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Dexterous in-hand manipulation is a unique and valuable human skill requiring sophisticated sensorimotor interaction with the environment while respecting stability constraints. Satisfying these constraints with generated motions is…

Bimanual object manipulation involves multiple visuo-haptic sensory feedbacks arising from the interaction with the environment that are managed from the central nervous system and consequently translated in motor commands. Kinematic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Elisa Galofaro , Erika D'Antonio , Nicola Lotti , Fabrizio Patane' , Maura Casadio , Lorenzo Masia

Humans naturally exhibit bilateral symmetry in their gross manipulation skills, effortlessly mirroring simple actions between left and right hands. Bimanual robots-which also feature bilateral symmetry-should similarly exploit this property…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zechu Li , Yufeng Jin , Daniel Ordonez Apraez , Claudio Semini , Puze Liu , Georgia Chalvatzaki

Recent advancements in teleoperation systems have enabled high-quality data collection for robotic manipulators, showing impressive results in learning manipulation at scale. This progress suggests that extending these capabilities to…

Training agents to autonomously learn how to use anthropomorphic robotic hands has the potential to lead to systems capable of performing a multitude of complex manipulation tasks in unstructured and uncertain environments. In this work, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Henry Charlesworth , Giovanni Montana

In this work, we aim to learn dexterous manipulation of deformable objects using multi-fingered hands. Reinforcement learning approaches for dexterous rigid object manipulation would struggle in this setting due to the complexity of physics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Sizhe Li , Zhiao Huang , Tao Chen , Tao Du , Hao Su , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

Humans naturally perform bimanual skills to handle large and heavy objects. To enhance robots' object manipulation capabilities, generating effective bimanual grasp poses is essential. Nevertheless, bimanual grasp synthesis for dexterous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yanming Shao , Chenxi Xiao

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

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…

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

Bimanual dexterous manipulation remains significant challenges in robotics due to the high DoFs of each hand and their coordination. Existing single-hand manipulation techniques often leverage human demonstrations to guide RL methods but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Zhengnan Sun , Zhaotai Shi , Jiayin Chen , Qingtao Liu , Yu Cui , Qi Ye , Jiming Chen

Dexterous in-hand manipulation is a peculiar and useful human skill. This ability requires the coordination of many senses and hand motion to adhere to many constraints. These constraints vary and can be influenced by the object…

While significant progress has been made on understanding hand-object interactions in computer vision, it is still very challenging for robots to perform complex dexterous manipulation. In this paper, we propose a new platform and pipeline…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Yuzhe Qin , Yueh-Hua Wu , Shaowei Liu , Hanwen Jiang , Ruihan Yang , Yang Fu , Xiaolong Wang

Robotic dexterous hands are central to contact-rich manipulation, with rapid progress driven by advances in hardware, sensing, control, simulation, and data generation. However, existing studies are often developed under different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Weiguang Zhao , Tian Liang , Xihao Guo , Rui Zhang , Irwin King , Kaizhu Huang

Reinforcement learning (RL) and sim-to-real transfer have advanced rigid-object manipulation. However, policies remain brittle for articulated mechanisms due to contact-rich dynamics that require both stable grasping and simultaneous free…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Soofiyan Atar , Daniel Huang , Florian Richter , Michael Yip

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

Teaching a multi-fingered dexterous robot to grasp objects in the real world has been a challenging problem due to its high dimensional state and action space. We propose a robot-learning system that can take a small number of human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Zoey Qiuyu Chen , Karl Van Wyk , Yu-Wei Chao , Wei Yang , Arsalan Mousavian , Abhishek Gupta , Dieter Fox

Human dexterity is an invaluable capability for precise manipulation of objects in complex tasks. The capability of robots to similarly grasp and perform in-hand manipulation of objects is critical for their use in the ever changing human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Abraham Itzhak Weinberg , Alon Shirizly , Osher Azulay , Avishai Sintov

Reinforcement learning and sim-to-real transfer have made significant progress in dexterous manipulation. However, progress remains limited by the difficulty of simulating complex contact dynamics and multisensory signals, especially…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Elvis Hsieh , Wen-Han Hsieh , Yen-Jen Wang , Toru Lin , Jitendra Malik , Koushil Sreenath , Haozhi Qi

Scaling real robot data is a key bottleneck in imitation learning, leading to the use of auxiliary data for policy training. While other aspects of robotic manipulation such as image or language understanding may be learned from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Chengbo Yuan , Rui Zhou , Mengzhen Liu , Yingdong Hu , Shengjie Wang , Li Yi , Chuan Wen , Shanghang Zhang , Yang Gao