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Recent advances in skill learning has propelled robot manipulation to new heights by enabling it to learn complex manipulation tasks from a practical number of demonstrations. However, these skills are often limited to the particular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Quantao Yang , Michael C. Welle , Danica Kragic , Olov Andersson

Diffusion models have demonstrated strong potential for robotic trajectory planning. However, generating coherent trajectories from high-level instructions remains challenging, especially for long-range composition tasks requiring multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Zhixuan Liang , Yao Mu , Hengbo Ma , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Mingyu Ding , Ping Luo

Diffusion policies (DP) have recently shown great promise for generating actions in robotic manipulation. However, existing approaches often rely on global instructions to produce short-term control signals, which can result in misalignment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zhihao Gu , Ming Yang , Difan Zou , Dong Xu

The learning efficiency and generalization ability of an intelligent agent can be greatly improved by utilizing a useful set of skills. However, the design of robot skills can often be intractable in real-world applications due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Kuan Fang , Yuke Zhu , Silvio Savarese , Li Fei-Fei

We hypothesize that a key bottleneck in generalizable robot manipulation is not solely data scale or policy capacity, but a structural mismatch between current visual backbones and the physical requirements of closed-loop control. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yu Deng , Yufeng Jin , Xiaogang Jia , Jiahong Xue , Gerhard Neumann , Georgia Chalvatzaki

Intelligent surgical robots have the potential to revolutionize clinical practice by enabling more precise and automated surgical procedures. However, the automation of such robot for surgical tasks remains under-explored compared to recent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chonlam Ho , Jianshu Hu , Lei Song , Hesheng Wang , Qi Dou , Yutong Ban

The capability to transfer mastered skills to accomplish a range of similar yet novel tasks is crucial for intelligent robots. In this work, we introduce $\textit{Diff-Transfer}$, a novel framework leveraging differentiable physics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Yuqi Xiang , Feitong Chen , Qinsi Wang , Yang Gang , Xiang Zhang , Xinghao Zhu , Xingyu Liu , Lin Shao

Achieving generalizable and precise robotic manipulation across diverse environments remains a critical challenge, largely due to limitations in spatial perception. While prior imitation-learning approaches have made progress, their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yiqi Huang , Travis Davies , Jiahuan Yan , Jiankai Sun , Xiang Chen , Luhui Hu

Robot manipulation in the real world is fundamentally constrained by the visual sim2real gap, where depth observations collected in simulation fail to reflect the complex noise patterns inherent to real sensors. In this work, inspired by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xiujian Liang , Jiacheng Liu , Mingyang Sun , Qichen He , Cewu Lu , Jianhua Sun

Explainable robots require not only successful task execution but also the ability to expose internal decision-making process in a user-friendly manner. However, most imitation learning methods are trained solely on task-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Site Hu , Takato Horii

Decentralized multi-robot motion planning requires each robot to generate collision-free trajectories from local observations, without global sensing or reliable communication. However, most existing planners, whether classical or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jinhao Liang , Sven Koenig , Ferdinando Fioretto

Learning robust and generalizable manipulation skills from demonstrations remains a key challenge in robotics, with broad applications in industrial automation and service robotics. While recent imitation learning methods have achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Yu Ren , Yang Cong , Ronghan Chen , Jiahao Long

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

Building effective imitation learning methods that enable robots to learn from limited data and still generalize across diverse real-world environments is a long-standing problem in robot learning. We propose Equibot, a robust,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jingyun Yang , Zi-ang Cao , Congyue Deng , Rika Antonova , Shuran Song , Jeannette Bohg

Contact-rich assembly is fundamental in robotics but poses significant challenges due to uncertainties in relative poses, such as misalignments and small clearances in peg-in-hole tasks. Existing approaches typically address search and…

Given a dataset of expert trajectories, standard imitation learning approaches typically learn a direct mapping from observations (e.g., RGB images) to actions. However, such methods often overlook the rich interplay between different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zixuan Huang , Huaidian Hou , Dmitry Berenson

Diffusion-based policies have recently shown strong results in robot manipulation, but their extension to multi-task scenarios is hindered by the high cost of scaling model size and demonstrations. We introduce Skill Mixture-of-Experts…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Ce Hao , Xuanran Zhai , Yaohua Liu , Harold Soh

We present PoseDiff, a conditional diffusion model that unifies robot state estimation and control within a single framework. At its core, PoseDiff maps raw visual observations into structured robot states-such as 3D keypoints or joint…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Haozhuo Zhang , Michele Caprio , Jing Shao , Qiang Zhang , Jian Tang , Shanghang Zhang , Wei Pan

Diffusion generative modeling has become a promising approach for learning robotic manipulation tasks from stochastic human demonstrations. In this paper, we present Diffusion-EDFs, a novel SE(3)-equivariant diffusion-based approach for…

Articulated object manipulation is essential for various real-world robotic tasks, yet generalizing across diverse objects remains a major challenge. A key to generalization lies in understanding functional parts (e.g., door handles and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yue Chen , Muqing Jiang , Kaifeng Zheng , Jiaqi Liang , Chenrui Tie , Haoran Lu , Ruihai Wu , Hao Dong
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