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Human demonstration videos are a widely available data source for robot learning and an intuitive user interface for expressing desired behavior. However, directly extracting reusable robot manipulation skills from unstructured human videos…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Mengda Xu , Zhenjia Xu , Cheng Chi , Manuela Veloso , Shuran Song

Learning manipulation skills from human demonstration videos presents a promising yet challenging problem, primarily due to the significant embodiment gap between human body and robot manipulators. Existing methods rely on paired datasets…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 YuHang Tang , Yixuan Lou , Pengfei Han , Haoming Song , Xinyi Ye , Dong Wang , Bin Zhao

Learning robotic manipulation from human videos is a promising solution to the data bottleneck in robotics, but the distribution shift between humans and robots remains a critical challenge. Existing approaches often produce entangled…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Zhiyuan Li , Wenyan Yang , Wenshuai Zhao , Yue Ma , Yuanpeng Tu , Pekka Marttinen , Joni Pajarinen

Humanoid robots are envisioned as embodied intelligent agents capable of performing a wide range of human-level loco-manipulation tasks, particularly in scenarios requiring strenuous and repetitive labor. However, learning these skills is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Junjia Liu , Zhuo Li , Minghao Yu , Zhipeng Dong , Sylvain Calinon , Darwin Caldwell , Fei Chen

Data scarcity remains a fundamental challenge in robot learning. While human demonstrations benefit from abundant motion capture data and vast internet resources, robotic manipulation suffers from limited training examples. To bridge this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xiao Hu , Qi Yin , Yangming Shi , Yang Ye

We study the problem of cross-embodiment inverse reinforcement learning, where we wish to learn a reward function from video demonstrations in one or more embodiments and then transfer the learned reward to a different embodiment (e.g.,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Connor Mattson , Anurag Aribandi , Daniel S. Brown

We investigate the visual cross-embodiment imitation setting, in which agents learn policies from videos of other agents (such as humans) demonstrating the same task, but with stark differences in their embodiments -- shape, actions,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Kevin Zakka , Andy Zeng , Pete Florence , Jonathan Tompson , Jeannette Bohg , Debidatta Dwibedi

Human videos offer a scalable way to train robot manipulation policies, but lack the action labels needed by standard imitation learning algorithms. Existing cross-embodiment approaches try to map human motion to robot actions, but often…

In order for a robot to be a generalist that can perform a wide range of jobs, it must be able to acquire a wide variety of skills quickly and efficiently in complex unstructured environments. High-capacity models such as deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Chelsea Finn , Tianhe Yu , Tianhao Zhang , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

Imitation can allow us to quickly gain an understanding of a new task. Through a demonstration, we can gain direct knowledge about which actions need to be performed and which goals they have. In this paper, we introduce a new approach to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Josua Spisak , Matthias Kerzel , Stefan Wermter

Imitating tool manipulation from human videos offers an intuitive approach to teaching robots, while also providing a promising and scalable alternative to labor-intensive teleoperation data collection for visuomotor policy learning. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Chao Tang , Anxing Xiao , Yuhong Deng , Tianrun Hu , Wenlong Dong , Hanbo Zhang , David Hsu , Hong Zhang

Key challenges for the deployment of reinforcement learning (RL) agents in the real world are the discovery, representation and reuse of skills in the absence of a reward function. To this end, we propose a novel approach to learn a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Oier Mees , Markus Merklinger , Gabriel Kalweit , Wolfram Burgard

Robot imitation learning is often hindered by the high cost of collecting large-scale, real-world data. This challenge is especially significant for low-cost robots designed for home use, as they must be both user-friendly and affordable.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Tao Zhang , Song Xia , Ye Wang , Qin Jin

Cross-embodiment learning seeks to build generalist robots that operate across diverse morphologies, but differences in action spaces and kinematics hinder data sharing and policy transfer. This raises a central question: Is there any…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zihao He , Bo Ai , Tongzhou Mu , Yulin Liu , Weikang Wan , Jiawei Fu , Yilun Du , Henrik I. Christensen , Hao Su

Acquiring physically plausible motor skills across diverse and unconventional morphologies-including humanoid robots, quadrupeds, and animals-is essential for advancing character simulation and robotics. Traditional methods, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Mert Albaba , Chenhao Li , Markos Diomataris , Omid Taheri , Andreas Krause , Michael Black

Cross-embodiment video generation aims to transfer motions across different humanoid embodiments, such as human-to-robot and robot-to-robot, enabling scalable data generation for embodied intelligence. A major challenge in this setting is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yiren Song , Xiyao Deng , Pei Yang , Yihan Wang , Mike Zheng Shou

We propose a self-supervised approach for learning representations and robotic behaviors entirely from unlabeled videos recorded from multiple viewpoints, and study how this representation can be used in two robotic imitation settings:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Pierre Sermanet , Corey Lynch , Yevgen Chebotar , Jasmine Hsu , Eric Jang , Stefan Schaal , Sergey Levine

In embodied intelligence, the embodiment gap between robotic and human hands brings significant challenges for learning from human demonstrations. Although some studies have attempted to bridge this gap using reinforcement learning, they…

The scale and diversity of demonstration data required for imitation learning is a significant challenge. We present EgoMimic, a full-stack framework which scales manipulation via human embodiment data, specifically egocentric human videos…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Simar Kareer , Dhruv Patel , Ryan Punamiya , Pranay Mathur , Shuo Cheng , Chen Wang , Judy Hoffman , Danfei Xu

Humans and animals are capable of learning a new behavior by observing others perform the skill just once. We consider the problem of allowing a robot to do the same -- learning from a raw video pixels of a human, even when there is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Tianhe Yu , Chelsea Finn , Annie Xie , Sudeep Dasari , Tianhao Zhang , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine
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