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Object manipulation is a basic element in everyday human lives. Robotic manipulation has progressed from maneuvering single-rigid-body objects with firm grasping to maneuvering soft objects and handling contact-rich actions. Meanwhile,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Leidi Zhao , Raheem Lawhorn , Siddharth Patil , Steve Susanibar , Lu Lu , Cong Wang , Bo Ouyang

Articulated objects are ubiquitous in daily life. In this paper, we present DexSim2Real$^{2}$, a novel framework for goal-conditioned articulated object manipulation. The core of our framework is constructing an explicit world model of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Taoran Jiang , Yixuan Guan , Liqian Ma , Jing Xu , Jiaojiao Meng , Weihang Chen , Zecui Zeng , Lusong Li , Dan Wu , Rui Chen

We aim to enable robot to learn object manipulation by imitation. Given external observations of demonstrations on object manipulations, we believe that two underlying problems to address in learning by imitation is 1) segment a given…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Zhen Zeng , Benjamin Kuipers

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are prone to compounding errors in dexterous manipulation, where high-dimensional action spaces and contact-rich dynamics amplify small policy deviations over long horizons. While Interactive Imitation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Zhuohang Li , Liqun Huang , Wei Xu , Zhengming Zhu , Nie Lin , Xiao Ma , Xinjun Sheng , Ruoshi Wen

Dual-arm manipulation is an area of growing interest in the robotics community. Enabling robots to perform tasks that require the coordinated use of two arms, is essential for complex manipulation tasks such as handling large objects,…

Precision is a crucial performance indicator for robot arms, as high precision manipulation allows for a wider range of applications. Traditional methods for improving robot arm precision rely on error compensation. However, these methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Qu Weiming , Liu Tianlin , Luo Dingsheng

Deep learning and reinforcement learning methods have recently been used to solve a variety of problems in continuous control domains. An obvious application of these techniques is dexterous manipulation tasks in robotics which are…

Dexterous manipulation is a cornerstone capability for robotic systems aiming to interact with the physical world in a human-like manner. Although vision-based methods have advanced rapidly, tactile sensing remains crucial for fine-grained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Liang Heng , Haoran Geng , Kaifeng Zhang , Pieter Abbeel , Jitendra Malik

This study introduces a novel language-guided diffusion-based learning framework, DexTOG, aimed at advancing the field of task-oriented grasping (TOG) with dexterous hands. Unlike existing methods that mainly focus on 2-finger grippers,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jieyi Zhang , Wenqiang Xu , Zhenjun Yu , Pengfei Xie , Tutian Tang , Cewu Lu

Grasping is a fundamental capability for robots to interact with the physical world. Humans, equipped with two hands, autonomously select appropriate grasp strategies based on the shape, size, and weight of objects, enabling robust grasping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Sizhe Yang , Yiman Xie , Zhixuan Liang , Yang Tian , Jia Zeng , Dahua Lin , Jiangmiao Pang

The human ability to learn, generalize, and control complex manipulation tasks through multi-modality feedback suggests a unique capability, which we refer to as dexterity intelligence. Understanding and assessing this intelligence is a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Fanlong Zeng , Wensheng Gan , Zezheng Huai , Lichao Sun , Hechang Chen , Yongheng Wang , Ning Liu , Philip S. Yu

Quadrupedal robots are skillful at locomotion tasks while lacking manipulation skills, not to mention dexterous manipulation abilities. Inspired by the animal behavior and the duality between multi-legged locomotion and multi-fingered…

Bimanual manipulation is a fundamental robotic skill that requires continuous and precise coordination between two arms. While imitation learning (IL) is the dominant paradigm for acquiring this capability, existing approaches, whether…

A human-shaped robotic hand offers unparalleled versatility and fine motor skills, enabling it to perform a broad spectrum of tasks with precision, power and robustness. Across the paleontological record and animal kingdom we see a wide…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Kieran Gilday , Chapa Sirithunge , Fumiya Iida , Josie Hughes

This work presents DemoBot, a learning framework that enables a dual-arm, multi-finger robotic system to acquire complex manipulation skills from a single unannotated RGB-D video demonstration. The method extracts structured motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yucheng Xu , Xiaofeng Mao , Elle Miller , Xinyu Yi , Yang Li , Zhibin Li , Robert B. Fisher

This paper explores the possibility of improving bilateral robot manipulation task performance through optimizing the robot morphology and configuration of the system through motion. To optimize the design for different scenarios, we select…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Lasitha Wijayarathne , Juan Vallejo , Anthony Barnum , Zachary Cloutier , Frank L. Hammond

Achieving human-like dexterous manipulation remains a crucial area of research in robotics. Current research focuses on improving the success rate of pick-and-place tasks. Compared with pick-and-place, throwing-catching behavior has the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Fengbo Lan , Shengjie Wang , Yunzhe Zhang , Haotian Xu , Oluwatosin Oseni , Ziye Zhang , Yang Gao , Tao Zhang

Functional grasping with dexterous robotic hands is a key capability for enabling tool use and complex manipulation, yet progress has been constrained by two persistent bottlenecks: the scarcity of large-scale datasets and the absence of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Xingyi He , Adhitya Polavaram , Yunhao Cao , Om Deshmukh , Tianrui Wang , Xiaowei Zhou , Kuan Fang

Non-prehensile manipulation is challenging due to complex contact interactions between objects, the environment, and robots. Model-based approaches can efficiently generate complex trajectories of robots and objects under contact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yuki Shirai , Kei Ota , Devesh K. Jha , Diego Romeres

Data scarcity fundamentally limits the generalization of bimanual dexterous manipulation, as real-world data collection for dexterous hands is expensive and labor-intensive. Human manipulation videos, as a direct carrier of manipulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Juncheng Mu , Sizhe Yang , Yiming Bao , Hojin Bae , Tianming Wei , Linning Xu , Boyi Li , Huazhe Xu , Jiangmiao Pang
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