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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 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

In this work, we aim to learn a unified vision-based policy for multi-fingered robot hands to manipulate a variety of objects in diverse poses. Though prior work has shown benefits of using human videos for policy learning, performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zerui Chen , Shizhe Chen , Etienne Arlaud , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

This paper presents a hierarchical framework for planning and control of in-hand manipulation of a rigid object involving grasp changes using fully-actuated multifingered robotic hands. While the framework can be applied to the general…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Rana Soltani Zarrin , Katsu Yamane , Rianna Jitosho

Dexterous manipulation with a multi-finger hand is one of the most challenging problems in robotics. While recent progress in imitation learning has largely improved the sample efficiency compared to Reinforcement Learning, the learned…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Yueh-Hua Wu , Jiashun Wang , Xiaolong Wang

Dexterous robotic manipulation remains a challenging domain due to its strict demands for precision and robustness on both hardware and software. While dexterous robotic hands have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in complex tasks,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Zilin Si , Kevin Lee Zhang , Zeynep Temel , Oliver Kroemer

For contact-intensive tasks, the ability to generate policies that produce comprehensive tactile-aware motions is essential. However, existing data collection and skill learning systems for dexterous manipulation often suffer from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xingyu Zhang , Chaofan Zhang , Boyue Zhang , Zhinan Peng , Shaowei Cui , Shuo Wang

Recent progress of video diffusion models have enabled extensive simulation of the physical world. While simulation with hand object interaction has been less explored. We propose DexSIM, a dexterous simulation framework for simulating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Adam Lee

Dexterous manipulation has received considerable attention in recent research. Predominantly, existing studies have concentrated on reinforcement learning methods to address the substantial degrees of freedom in hand movements. Nonetheless,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Hengxu Yan , Haoshu Fang , Cewu Lu

Manipulating objects to achieve desired goal states is a basic but important skill for dexterous manipulation. Human hand motions demonstrate proficient manipulation capability, providing valuable data for training robots with multi-finger…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Yuanpei Chen , Chen Wang , Yaodong Yang , C. Karen Liu

Human hand actions are quite complex, especially when they involve object manipulation, mainly due to the high dimensionality of the hand and the vast action space that entails. Imitating those actions with dexterous hand models involves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Dafni Antotsiou , Guillermo Garcia-Hernando , Tae-Kyun Kim

We propose a sim-to-real framework for dexterous manipulation which can generalize to new objects of the same category in the real world. The key of our framework is to train the manipulation policy with point cloud inputs and dexterous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Yuzhe Qin , Binghao Huang , Zhao-Heng Yin , Hao Su , Xiaolong Wang

In-hand manipulation of tools using dexterous hands in real-world is an underexplored problem in the literature. In addition to more complex geometry and larger size of the tools compared to more commonly used objects like cubes or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Shaunak A. Mehta , Rana Soltani Zarrin

Robotic dexterous manipulation is a challenging problem due to high degrees of freedom (DoFs) and complex contacts of multi-fingered robotic hands. Many existing deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based methods aim at improving sample…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Qingtao Liu , Zhengnan Sun , Yu Cui , Haoming Li , Gaofeng Li , Lin Shao , Jiming Chen , Qi Ye

Dexterous manipulation is a critical aspect of human capability, enabling interaction with a wide variety of objects. Recent advancements in learning from human demonstrations and teleoperation have enabled progress for robots in such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Shuqi Zhao , Xinghao Zhu , Yuxin Chen , Chenran Li , Lichen Xie , Xiang Zhang , Mingyu Ding , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Human hands possess remarkable dexterity and have long served as a source of inspiration for robotic manipulation. In this work, we propose a human $\textbf{H}$and$\textbf{-In}$formed visual representation learning framework to solve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Yanjie Ze , Yuyao Liu , Ruizhe Shi , Jiaxin Qin , Zhecheng Yuan , Jiashun Wang , Huazhe Xu

Continuous in-hand manipulation is an important physical interaction skill, where tactile sensing provides indispensable contact information to enable dexterous manipulation of small objects. This work proposed a framework for end-to-end…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Wenbin Hu , Bidan Huang , Wang Wei Lee , Sicheng Yang , Yu Zheng , Zhibin Li

Aiming to replicate human-like dexterity, perceptual experiences, and motion patterns, we explore learning from human demonstrations using a bimanual system with multifingered hands and visuotactile data. Two significant challenges exist:…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Toru Lin , Yu Zhang , Qiyang Li , Haozhi Qi , Brent Yi , Sergey Levine , Jitendra Malik

Dexterous manipulation, which refers to the ability of a robotic hand or multi-fingered end-effector to skillfully control, reorient, and manipulate objects through precise, coordinated finger movements and adaptive force modulation,…

We present a diffusion-based model recipe for real-world control of a highly dexterous humanoid robotic hand, designed for sample-efficient learning and smooth fine-motor action inference. Our system features a newly designed 16-DoF…