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There has been an increasing interest in 3D indoor navigation, where a robot in an environment moves to a target according to an instruction. To deploy a robot for navigation in the physical world, lots of training data is required to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Fengda Zhu , Linchao Zhu , Yi Yang

Reasoning from diverse observations is a fundamental capability for generalist robot policies to operate in a wide range of environments. Despite recent advancements, many large-scale robotic policies still remain sensitive to key sources…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Jonathan Yang , Chelsea Finn , Dorsa Sadigh

Real-world robotic manipulation demands visuomotor policies capable of robust spatial scene understanding and strong generalization across diverse camera viewpoints. While recent advances in 3D-aware visual representations have shown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Di Zhang , Weicheng Duan , Dasen Gu , Hongye Lu , Hai Zhang , Hang Yu , Junqiao Zhao , Guang Chen

Robot learning methods have the potential for widespread generalization across tasks, environments, and objects. However, these methods require large diverse datasets that are expensive to collect in real-world robotics settings. For robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Zoey Chen , Sho Kiami , Abhishek Gupta , Vikash Kumar

Learning from Interactive Demonstrations has revolutionized the way non-expert humans teach robots. It is enough to kinesthetically move the robot around to teach pick-and-place, dressing, or cleaning policies. However, the main challenge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Giovanni Franzese , Ravi Prakash , Cosimo Della Santina , Jens Kober

The default strategy for training single-view Large Reconstruction Models (LRMs) follows the fully supervised route using large-scale datasets of synthetic 3D assets or multi-view captures. Although these resources simplify the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Hanwen Jiang , Qixing Huang , Georgios Pavlakos

A key challenge in manipulation is learning a policy that can robustly generalize to diverse visual environments. A promising mechanism for learning robust policies is to leverage video generative models, which are pretrained on large-scale…

A significant challenge for robot learning research is our ability to accurately measure and compare the performance of robot policies. Benchmarking in robotics is historically challenging due to the stochasticity, reproducibility, and…

Dexterous manipulation with a multi-finger hand is one of the most challenging problems in robotics. While recent progress in imitation learning has largely improved the sample efficiency compared to Reinforcement Learning, the learned…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Yueh-Hua Wu , Jiashun Wang , Xiaolong Wang

Humans rely on the synergy of their senses for most essential tasks. For tasks requiring object manipulation, we seamlessly and effectively exploit the complementarity of our senses of vision and touch. This paper draws inspiration from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Carmelo Sferrazza , Younggyo Seo , Hao Liu , Youngwoon Lee , Pieter Abbeel

Towards the aim of generalized robotic manipulation, spatial generalization is the most fundamental capability that requires the policy to work robustly under different spatial distribution of objects, environment and agent itself. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Xiuwei Xu , Angyuan Ma , Hankun Li , Bingyao Yu , Zheng Zhu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Visuomotor policies learned from teleoperated demonstrations face challenges such as lengthy data collection, high costs, and limited data diversity. Existing approaches address these issues by augmenting image observations in RGB space or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Sizhe Yang , Wenye Yu , Jia Zeng , Jun Lv , Kerui Ren , Cewu Lu , Dahua Lin , Jiangmiao Pang

Faithfully reconstructing 3D geometry and generating novel views of scenes are critical tasks in 3D computer vision. Despite the widespread use of image augmentations across computer vision applications, their potential remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Juan C. Pérez , Sara Rojas , Jesus Zarzar , Bernard Ghanem

To substantially enhance robot intelligence, there is a pressing need to develop a large model that enables general-purpose robots to proficiently undertake a broad spectrum of manipulation tasks, akin to the versatile task-planning ability…

Articulated objects like cabinets and doors are widespread in daily life. However, directly manipulating 3D articulated objects is challenging because they have diverse geometrical shapes, semantic categories, and kinetic constraints. Prior…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Qiaojun Yu , Junbo Wang , Wenhai Liu , Ce Hao , Liu Liu , Lin Shao , Weiming Wang , Cewu Lu

Furniture assembly is a crucial yet challenging task for robots, requiring precise dual-arm coordination where one arm manipulates parts while the other provides collaborative support and stabilization. To accomplish this task more…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Jiaqi Liang , Yue Chen , Qize Yu , Yan Shen , Haipeng Zhang , Hao Dong , Ruihai Wu

Acting in human environments is a crucial capability for general-purpose robots, necessitating a robust understanding of natural language and its application to physical tasks. This paper seeks to harness the capabilities of diffusion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jonas Bode , Raphael Memmesheimer , Sven Behnke

Generalising vision-based manipulation policies to novel environments remains a challenging area with limited exploration. Current practices involve collecting data in one location, training imitation learning or reinforcement learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Eugene Teoh , Sumit Patidar , Xiao Ma , Stephen James

Generalist robot policies can now perform a wide range of manipulation skills, but evaluating and improving their ability with unfamiliar objects and instructions remains a significant challenge. Rigorous evaluation requires a large number…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yanjiang Guo , Lucy Xiaoyang Shi , Jianyu Chen , Chelsea Finn

Data collection has become an increasingly important problem in robotic manipulation, yet there still lacks much understanding of how to effectively collect data to facilitate broad generalization. Recent works on large-scale robotic data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Jensen Gao , Annie Xie , Ted Xiao , Chelsea Finn , Dorsa Sadigh