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Robotic manipulation faces a significant challenge in generalizing across unseen objects, environments and tasks specified by diverse language instructions. To improve generalization capabilities, recent research has incorporated large…

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In human-robot cooperation, the robot cooperates with humans to accomplish the task together. Existing approaches assume the human has a specific goal during the cooperation, and the robot infers and acts toward it. However, in real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Lingfeng Tao , Michael Bowman , Jiucai Zhang , Xiaoli Zhang

Fine-grained activity recognition enables explainable analysis of procedures for skill assessment, autonomy, and error detection in robot-assisted surgery. However, existing recognition models suffer from the limited availability of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Kay Hutchinson , Ian Reyes , Zongyu Li , Homa Alemzadeh

Pointing gestures are a common interaction method used in Human-Robot Collaboration for various tasks, ranging from selecting targets to guiding industrial processes. This study introduces a method for localizing pointed targets within a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Noora Sassali , Roel Pieters

Effective generalization in robotic manipulation requires representations that capture invariant patterns of interaction across environments and tasks. We present a self-supervised framework for learning hierarchical manipulation concepts…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Ruizhe Liu , Pei Zhou , Qian Luo , Li Sun , Jun Cen , Yibing Song , Yanchao Yang

An open problem in autonomous driving research is modeling human driving behavior, which is needed for the planning component of the autonomy stack, safety validation through traffic simulation, and causal inference for generating…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Raunak P. Bhattacharyya , Kyle Brown , Juanran Wang , Katherine Driggs-Campbell , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

In this work, we address the problem of solving complex collaborative robotic tasks subject to multiple varying parameters. Our approach combines simultaneous policy blending with system identification to create generalized policies that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Luke Bhan , Marcos Quinones-Grueiro , Gautam Biswas

Recent developments in imitation learning have considerably advanced robotic manipulation. However, current techniques in imitation learning can suffer from poor generalization, limiting performance even under relatively minor domain…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yifei Chen , Yuzhe Zhang , Giovanni D'urso , Nicholas Lawrance , Brendan Tidd

Domain shift refers to the well known problem that a model trained in one source domain performs poorly when applied to a target domain with different statistics. {Domain Generalization} (DG) techniques attempt to alleviate this issue by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Da Li , Yongxin Yang , Yi-Zhe Song , Timothy M. Hospedales

A key challenge in manipulation is learning a policy that can robustly generalize to diverse visual environments. A promising mechanism for learning robust policies is to leverage video generative models, which are pretrained on large-scale…

Imitation learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm in robot manipulation, yet its generalization capability remains constrained by object-specific dependencies in limited expert demonstrations. To address this challenge, we propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Zhuochen Miao , Jun Lv , Hongjie Fang , Yang Jin , Cewu Lu

Stacked generalization is a general method of using a high-level model to combine lower-level models to achieve greater predictive accuracy. In this paper we address two crucial issues which have been considered to be a `black art' in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-05-30 K. M. Ting , I. H. Witten

Modeling generalized robot control policies poses ongoing challenges for language-guided robot manipulation tasks. Existing methods often struggle to efficiently utilize cross-dataset resources or rely on resource-intensive vision-language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Wenhui Tan , Bei Liu , Junbo Zhang , Ruihua Song , Jianlong Fu

Large Language Models (LLMs) and strong vision models have enabled rapid research and development in the field of Vision-Language-Action models that enable robotic control. The main objective of these methods is to develop a generalist…

Generalising vision-based manipulation policies to novel environments remains a challenging area with limited exploration. Current practices involve collecting data in one location, training imitation learning or reinforcement learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Eugene Teoh , Sumit Patidar , Xiao Ma , Stephen James

Robotic manipulation policies often struggle to generalize to novel objects, limiting their real-world utility. In contrast, cognitive science suggests that children develop generalizable dexterous manipulation skills by mastering a small…

Despite the recent advancements of vision-language-action (VLA) models on a variety of robotics tasks, they suffer from critical issues such as poor generalizability to unseen tasks, due to their reliance on behavior cloning exclusively…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Zijian Zhang , Kaiyuan Zheng , Zhaorun Chen , Joel Jang , Yi Li , Siwei Han , Chaoqi Wang , Mingyu Ding , Dieter Fox , Huaxiu Yao

The field of robotics has made significant advances towards generalist robot manipulation policies. However, real-world evaluation of such policies is not scalable and faces reproducibility challenges, which are likely to worsen as policies…

Recently, we have witnessed the great success of the generalist model in natural language processing. The generalist model is a general framework trained with massive data and is able to process various downstream tasks simultaneously.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Ziyi Wang , Yongming Rao , Shuofeng Sun , Xinrun Liu , Yi Wei , Xumin Yu , Zuyan Liu , Yanbo Wang , Hongmin Liu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

We pursue the goal of developing robots that can interact zero-shot with generic unseen objects via a diverse repertoire of manipulation skills and show how passive human videos can serve as a rich source of data for learning such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Homanga Bharadhwaj , Abhinav Gupta , Vikash Kumar , Shubham Tulsiani