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We present a benchmark to facilitate simulated manipulation; an attempt to overcome the obstacles of physical benchmarks through the distribution of a real world, ground truth dataset. Users are given various simulated manipulation tasks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Jack Collins , Jessie McVicar , David Wedlock , Ross Brown , David Howard , Jürgen Leitner

Designing effective embodied multi-agent systems is critical for solving complex real-world tasks across domains. Due to the complexity of multi-agent embodied systems, existing methods fail to automatically generate safe and efficient…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Yiran Qin , Li Kang , Xiufeng Song , Zhenfei Yin , Xiaohong Liu , Xihui Liu , Ruimao Zhang , Lei Bai

While the exploration for embodied AI has spanned multiple decades, it remains a persistent challenge to endow agents with human-level intelligence, including perception, learning, reasoning, decision-making, control, and generalization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Zhiyuan Xu , Kun Wu , Junjie Wen , Jinming Li , Ning Liu , Zhengping Che , Jian Tang

The transformation towards intelligence in various industries is creating more demand for intelligent and flexible products. In the field of robotics, learning-based methods are increasingly being applied, with the purpose of training…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Xinjie Liu

Training and deploying reinforcement learning (RL) policies for robots, especially in accomplishing specific tasks, presents substantial challenges. Recent advancements have explored diverse reward function designs, training techniques,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yifei Yao , Wentao He , Chenyu Gu , Jiaheng Du , Fuwei Tan , Zhen Zhu , Junguo Lu

It is desired to equip robots with the capability of interacting with various soft materials as they are ubiquitous in the real world. While physics simulations are one of the predominant methods for data collection and robot training,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Chunru Lin , Jugang Fan , Yian Wang , Zeyuan Yang , Zhehuan Chen , Lixing Fang , Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Zhou Xian , Chuang Gan

Despite rapid progress in autonomous robotics, executing complex or long-horizon tasks remains a fundamental challenge. Most current approaches follow an open-loop paradigm with limited reasoning and no feedback, resulting in poor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Xinyi Liu , Mohammadreza Fani Sani , Zewei Zhou , Julius Wirbel , Bahram Zarrin , Roberto Galeazzi

Supervised visuomotor policies have shown strong performance in robotic manipulation but often struggle in tasks with limited visual inputs, such as operations in confined spaces and dimly lit environments, or tasks requiring precise…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Quan Khanh Luu , Pokuang Zhou , Zhengtong Xu , Zhiyuan Zhang , Qiang Qiu , Yu She

The development of a generalist agent with adaptive multiple manipulation skills has been a long-standing goal in the robotics community. In this paper, we explore a crucial task, skill-incremental learning, in robotic manipulation, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zexin Zheng , Jia-Feng Cai , Xiao-Ming Wu , Yi-Lin Wei , Yu-Ming Tang , Wei-Shi Zheng

In this paper, we propose a real-world benchmark for studying robotic learning in the context of functional manipulation: a robot needs to accomplish complex long-horizon behaviors by composing individual manipulation skills in functionally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Jianlan Luo , Charles Xu , Fangchen Liu , Liam Tan , Zipeng Lin , Jeffrey Wu , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

We survey applications of pretrained foundation models in robotics. Traditional deep learning models in robotics are trained on small datasets tailored for specific tasks, which limits their adaptability across diverse applications. In…

Robotic imitation learning has achieved impressive success in learning complex manipulation behaviors from demonstrations. However, many existing robot learning methods do not explicitly account for the physical symmetries of robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zhiyuan Zhang , Aditya Mohan , Seungho Han , Wan Shou , Dongyi Wang , Yu She

Imitation learning field requires expert data to train agents in a task. Most often, this learning approach suffers from the absence of available data, which results in techniques being tested on its dataset. Creating datasets is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Nathan Gavenski , Michael Luck , Odinaldo Rodrigues

Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) Within-Visual-Range (WVR) engagement, referring to a fight between two or more UCAVs at close quarters, plays a decisive role on the aerial battlefields. With the development of artificial intelligence,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Siyuan Li , Rongchang Zuo , Bofei Liu , Yaoyu He , Peng Liu , Yingnan Zhao

Flexible robots may overcome some of the industry's major challenges, such as enabling intrinsically safe human-robot collaboration and achieving a higher payload-to-mass ratio. However, controlling flexible robots is complicated due to…

In this paper, we discuss a framework for teaching bimanual manipulation tasks by imitation. To this end, we present a system and algorithms for learning compliant and contact-rich robot behavior from human demonstrations. The presented…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Simon Stepputtis , Maryam Bandari , Stefan Schaal , Heni Ben Amor

Imitation learning methods need significant human supervision to learn policies robust to changes in object poses, physical disturbances, and visual distractors. Reinforcement learning, on the other hand, can explore the environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Marcel Torne , Anthony Simeonov , Zechu Li , April Chan , Tao Chen , Abhishek Gupta , Pulkit Agrawal

Simulators are a critical component of modern robotics research. Strategies for both perception and decision making can be studied in simulation first before deployed to real world systems, saving on time and costs. Despite significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Bhairav Mehta , Ankur Handa , Dieter Fox , Fabio Ramos

Imitation of expert behaviour is a highly desirable and safe approach to the problem of sequential decision making. We provide an easy-to-implement, novel algorithm for imitation learning under a strict data paradigm, in which the agent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Matthew Smith , Lucas Maystre , Zhenwen Dai , Kamil Ciosek

Robot imitation learning is often hindered by the high cost of collecting large-scale, real-world data. This challenge is especially significant for low-cost robots designed for home use, as they must be both user-friendly and affordable.…

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