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The strong performance of large vision-language models (VLMs) trained with reinforcement learning (RL) has motivated similar approaches for fine-tuning vision-language-action (VLA) models in robotics. Many recent works fine-tune VLAs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Andrew Choi , Xinjie Wang , Zhizhong Su , Wei Xu

Rendering 3D human appearance from a single image in real-time is crucial for achieving holographic communication and immersive VR/AR. Existing methods either rely on multi-camera setups or are constrained to offline operations. In this…

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Neural reconstruction models for autonomous driving simulation have made significant strides in recent years, with dynamic models becoming increasingly prevalent. However, these models are typically limited to handling in-domain objects…

Quest2ROS2 is an open-source ROS2 framework for bi-manual teleoperation designed to scale robot data collection. Extending Quest2ROS, it overcomes workspace limitations via relative motion-based control, calculating robot movement from VR…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jialong Li , Zhenguo Wang , Tianci Wang , Maj Stenmark , Volker Krueger

We present a system for applying sim2real approaches to "in the wild" scenes with realistic visuals, and to policies which rely on active perception using RGB cameras. Given a short video of a static scene collected using a generic phone,…

Vision-language-action (VLA) models present a promising paradigm by training policies directly on real robot datasets like Open X-Embodiment. However, the high cost of real-world data collection hinders further data scaling, thereby…

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Simulation-based data synthesis has emerged as a powerful paradigm for advancing real-world robotic manipulation. Yet existing datasets remain insufficient for robust bimanual manipulation due to (1) the lack of scalable task generation…

With the advent of large language models and large-scale robotic datasets, there has been tremendous progress in high-level decision-making for object manipulation. These generic models are able to interpret complex tasks using language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Wentao Yuan , Adithyavairavan Murali , Arsalan Mousavian , Dieter Fox

Current challenges in developing foundational models for volumetric imaging data, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), stem from the computational complexity of training state-of-the-art architectures in high dimensions and curating…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-14 Ulzee An , Moonseong Jeong , Simon A. Lee , Aditya Gorla , Yuzhe Yang , Sriram Sankararaman

In this work, we study how to build a robotic system that can solve multiple 3D manipulation tasks given language instructions. To be useful in industrial and household domains, such a system should be capable of learning new tasks with few…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Ankit Goyal , Valts Blukis , Jie Xu , Yijie Guo , Yu-Wei Chao , Dieter Fox

Recent advances in robotics have been largely driven by imitation learning, which depends critically on large-scale, high-quality demonstration data. However, collecting such data remains a significant challenge-particularly for mobile…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yilin Mei , Peng Qiu , Wei Zhang , WenChao Zhang , Wenjie Song

Recent advancements in foundational models, such as large language models and world models, have greatly enhanced the capabilities of robotics, enabling robots to autonomously perform complex tasks. However, acquiring large-scale,…

Object pushing presents a key non-prehensile manipulation problem that is illustrative of more complex robotic manipulation tasks. While deep reinforcement learning (RL) methods have demonstrated impressive learning capabilities using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Max Yang , Yijiong Lin , Alex Church , John Lloyd , Dandan Zhang , David A. W. Barton , Nathan F. Lepora

Teleoperation serves as a powerful method for collecting on-robot data essential for robot learning from demonstrations. The intuitiveness and ease of use of the teleoperation system are crucial for ensuring high-quality, diverse, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xuxin Cheng , Jialong Li , Shiqi Yang , Ge Yang , Xiaolong Wang

Humanoid robots promise transformative capabilities for industrial and service applications. While recent advances in Reinforcement Learning (RL) yield impressive results in locomotion, manipulation, and navigation, the proposed methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Feiyang Wu , Xavier Nal , Jaehwi Jang , Wei Zhu , Zhaoyuan Gu , Anqi Wu , Ye Zhao

The acquisition of high-quality, action-aligned demonstration data remains a fundamental bottleneck in scaling foundation models for dexterous robot manipulation. Although robot-free human demonstrations (e.g., the UMI paradigm) offer a…

Robots working in unstructured environments must be capable of sensing and interpreting their surroundings. One of the main obstacles of deep-learning-based models in the field of robotics is the lack of domain-specific labeled data for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Dániel Horváth , Gábor Erdős , Zoltán Istenes , Tomáš Horváth , Sándor Földi

Robotics learning highly relies on human expertise and efforts, such as demonstrations, design of reward functions in reinforcement learning, performance evaluation using human feedback, etc. However, reliance on human assistance can lead…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yiwen Chen , Yuyao Ye , Ziyi Chen , Chuheng Zhang , Marcelo H. Ang

To solve tasks in complex environments, robots need to learn from experience. Deep reinforcement learning is a common approach to robot learning but requires a large amount of trial and error to learn, limiting its deployment in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Philipp Wu , Alejandro Escontrela , Danijar Hafner , Ken Goldberg , Pieter Abbeel