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Learning-based 3D Scanning plays a crucial role in enabling efficient and accurate scanning of target objects. However, recent reinforcement learning-based methods often require large-scale training data and still struggle to generalize to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Itsuki Hirako , Ryo Hakoda , Yubin Liu , Matthew Hwang , Yoshihiro Sato , Takeshi Oishi

Integrating generative models with action chunking has shown significant promise in imitation learning for robotic manipulation. However, the existing diffusion-based paradigm often struggles to capture strong temporal dependencies across…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Dianye Huang , Nassir Navab , Zhongliang Jiang

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

We reconstruct 3D deformable object through time, in the context of a live pottery making process where the crafter molds the object. Because the object suffers from heavy hand interaction, and is being deformed, classical techniques cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Raoul de Charette , Sotiris Manitsaris

Explainable robots require not only successful task execution but also the ability to expose internal decision-making process in a user-friendly manner. However, most imitation learning methods are trained solely on task-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Site Hu , Takato Horii

We tackle the problem of text-driven 3D generation from a geometry alignment perspective. Given a set of text prompts, we aim to generate a collection of objects with semantically corresponding parts aligned across them. Recent methods…

Reaching-and-grasping is a fundamental skill for robotic manipulation, but existing methods usually train models on a specific gripper and cannot be reused on another gripper. In this paper, we propose a novel method that can learn a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Qijin She , Shishun Zhang , Yunfan Ye , Ruizhen Hu , Kai Xu

Locomotion on unknown terrains is essential for bipedal robots to handle novel real-world challenges, thus expanding their utility in disaster response and exploration. In this work, we introduce a lightweight framework that learns a single…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-09 GVS Mothish , Manan Tayal , Shishir Kolathaya

Despite the remarkable process of talking-head-based avatar-creating solutions, directly generating anchor-style videos with full-body motions remains challenging. In this study, we propose Make-Your-Anchor, a novel system necessitating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Ziyao Huang , Fan Tang , Yong Zhang , Xiaodong Cun , Juan Cao , Jintao Li , Tong-Yee Lee

Diffusion-based models for robotic control, including vision-language-action (VLA) and vision-action (VA) policies, have demonstrated significant capabilities. Yet their advancement is constrained by the high cost of acquiring large-scale…

Efficient planning in high-dimensional spaces, such as those involving deformable objects, requires computationally tractable yet sufficiently expressive dynamics models. This paper introduces a method that automatically generates…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Alex LaGrassa , Zixuan Huang , Dmitry Berenson , Oliver Kroemer

Diffusion-based policies have shown impressive performance in robotic manipulation tasks while struggling with out-of-domain distributions. Recent efforts attempted to enhance generalization by improving the visual feature encoding for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Shijie Wu , Yihang Zhu , Yunao Huang , Kaizhen Zhu , Jiayuan Gu , Jingyi Yu , Ye Shi , Jingya Wang

To enable general-purpose robots, we will require the robot to operate daily articulated objects as humans do. Current robot manipulation has heavily relied on using a parallel gripper, which restricts the robot to a limited set of objects.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Chen Bao , Helin Xu , Yuzhe Qin , Xiaolong Wang

We address the problem of goal-directed cloth manipulation, a challenging task due to the deformability of cloth. Our insight is that optical flow, a technique normally used for motion estimation in video, can also provide an effective…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Thomas Weng , Sujay Bajracharya , Yufei Wang , Khush Agrawal , David Held

High-velocity dynamic actions (e.g., fling or throw) play a crucial role in our everyday interaction with deformable objects by improving our efficiency and effectively expanding our physical reach range. Yet, most prior works have tackled…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Huy Ha , Shuran Song

6D robotic grasping beyond top-down bin-picking scenarios is a challenging task. Previous solutions based on 6D grasp synthesis with robot motion planning usually operate in an open-loop setting, which are sensitive to grasp synthesis…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Lirui Wang , Yu Xiang , Wei Yang , Arsalan Mousavian , Dieter Fox

Nonprehensile manipulation, such as pushing objects across cluttered environments, presents a challenging control problem due to complex contact dynamics and long-horizon planning requirements. In this work, we propose HeRD, a hierarchical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Steven Caro , Stephen L. Smith

Object pose estimation from a single view remains a challenging problem. In particular, partial observability, occlusions, and object symmetries eventually result in pose ambiguity. To account for this multimodality, this work proposes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Christian Möller , Niklas Funk , Jan Peters

Despite recent advances in dexterous manipulations, the manipulation of articulated objects and generalization across different categories remain significant challenges. To address these issues, we introduce DART, a novel framework that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Hao Zhang , Zhen Kan , Weiwei Shang , Yongduan Song

Mastering dexterous manipulation with multi-fingered hands has been a grand challenge in robotics for decades. Despite its potential, the difficulty of collecting high-quality data remains a primary bottleneck for high-precision tasks.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Amber Xie , Haozhi Qi , Dorsa Sadigh
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