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As robots become more integrated in society, their ability to coordinate with other robots and humans on multi-modal tasks (those with multiple valid solutions) is crucial. Such behaviors can be learned from expert demonstrations via…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Dayi Dong , Maulik Bhatt , Seoyeon Choi , Negar Mehr

Diffusion Policies have significantly advanced robotic manipulation tasks via imitation learning, but their application on resource-constrained mobile platforms remains challenging due to computational inefficiency and extensive memory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Yiming Wu , Huan Wang , Zhenghao Chen , Jianxin Pang , Dong Xu

In this paper, we discuss a framework for teaching bimanual manipulation tasks by imitation. To this end, we present a system and algorithms for learning compliant and contact-rich robot behavior from human demonstrations. The presented…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Simon Stepputtis , Maryam Bandari , Stefan Schaal , Heni Ben Amor

Redundant manipulators, with their higher Degrees of Freedom (DoFs), offer enhanced kinematic performance and versatility, making them suitable for applications like manufacturing, surgical robotics, and human-robot collaboration. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Xudong Mou , Xiaohan Zhang , Tiejun Wang , Tianyu Wo , Cangbai Xu , Ningbo Gu , Rui Wang , Xudong Liu

This work introduces the Multimodal Diffusion Transformer (MDT), a novel diffusion policy framework, that excels at learning versatile behavior from multimodal goal specifications with few language annotations. MDT leverages a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Moritz Reuss , Ömer Erdinç Yağmurlu , Fabian Wenzel , Rudolf Lioutikov

While imitation learning provides a simple and effective framework for policy learning, acquiring consistent actions during robot execution remains a challenging task. Existing approaches primarily focus on either modifying the action…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Xiao Liu , Fabian Weigend , Yifan Zhou , Heni Ben Amor

Modeling generalized robot control policies poses ongoing challenges for language-guided robot manipulation tasks. Existing methods often struggle to efficiently utilize cross-dataset resources or rely on resource-intensive vision-language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Wenhui Tan , Bei Liu , Junbo Zhang , Ruihua Song , Jianlong Fu

Diffusion policies generate robot motions by learning to denoise action-space trajectories conditioned on observations. These observations are commonly streams of RGB images, whose high dimensionality includes substantial task-irrelevant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Xiatao Sun , Yinxing Chen , Daniel Rakita

Grasping is a fundamental skill in robotics with diverse applications across medical, industrial, and domestic domains. However, current approaches for predicting valid grasps are often tailored to specific grippers, limiting their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Roman Freiberg , Alexander Qualmann , Ngo Anh Vien , Gerhard Neumann

Recent advancements utilizing large-scale video data for learning video generation models demonstrate significant potential in understanding complex physical dynamics. It suggests the feasibility of leveraging diverse robot trajectory data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Youpeng Wen , Junfan Lin , Yi Zhu , Jianhua Han , Hang Xu , Shen Zhao , Xiaodan Liang

Dynamics models, whether simulators or learned world models, have long been central to robotic manipulation, but most focus on minimizing prediction error rather than confronting a more fundamental challenge: real-world manipulation is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Gaotian Wang , Kejia Ren , Andrew S. Morgan , Kaiyu Hang

Bimanual dexterous manipulation is a critical yet underexplored area in robotics. Its high-dimensional action space and inherent task complexity present significant challenges for policy learning, and the limited task diversity in existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Bohan Zhou , Haoqi Yuan , Yuhui Fu , Zongqing Lu

The performance of optimization-based robot motion planning algorithms is highly dependent on the initial solutions, commonly obtained by running a sampling-based planner to obtain a collision-free path. However, these methods can be slow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-15 J. Carvalho , A. Le , P. Kicki , D. Koert , J. Peters

Recent advances in diffusion models have opened new avenues for research into embodied AI agents and robotics. Despite significant achievements in complex robotic locomotion and skills, mobile manipulation-a capability that requires the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Sixu Yan , Zeyu Zhang , Muzhi Han , Zaijin Wang , Qi Xie , Zhitian Li , Zhehan Li , Hangxin Liu , Xinggang Wang , Song-Chun Zhu

Striking a balance between efficiency and transparent motion is a core challenge in human-robot collaboration, as highly expressive movements often incur unnecessary time and energy costs. In collaborative environments, legibility allows a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Adrien Jacquet Crétides , Mouad Abrini , Hamed Rahimi , Mohamed Chetouani

Bimanual manipulation tasks typically involve multiple stages which require efficient interactions between two arms, posing step-wise and stage-wise challenges for imitation learning systems. Specifically, failure and delay of one step will…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Dongjie Yu , Hang Xu , Yizhou Chen , Yi Ren , Jia Pan

Simultaneously grasping and delivering multiple objects can significantly enhance robotic work efficiency and has been a key research focus for decades. The primary challenge lies in determining how to push objects, group them, and execute…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Takahiro Yonemaru , Weiwei Wan , Tatsuki Nishimura , Kensuke Harada

Robotic imitation learning has achieved impressive success in learning complex manipulation behaviors from demonstrations. However, many existing robot learning methods do not explicitly account for the physical symmetries of robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zhiyuan Zhang , Aditya Mohan , Seungho Han , Wan Shou , Dongyi Wang , Yu She

Opening heavy, self closing doors, especially those that require pulling remains a long standing challenge in robotics. Humans naturally employ both arms in a dexterous manner, rotating the handle, widening the gap, holding the door,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Shangqun Yu , Matthew En , Daniel Wu , Sangjun Park , Ziyi Zhou , Seyed Fakoorian , Donghyun Kim

Learning to navigate in dynamic and complex open-world environments is a critical yet challenging capability for autonomous robots. Existing approaches often rely on cascaded modular frameworks, which require extensive hyperparameter tuning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Wenzhe Cai , Jiaqi Peng , Yuqiang Yang , Yujian Zhang , Meng Wei , Hanqing Wang , Yilun Chen , Tai Wang , Jiangmiao Pang