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Opening heavy, self closing doors, especially those that require pulling remains a long standing challenge in robotics. Humans naturally employ both arms in a dexterous manner, rotating the handle, widening the gap, holding the door,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Shangqun Yu , Matthew En , Daniel Wu , Sangjun Park , Ziyi Zhou , Seyed Fakoorian , Donghyun Kim

Intelligent agents must be able to think fast and slow to perform elaborate manipulation tasks. Reinforcement Learning (RL) has led to many promising results on a range of challenging decision-making tasks. However, in real-world robotics,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Maximilian Ulmer , Elie Aljalbout , Sascha Schwarz , Sami Haddadin

Sequence modeling approaches have shown promising results in robot imitation learning. Recently, diffusion models have been adopted for behavioral cloning in a sequence modeling fashion, benefiting from their exceptional capabilities in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Xiang Li , Varun Belagali , Jinghuan Shang , Michael S. Ryoo

Scaling general-purpose manipulation to new robot embodiments remains challenging: each platform typically needs large, homogeneous demonstrations, and end-to-end pixel-to-action pipelines may degenerate under background and viewpoint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yao Feng , Hengkai Tan , Xinyi Mao , Chendong Xiang , Guodong Liu , Shuhe Huang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Generating robot motion that fulfills multiple tasks simultaneously is challenging due to the geometric constraints imposed by the robot. In this paper, we propose to solve multi-task problems through learning structured policies from human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-12 M. Asif Rana , Anqi Li , Dieter Fox , Sonia Chernova , Byron Boots , Nathan Ratliff

Motion retargeting for specific robot from existing motion datasets is one critical step in transferring motion patterns from human behaviors to and across various robots. However, inconsistencies in topological structure, geometrical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Zhefeng Cao , Ben Liu , Sen Li , Wei Zhang , Hua Chen

Most object manipulation strategies for robots are based on the assumption that the object is rigid (i.e., with fixed geometry) and the goal's details have been fully specified (e.g., the exact target pose). However, there are many tasks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Shengzeng Huo , Fangyuan Wang , Luyin Hu , Peng Zhou , Jihong Zhu , Hesheng Wang , David Navarro-Alarcon

Multi-embodiment grasping focuses on developing approaches that exhibit generalist behavior across diverse gripper designs. Existing methods often learn the kinematic structure of the robot implicitly and face challenges due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Roman Freiberg , Alexander Qualmann , Ngo Anh Vien , Gerhard Neumann

For robots operating in the real world, it is desirable to learn reusable behaviours that can effectively be transferred and adapted to numerous tasks and scenarios. We propose an approach to learn abstract motor skills from data using a…

Diffusion policies (DP) have recently shown great promise for generating actions in robotic manipulation. However, existing approaches often rely on global instructions to produce short-term control signals, which can result in misalignment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zhihao Gu , Ming Yang , Difan Zou , Dong Xu

Embodied AI agents require a fine-grained understanding of the physical world mediated through visual and language inputs. Such capabilities are difficult to learn solely from task-specific data. This has led to the emergence of pre-trained…

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We introduce UMI-on-Air, a framework for embodiment-aware deployment of embodiment-agnostic manipulation policies. Our approach leverages diverse, unconstrained human demonstrations collected with a handheld gripper (UMI) to train…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Harsh Gupta , Xiaofeng Guo , Huy Ha , Chuer Pan , Muqing Cao , Dongjae Lee , Sebastian Scherer , Shuran Song , Guanya Shi

This paper introduces a novel deep-learning approach for human-to-robot motion retargeting, enabling robots to mimic human poses accurately. Contrary to prior deep-learning-based works, our method does not require paired human-to-robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yashuai Yan , Esteve Valls Mascaro , Dongheui Lee

Visuomotor policies trained via behavior cloning are vulnerable to covariate shift, where small deviations from expert trajectories can compound into failure. Common strategies to mitigate this issue involve expanding the training…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Zhanyi Sun , Shuran Song

Humans and many animals exhibit a robust capability to manipulate diverse objects, often directly with their bodies and sometimes indirectly with tools. Such flexibility is likely enabled by the fundamental consistency in underlying physics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Yuki Noguchi , Tatsuya Matsushima , Yutaka Matsuo , Shixiang Shane Gu

Training manipulation policies for humanoid robots with diverse data enhances their robustness and generalization across tasks and platforms. However, learning solely from robot demonstrations is labor-intensive, requiring expensive…

Recent studies have shown the great potential of diffusion models in improving reinforcement learning (RL) by modeling complex policies, expressing a high degree of multi-modality, and efficiently handling high-dimensional continuous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Huiyun Jiang , Zhuang Yang

The goal of general-purpose robotics is to create agents that can seamlessly adapt to and operate in diverse, unstructured human environments. Imitation learning has become a key paradigm for robotic manipulation, yet collecting large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Liu Liu , Xiaofeng Wang , Guosheng Zhao , Keyu Li , Wenkang Qin , Jiagang Zhu , Jiaxiong Qiu , Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang , Zhizhong Su

Classical paradigms for distributed learning, such as federated or decentralized gradient descent, employ consensus mechanisms to enforce homogeneity among agents. While these strategies have proven effective in i.i.d. scenarios, they can…

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