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Achieving human-level dexterity is an important open problem in robotics. However, tasks of dexterous hand manipulation, even at the baby level, are challenging to solve through reinforcement learning (RL). The difficulty lies in the high…

Reinforcement learning (RL) and sim-to-real transfer have advanced rigid-object manipulation. However, policies remain brittle for articulated mechanisms due to contact-rich dynamics that require both stable grasping and simultaneous free…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Soofiyan Atar , Daniel Huang , Florian Richter , Michael Yip

Dexterous intelligence -- the ability to perform complex interactions with multi-fingered hands -- is a pinnacle of human physical intelligence and emergent higher-order cognitive skills. However, contrary to Moravec's paradox, dexterous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Gagan Khandate

This paper presents a hierarchical framework for planning and control of in-hand manipulation of a rigid object involving grasp changes using fully-actuated multifingered robotic hands. While the framework can be applied to the general…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Rana Soltani Zarrin , Katsu Yamane , Rianna Jitosho

Large-scale, diverse robot datasets have emerged as a promising path toward enabling dexterous manipulation policies to generalize to novel environments, but acquiring such datasets presents many challenges. While teleoperation provides…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Tony Tao , Mohan Kumar Srirama , Jason Jingzhou Liu , Kenneth Shaw , Deepak Pathak

Key to rich, dexterous manipulation in the real world is the ability to coordinate control across two hands. However, while the promise afforded by bimanual robotic systems is immense, constructing control policies for dual arm autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Jennifer Grannen , Yilin Wu , Brandon Vu , Dorsa Sadigh

We study the problem of functional retargeting: learning dexterous manipulation policies to track object states from human hand-object demonstrations. We focus on long-horizon, bimanual tasks with articulated objects, which is challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Zhao Mandi , Yifan Hou , Dieter Fox , Yashraj Narang , Ajay Mandlekar , Shuran Song

Dexterous manipulation is a critical aspect of human capability, enabling interaction with a wide variety of objects. Recent advancements in learning from human demonstrations and teleoperation have enabled progress for robots in such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Shuqi Zhao , Xinghao Zhu , Yuxin Chen , Chenran Li , Lichen Xie , Xiang Zhang , Mingyu Ding , Masayoshi Tomizuka

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

In this work, we aim to learn a unified vision-based policy for multi-fingered robot hands to manipulate a variety of objects in diverse poses. Though prior work has shown benefits of using human videos for policy learning, performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zerui Chen , Shizhe Chen , Etienne Arlaud , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Achieving human-like dexterous manipulation through the collaboration of multi-fingered hands with robotic arms remains a longstanding challenge in robotics, primarily due to the scarcity of high-quality demonstrations and the complexity of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yushan Bai , Fulin Chen , Hongzheng Sun , Yuchuang Tong , En Li , Zhengtao Zhang

Complex and contact-rich robotic manipulation tasks, particularly those that involve multi-fingered hands and underactuated object manipulation, present a significant challenge to any control method. Methods based on reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Kelvin Xu , Zheyuan Hu , Ria Doshi , Aaron Rovinsky , Vikash Kumar , Abhishek Gupta , Sergey Levine

Achieving generalized in-hand object rotation remains a significant challenge in robotics, largely due to the difficulty of transferring policies from simulation to the real world. The complex, contact-rich dynamics of dexterous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Xueyi Liu , He Wang , Li Yi

Dexterous multi-fingered hands can accomplish fine manipulation behaviors that are infeasible with simple robotic grippers. However, sophisticated multi-fingered hands are often expensive and fragile. Low-cost soft hands offer an appealing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Abhishek Gupta , Clemens Eppner , Sergey Levine , Pieter Abbeel

Humans can determine a proper strategy to grasp an object according to the measured physical attributes or the prior knowledge of the object. This paper proposes an approach to determining the strategy of dexterous grasping by using an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Bharath Rao , Hui Li , Krishna Krishnan , Enkhsaikhan Boldsaikhan , Hongsheng He

This paper proposes a detailed and extensive comparison of the Trust Region Policy Optimization and DeepQ-Network with Normalized Advantage Functions with respect to other state of the art algorithms, namely Deep Deterministic Policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Andrea Franceschetti , Elisa Tosello , Nicola Castaman , Stefano Ghidoni

In this work, we propose a hybrid hierarchical control framework for reactive dexterous grasping that explicitly decouples high-level spatial intent from low-level joint execution. We introduce a multi-agent reinforcement learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Ho Jae Lee , Yonghyeon Lee , Alexander Alexiev , Tzu-Yuan Lin , Se Hwan Jeon , Sangbae Kim

Performing in-hand, contact-rich, and long-horizon dexterous manipulation remains an unsolved challenge in robotics. Prior hand dexterity works have considered each of these three challenges in isolation, yet do not combine these skills…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hung-Chieh Fang , Amber Xie , Jennifer Grannen , Kenneth Llontop , Dorsa Sadigh

In-hand manipulation of tools using dexterous hands in real-world is an underexplored problem in the literature. In addition to more complex geometry and larger size of the tools compared to more commonly used objects like cubes or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Shaunak A. Mehta , Rana Soltani Zarrin

Achieving human-level manipulation requires dexterous robotic hands capable of complex object interactions. Advancing such capabilities further demands standardized benchmarks for systematic evaluation. However, existing dexterous…