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Imitation learning from human demonstrations is an effective paradigm for robot manipulation, but acquiring large datasets is costly and resource-intensive, especially for long-horizon tasks. To address this issue, we propose SkillMimicGen…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Caelan Garrett , Ajay Mandlekar , Bowen Wen , Dieter Fox

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

The unsupervised Pretraining method has been widely used in aiding human action recognition. However, existing methods focus on reconstructing the already present frames rather than generating frames which happen in future.In this paper, We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Yu Runsheng , Shi Zhenyu , Ma Qiongxiong , Qing Laiyun

One of the great promises of robot learning systems is that they will be able to learn from their mistakes and continuously adapt to ever-changing environments. Despite this potential, most of the robot learning systems today are deployed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Ryan Julian , Benjamin Swanson , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn , Karol Hausman

Limited by inference latency, existing robot manipulation policies lack sufficient real-time interaction capability with the environment. Although faster generation methods such as flow matching are gradually replacing diffusion methods,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zhenchen Dong , Jinna Fu , Jiaming Wu , Shengyuan Yu , Fulin Chen , Yide Liu

Building generalist robot policies that can handle diverse tasks in open-ended environments is a central challenge in robotics. To leverage knowledge from large-scale pretraining, prior work (VLA) has typically built generalist policies…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jianke Zhang , Yucheng Hu , Yanjiang Guo , Xiaoyu Chen , Yichen Liu , Wenna Chen , Chaochao Lu , Jianyu Chen

Imitation learning from a large set of human demonstrations has proved to be an effective paradigm for building capable robot agents. However, the demonstrations can be extremely costly and time-consuming to collect. We introduce MimicGen,…

We use model-free reinforcement learning, extensive simulation, and transfer learning to develop a continuous control algorithm that has good zero-shot performance in a real physical environment. We train a simulated agent to act optimally…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-09 M Ferguson , K. H. Law

High-fidelity physics simulation is essential for scalable robotic learning, but the sim-to-real gap persists, especially for tasks involving complex, dynamic, and discontinuous interactions like physical contacts. Explicit system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Changwei Jing , Jai Krishna Bandi , Jianglong Ye , Yan Duan , Pieter Abbeel , Xiaolong Wang , Sha Yi

Manipulating deformable objects, such as fabric, is a long standing problem in robotics, with state estimation and control posing a significant challenge for traditional methods. In this paper, we show that it is possible to learn fabric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Robert Lee , Daniel Ward , Akansel Cosgun , Vibhavari Dasagi , Peter Corke , Jurgen Leitner

Deep reinforcement learning has enabled robots to learn motor skills from environmental interactions with minimal to no prior knowledge. However, existing reinforcement learning algorithms assume an episodic setting, in which the agent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Jigang Kim , J. hyeon Park , Daesol Cho , H. Jin Kim

Relational object rearrangement (ROR) tasks (e.g., insert flower to vase) require a robot to manipulate objects with precise semantic and geometric reasoning. Existing approaches either rely on pre-collected demonstrations that struggle to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Liang Heng , Jiadong Xu , Yiwen Wang , Xiaoqi Li , Muhe Cai , Yan Shen , Juan Zhu , Guanghui Ren , Hao Dong

Multi-task imitation learning (MTIL) has shown significant potential in robotic manipulation by enabling agents to perform various tasks using a single policy. This simplifies the policy deployment and enhances the agent's adaptability…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Litao Liu , Wentao Wang , Yifan Han , Zhuoli Xie , Pengfei Yi , Junyan Li , Yi Qin , Wenzhao Lian

There has been substantial progress in humanoid robots, with new skills continuously being taught, ranging from navigation to manipulation. While these abilities may seem impressive, the teaching methods often remain inefficient. To enhance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Josua Spisak , Matthias Kerzel , Stefan Wermter

A long-term goal of reinforcement learning is to design agents that can autonomously interact and learn in the world. A critical challenge to such autonomy is the presence of irreversible states which require external assistance to recover…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Annie Xie , Fahim Tajwar , Archit Sharma , Chelsea Finn

Goal-conditioned policy learning for robotic manipulation presents significant challenges in maintaining performance across diverse objectives and environments. We introduce Hyper-GoalNet, a framework that generates task-specific policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Pei Zhou , Wanting Yao , Qian Luo , Xunzhe Zhou , Yanchao Yang

We demonstrate model-based, visual robot manipulation of linear deformable objects. Our approach is based on a state-space representation of the physical system that the robot aims to control. This choice has multiple advantages, including…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Mengyuan Yan , Yilin Zhu , Ning Jin , Jeannette Bohg

Long-horizon manipulation has been a long-standing challenge in the robotics community. We propose ReinforceGen, a system that combines task decomposition, data generation, imitation learning, and motion planning to form an initial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Zihan Zhou , Animesh Garg , Ajay Mandlekar , Caelan Garrett

Learning from demonstrations faces challenges in generalizing beyond the training data and often lacks collision awareness. This paper introduces Lan-o3dp, a language-guided object-centric diffusion policy framework that can adapt to unseen…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Hang Li , Qian Feng , Zhi Zheng , Jianxiang Feng , Zhaopeng Chen , Alois Knoll

In this work we present a method for leveraging data from one source to learn how to do multiple new tasks. Task transfer is achieved using a self-model that encapsulates the dynamics of a system and serves as an environment for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Robert Kwiatkowski , Hod Lipson