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Generative video modeling has emerged as a compelling tool to zero-shot reason about plausible physical interactions for open-world manipulation. Yet, it remains a challenge to translate such human-led motions into the low-level actions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Karthik Dharmarajan , Wenlong Huang , Jiajun Wu , Li Fei-Fei , Ruohan Zhang

Generating human motion with precise spatial control is a challenging problem. Existing approaches often require task-specific training or slow optimization, and enforcing hard constraints frequently disrupts motion naturalness. Building on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Akihisa Watanabe , Qing Yu , Edgar Simo-Serra , Kent Fujiwara

Current language-guided robotic manipulation systems often require low-level action-labeled datasets for imitation learning. While object-centric flow prediction methods mitigate this issue, they remain limited to scenarios involving rigid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Yixiang Chen , Peiyan Li , Yan Huang , Jiabing Yang , Kehan Chen , Liang Wang

We address the challenge of acquiring real-world manipulation skills with a scalable framework. We hold the belief that identifying an appropriate prediction target capable of leveraging large-scale datasets is crucial for achieving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Chengbo Yuan , Chuan Wen , Tong Zhang , Yang Gao

Can we learn robot manipulation for everyday tasks, only by watching videos of humans doing arbitrary tasks in different unstructured settings? Unlike widely adopted strategies of learning task-specific behaviors or direct imitation of a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Homanga Bharadhwaj , Abhinav Gupta , Shubham Tulsiani , Vikash Kumar

We present Im2Flow2Act, a scalable learning framework that enables robots to acquire real-world manipulation skills without the need of real-world robot training data. The key idea behind Im2Flow2Act is to use object flow as the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Mengda Xu , Zhenjia Xu , Yinghao Xu , Cheng Chi , Gordon Wetzstein , Manuela Veloso , Shuran Song

Existing imitation learning methods enable robots to interact autonomously with the physical environment. However, contact-rich manipulation tasks remain a significant challenge due to complex contact dynamics that demand high-precision…

Solving long-horizon tasks requires robots to integrate high-level semantic reasoning with low-level physical interaction. While vision-language models (VLMs) and video generation models can decompose tasks and imagine outcomes, they often…

Manipulation has long been a challenging task for robots, while humans can effortlessly perform complex interactions with objects, such as hanging a cup on the mug rack. A key reason is the lack of a large and uniform dataset for teaching…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Hongyan Zhi , Peihao Chen , Siyuan Zhou , Yubo Dong , Quanxi Wu , Lei Han , Mingkui Tan

Egocentric human videos provide a scalable source of manipulation demonstrations; however, deploying them on robots requires active viewpoint control to maintain task-critical visibility, which human viewpoint imitation often fails to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Daesol Cho , Youngseok Jang , Danfei Xu , Sehoon Ha

This paper introduces ManiFlow, a visuomotor imitation learning policy for general robot manipulation that generates precise, high-dimensional actions conditioned on diverse visual, language and proprioceptive inputs. We leverage flow…

Robotic instruction following tasks require seamless integration of visual perception, task planning, target localization, and motion execution. However, existing task planning methods for instruction following are either data-driven or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zijun Lin , Chao Tang , Hanjing Ye , Hong Zhang

Text-to-video models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in producing diverse and captivating video content, showcasing a notable advancement in generative AI. However, these models generally lack fine-grained control over motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Tuna Han Salih Meral , Hidir Yesiltepe , Connor Dunlop , Pinar Yanardag

Tactile sensing is crucial for robots aiming to achieve human-level dexterity. Among tactile-dependent skills, tactile-based object tracking serves as the cornerstone for many tasks, including manipulation, in-hand manipulation, and 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Hung-Jui Huang , Michael Kaess , Wenzhen Yuan

One-shot imitation is the vision of robot programming from a single demonstration, rather than by tedious construction of computer code. We present a practical method for realizing one-shot imitation for manipulation tasks, exploiting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Max Argus , Lukas Hermann , Jon Long , Thomas Brox

We explore a novel method to perceive and manipulate 3D articulated objects that generalizes to enable a robot to articulate unseen classes of objects. We propose a vision-based system that learns to predict the potential motions of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Ben Eisner , Harry Zhang , David Held

Recent advances in imitation learning for 3D robotic manipulation have shown promising results with diffusion-based policies. However, achieving human-level dexterity requires seamless integration of geometric precision and semantic…

Recent vision-language-action (VLA) models can generate plausible end-effector motions, yet they often fail in long-horizon, contact-rich tasks because the underlying hand-object interaction (HOI) structure is not explicitly represented. An…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Huajian Zeng , Lingyun Chen , Jiaqi Yang , Yuantai Zhang , Fan Shi , Peidong Liu , Xingxing Zuo

Accurate estimation of large displacement optical flow remains a critical challenge. Existing methods typically rely on iterative local search or/and domain-specific fine-tuning, which severely limits their performance in large displacement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Dingxi Zhang , Fangjinhua Wang , Marc Pollefeys , Haofei Xu

Learning from videos offers a promising path toward generalist robots by providing rich visual and temporal priors beyond what real robot datasets contain. While existing video generative models produce impressive visual predictions, they…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Hung-Chieh Fang , Kuo-Han Hung , Chu-Rong Chen , Po-Jung Chou , Chun-Kai Yang , Po-Chen Ko , Yu-Chiang Wang , Yueh-Hua Wu , Min-Hung Chen , Shao-Hua Sun
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