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Dexterous manipulation is a crucial yet highly complex challenge in humanoid robotics, demanding precise, adaptable, and sample-efficient learning methods. As humanoid robots are usually designed to operate in human-centric environments and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Edgar Welte , Rania Rayyes

Dexterous multi-fingered robotic hands can perform a wide range of manipulation skills, making them an appealing component for general-purpose robotic manipulators. However, such hands pose a major challenge for autonomous control, due to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Henry Zhu , Abhishek Gupta , Aravind Rajeswaran , Sergey Levine , Vikash Kumar

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

Dexterous manipulation with anthropomorphic robot hands remains a challenging problem in robotics because of the high-dimensional state and action spaces and complex contacts. Nevertheless, skillful closed-loop manipulation is required to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Malte Mosbach , Kara Moraw , Sven Behnke

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 intelligence -- the ability to perform complex interactions with multi-fingered hands -- is a pinnacle of human physical intelligence and emergent higher-order cognitive skills. However, contrary to Moravec's paradox, dexterous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Gagan Khandate

We use reinforcement learning (RL) to learn dexterous in-hand manipulation policies which can perform vision-based object reorientation on a physical Shadow Dexterous Hand. The training is performed in a simulated environment in which we…

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…

Optimizing behaviors for dexterous manipulation has been a longstanding challenge in robotics, with a variety of methods from model-based control to model-free reinforcement learning having been previously explored in literature. Perhaps…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Sridhar Pandian Arunachalam , Sneha Silwal , Ben Evans , Lerrel Pinto

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

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 in-hand manipulation is an essential skill of production and life. However, the highly stiff and mutable nature of contacts limits real-time contact detection and inference, degrading the performance of model-based methods.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Yongpeng Jiang , Mingrui Yu , Xinghao Zhu , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Xiang Li

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

Dexterous manipulation through imitation learning has gained significant attention in robotics research. The collection of high-quality expert data holds paramount importance when using imitation learning. The existing approaches for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Dehao Wei , Huazhe Xu

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

Complex and contact-rich robotic manipulation tasks, particularly those that involve multi-fingered hands and underactuated object manipulation, present a significant challenge to any control method. Methods based on reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Kelvin Xu , Zheyuan Hu , Ria Doshi , Aaron Rovinsky , Vikash Kumar , Abhishek Gupta , Sergey Levine

Dexterous multi-fingered hands are extremely versatile and provide a generic way to perform a multitude of tasks in human-centric environments. However, effectively controlling them remains challenging due to their high dimensionality and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Aravind Rajeswaran , Vikash Kumar , Abhishek Gupta , Giulia Vezzani , John Schulman , Emanuel Todorov , Sergey Levine

Achieving human-like dexterous robotic manipulation remains a central goal and a pivotal challenge in robotics. The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has allowed rapid progress in robotic manipulation. This survey summarizes the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Gaofeng Li , Ruize Wang , Peisen Xu , Qi Ye , Jiming Chen

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

Dexterous manipulation requires careful reasoning over extrinsic contacts. The prevalence of deforming tools in human environments, the use of deformable sensors, and the increasing number of soft robots yields a need for approaches that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Mark Van der Merwe , Miquel Oller , Dmitry Berenson , Nima Fazeli
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