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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

To enable general-purpose robots, we will require the robot to operate daily articulated objects as humans do. Current robot manipulation has heavily relied on using a parallel gripper, which restricts the robot to a limited set of objects.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Chen Bao , Helin Xu , Yuzhe Qin , Xiaolong Wang

Dexterous grasping in the real world presents a fundamental and significant challenge for robot learning. The ability to employ affordance-aware poses to grasp objects with diverse geometries and properties in arbitrary scenarios is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Dongchi Huang , Tianle Zhang , Yihang Li , Ling Zhao , Jiayi Li , Zhirui Fang , Chunhe Xia , Xiaodong He

Object handover is an important skill that we use daily when interacting with other humans. To deploy robots in collaborative setting, like houses, being able to receive and handing over objects safely and efficiently becomes a crucial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Daniel Frau-Alfaro , Julio Castaño-Amoros , Santiago Puente , Pablo Gil , Roberto Calandra

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…

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 in-hand manipulation for a multi-fingered anthropomorphic hand is extremely difficult because of the high-dimensional state and action spaces, rich contact patterns between the fingers and objects. Even though deep reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Yongkang Luo , Wanyi Li , Peng Wang , Haonan Duan , Wei Wei , Jia Sun

Dexterous multi-fingered hands can accomplish fine manipulation behaviors that are infeasible with simple robotic grippers. However, sophisticated multi-fingered hands are often expensive and fragile. Low-cost soft hands offer an appealing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Abhishek Gupta , Clemens Eppner , Sergey Levine , Pieter Abbeel

Dexterous hands enable concurrent prehensile and nonprehensile manipulation, such as holding one object while interacting with another, a capability essential for everyday tasks yet underexplored in robotics. Learning such long-horizon,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Hao Jiang , Yue Wu , Yue Wang , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Daniel Seita

Dexterous robot hands offer rich opportunities for multifunctional manipulation, where a robot must execute multiple skills in sequence while maintaining control over previously grasped objects. Most prior work in dexterous manipulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ethan Foong , Yunshuang Li , Hao Jiang , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Daniel Seita

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

Dexterous robotic hands are essential for performing complex manipulation tasks, yet remain difficult to train due to the challenges of demonstration collection and high-dimensional control. While reinforcement learning (RL) can alleviate…

Deformable linear object (DLO) manipulation is needed in many fields. Previous research on deformable linear object (DLO) manipulation has primarily involved parallel jaw gripper manipulation with fixed grasping positions. However, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Sun Zhaole , Jihong Zhu , Robert B. Fisher

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

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

Reinforcement learning (RL) holds great promise for enabling autonomous acquisition of complex robotic manipulation skills, but realizing this potential in real-world settings has been challenging. We present a human-in-the-loop…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Jianlan Luo , Charles Xu , Jeffrey Wu , Sergey Levine

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

Most research on deformable linear object (DLO) manipulation assumes rigid grasping. However, beyond rigid grasping and re-grasping, in-hand following is also an essential skill that humans use to dexterously manipulate DLOs, which requires…

Imitation learning from human hand motion data presents a promising avenue for imbuing robots with human-like dexterity in real-world manipulation tasks. Despite this potential, substantial challenges persist, particularly with the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Chen Wang , Haochen Shi , Weizhuo Wang , Ruohan Zhang , Li Fei-Fei , C. Karen Liu

Robotic dexterous in-hand manipulation, where multiple fingers dynamically make and break contact, represents a step toward human-like dexterity in real-world robotic applications. Unlike learning-based approaches that rely on large-scale…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Yongpeng Jiang , Mingrui Yu , Xinghao Zhu , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Xiang Li