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We aim to enable robot to learn object manipulation by imitation. Given external observations of demonstrations on object manipulations, we believe that two underlying problems to address in learning by imitation is 1) segment a given…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Zhen Zeng , Benjamin Kuipers

Teaching robots to autonomously complete everyday tasks remains a challenge. Imitation Learning (IL) is a powerful approach that imbues robots with skills via demonstrations, but is limited by the labor-intensive process of collecting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Juntao Ren , Priya Sundaresan , Dorsa Sadigh , Sanjiban Choudhury , Jeannette Bohg

Learning robotic manipulation skills from vision is a promising approach for developing robotics applications that can generalize broadly to real-world scenarios. As such, many approaches to enable this vision have been explored with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 David Emukpere , Romain Deffayet , Bingbing Wu , Romain Brégier , Michael Niemaz , Jean-Luc Meunier , Denys Proux , Jean-Michel Renders , Seungsu Kim

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

Modeling 3D human-object interaction (HOI) is a problem of great interest for computer vision and a key enabler for virtual and mixed-reality applications. Existing methods work in a one-way direction: some recover plausible human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ilya A. Petrov , Riccardo Marin , Julian Chibane , Gerard Pons-Moll

We present AnchorDP3, a diffusion policy framework for dual-arm robotic manipulation that achieves state-of-the-art performance in highly randomized environments. AnchorDP3 integrates three key innovations: (1) Simulator-Supervised Semantic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Ziyan Zhao , Ke Fan , He-Yang Xu , Ning Qiao , Bo Peng , Wenlong Gao , Dongjiang Li , Hui Shen

Autonomous manipulation in robot arms is a complex and evolving field of study in robotics. This paper proposes work stands at the intersection of two innovative approaches in the field of robotics and machine learning. Inspired by the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Thanpimon Buamanee , Masato Kobayashi , Yuki Uranishi , Haruo Takemura

Humans frequently grasp, manipulate, and move objects. Interactive systems assist humans in these tasks, enabling applications in Embodied AI, human-robot interaction, and virtual reality. However, current methods in hand-object synthesis…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Sammy Christen

Imitation Learning (IL) is a promising paradigm for learning dynamic manipulation of deformable objects since it does not depend on difficult-to-create accurate simulations of such objects. However, the translation of motions demonstrated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Eric Hannus , Tran Nguyen Le , David Blanco-Mulero , Ville Kyrki

The development of autonomous robotic systems that can learn from human demonstrations to imitate a desired behavior - rather than being manually programmed - has huge technological potential. One major challenge in imitation learning is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Marcus Ebner von Eschenbach , Binyamin Manela , Jan Peters , Armin Biess

Generalizable manipulation requires that robots be able to interact with novel objects and environment. This requirement makes manipulation extremely challenging as a robot has to reason about complex frictional interaction with uncertainty…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Yuki Shirai , Devesh K. Jha , Arvind Raghunathan , Diego Romeres

The human-like form of humanoid robots positions them uniquely to achieve the agility and versatility in motor skills that humans possess. Learning from human demonstrations offers a scalable approach to acquiring these capabilities.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Qiayuan Liao , Takara E. Truong , Xiaoyu Huang , Yuman Gao , Guy Tevet , Koushil Sreenath , C. Karen Liu

Robotic Manipulation (RM) is central to the advancement of autonomous robots, enabling them to interact with and manipulate objects in real-world environments. This survey focuses on RM methodologies that leverage imitation learning, a…

Hands are the main medium when people interact with the world. Generating proper 3D motion for hand-object interaction is vital for applications such as virtual reality and robotics. Although grasp tracking or object manipulation synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yuze Hao , Jianrong Zhang , Tao Zhuo , Fuan Wen , Hehe Fan

Contact-rich manipulation is crucial for robots to perform tasks requiring precise force control, such as insertion, assembly, and in-hand manipulation. However, most imitation learning (IL) policies remain position-centric and lack…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Haizhou Ge , Yufei Jia , Zheng Li , Yue Li , Zhixing Chen , Ruqi Huang , Guyue Zhou

Imitation learning is a powerful paradigm for robot skill acquisition, yet conventional demonstration methods--such as kinesthetic teaching and teleoperation--are cumbersome, hardware-heavy, and disruptive to workflows. Recently, passive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Rohan Walia , Yusheng Wang , Ralf Römer , Masahiro Nishio , Angela P. Schoellig , Jun Ota

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

3D human-object interaction (HOI) anticipation aims to predict the future motion of humans and their manipulated objects, conditioned on the historical context. Generally, the articulated humans and rigid objects exhibit different motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xiaotong Lin , Tianming Liang , Jian-Fang Hu , Kun-Yu Lin , Yulei Kang , Chunwei Tian , Jianhuang Lai , Wei-Shi Zheng

To coordinate actions with an interaction partner requires a constant exchange of sensorimotor signals. Humans acquire these skills in infancy and early childhood mostly by imitation learning and active engagement with a skilled partner.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Judith Bütepage , Ali Ghadirzadeh , Özge Öztimur Karadag , Mårten Björkman , Danica Kragic

We introduce SPOT, an object-centric imitation learning framework. The key idea is to capture each task by an object-centric representation, specifically the SE(3) object pose trajectory relative to the target. This approach decouples…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Cheng-Chun Hsu , Bowen Wen , Jie Xu , Yashraj Narang , Xiaolong Wang , Yuke Zhu , Joydeep Biswas , Stan Birchfield