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We explore a novel method to perceive and manipulate 3D articulated objects that generalizes to enable a robot to articulate unseen classes of objects. We propose a vision-based system that learns to predict the potential motions of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Ben Eisner , Harry Zhang , David Held

Indoor scene synthesis underpins embodied AI, robotic manipulation, and simulation-based policy evaluation, where a useful scene must specify not only what the environment looks like, but also how its objects are structured. Existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Puyi Wang , Yuhao Wang , Linjie Li , Zhengyuan Yang , Kevin Qinghong Lin , Yangguang Li , Yu Cheng

Simulation is a central tool for scalable robot learning, but its effectiveness depends on the quality of object assets. While modern 3D datasets provide rich geometric and kinematic representations, they typically lack the physical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Anh-Quan Pham

With the explosive growth of 3D content creation, there is an increasing demand for automatically converting static 3D models into articulation-ready versions that support realistic animation. Traditional approaches rely heavily on manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Chaoyue Song , Jianfeng Zhang , Xiu Li , Fan Yang , Yiwen Chen , Zhongcong Xu , Jun Hao Liew , Xiaoyang Guo , Fayao Liu , Jiashi Feng , Guosheng Lin

This paper presents ArticuBot, in which a single learned policy enables a robotics system to open diverse categories of unseen articulated objects in the real world. This task has long been challenging for robotics due to the large…

Animatable 3D assets, defined as geometry equipped with an articulated skeleton and skinning weights, are fundamental to interactive graphics, embodied agents, and animation production. While recent 3D generative models can synthesize…

Constructing a physically realistic and accurately scaled simulated 3D world is crucial for the training and evaluation of embodied intelligence tasks. The diversity, realism, low cost accessibility and affordability of 3D data assets are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xinjie Wang , Liu Liu , Yu Cao , Ruiqi Wu , Wenkang Qin , Dehui Wang , Wei Sui , Zhizhong Su

Simulating object dynamics from real-world perception shows great promise for digital twins and robotic manipulation but often demands labor-intensive measurements and expertise. We present a fully automated Real2Sim pipeline that generates…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Nicholas Pfaff , Evelyn Fu , Jeremy Binagia , Phillip Isola , Russ Tedrake

We introduce Particulate, a feed-forward model that, given a 3D mesh of an object, infers its articulations, including its 3D parts, their kinematic structure, and the motion constraints. The model is based on a transformer network, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Ruining Li , Yuxin Yao , Chuanxia Zheng , Christian Rupprecht , Joan Lasenby , Shangzhe Wu , Andrea Vedaldi

This paper presents a novel framework for modeling and conditional generation of 3D articulated objects. Troubled by flexibility-quality tradeoffs, existing methods are often limited to using predefined structures or retrieving shapes from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Jiayi Su , Youhe Feng , Zheng Li , Jinhua Song , Yangfan He , Botao Ren , Botian Xu

As autonomous robots interact and navigate around real-world environments such as homes, it is useful to reliably identify and manipulate articulated objects, such as doors and cabinets. Many prior works in object articulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Vicky Zeng , Tabitha Edith Lee , Jacky Liang , Oliver Kroemer

Articulated 3D objects play a vital role in realistic simulation and embodied robotics, yet manually constructing such assets remains costly and difficult to scale. In this paper, we present UniArt, a diffusion-based framework that directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Bu Jin , Weize Li , Songen Gu , Yupeng Zheng , Yuhang Zheng , Zhengyi Zhou , Yao Yao

Human life is populated with articulated objects. A comprehensive understanding of articulated objects, namely appearance, structure, physics property, and semantics, will benefit many research communities. As current articulated object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Liu Liu , Wenqiang Xu , Haoyuan Fu , Sucheng Qian , Yang Han , Cewu Lu

Simulation has become a key tool for training and evaluating home robots at scale, yet existing environments fail to capture the diversity and physical complexity of real indoor spaces. Current scene synthesis methods produce sparsely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Nicholas Pfaff , Thomas Cohn , Sergey Zakharov , Rick Cory , Russ Tedrake

We present Artiverse, a diverse and physically grounded dataset of high-quality articulated 3D objects designed for realistic functional modeling and simulation. Artiverse contains 5.4K human-authored objects across a broad range of 88…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Denys Iliash , Jiayi Liu , Egor Fokin , Qirui Wu , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri , Manolis Savva , Angel X. Chang

3D articulated objects modeling has long been a challenging problem, since it requires to capture both accurate surface geometries and semantically meaningful and spatially precise structures, parts, and joints. Existing methods heavily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Xiaowen Qiu , Jincheng Yang , Yian Wang , Zhehuan Chen , Yufei Wang , Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Zhou Xian , Chuang Gan

Building home assistant robots has long been a pursuit for vision and robotics researchers. To achieve this task, a simulated environment with physically realistic simulation, sufficient articulated objects, and transferability to the real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Fanbo Xiang , Yuzhe Qin , Kaichun Mo , Yikuan Xia , Hao Zhu , Fangchen Liu , Minghua Liu , Hanxiao Jiang , Yifu Yuan , He Wang , Li Yi , Angel X. Chang , Leonidas J. Guibas , Hao Su

Robot learning increasingly relies on simulation to advance complex ability such as dexterous manipulations and precise interactions, necessitating high-quality digital assets to bridge the sim-to-real gap. However, existing open-source…

Articulated objects are commonly found in daily life. It is essential that robots can exhibit robust perception and manipulation skills for articulated objects in real-world robotic applications. However, existing methods for articulated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Junbo Wang , Wenhai Liu , Qiaojun Yu , Yang You , Liu Liu , Weiming Wang , Cewu Lu

Parametric Computer-Aided Design (CAD) of articulated assemblies is essential for product development, yet generating these multi-part, movable models from high-level descriptions remains unexplored. To address this, we propose ArtiCAD, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yuan Shui , Yandong Guan , Zhanwei Zhang , Juncheng Hu , Jing Zhang , Dong Xu , Qian Yu