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Grasping is a fundamental capability for robots to interact with the physical world. Humans, equipped with two hands, autonomously select appropriate grasp strategies based on the shape, size, and weight of objects, enabling robust grasping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Sizhe Yang , Yiman Xie , Zhixuan Liang , Yang Tian , Jia Zeng , Dahua Lin , Jiangmiao Pang

A dexterous hand capable of generalizable grasping objects is fundamental for the development of general-purpose embodied AI. However, previous methods focus narrowly on low-level grasp stability metrics, neglecting affordance-aware…

Dexterous grasping remains a fundamental yet challenging problem in robotics. A general-purpose robot must be capable of grasping diverse objects in arbitrary scenarios. However, existing research typically relies on restrictive…

This paper introduces RoboDexVLM, an innovative framework for robot task planning and grasp detection tailored for a collaborative manipulator equipped with a dexterous hand. Previous methods focus on simplified and limited manipulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Haichao Liu , Sikai Guo , Pengfei Mai , Jiahang Cao , Haoang Li , Jun Ma

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

Effective execution of long-horizon tasks with dexterous robotic hands remains a significant challenge in real-world problems. While learning from human demonstrations have shown encouraging results, they require extensive data collection…

High-fidelity teleoperation of dexterous robotic hands is essential for bringing robots into unstructured domestic environments. However, existing teleoperation systems often face a trade-off between performance and portability:…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Qianyou Zhao , Wenqiao Li , Chiyu Wang , Kaifeng Zhang

Dexterous manipulation is essential for real-world robot autonomy, mirroring the central role of human hand coordination in daily activity. Humans rely on rich multimodal perception--vision, sound, and language-guided intent--to perform…

Robotic dexterous grasping is a challenging problem due to the high degree of freedom (DoF) and complex contacts of multi-fingered robotic hands. Existing deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based methods leverage human demonstrations to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Qingtao Liu , Yu Cui , Qi Ye , Zhengnan Sun , Haoming Li , Gaofeng Li , Lin Shao , Jiming Chen

This paper focuses on the scalable robot learning for manipulation in the dexterous robot arm-hand systems, where the remote human-robot interactions via augmented reality (AR) are established to collect the expert demonstration data for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yicheng Yang , Ruijiao Li , Lifeng Wang , Shuai Zheng , Shunzheng Ma , Keyu Zhang , Tuoyu Sun , Chenyun Dai , Jie Ding , Zhuo Zou

Back injuries are the most prevalent work-related musculoskeletal disorders and represent a major cause of disability. Although innovations in wearable robots aim to alleviate this hazard, the majority of existing exoskeletons are obtrusive…

Performing in-hand, contact-rich, and long-horizon dexterous manipulation remains an unsolved challenge in robotics. Prior hand dexterity works have considered each of these three challenges in isolation, yet do not combine these skills…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hung-Chieh Fang , Amber Xie , Jennifer Grannen , Kenneth Llontop , Dorsa Sadigh

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently become a central direction in embodied AI, but current systems are restricted to either dual-gripper control or single-arm dexterous hand manipulation. While low-dimensional gripper control…

Exoskeletons and orthoses are wearable mobile systems providing mechanical benefits to the users. Despite significant improvements in the last decades, the technology is not fully mature to be adopted for strenuous and non-programmed tasks.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Farhad Nazari , Navid Mohajer , Darius Nahavandi , Abbas Khosravi , Saeid Nahavandi

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

Manipulating objects to achieve desired goal states is a basic but important skill for dexterous manipulation. Human hand motions demonstrate proficient manipulation capability, providing valuable data for training robots with multi-finger…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Yuanpei Chen , Chen Wang , Yaodong Yang , C. Karen Liu

While significant progress has been made on understanding hand-object interactions in computer vision, it is still very challenging for robots to perform complex dexterous manipulation. In this paper, we propose a new platform and pipeline…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Yuzhe Qin , Yueh-Hua Wu , Shaowei Liu , Hanwen Jiang , Ruihan Yang , Yang Fu , Xiaolong Wang

A dexterous hand capable of grasping any object is essential for the development of general-purpose embodied intelligent robots. However, due to the high degree of freedom in dexterous hands and the vast diversity of objects, generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yiming Zhong , Qi Jiang , Jingyi Yu , Yuexin Ma

Handover between a human and a dexterous robotic hand is a fundamental yet challenging task in human-robot collaboration. It requires handling dynamic environments and a wide variety of objects and demands robust and adaptive grasping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Youzhuo Wang , Jiayi Ye , Chuyang Xiao , Yiming Zhong , Heng Tao , Hang Yu , Yumeng Liu , Jingyi Yu , Yuexin Ma

Advanced dexterous manipulation involving multiple simultaneous contacts across different surfaces, like pinching coins from ground or manipulating intertwined objects, remains challenging for robotic systems. Such tasks exceed the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Won Kyung Do , Matthew Strong , Aiden Swann , Boshu Lei , Monroe Kennedy