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Manipulating articulated tools, such as tweezers or scissors, has rarely been explored in previous research. Unlike rigid tools, articulated tools change their shape dynamically, creating unique challenges for dexterous robotic hands. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Wei Xu , Yanchao Zhao , Weichao Guo , Xinjun Sheng

Acting in human environments is a crucial capability for general-purpose robots, necessitating a robust understanding of natural language and its application to physical tasks. This paper seeks to harness the capabilities of diffusion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jonas Bode , Raphael Memmesheimer , Sven Behnke

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

In this paper, we introduce RealDex, a pioneering dataset capturing authentic dexterous hand grasping motions infused with human behavioral patterns, enriched by multi-view and multimodal visual data. Utilizing a teleoperation system, we…

In-hand object manipulation is challenging to simulate due to complex contact dynamics, non-repetitive finger gaits, and the need to indirectly control unactuated objects. Further adapting a successful manipulation skill to new objects with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Yunbo Zhang , Alexander Clegg , Sehoon Ha , Greg Turk , Yuting Ye

We present DexUMI - a data collection and policy learning framework that uses the human hand as the natural interface to transfer dexterous manipulation skills to various robot hands. DexUMI includes hardware and software adaptations to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Mengda Xu , Han Zhang , Yifan Hou , Zhenjia Xu , Linxi Fan , Manuela Veloso , Shuran Song

Multi-fingered hands are emerging as powerful platforms for performing fine manipulation tasks, including tool use. However, environmental perturbations or execution errors can impede task performance, motivating the use of recovery…

Contact-rich manipulation has become increasingly important in robot learning. However, previous studies on robot learning datasets have focused on rigid objects and underrepresented the diversity of pressure conditions for real-world…

We introduce DexDiffuser, a novel dexterous grasping method that generates, evaluates, and refines grasps on partial object point clouds. DexDiffuser includes the conditional diffusion-based grasp sampler DexSampler and the dexterous grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Zehang Weng , Haofei Lu , Danica Kragic , Jens Lundell

Recent work has demonstrated the potential of diffusion models in robot bimanual skill learning. However, existing methods ignore the learning of posture-dependent task features, which are crucial for adapting dual-arm configurations to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zhuo Li , Junjia Liu , Dianxi Li , Tao Teng , Miao Li , Sylvain Calinon , Darwin Caldwell , Fei Chen

We propose DemoDiffusion, a simple method for enabling robots to perform manipulation tasks by imitating a single human demonstration, without requiring task-specific training or paired human-robot data. Our approach is based on two…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Sungjae Park , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Shubham Tulsiani

While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated promising generalization capabilities in robotic manipulation, deploying them on specific and complex downstream tasks still demands effective post-training. In parallel,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yifan Han , Zhongxi Chen , Yuxuan Zhao , Congsheng Xu , Yanming Shao , Yichuan Peng , Yao Mu , Wenzhao Lian

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

Contact-rich dexterous manipulation with multi-finger hands remains an open challenge in robotics because task success depends on multi-point contacts that continuously evolve and are highly sensitive to object geometry, frictional…

We explore learning-based approaches for feedback control of a dexterous five-finger hand performing non-prehensile manipulation. First, we learn local controllers that are able to perform the task starting at a predefined initial state.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Vikash Kumar , Abhishek Gupta , Emanuel Todorov , Sergey Levine

Reinforcement learning is a promising method for robotic grasping as it can learn effective reaching and grasping policies in difficult scenarios. However, achieving human-like manipulation capabilities with sophisticated robotic hands is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Martin Schuck , Jan Brüdigam , Alexandre Capone , Stefan Sosnowski , Sandra Hirche

In contact-rich tasks, like dexterous manipulation, the hybrid nature of making and breaking contact creates challenges for model representation and control. For example, choosing and sequencing contact locations for in-hand manipulation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Wanxin Jin , Michael Posa

Tactile and visual perception are both crucial for humans to perform fine-grained interactions with their environment. Developing similar multi-modal sensing capabilities for robots can significantly enhance and expand their manipulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Binghao Huang , Yixuan Wang , Xinyi Yang , Yiyue Luo , Yunzhu Li

This paper introduces Diffusion Policy, a new way of generating robot behavior by representing a robot's visuomotor policy as a conditional denoising diffusion process. We benchmark Diffusion Policy across 12 different tasks from 4…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Cheng Chi , Zhenjia Xu , Siyuan Feng , Eric Cousineau , Yilun Du , Benjamin Burchfiel , Russ Tedrake , Shuran Song

This work focuses on the problem of in-hand manipulation and regrasping of objects with parallel grippers. We propose Dexterous Manipulation Graph (DMG) as a representation on which we define planning for in-hand manipulation and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Silvia Cruciani , Kaiyu Hang , Christian Smith , Danica Kragic