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Coarse-to-fine autoregressive modeling has recently shown strong promise for visuomotor policy learning, combining the inference efficiency of autoregressive methods with the global trajectory coherence of diffusion-based policies. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Daichi Yashima , Koki Seno , Shuhei Kurita , Yusuke Oda , Komei Sugiura

Most existing vision-language manipulation research targets rigid robotic arms, whose fixed morphology limits adaptability in cluttered or confined spaces. Soft robotic arms offer an appealing alternative due to their deformability, but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ziyu Wei , Luting Wang , Chen Gao , Li Wen , Si Liu

We propose ReinFlow, a simple yet effective online reinforcement learning (RL) framework that fine-tunes a family of flow matching policies for continuous robotic control. Derived from rigorous RL theory, ReinFlow injects learnable noise…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Tonghe Zhang , Chao Yu , Sichang Su , Yu Wang

Learning robust visuomotor policies that generalize across diverse objects and interaction dynamics remains a central challenge in robotic manipulation. Most existing approaches rely on direct observation-to-action mappings or compress…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Sangjun Noh , Dongwoo Nam , Kangmin Kim , Geonhyup Lee , Yeonguk Yu , Raeyoung Kang , Kyoobin Lee

Enabling robots to execute novel manipulation tasks zero-shot is a central goal in robotics. Most existing methods assume in-distribution tasks or rely on fine-tuning with embodiment-matched data, limiting transfer across platforms. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Hongyu Li , Lingfeng Sun , Yafei Hu , Duy Ta , Jennifer Barry , George Konidaris , Jiahui Fu

In robot manipulation, robot learning has become a prevailing approach. However, generative models within this field face a fundamental trade-off between the slow, iterative sampling of diffusion models and the architectural constraints of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Juyi Sheng , Ziyi Wang , Peiming Li , Mengyuan Liu

Dexterous in-hand manipulation is a long-standing challenge in robotics due to complex contact dynamics and partial observability. While humans synergize vision and touch for such tasks, robotic approaches often prioritize one modality,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yijin Chen , Wenqiang Xu , Zhenjun Yu , Tutian Tang , Yutong Li , Siqiong Yao , Cewu Lu

Recent advances in diffusion$/$flow-matching policies have enabled imitation learning of complex, multi-modal action trajectories. However, they are computationally expensive because they sample a trajectory of trajectories: a…

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

Recent advances in hierarchical robot systems leverage a high-level planner to propose task plans and a low-level policy to generate robot actions. This design allows training the planner on action-free or even non-robot data sources (e.g.,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yitian Zheng , Zhangchen Ye , Weijun Dong , Shengjie Wang , Yuyang Liu , Chongjie Zhang , Chuan Wen , Yang Gao

Imitation Learning presents a promising approach for learning generalizable and complex robotic skills. The recently proposed Diffusion Policy generates robot action sequences through a conditional denoising diffusion process, achieving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Xiu Yuan

The emerging integration of robots into everyday life brings several major challenges. Compared to classical industrial applications, more flexibility is needed in combination with real-time reactivity. Learning-based methods can train…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Thies Oelerich , Gerald Ebmer , Christian Hartl-Nesic , Andreas Kugi

Can we endow visuomotor robots with generalization capabilities to operate in diverse open-world scenarios? In this paper, we propose \textbf{Maniwhere}, a generalizable framework tailored for visual reinforcement learning, enabling the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Zhecheng Yuan , Tianming Wei , Shuiqi Cheng , Gu Zhang , Yuanpei Chen , Huazhe Xu

Likelihood-based policy gradient methods are the dominant approach for training robot control policies from rewards. These methods rely on differentiable action likelihoods, which constrain policy outputs to simple distributions like…

Robust and accurate perception of humans in their 3D scene context is essential for integrating robots into everyday environments. Existing approaches, however, often fail to predict plausible and accurate human motion estimates that are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Simon Schaefer , Joshua Näf , Stefan Leutenegger

Recent advances in generative modeling have led to promising results in robot motion planning, particularly through diffusion and flow matching (FM)-based models that capture complex, multimodal trajectory distributions. However, these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Xiaobing Dai , Zewen Yang , Dian Yu , Fangzhou Liu , Hamid Sadeghian , Sami Haddadin , Sandra Hirche

Developing efficient and accurate visuomotor policies poses a central challenge in robotic imitation learning. While recent rectified flow approaches have advanced visuomotor policy learning, they suffer from a key limitation: After…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Rong Xue , Jiageng Mao , Mingtong Zhang , Yue Wang

Modeling multimodal human behavior has been a key barrier to increasing the level of interaction between human and robot, particularly for collaborative tasks. Our key insight is that an effective, learned robot policy used for human-robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Eley Ng , Ziang Liu , Monroe Kennedy

Imitation learning has emerged as an effective approach for bootstrapping sequential decision-making in robotics, achieving strong performance even in high-dimensional dexterous manipulation tasks. Recent behavior cloning methods further…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Entong Su , Tyler Westenbroek , Anusha Nagabandi , Abhishek Gupta

Many robotic systems, such as mobile manipulators or quadrotors, cannot be equipped with high-end GPUs due to space, weight, and power constraints. These constraints prevent these systems from leveraging recent developments in visuomotor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Aaditya Prasad , Kevin Lin , Jimmy Wu , Linqi Zhou , Jeannette Bohg