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Teaching a multi-fingered dexterous robot to grasp objects in the real world has been a challenging problem due to its high dimensional state and action space. We propose a robot-learning system that can take a small number of human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Zoey Qiuyu Chen , Karl Van Wyk , Yu-Wei Chao , Wei Yang , Arsalan Mousavian , Abhishek Gupta , Dieter Fox

Dexterous manipulation remains challenging due to the cost of collecting real-robot teleoperation data, the heterogeneity of hand embodiments, and the high dimensionality of control. We present UniDex, a robot foundation suite that couples…

Dexterous multi-fingered robotic hands have a formidable action space, yet their morphological similarity to the human hand holds immense potential to accelerate robot learning. We propose DexVIP, an approach to learn dexterous robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Priyanka Mandikal , Kristen Grauman

Universal grasping with multi-fingered dexterous hands is a fundamental challenge in robotic manipulation. While recent approaches successfully learn closed-loop grasping policies using reinforcement learning (RL), the inherent difficulty…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Haoqi Yuan , Ziye Huang , Ye Wang , Chuan Mao , Chaoyi Xu , Zongqing Lu

Functional grasping with dexterous robotic hands is a key capability for enabling tool use and complex manipulation, yet progress has been constrained by two persistent bottlenecks: the scarcity of large-scale datasets and the absence of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Xingyi He , Adhitya Polavaram , Yunhao Cao , Om Deshmukh , Tianrui Wang , Xiaowei Zhou , Kuan Fang

Learning dexterous manipulation from human-object interaction (HOI) data is a scalable alternative to teleoperation, but HOI demonstrations are sparse and provide only kinematic motion that is not directly executable under embodiment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Hyesung Lee , Hyunwoo Jung , Si-Hwan Heo , Sungwook Yang

Bimanual dexterous grasping is a fundamental and promising area in robotics, yet its progress is constrained by the lack of comprehensive datasets and powerful generation models. In this work, we propose BiDexGrasp, consists of a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Mu Lin , Yi-Lin Wei , Jiaxuan Chen , Yuhao Lin , Shuoyu Chen , Jiangran Lyu , Jiayi Chen , Yansong Tang , He Wang , Wei-Shi Zheng

To enable general-purpose robots, we will require the robot to operate daily articulated objects as humans do. Current robot manipulation has heavily relied on using a parallel gripper, which restricts the robot to a limited set of objects.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Chen Bao , Helin Xu , Yuzhe Qin , Xiaolong Wang

Despite advances in hand-object interaction modeling, generating realistic dexterous manipulation data for robotic hands remains a challenge. Retargeting methods often suffer from low accuracy and fail to account for hand-object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Xiaoyi Lin , Kunpeng Yao , Lixin Xu , Xueqiang Wang , Xuetao Li , Yuchen Wang , Miao Li

Dexterous in-hand manipulation is a unique and valuable human skill requiring sophisticated sensorimotor interaction with the environment while respecting stability constraints. Satisfying these constraints with generated motions is…

Learning dexterous bimanual manipulation policies critically depends on large-scale, high-quality demonstrations, yet current paradigms face inherent trade-offs: teleoperation provides physically grounded data but is prohibitively…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Huayi Zhou , Kui Jia

We address the challenge of developing a generalizable neural tracking controller for dexterous manipulation from human references. This controller aims to manage a dexterous robot hand to manipulate diverse objects for various purposes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Xueyi Liu , Jianibieke Adalibieke , Qianwei Han , Yuzhe Qin , Li Yi

Garment manipulation is a critical challenge due to the diversity in garment categories, geometries, and deformations. Despite this, humans can effortlessly handle garments, thanks to the dexterity of our hands. However, existing research…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yuran Wang , Ruihai Wu , Yue Chen , Jiarui Wang , Jiaqi Liang , Ziyu Zhu , Haoran Geng , Jitendra Malik , Pieter Abbeel , Hao Dong

Modeling dexterous hand-object interactions is challenging as it requires understanding how subtle finger motions influence the environment through contact with objects. While recent world models address interaction modeling, they typically…

Dexterous grasping is fundamental to robotics, yet data-driven grasp prediction heavily relies on large, diverse datasets that are costly to generate and typically limited to a narrow set of gripper morphologies. Analytical grasp synthesis…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-18 René Zurbrügg , Andrei Cramariuc , Marco Hutter

Robotic dexterous grasping is a challenging problem due to the high degree of freedom (DoF) and complex contacts of multi-fingered robotic hands. Existing deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based methods leverage human demonstrations to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Qingtao Liu , Yu Cui , Qi Ye , Zhengnan Sun , Haoming Li , Gaofeng Li , Lin Shao , Jiming Chen

Controlling hands in high-dimensional action space has been a longstanding challenge, yet humans naturally perform dexterous tasks with ease. In this paper, we draw inspiration from the concept of internal model exhibited in human behavior…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Tong Wu , Shoujie Li , Chuqiao Lyu , Kit-Wa Sou , Wang-Sing Chan , Wenbo Ding

In contact-rich tasks, like dexterous manipulation, the hybrid nature of making and breaking contact creates challenges for model representation and control. For example, choosing and sequencing contact locations for in-hand manipulation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Wanxin Jin , Michael Posa

Dexterous manipulation is essential for real-world robot autonomy, mirroring the central role of human hand coordination in daily activity. Humans rely on rich multimodal perception--vision, sound, and language-guided intent--to perform…

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