-agent dynamics, yet such data is scarce and expensive to collect manually. We introduce APIGen-MT, a two-phase framework that…

Over the past few years there has been major progress in the field of synthetic data generation using simulation based techniques. These methods use high-end graphics engines and physics-based ray-tracing rendering in order to represent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Paul Yudkin , Eli Friedman , Orly Zvitia , Gil Elbaz

The aim of this study is to investigate an automated industrial manipulation pipeline, where assembly tasks can be flexibly adapted to production without the need for a robotic expert, both for the vision system and the robot program. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Alireza Barekatain , Hamed Rahimi Nohooji , Holger Voos

Simulating object dynamics from real-world perception shows great promise for digital twins and robotic manipulation but often demands labor-intensive measurements and expertise. We present a fully automated Real2Sim pipeline that generates…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Nicholas Pfaff , Evelyn Fu , Jeremy Binagia , Phillip Isola , Russ Tedrake

Behavior cloning for contact-rich bimanual manipulation remains challenging because diverse demonstrations are expensive to collect, and even small disturbances can push the system into off-manifold states where no recovery supervision is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Cunxi Dai , Haoran Chang , Aditya Nisal , Rahul Kumar , Guofei Chen , Tao Chen , Yuzhe Qin , Guanya Shi

Generating robot demonstrations through simulation is widely recognized as an effective way to scale up robot data. Previous work often trained reinforcement learning agents to generate expert policies, but this approach lacks sample…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Yang Jin , Jun Lv , Shuqiang Jiang , Cewu Lu

Imitation learning from a large set of human demonstrations has proved to be an effective paradigm for building capable robot agents. However, the demonstrations can be extremely costly and time-consuming to collect. We introduce MimicGen,…

Acquiring large-scale, high-fidelity robot demonstration data remains a critical bottleneck for scaling Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models in dexterous manipulation. We propose a Real-Sim-Real data collection and data editing pipeline that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jiacheng Fan , Zhiyue Zhao , Yiqian Zhang , Chao Chen , Peide Wang , Hengdi Zhang , Zhengxue Cheng

Omnia presents a synthetic data driven pipeline to accelerate the training, validation, and deployment readiness of militarized humanoids. The approach converts first-person spatial observations captured from point-of-view recordings, smart…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Mohammed Ayman Habib , Aldo Petruzzelli

Towards the aim of generalized robotic manipulation, spatial generalization is the most fundamental capability that requires the policy to work robustly under different spatial distribution of objects, environment and agent itself. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Xiuwei Xu , Angyuan Ma , Hankun Li , Bingyao Yu , Zheng Zhu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Imitation learning from large-scale, diverse human demonstrations has been shown to be effective for training robots, but collecting such data is costly and time-consuming. This challenge intensifies for multi-step bimanual mobile…

Optimal control approaches in combination with trajectory optimization have recently proven to be a promising control strategy for legged robots. Computationally efficient and robust algorithms were derived using simplified models of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Alexander Herzog , Stefan Schaal , Ludovic Righetti

Learning robust manipulation policies typically requires large and diverse datasets, the collection of which is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and often impractical for dynamic environments. In this work, we introduce DynaMimicGen (D-MG),…

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