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Autonomous robots operating in open and changing environments cannot always rely on predefined inputs, outputs, and action routines. Although existing learning methods enable robots to improve their performance through environmental…

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A particular type of assistive robots designed for physical interaction with objects could play an important role assisting with mobility and fall prevention in healthcare facilities. Autonomous mobile manipulation presents a hurdle prior…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Roya Sabbagh Novin , Amir Yazdani , Andrew Merryweather , Tucker Hermans

One of the central challenges preventing robots from acquiring complex manipulation skills is the prohibitive cost of collecting large-scale robot demonstrations. In contrast, humans are able to learn efficiently by watching others interact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Changhe Chen , Quantao Yang , Xiaohao Xu , Nima Fazeli , Olov Andersson

Modeling generalized robot control policies poses ongoing challenges for language-guided robot manipulation tasks. Existing methods often struggle to efficiently utilize cross-dataset resources or rely on resource-intensive vision-language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Wenhui Tan , Bei Liu , Junbo Zhang , Ruihua Song , Jianlong Fu

Despite strong results on recognition and segmentation, current 3D visual pre-training methods often underperform on robotic manipulation. We attribute this gap to two factors: the lack of state-action-state dynamics modeling and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Qiwei Liang , Boyang Cai , Minghao Lai , Sitong Zhuang , Tao Lin , Yan Qin , Yixuan Ye , Jiaming Liang , Renjing Xu

Learning visuomotor control policies in robotic systems is a fundamental problem when aiming for long-term behavioral autonomy. Recent supervised-learning-based vision and motion perception systems, however, are often separately built with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Marvin Chancán , Michael Milford

While the shortage of explicit action data limits Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, human action videos offer a scalable yet unlabeled data source. A critical challenge in utilizing large-scale human video datasets lies in transforming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Dujun Nie , Fengjiao Chen , Qi Lv , Jun Kuang , Xiaoyu Li , Xuezhi Cao , Xunliang Cai

Model-based controllers on real robots require accurate knowledge of the system dynamics to perform optimally. For complex dynamics, first-principles modeling is not sufficiently precise, and data-driven approaches can be leveraged to learn…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Weixuan Zhang , Marco Tognon , Lionel Ott , Roland Siegwart , Juan Nieto

Language-instructed robot manipulation has garnered significant interest due to the potential of learning from collected data. While the challenges in high-level perception and planning are continually addressed along the progress of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Shanshan Guo , Xiwen Liang , Junfan Lin , Yuzheng Zhuang , Liang Lin , Xiaodan Liang

Semi-supervised and unsupervised systems provide operators with invaluable support and can tremendously reduce the operators load. In the light of the necessity to process large volumes of video data and provide autonomous decisions, this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-20 Olga Isupova , Danil Kuzin , Lyudmila Mihaylova

Specifying tasks with videos is a powerful technique towards acquiring novel and general robot skills. However, reasoning over mechanics and dexterous interactions can make it challenging to scale learning contact-rich manipulation. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Bernardo Aceituno , Alberto Rodriguez , Shubham Tulsiani , Abhinav Gupta , Mustafa Mukadam

Human behavior understanding in videos is a complex, still unsolved problem and requires to accurately model motion at both the local (pixel-wise dense prediction) and global (aggregation of motion cues) levels. Current approaches based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-19 C. Spampinato , S. Palazzo , P. D'Oro , D. Giordano , M. Shah

Humanoid robots that autonomously interact with physical environments over extended horizons represent a central goal of embodied intelligence. Existing approaches rely on reference motions or task-specific rewards, tightly coupling…

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Modern robotics is gravitating toward increasingly collaborative human robot interaction. Tools such as acceleration policies can naturally support the realization of reactive, adaptive, and compliant robots. These tools require us to model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Daniel Kappler , Franziska Meier , Nathan Ratliff , Stefan Schaal

Designing reward functions that generalize beyond controlled laboratory settings remains a fundamental challenge in reinforcement learning for robotics. In open-world manipulation problems, a single task can appear in numerous variants…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Tengye Xu , Yangting Sun , Ziju Shen , Guanqi Chen , Zhen Fu , Chen yizhou , Hua Chen , Jia Pan

Enabling robots to navigate open-world environments via natural language is critical for general-purpose autonomy. Yet, Vision-Language Navigation has relied on end-to-end policies trained on expensive, embodiment-specific robot data. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jie Chen , Yuxin Cai , Yizhuo Wang , Ruofei Bai , Yuhong Cao , Jun Li , Yau Wei Yun , Guillaume Sartoretti

Despite the rapid progress of video generation models, the role of data in influencing motion is poorly understood. We present Motive (MOTIon attribution for Video gEneration), a motion-centric, gradient-based data attribution framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Xindi Wu , Despoina Paschalidou , Jun Gao , Antonio Torralba , Laura Leal-Taixé , Olga Russakovsky , Sanja Fidler , Jonathan Lorraine

We introduce PhysWorld, a framework that enables robot learning from video generation through physical world modeling. Recent video generation models can synthesize photorealistic visual demonstrations from language commands and images,…

Does multi-view demonstration truly improve robot manipulation, or merely enhance cross-view robustness? We present a systematic study quantifying the performance gains, scaling behavior, and underlying mechanisms of multi-view data for…

In order to autonomously learn wide repertoires of complex skills, robots must be able to learn from their own autonomously collected data, without human supervision. One learning signal that is always available for autonomously collected…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Frederik Ebert , Chelsea Finn , Alex X. Lee , Sergey Levine