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Tool use is essential for enabling robots to perform complex real-world tasks, but learning such skills requires extensive datasets. While teleoperation is widely used, it is slow, delay-sensitive, and poorly suited for dynamic tasks. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Haonan Chen , Cheng Zhu , Shuijing Liu , Yunzhu Li , Katherine Driggs-Campbell

Imitation learning is a popular paradigm to teach robots new tasks, but collecting robot demonstrations through teleoperation or kinesthetic teaching is tedious and time-consuming. In contrast, directly demonstrating a task using our human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Nick Heppert , Minh Quang Nguyen , Abhinav Valada

Robotic dexterous manipulation is a challenging problem due to high degrees of freedom (DoFs) and complex contacts of multi-fingered robotic hands. Many existing deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based methods aim at improving sample…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Qingtao Liu , Zhengnan Sun , Yu Cui , Haoming Li , Gaofeng Li , Lin Shao , Jiming Chen , Qi Ye

Achieving human-like dexterous manipulation through the collaboration of multi-fingered hands with robotic arms remains a longstanding challenge in robotics, primarily due to the scarcity of high-quality demonstrations and the complexity of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yushan Bai , Fulin Chen , Hongzheng Sun , Yuchuang Tong , En Li , Zhengtao Zhang

Achieving generalizable bimanual manipulation requires systems that can learn efficiently from minimal human input while adapting to real-world uncertainties and diverse embodiments. Existing approaches face a dilemma: imitation policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Huayi Zhou , Kui Jia

Large-scale robot datasets have facilitated the learning of a wide range of robot manipulation skills, but these datasets remain difficult to collect and scale further, owing to the intractable amount of human time, effort, and cost…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Masoud Moghani , Mahdi Azizian , Animesh Garg , Yuke Zhu , Sean Huver , Ajay Mandlekar

For contact-intensive tasks, the ability to generate policies that produce comprehensive tactile-aware motions is essential. However, existing data collection and skill learning systems for dexterous manipulation often suffer from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xingyu Zhang , Chaofan Zhang , Boyue Zhang , Zhinan Peng , Shaowei Cui , Shuo Wang

We present DexCanvas, a large-scale hybrid real-synthetic human manipulation dataset containing 7,000 hours of dexterous hand-object interactions seeded from 70 hours of real human demonstrations, organized across 21 fundamental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xinyue Xu , Jieqiang Sun , Jing , Dai , Siyuan Chen , Lanjie Ma , Ke Sun , Bin Zhao , Jianbo Yuan , Sheng Yi , Haohua Zhu , Yiwen Lu

We present a low-cost legged mobile manipulation system that solves long-horizon real-world tasks, trained by reinforcement learning purely in simulation. This system is made possible by 1) a hierarchical design of a high-level policy for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Haichao Zhang , Haonan Yu , Le Zhao , Andrew Choi , Qinxun Bai , Break Yang , Wei Xu

Humans naturally exhibit bilateral symmetry in their gross manipulation skills, effortlessly mirroring simple actions between left and right hands. Bimanual robots-which also feature bilateral symmetry-should similarly exploit this property…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zechu Li , Yufeng Jin , Daniel Ordonez Apraez , Claudio Semini , Puze Liu , Georgia Chalvatzaki

Underactuated soft robot hands offer inherent safety and adaptability advantages over rigid systems, but developing dexterous manipulation skills remains challenging. While imitation learning shows promise for complex manipulation tasks,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Uksang Yoo , Jonathan Francis , Jean Oh , Jeffrey Ichnowski

Generating large-scale demonstrations for dexterous hand manipulation remains challenging, and several approaches have been proposed in recent years to address this. Among them, generative models have emerged as a promising paradigm,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Jianglong Ye , Keyi Wang , Chengjing Yuan , Ruihan Yang , Yiquan Li , Jiyue Zhu , Yuzhe Qin , Xueyan Zou , Xiaolong Wang

Scaling dexterous robot learning is constrained by the difficulty of collecting high-quality demonstrations across diverse operators. Existing wearable interfaces often trade comfort and cross-user adaptability for kinematic fidelity, while…

Achieving generalized in-hand object rotation remains a significant challenge in robotics, largely due to the difficulty of transferring policies from simulation to the real world. The complex, contact-rich dynamics of dexterous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Xueyi Liu , He Wang , Li Yi

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

Teleoperation is a crucial tool for collecting human demonstrations, but controlling robots with bimanual dexterous hands remains a challenge. Existing teleoperation systems struggle to handle the complexity of coordinating two hands for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Runyu Ding , Yuzhe Qin , Jiyue Zhu , Chengzhe Jia , Shiqi Yang , Ruihan Yang , Xiaojuan Qi , Xiaolong Wang

Acquiring large-scale, high-fidelity robot demonstration data remains a critical bottleneck for scaling Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models in dexterous manipulation. We propose a Real-Sim-Real data collection and data editing pipeline that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jiacheng Fan , Zhiyue Zhao , Yiqian Zhang , Chao Chen , Peide Wang , Hengdi Zhang , Zhengxue Cheng

Simulation-based data synthesis has emerged as a powerful paradigm for advancing real-world robotic manipulation. Yet existing datasets remain insufficient for robust bimanual manipulation due to (1) the lack of scalable task generation…

Synthesizing human motion has advanced rapidly, yet realistic hand motion and bimanual interaction remain underexplored. Whole-body models often miss the fine-grained cues that drive dexterous behavior, finger articulation, contact timing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zimu Zhang , Yucheng Zhang , Xiyan Xu , Ziyin Wang , Sirui Xu , Kai Zhou , Bing Zhou , Chuan Guo , Jian Wang , Yu-Xiong Wang , Liang-Yan Gui

Large real-world robot datasets hold great potential to train generalist robot models, but scaling real-world human data collection is time-consuming and resource-intensive. Simulation has great potential in supplementing large-scale data,…