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Legged robots are physically capable of navigating a diverse variety of environments and overcoming a wide range of obstructions. For example, in a search and rescue mission, a legged robot could climb over debris, crawl through gaps, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Annie S. Chen , Alec M. Lessing , Andy Tang , Govind Chada , Laura Smith , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

Building agents that autonomously operate mobile devices has attracted increasing attention. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show promise, most existing approaches rely on direct state-to-action mappings, which lack structured reasoning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Zhe Wu , Hongjin Lu , Junliang Xing , Changhao Zhang , Yuxuan Li , Yin Zhu , Yuhao Yang , Yuheng Jing , Kai Li , Kun Shao , Jianye Hao , Jun Wang , Yuanchun Shi

We consider the problem of learning multi-stage vision-based tasks on a real robot from a single video of a human performing the task, while leveraging demonstration data of subtasks with other objects. This problem presents a number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Tianhe Yu , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

Robot learning holds tremendous promise to unlock the full potential of flexible, general, and dexterous robot systems, as well as to address some of the deepest questions in artificial intelligence. However, bringing robot learning to the…

Humanoid robots, capable of assuming human roles in various workplaces, have become essential to embodied intelligence. However, as robots with complex physical structures, learning a control model that can operate robustly across diverse…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Sixu Lin , Guanren Qiao , Yunxin Tai , Ang Li , Kui Jia , Guiliang Liu

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has marked a significant breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence (AI), ushering in a new era of Human-centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). HAI aims to better serve human welfare and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Wenbin Ding , Jun Chen , Mingjia Chen , Fei Xie , Qi Mao , Philip Dames

We study the problem of learning to perform multi-stage robotic manipulation tasks, with applications to cable routing, where the robot must route a cable through a series of clips. This setting presents challenges representative of complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jianlan Luo , Charles Xu , Xinyang Geng , Gilbert Feng , Kuan Fang , Liam Tan , Stefan Schaal , Sergey Levine

Humans perform everyday tasks using a combination of locomotion and manipulation skills. Building a system that can handle both skills is essential to creating virtual humans. We present a physically-simulated human capable of solving box…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Zhaoming Xie , Jonathan Tseng , Sebastian Starke , Michiel van de Panne , C. Karen Liu

In our pursuit of advancing multi-modal AI assistants capable of guiding users to achieve complex multi-step goals, we propose the task of "Visual Planning for Assistance (VPA)". Given a succinct natural language goal, e.g., "make a shelf",…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Dhruvesh Patel , Hamid Eghbalzadeh , Nitin Kamra , Michael Louis Iuzzolino , Unnat Jain , Ruta Desai

Floating-base multi-link robots can change their shape during flight, making them well-suited for applications in confined environments such as autonomous inspection and search and rescue. However, trajectory planning for such systems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yicheng Chen , Jinjie Li , Haokun Liu , Zicheng Luo , Kotaro Kaneko , Moju Zhao

The development of foundation models for embodied intelligence critically depends on access to large-scale, high-quality robot demonstration data. Recent approaches have sought to address this challenge by training on large collections of…

Automated radiology report generation is key for reducing radiologist workload and improving diagnostic consistency, yet generating accurate reports for 3D medical imaging remains challenging. Existing vision-language models face two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Pengcheng Shi , Minghui Zhang , Kehan Song , Jiaqi Liu , Yun Gu , Xinglin Zhang

We introduce Green-VLA, a staged Vision-Language-Action (VLA) framework for real-world deployment on the Green humanoid robot while maintaining generalization across diverse embodiments. Green-VLA follows a five stage curriculum: (L0)…

This paper presents a robotic assembly framework that combines Vision-Language Models (VLMs) with imitation learning for assembly manipulation tasks. Our system employs a gripper-equipped robot that moves in 3D space to perform assembly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jeong-Jung Kim , Doo-Yeol Koh , Chang-Hyun Kim

Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have enabled robots to performcomplex tasks autonomously with increasing precision. However, multi-robot systems (MRSs) face challenges in generalization, heterogeneity, and safety,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Zhaoxing Li , Wenbo Wu , Yue Wang , Yanran Xu , William Hunt , Sebastian Stein

Multi-step dexterous manipulation is a fundamental skill in household scenarios, yet remains an underexplored area in robotics. This paper proposes a modular approach, where each step of the manipulation process is addressed with dedicated…

Deep Learning has revolutionized our ability to solve complex problems such as Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN). This task requires the agent to navigate to a goal purely based on visual sensory inputs given natural language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Muhammad Zubair Irshad , Chih-Yao Ma , Zsolt Kira

In the domain of humanoid robot control, the fusion of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) with whole-body control is essential for semantically guided execution of real-world tasks. However, existing methods encounter challenges in terms of low…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Weikai Qin , Sichen Wu , Ci Chen , Mengfan Liu , Linxi Feng , Xinru Cui , Haoqi Han , Hesheng Wang

Humanoid robots are well suited for human habitats due to their morphological similarity, but developing controllers for them is a challenging task that involves multiple sub-problems, such as control, planning and perception. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-11 K. Niranjan Kumar , Irfan Essa , Sehoon Ha

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into robotics has revolutionized human-robot interactions and autonomous task planning. However, these systems are often unable to self-correct during the task execution, which hinders their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Chenlin Ming , Jiacheng Lin , Pangkit Fong , Han Wang , Xiaoming Duan , Jianping He