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We present a framework for robot skill acquisition, which 1) efficiently scale up data generation of language-labelled robot data and 2) effectively distills this data down into a robust multi-task language-conditioned visuo-motor policy.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Huy Ha , Pete Florence , Shuran Song

Data scaling has revolutionized fields like natural language processing and computer vision, providing models with remarkable generalization capabilities. In this paper, we investigate whether similar data scaling laws exist in robotics,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yingdong Hu , Fanqi Lin , Pingyue Sheng , Chuan Wen , Jiacheng You , Yang Gao

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

Recent advances in data-driven models for grounded language understanding have enabled robots to interpret increasingly complex instructions. Two fundamental limitations of these methods are that most require a full model of the environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Siddharth Patki , Ethan Fahnestock , Thomas M. Howard , Matthew R. Walter

Embodied agents require robust spatial intelligence to execute precise real-world manipulations. However, this remains a significant challenge, as current methods often struggle to accurately position objects in space. Collecting extensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Hengkai Tan , Xuezhou Xu , Chengyang Ying , Xinyi Mao , Zeyuan Wang , Songming Liu , Xingxing Zhang , Zhizhong Su , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Diffusion-based policies have shown remarkable capability in executing complex robotic manipulation tasks but lack explicit characterization of geometry and semantics, which often limits their ability to generalize to unseen objects and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yixuan Wang , Guang Yin , Binghao Huang , Tarik Kelestemur , Jiuguang Wang , Yunzhu Li

Learning from unstructured and uncurated data has become the dominant paradigm for generative approaches in language and vision. Such unstructured and unguided behavior data, commonly known as play, is also easier to collect in robotics but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Lili Chen , Shikhar Bahl , Deepak Pathak

End-to-end learning is emerging as a powerful paradigm for robotic manipulation, but its effectiveness is limited by data scarcity and the heterogeneity of action spaces across robot embodiments. In particular, diverse action spaces across…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Erik Bauer , Elvis Nava , Robert K. Katzschmann

Goal-conditioned dynamic manipulation is inherently challenging due to complex system dynamics and stringent task constraints, particularly in deformable object scenarios characterized by high degrees of freedom and underactuation. Prior…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Guanzhou Lan , Yuqi Yang , Anup Teejo Mathew , Feiping Nie , Rong Wang , Xuelong Li , Federico Renda , Bin Zhao

Diffusion Policy is a powerful technique tool for learning end-to-end visuomotor robot control. It is expected that Diffusion Policy possesses scalability, a key attribute for deep neural networks, typically suggesting that increasing model…

Recent advances in robot learning have shown promise in enabling robots to perform a variety of manipulation tasks and generalize to novel scenarios. One of the key contributing factors to this progress is the scale of robot data used to…

When performing tasks like laundry, humans naturally coordinate both hands to manipulate objects and anticipate how their actions will change the state of the clothes. However, achieving such coordination in robotics remains challenging due…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Haonan Chen , Jiaming Xu , Lily Sheng , Tianchen Ji , Shuijing Liu , Yunzhu Li , Katherine Driggs-Campbell

Diffusion policies have demonstrated strong performance in generative modeling, making them promising for robotic manipulation guided by natural language instructions. However, generalizing language-conditioned diffusion policies to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Ce Hao , Kelvin Lin , Zhiwei Xue , Siyuan Luo , Harold Soh

The control of robots for manipulation tasks generally relies on visual input. Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) enable the use of natural language instructions to condition visual input and control robots in a wider range of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Chenglin Cui , Chaoran Zhu , Changjae Oh , Andrea Cavallaro

Contact-rich bimanual manipulation involves precise coordination of two arms to change object states through strategically selected contacts and motions. Due to the inherent complexity of these tasks, acquiring sufficient demonstration data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Xuanlin Li , Tong Zhao , Xinghao Zhu , Jiuguang Wang , Tao Pang , Kuan Fang

Our goal is for robots to follow natural language instructions like "put the towel next to the microwave." But getting large amounts of labeled data, i.e. data that contains demonstrations of tasks labeled with the language instruction, is…

Learning visuomotor policy for multi-task robotic manipulation has been a long-standing challenge for the robotics community. The difficulty lies in the diversity of action space: typically, a goal can be accomplished in multiple ways,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Kun Wu , Yichen Zhu , Jinming Li , Junjie Wen , Ning Liu , Zhiyuan Xu , Jian Tang

Imitation learning for robotic manipulation often suffers from limited generalization and data scarcity, especially in complex, long-horizon tasks. In this work, we introduce a hierarchical framework that leverages code-generating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Markus Peschl , Pietro Mazzaglia , Daniel Dijkman

Autonomous learning of object manipulation skills can enable robots to acquire rich behavioral repertoires that scale to the variety of objects found in the real world. However, current motion skill learning methods typically restrict the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Sergey Levine , Nolan Wagener , Pieter Abbeel

Recent end-to-end robotic manipulation research increasingly adopts architectures inspired by large language models to enable robust manipulation. However, a critical challenge arises from severe distribution shifts between robotic action…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Yuchi Zhang , Churui Sun , Shiqi Liang , Diyuan Liu , Chao Ji , Wei-Nan Zhang , Ting Liu
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