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Robotic manipulation systems operating in diverse, dynamic environments must exhibit three critical abilities: multitask interaction, generalization to unseen scenarios, and spatial memory. While significant progress has been made in…

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Vision-based policies for robot manipulation have achieved significant recent success, but are still brittle to distribution shifts such as camera viewpoint variations. Robot demonstration data is scarce and often lacks appropriate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jeremiah Coholich , Justin Wit , Robert Azarcon , Zsolt Kira

Learning robot manipulation through deep reinforcement learning in environments with sparse rewards is a challenging task. In this paper we address this problem by introducing a notion of imaginary object goals. For a given manipulation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Ozsel Kilinc , Giovanni Montana

We propose Text2Motion, a language-based planning framework enabling robots to solve sequential manipulation tasks that require long-horizon reasoning. Given a natural language instruction, our framework constructs both a task- and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Kevin Lin , Christopher Agia , Toki Migimatsu , Marco Pavone , Jeannette Bohg

Whole-body Humanoid-Object Interaction (HOI) is bottlenecked by the scarcity of high-fidelity 3D data. While video generative priors offer a promising alternative, existing methods suffer from \textit{Representation Misalignment} due to…

We introduce Dream2Real, a robotics framework which integrates vision-language models (VLMs) trained on 2D data into a 3D object rearrangement pipeline. This is achieved by the robot autonomously constructing a 3D representation of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Ivan Kapelyukh , Yifei Ren , Ignacio Alzugaray , Edward Johns

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently shown strong potential for robot learning by following language instructions. However, in practice, language alone is often insufficient to precisely convey human intent. It is difficult to…

How can we imbue robots with the ability to manipulate objects precisely but also to reason about them in terms of abstract concepts? Recent works in manipulation have shown that end-to-end networks can learn dexterous skills that require…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Mohit Shridhar , Lucas Manuelli , Dieter Fox

Object reconstruction is an important task in many fields of application as it allows to generate digital representations of our physical world used as base for analysis, planning, construction, visualization or other aims. A reconstruction…

We introduce Image-GOal Representations (IGOR), aiming to learn a unified, semantically consistent action space across human and various robots. Through this unified latent action space, IGOR enables knowledge transfer among large-scale…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xiaoyu Chen , Junliang Guo , Tianyu He , Chuheng Zhang , Pushi Zhang , Derek Cathera Yang , Li Zhao , Jiang Bian

A robot operating in a real-world environment needs to perform reasoning over a variety of sensor modalities such as vision, language and motion trajectories. However, it is extremely challenging to manually design features relating such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Jaeyong Sung , Ian Lenz , Ashutosh Saxena

Recent progress in robot learning has been driven by large-scale datasets and powerful visuomotor policy architectures, yet policy robustness remains limited by the substantial cost of collecting diverse demonstrations, particularly for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yujie Zhao , Hongwei Fan , Di Chen , Shengcong Chen , Liliang Chen , Xiaoqi Li , Guanghui Ren , Hao Dong

Object rearrangement is pivotal in robotic-environment interactions, representing a significant capability in embodied AI. In this paper, we present SG-Bot, a novel rearrangement framework that utilizes a coarse-to-fine scheme with a scene…

Imitation learning of robot policies from few demonstrations is crucial in open-ended applications. We propose a new method, Interaction Warping, for learning SE(3) robotic manipulation policies from a single demonstration. We infer the 3D…

Behavioral cloning has proven to be effective for learning sequential decision-making policies from expert demonstrations. However, behavioral cloning often suffers from the causal confusion problem where a policy relies on the noticeable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Jongjin Park , Younggyo Seo , Chang Liu , Li Zhao , Tao Qin , Jinwoo Shin , Tie-Yan Liu

Simulation-to-decision learning enables safe policy training in digital environments without risking real-world deployment, and has become essential in mission-critical domains such as supply chains and industrial systems. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Hongyu Cao , Jinghan Zhang , Kunpeng Liu , Dongjie Wang , Feng Xia , Haifeng Chen , Xiaohua Hu , Yanjie Fu

Manipulation planning is the problem of finding a sequence of robot configurations that involves interactions with objects in the scene, e.g., grasping and placing an object, or more general tool-use. To achieve such interactions,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Jung-Su Ha , Danny Driess , Marc Toussaint

In the realm of future home-assistant robots, 3D articulated object manipulation is essential for enabling robots to interact with their environment. Many existing studies make use of 3D point clouds as the primary input for manipulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Xiaoqi Li , Yanzi Wang , Yan Shen , Ponomarenko Iaroslav , Haoran Lu , Qianxu Wang , Boshi An , Jiaming Liu , Hao Dong

Asynchronous inference has emerged as a prevalent paradigm in robotic manipulation, achieving significant progress in ensuring trajectory smoothness and efficiency. However, a systemic challenge remains unresolved, as inherent latency…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Haoyu Wei , Xiuwei Xu , Ziyang Cheng , Hang Yin , Angyuan Ma , Bingyao Yu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Learning diverse manipulation skills for real-world robots is severely bottlenecked by the reliance on costly and hard-to-scale teleoperated demonstrations. While human videos offer a scalable alternative, effectively transferring…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Han Zhou , Jinjin Cao , Liyuan Ma , Xueji Fang , Guo-jun Qi