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In order for a robot to be a generalist that can perform a wide range of jobs, it must be able to acquire a wide variety of skills quickly and efficiently in complex unstructured environments. High-capacity models such as deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Chelsea Finn , Tianhe Yu , Tianhao Zhang , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) offers a promising paradigm for robot skill acquisition. Recent approaches attempt to extract manipulation commands directly from video demonstrations, yet face two critical challenges: (1) general video…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Thanh Nguyen Canh , Thanh-Tuan Tran , Haolan Zhang , Ziyan Gao , Nak Young Chong , Xiem HoangVan

We present a scalable framework for cross-embodiment humanoid robot control by learning a shared latent representation that unifies motion across humans and diverse humanoid platforms, including single-arm, dual-arm, and legged humanoid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yashuai Yan , Dongheui Lee

Imitation learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm in robot manipulation, yet its generalization capability remains constrained by object-specific dependencies in limited expert demonstrations. To address this challenge, we propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Zhuochen Miao , Jun Lv , Hongjie Fang , Yang Jin , Cewu Lu

Cross-platform robot control remains difficult because hardware interfaces, data formats, and control paradigms vary widely, which fragments toolchains and slows deployment. To address this, we present Control Your Robot, a modular,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Tian Nian , Weijie Ke , Shaolong Zhu , Bingshan Hu

This early-stage research work aims to improve online human-robot imitation by translating sequences of joint positions from the domain of human motions to a domain of motions achievable by a given robot, thus constrained by its embodiment.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Louis Annabi , Ziqi Ma , Sao Mai Nguyen

In embodied intelligence, the embodiment gap between robotic and human hands brings significant challenges for learning from human demonstrations. Although some studies have attempted to bridge this gap using reinforcement learning, they…

Humans demonstrate an impressive ability to acquire and generalize manipulation "tricks." Even from a single demonstration, such as using soup ladles to reach for distant objects, we can apply this skill to new scenarios involving different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Jiayuan Mao , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Tomás Lozano-Pérez , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

Enabling humanoid robots to perform agile and adaptive interactive tasks has long been a core challenge in robotics. Current approaches are bottlenecked by either the scarcity of realistic interaction data or the need for meticulous,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yinhuai Wang , Qihan Zhao , Yuen Fui Lau , Runyi Yu , Hok Wai Tsui , Qifeng Chen , Jingbo Wang , Jiangmiao Pang , Ping Tan

We develop a hybrid control approach for robot learning based on combining learned predictive models with experience-based state-action policy mappings to improve the learning capabilities of robotic systems. Predictive models provide an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Ian Abraham , Alexander Broad , Allison Pinosky , Brenna Argall , Todd D. Murphey

Deploying learning-based controllers across heterogeneous robots is challenging due to platform differences, inconsistent interfaces, and inefficient middleware. To address these issues, we present UniCon, a lightweight framework that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yunfeng Lin , Li Xu , Yong Yu , Jiangmiao Pang , Weinan Zhang

Humanoid robots promise transformative capabilities for industrial and service applications. While recent advances in Reinforcement Learning (RL) yield impressive results in locomotion, manipulation, and navigation, the proposed methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Feiyang Wu , Xavier Nal , Jaehwi Jang , Wei Zhu , Zhaoyuan Gu , Anqi Wu , Ye Zhao

This paper presents a new learning framework that leverages the knowledge from imitation learning, deep reinforcement learning, and control theories to achieve human-style locomotion that is natural, dynamic, and robust for humanoids. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Chuanyu Yang , Kai Yuan , Shuai Heng , Taku Komura , Zhibin Li

Humans' ability to smoothly switch between locomotion and manipulation is a remarkable feature of sensorimotor coordination. Leaning and replication of such human-like strategies can lead to the development of more sophisticated robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Jianzhuang Zhao , Francesco Tassi , Yanlong Huang , Elena De Momi , Arash Ajoudani

A key challenge in robotic manipulation in open domains is how to acquire diverse and generalizable skills for robots. Recent research in one-shot imitation learning has shown promise in transferring trained policies to new tasks based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Hao-Shu Fang , Hongjie Fang , Zhenyu Tang , Jirong Liu , Chenxi Wang , Junbo Wang , Haoyi Zhu , Cewu Lu

Finding an efficient way to adapt robot trajectory is a priority to improve overall performance of robots. One approach for trajectory planning is through transferring human-like skills to robots by Learning from Demonstrations (LfD). The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Jayden Hong , Zengjie Zhang , Amir M. Soufi Enayati , Homayoun Najjaran

Learning from human demonstration is an effective approach for learning complex manipulation skills. However, existing approaches heavily focus on learning from passive human demonstration data for its simplicity in data collection.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Philipp Wu , Yide Shentu , Qiayuan Liao , Ding Jin , Menglong Guo , Koushil Sreenath , Xingyu Lin , Pieter Abbeel

As robots are increasingly deployed in real-world scenarios, a key question is how to best transfer knowledge learned in one environment to another, where shifting constraints and human preferences render adaptation challenging. A central…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Andreea Bobu , Andi Peng

The objective of this work is to augment the basic abilities of a robot by learning to use sensorimotor primitives to solve complex long-horizon manipulation problems. This requires flexible generative planning that can combine primitive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Zi Wang , Caelan Reed Garrett , Leslie Pack Kaelbling , Tomás Lozano-Pérez

Robotic manipulation of unfamiliar objects in new environments is challenging and requires extensive training or laborious pre-programming. We propose a new skill transfer framework, which enables a robot to transfer complex object…