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Scaling up robot learning requires large and diverse datasets, and how to efficiently reuse collected data and transfer policies to new embodiments remains an open question. Emerging research such as the Open-X Embodiment (OXE) project has…

Embodied learning for object-centric robotic manipulation is a rapidly developing and challenging area in embodied AI. It is crucial for advancing next-generation intelligent robots and has garnered significant interest recently. Unlike…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Ying Zheng , Lei Yao , Yuejiao Su , Yi Zhang , Yi Wang , Sicheng Zhao , Yiyi Zhang , Lap-Pui Chau

Recently, self-supervised representation learning relying on vast amounts of unlabeled data has been explored as a pre-training method for autonomous driving. However, directly applying popular contrastive or generative methods to this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Haoran Zhu , Zhenyuan Dong , Kristi Topollai , Beiyao Sha , Anna Choromanska

The collection of large-scale and diverse robot demonstrations remains a major bottleneck for imitation learning, as real-world data acquisition is costly and simulators offer limited diversity and fidelity with pronounced sim-to-real gaps.…

Imitation learning from human demonstrations offers a promising approach for robot skill acquisition, but egocentric human data introduces fundamental challenges due to the embodiment gap. During manipulation, humans actively coordinate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Justin Yu , Yide Shentu , Di Wu , Pieter Abbeel , Ken Goldberg , Philipp Wu

Human egocentric video captures rich manipulation demonstrations without any robot hardware, yet transferring these skills to robots remains challenging due to the embodiment gap between human and robot in both visual appearance and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhi Wang , Botao He , Kelin Yu , Seungjae Lee , Ruohan Gao , Furong Huang , Yiannis Aloimonos

Human demonstration videos are a widely available data source for robot learning and an intuitive user interface for expressing desired behavior. However, directly extracting reusable robot manipulation skills from unstructured human videos…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Mengda Xu , Zhenjia Xu , Cheng Chi , Manuela Veloso , Shuran Song

Simulation provides a safe and efficient way to generate useful data for learning complex robotic tasks. However, matching simulation and real-world dynamics can be quite challenging, especially for systems that have a large number of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Visak Kumar , Sehoon Ha , C. Karen Liu

This paper demonstrates an approach for learning highly semantic image representations without relying on hand-crafted data-augmentations. We introduce the Image-based Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (I-JEPA), a non-generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Mahmoud Assran , Quentin Duval , Ishan Misra , Piotr Bojanowski , Pascal Vincent , Michael Rabbat , Yann LeCun , Nicolas Ballas

Spike-based communication between biological neurons is sparse and unreliable. This enables the brain to process visual information from the eyes efficiently. Taking inspiration from biology, artificial spiking neural networks coupled with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Jacques Kaiser , Alexander Friedrich , J. Camilo Vasquez Tieck , Daniel Reichard , Arne Roennau , Emre Neftci , Rüdiger Dillmann

Scaling up robot learning is hindered by the scarcity of robotic demonstrations, whereas human videos offer a vast, untapped source of interaction data. However, bridging the embodiment gap between human hands and robot arms remains a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yifu Xu , Bokai Lin , Xinyu Zhan , Hongjie Fang , Yong-Lu Li , Cewu Lu , Lixin Yang

We present an embodied AI system which receives open-ended natural language instructions from a human, and controls two arms to collaboratively accomplish potentially long-horizon tasks over a large workspace. Our system is modular: it…

We present a method for teaching dexterous manipulation tasks to robots from human hand motion demonstrations. Unlike existing approaches that solely rely on kinematics information without taking into account the plausibility of robot and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Sungjae Park , Seungho Lee , Mingi Choi , Jiye Lee , Jeonghwan Kim , Jisoo Kim , Hanbyul Joo

This paper introduces GET-Zero, a model architecture and training procedure for learning an embodiment-aware control policy that can immediately adapt to new hardware changes without retraining. To do so, we present Graph Embodiment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Austin Patel , Shuran Song

We present Mixture of Discrete-time Gaussian Processes (MiDiGap), a novel approach for flexible policy representation and imitation learning in robot manipulation. MiDiGap enables learning from as few as five demonstrations using only…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Jan Ole von Hartz , Adrian Röfer , Joschka Boedecker , Abhinav Valada

Human videos offer a scalable way to train robot manipulation policies, but lack the action labels needed by standard imitation learning algorithms. Existing cross-embodiment approaches try to map human motion to robot actions, but often…

It has always been expected that a robot can be easily deployed to unknown scenarios, accomplishing robotic grasping tasks without human intervention. Nevertheless, existing grasp detection approaches are typically off-body techniques and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jin Liu , Jialong Xie , Leibing Xiao , Chaoqun Wang , Fengyu Zhou

Humanoid robots are envisioned as embodied intelligent agents capable of performing a wide range of human-level loco-manipulation tasks, particularly in scenarios requiring strenuous and repetitive labor. However, learning these skills is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Junjia Liu , Zhuo Li , Minghao Yu , Zhipeng Dong , Sylvain Calinon , Darwin Caldwell , Fei Chen

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

Learning robot manipulation from abundant human videos offers a scalable alternative to costly robot-specific data collection. However, domain gaps across visual, morphological, and physical aspects hinder direct imitation. To effectively…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yangcen Liu , Woo Chul Shin , Yunhai Han , Zhenyang Chen , Harish Ravichandar , Danfei Xu