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Quadrupedal robots are skillful at locomotion tasks while lacking manipulation skills, not to mention dexterous manipulation abilities. Inspired by the animal behavior and the duality between multi-legged locomotion and multi-fingered…

UMI-style interfaces enable scalable robot learning, but existing systems remain largely visuomotor, relying primarily on RGB observations and trajectory while providing only limited access to physical interaction signals. This becomes a…

Most successes in robotic manipulation have been restricted to single-arm robots, which limits the range of solvable tasks to pick-and-place, insertion, and objects rearrangement. In contrast, dual and multi arm robot platforms unlock a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Satoshi Kataoka , Seyed Kamyar Seyed Ghasemipour , Daniel Freeman , Igor Mordatch

Human-like dexterous hands with multiple fingers offer human-level manipulation capabilities, but training control policies that can directly deploy on real hardware remains difficult due to contact-rich physics and imperfect actuation. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Zhe Zhao , Haoyu Dong , Zhengmao He , Yang Li , Xinyu Yi , Zhibin Li

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

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

Tendon-driven underactuated hands excel in adaptive grasping but often suffer from kinematic unpredictability and highly non-linear force transmission. This ambiguity limits their ability to perform precise free-motion shaping and deliver…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Teng Yan , Jiongxu Chen , Qixiang Hua , Yue Yu , Zihang Wang , Yaohua Liu , Bingzhuo Zhong

High-fidelity motion tracking serves as the ultimate litmus test for generalizable, human-level motor skills. However, current policies often hit a "generality barrier": as motion libraries scale in diversity, tracking fidelity inevitably…

Training general-purpose robots requires learning from large and diverse data sources. Current approaches rely heavily on teleoperated demonstrations which are difficult to scale. We present a scalable framework for training manipulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Marion Lepert , Jiaying Fang , Jeannette Bohg

Dexterous manipulation has broad applications in assembly lines, warehouses and agriculture. To perform large-scale manipulation tasks for various objects, a multi-fingered robotic hand sometimes has to sequentially adjust its grasping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Yongxiang Fan , Te Tang , Hsien-Chung Lin , Yu Zhao , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Acquiring multiple skills has commonly involved collecting a large number of expert demonstrations per task or engineering custom reward functions. Recently it has been shown that it is possible to acquire a diverse set of skills by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Rostam Dinyari , Pierre Sermanet , Corey Lynch

Teaching robots dexterous manipulation skills often requires collecting hundreds of demonstrations using wearables or teleoperation, a process that is challenging to scale. Videos of human-object interactions are easier to collect and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Tyler Ga Wei Lum , Olivia Y. Lee , C. Karen Liu , Jeannette Bohg

Capturing intricate and subtle variations in human expressiveness in music performance using computational approaches is challenging. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for reconstructing human expressiveness in piano performance…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jingjing Tang , Geraint Wiggins , Gyorgy Fazekas

This paper focuses on the scalable robot learning for manipulation in the dexterous robot arm-hand systems, where the remote human-robot interactions via augmented reality (AR) are established to collect the expert demonstration data for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yicheng Yang , Ruijiao Li , Lifeng Wang , Shuai Zheng , Shunzheng Ma , Keyu Zhang , Tuoyu Sun , Chenyun Dai , Jie Ding , Zhuo Zou

Multi-finger robotic hand manipulation and grasping are challenging due to the high-dimensional action space and the difficulty of acquiring large-scale training data. Existing approaches largely rely on human teleoperation with wearable…

Large policies pretrained on diverse robot datasets have the potential to transform robotic learning: instead of training new policies from scratch, such generalist robot policies may be finetuned with only a little in-domain data, yet…

Dexterous robotic hands have the capability to interact with a wide variety of household objects to perform tasks like grasping. However, learning robust real world grasping policies for arbitrary objects has proven challenging due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Zoey Qiuyu Chen , Karl Van Wyk , Yu-Wei Chao , Wei Yang , Arsalan Mousavian , Abhishek Gupta , Dieter Fox

Human grasps can be roughly categorized into two types: power grasps and precision grasps. Precision grasping enables tool use and is believed to have influenced human evolution. Today's multi-fingered robotic hands are effective in power…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jianglong Ye , Lai Wei , Guangqi Jiang , Changwei Jing , Xueyan Zou , Xiaolong Wang

Dexterous multi-fingered hands are extremely versatile and provide a generic way to perform a multitude of tasks in human-centric environments. However, effectively controlling them remains challenging due to their high dimensionality and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Aravind Rajeswaran , Vikash Kumar , Abhishek Gupta , Giulia Vezzani , John Schulman , Emanuel Todorov , Sergey Levine

Enabling robots to dexterously grasp and manipulate objects based on human commands is a promising direction in robotics. However, existing approaches are challenging to generalize across diverse objects or tasks due to the limited scale of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yi-Lin Wei , Zhexi Luo , Yuhao Lin , Mu Lin , Zhizhao Liang , Shuoyu Chen , Wei-Shi Zheng