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In this paper, we introduce RealDex, a pioneering dataset capturing authentic dexterous hand grasping motions infused with human behavioral patterns, enriched by multi-view and multimodal visual data. Utilizing a teleoperation system, we…

Humans' ability to smoothly switch between locomotion and manipulation is a remarkable feature of sensorimotor coordination. Leaning and replication of such human-like strategies can lead to the development of more sophisticated robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Jianzhuang Zhao , Francesco Tassi , Yanlong Huang , Elena De Momi , Arash Ajoudani

Tactile sensing is crucial for robotic hands to achieve human-level dexterous manipulation, especially in scenarios with visual occlusion. However, its application is often hindered by the difficulty of collecting large-scale real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Chi Zhang , Penglin Cai , Haoqi Yuan , Chaoyi Xu , Zongqing Lu

Dexterous manipulation remains one of the most challenging problems in robotics, requiring coherent control of high-DoF hands and arms under complex, contact-rich dynamics. A major barrier is embodiment variability: different dexterous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ke Zhang , Lixin Xu , Chengyi Song , Junzhe Xu , Xiaoyi Lin , Zeyu Jiang , Renjing Xu

Recent progress of video diffusion models have enabled extensive simulation of the physical world. While simulation with hand object interaction has been less explored. We propose DexSIM, a dexterous simulation framework for simulating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Adam Lee

Complex and contact-rich robotic manipulation tasks, particularly those that involve multi-fingered hands and underactuated object manipulation, present a significant challenge to any control method. Methods based on reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Kelvin Xu , Zheyuan Hu , Ria Doshi , Aaron Rovinsky , Vikash Kumar , Abhishek Gupta , Sergey Levine

Robotic dexterous in-hand manipulation, where multiple fingers dynamically make and break contact, represents a step toward human-like dexterity in real-world robotic applications. Unlike learning-based approaches that rely on large-scale…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Yongpeng Jiang , Mingrui Yu , Xinghao Zhu , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Xiang Li

Dexterous in-hand manipulation is a peculiar and useful human skill. This ability requires the coordination of many senses and hand motion to adhere to many constraints. These constraints vary and can be influenced by the object…

Enabling multi-fingered robots to grasp and manipulate objects with human-like dexterity is especially challenging during the dynamic, continuous hand-object interactions. Closed-loop feedback control is essential for dexterous hands to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Dongying Tian , Xiangbo Lin , Yi Sun

Dexterous manipulation with contact-rich interactions is crucial for advanced robotics. While recent diffusion-based planning approaches show promise for simple manipulation tasks, they often produce unrealistic ghost states (e.g., the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Zhixuan Liang , Yao Mu , Yixiao Wang , Tianxing Chen , Wenqi Shao , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Ping Luo , Mingyu Ding

Robotic dexterous hands are central to contact-rich manipulation, with rapid progress driven by advances in hardware, sensing, control, simulation, and data generation. However, existing studies are often developed under different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Weiguang Zhao , Tian Liang , Xihao Guo , Rui Zhang , Irwin King , Kaizhu Huang

In the context of imitation learning applied to dexterous robotic hands, the high complexity of the systems makes learning complex manipulation tasks challenging. However, the numerous datasets depicting human hands in various different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Davide Liconti , Yasunori Toshimitsu , Robert Katzschmann

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…

Reinforcement learning (RL) and sim-to-real transfer have advanced rigid-object manipulation. However, policies remain brittle for articulated mechanisms due to contact-rich dynamics that require both stable grasping and simultaneous free…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Soofiyan Atar , Daniel Huang , Florian Richter , Michael Yip

Data scarcity fundamentally limits the generalization of bimanual dexterous manipulation, as real-world data collection for dexterous hands is expensive and labor-intensive. Human manipulation videos, as a direct carrier of manipulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Juncheng Mu , Sizhe Yang , Yiming Bao , Hojin Bae , Tianming Wei , Linning Xu , Boyi Li , Huazhe Xu , Jiangmiao Pang

While significant progress has been made on understanding hand-object interactions in computer vision, it is still very challenging for robots to perform complex dexterous manipulation. In this paper, we propose a new platform and pipeline…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Yuzhe Qin , Yueh-Hua Wu , Shaowei Liu , Hanwen Jiang , Ruihan Yang , Yang Fu , Xiaolong Wang

Optimizing behaviors for dexterous manipulation has been a longstanding challenge in robotics, with a variety of methods from model-based control to model-free reinforcement learning having been previously explored in literature. Perhaps…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Sridhar Pandian Arunachalam , Sneha Silwal , Ben Evans , Lerrel Pinto

This paper proposes a vision-based framework for a 7-degree-of-freedom robotic manipulator, with the primary objective of facilitating its capacity to acquire information from human hand demonstrations for the execution of dexterous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Nuo Chen , Ya-Jun Pan

Dexterous grasping of unseen objects in dynamic environments is an essential prerequisite for the advanced manipulation of autonomous robots. Prior advances rely on several assumptions that simplify the setup, including environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yannick Burkhardt , Qian Feng , Jianxiang Feng , Karan Sharma , Zhaopeng Chen , Alois Knoll

We introduce perioperation, a paradigm for robotic data collection that sensorizes and records human manipulation while maximizing the transferability of the data to real robots. We implement this paradigm in DEXOP, a passive hand…