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In reinforcement learning applications like robotics, agents usually need to deal with various input/output features when specified with different state/action spaces by their developers or physical restrictions. This indicates unnecessary…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Minghuan Liu , Zhengbang Zhu , Menghui Zhu , Yuzheng Zhuang , Weinan Zhang , Jianye Hao

Learning an accurate model of the environment is essential for model-based control tasks. Existing methods in robotic visuomotor control usually learn from data with heavily labelled actions, object entities or locations, which can be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Haoqi Yuan , Ruihai Wu , Andrew Zhao , Haipeng Zhang , Zihan Ding , Hao Dong

End-to-end robot manipulation policies offer significant potential for enabling embodied agents to understand and interact with the world. Unlike traditional modular pipelines, end-to-end learning mitigates key limitations such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Dekun Lu , Wei Gao , Kui Jia

Robot navigation methods allow mobile robots to operate in applications such as warehouses or hospitals. While the environment in which the robot operates imposes requirements on its navigation behavior, most existing methods do not allow…

In order to mitigate the sample complexity of real-world reinforcement learning, common practice is to first train a policy in a simulator where samples are cheap, and then deploy this policy in the real world, with the hope that it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Andrew Wagenmaker , Kevin Huang , Liyiming Ke , Byron Boots , Kevin Jamieson , Abhishek Gupta

Simulation parameter settings such as contact models and object geometry approximations are critical to training robust robotic policies capable of transferring from simulation to real-world deployment. Previous approaches typically…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Allen Z. Ren , Hongkai Dai , Benjamin Burchfiel , Anirudha Majumdar

Sim-to-real transfer remains a significant challenge in robotics due to the discrepancies between simulated and real-world dynamics. Traditional methods like Domain Randomization often fail to capture fine-grained dynamics, limiting their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xilun Zhang , Shiqi Liu , Peide Huang , William Jongwon Han , Yiqi Lyu , Mengdi Xu , Ding Zhao

Previous humanoid robot research works treat the robot as a bipedal mobile manipulation platform, where only the feet and hands contact the environment. However, we humans use all body parts to interact with the world, e.g., we sit in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Ziwen Zhuang , Hang Zhao

Action-conditioned video models offer a promising path to building general-purpose robot simulators that can improve directly from data. Yet, despite training on large-scale robot datasets, current state-of-the-art video models still…

Fully leveraging the loco-manipulation capabilities of a quadruped robot equipped with a robotic arm is non-trivial, as it requires controlling all degrees of freedom (DoFs) of the quadruped robot to achieve effective whole-body…

Learning dexterous bimanual manipulation policies critically depends on large-scale, high-quality demonstrations, yet current paradigms face inherent trade-offs: teleoperation provides physically grounded data but is prohibitively…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Huayi Zhou , Kui Jia

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

Behavior cloning has shown promise for robot manipulation, but real-world demonstrations are costly to acquire at scale. While simulated data offers a scalable alternative, particularly with advances in automated demonstration generation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Shuo Cheng , Liqian Ma , Zhenyang Chen , Ajay Mandlekar , Caelan Garrett , Danfei Xu

In this work we propose an approach to learn a robust policy for solving the pivoting task. Recently, several model-free continuous control algorithms were shown to learn successful policies without prior knowledge of the dynamics of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Rika Antonova , Silvia Cruciani , Christian Smith , Danica Kragic

Recent studies have demonstrated the immense potential of exploiting muscle actuator morphology for natural and robust movement -- in simulation. A validation on real robotic hardware is yet missing. In this study, we emulate muscle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Pierre Schumacher , Lorenz Krause , Jan Schneider , Dieter Büchler , Georg Martius , Daniel Haeufle

Indoor mobile manipulation (MoMA) enables robots to translate natural language instructions into physical actions, yet long-horizon execution remains challenging due to cascading errors and limited generalization across diverse…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chenxu Li , Zixuan Chen , Yetao Li , Jiapeng Xu , Hongyu Ding , Jieqi Shi , Jing Huo , Yang Gao

Visuomotor policies trained on human expert demonstrations have recently shown strong performance across a wide range of robotic manipulation tasks. However, these policies remain highly sensitive to domain shifts stemming from background…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Reihaneh Mirjalili , Tobias Jülg , Florian Walter , Wolfram Burgard

Object pushing presents a key non-prehensile manipulation problem that is illustrative of more complex robotic manipulation tasks. While deep reinforcement learning (RL) methods have demonstrated impressive learning capabilities using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Max Yang , Yijiong Lin , Alex Church , John Lloyd , Dandan Zhang , David A. W. Barton , Nathan F. Lepora

If a robot masters folding a kitchen towel, we would expect it to master folding a large beach towel. However, existing policy learning methods that rely on data augmentation still don't guarantee such generalization. Our insight is to add…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Jingyun Yang , Congyue Deng , Jimmy Wu , Rika Antonova , Leonidas Guibas , Jeannette Bohg

A navigable agent needs to understand both high-level semantic instructions and precise spatial perceptions. Building navigation agents centered on Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrates a promising solution due to their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Zerui Li , Hongpei Zheng , Fangguo Zhao , Aidan Chan , Jian Zhou , Sihao Lin , Shijie Li , Qi Wu