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Providing an accurate and efficient assessment of operative difficulty is important for designing robot-assisted teleoperation interfaces that are easy and natural for human operators to use. In this paper, we aim to develop a data-driven…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Ziheng Wang , Cong Feng , Jie Zhang , Ann Majewicz Fey

Teleoperation of humanoid robots enables the integration of the cognitive skills and domain expertise of humans with the physical capabilities of humanoid robots. The operational versatility of humanoid robots makes them the ideal platform…

While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated remarkable success in robotic manipulation, their application has largely been confined to low-degree-of-freedom end-effectors performing simple, vision-guided pick-and-place…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Tutian Tang , Xingyu Ji , Wanli Xing , Ce Hao , Wenqiang Xu , Lin Shao , Cewu Lu , Qiaojun Yu , Jiangmiao Pang , Kaifeng Zhang

The ability to efficiently and reliably learn new tasks has been a foundational challenge in robotics. Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated strong generalization across diverse manipulation tasks, yet pretrained policies…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Perry Dong , Kuo-Han Hung , Tian Gao , Dorsa Sadigh , Chelsea Finn

In swarm robotics, confrontation scenarios, including strategic confrontations, require efficient decision-making that integrates discrete commands and continuous actions. Traditional task and motion planning methods separate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Qizhen Wu , Lei Chen , Kexin Liu , Jinhu Lu

Long-horizon contact-rich bimanual manipulation presents a significant challenge, requiring complex coordination involving a mixture of parallel execution and sequential collaboration between arms. In this paper, we introduce a hierarchical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Weikang Wan , Fabio Ramos , Xuning Yang , Caelan Garrett

In teleoperation, research has mainly focused on target approaching, where we deal with the more challenging object manipulation task by advancing the shared control technique. Appropriately manipulating an object is challenging due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Michael Bowman , Songpo Li , Xiaoli Zhang

Bimanual manipulation is a fundamental robotic skill that requires continuous and precise coordination between two arms. While imitation learning (IL) is the dominant paradigm for acquiring this capability, existing approaches, whether…

Some Learning from Demonstrations (LfD) methods handle small mismatches in the action spaces of the teacher and student. Here we address the case where the teacher's morphology is substantially different from that of the student. Our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Gautam Salhotra , I-Chun Arthur Liu , Gaurav Sukhatme

As technology advances in autonomous mobile robots, mobile service robots have been actively used more and more for various purposes. Especially, serving robots have been not surprising products anymore since the COVID-19 pandemic. One of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Jieun Lee , Hakjun Lee , Jiyong Oh

Bimanual manipulation, i.e., the coordinated use of two robotic arms to complete tasks, is essential for achieving human-level dexterity in robotics. Recent simulation benchmarks, e.g., RoboTwin and RLBench2, have advanced data-driven…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Xingyu Peng , Chen Gao , Liankai Jin , Annan Li , Si Liu

Teleoperation of humanoid robots has long been a challenging domain, necessitating advances in both hardware and software to achieve seamless and intuitive control. This paper presents an integrated solution based on several elements:…

Pick-and-place is one of the fundamental tasks in robotics research. However, the attention has been mostly focused on the ``pick'' task, leaving the ``place'' task relatively unexplored. In this paper, we address the problem of placing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Joonhyung Lee , Sangbeom Park , Jeongeun Park , Kyungjae Lee , Sungjoon Choi

This paper addresses the challenge of occluded robot grasping, i.e. grasping in situations where the desired grasp poses are kinematically infeasible due to environmental constraints such as surface collisions. Traditional robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Jun Yamada , Alexander L. Mitchell , Jack Collins , Ingmar Posner

Bimanual robotic manipulation is a long-standing challenge of embodied intelligence due to its characteristics of dual-arm spatial-temporal coordination and high-dimensional action spaces. Previous studies rely on pre-defined action…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Huayi Zhou , Ruixiang Wang , Yunxin Tai , Yueci Deng , Guiliang Liu , Kui Jia

Robots are increasingly being deployed not only in workplaces but also in households. Effectively execute of manipulation tasks by robots relies on variable impedance control with contact forces. Furthermore, robots should possess adaptive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Yu Zhang , Long Cheng , Xiuze Xia , Haoyu Zhang

To exploit the compliant capabilities of soft robot arms we require controller which can exploit their physical capabilities. Teleoperation, leveraging a human in the loop, is a key step towards achieving more complex control strategies.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Qinghua Guan , Hung Hon Cheng , Benhui Dai , Josie Hughes

While modern policy optimization methods can do complex manipulation from sensory data, they struggle on problems with extended time horizons and multiple sub-goals. On the other hand, task and motion planning (TAMP) methods scale to long…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Michael James McDonald , Dylan Hadfield-Menell

Teleoperated robotic manipulators enable the collection of demonstration data, which can be used to train control policies through imitation learning. However, such methods can require significant amounts of training data to develop robust…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Cheng Pan , Hung Hon Cheng , Josie Hughes

There is a large variety of objects and appliances in human environments, such as stoves, coffee dispensers, juice extractors, and so on. It is challenging for a roboticist to program a robot for each of these object types and for each of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-01-13 Jaeyong Sung , Seok Hyun Jin , Ian Lenz , Ashutosh Saxena