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Learning dexterous and agile policy for humanoid and dexterous hand control requires large-scale demonstrations, but collecting robot-specific data is prohibitively expensive. In contrast, abundant human motion data is readily available…

Robot manipulation in cluttered environments often requires complex and sequential rearrangement of multiple objects in order to achieve the desired reconfiguration of the target objects. Due to the sophisticated physical interactions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Kejia Ren , Lydia E. Kavraki , Kaiyu Hang

Generalizable grasping with high-degree-of-freedom (DoF) dexterous hands remains challenging in tiered workspaces, where occlusion, narrow clearances, and height-dependent constraints are substantially stronger than in open tabletop scenes.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Wensheng Wang , Chuanjun Guo , Wei Wei , Tong Wu , Ning Tan

In this work, we aim to learn dexterous manipulation of deformable objects using multi-fingered hands. Reinforcement learning approaches for dexterous rigid object manipulation would struggle in this setting due to the complexity of physics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Sizhe Li , Zhiao Huang , Tao Chen , Tao Du , Hao Su , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

Retargeting human kinematic reference motion onto a robot's morphology remains a formidable challenge. Existing methods often produce physical inconsistencies, such as foot sliding, self-collisions, or dynamically infeasible motions, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-08 David Müller , Agon Serifi , Sammy Christen , Ruben Grandia , Espen Knoop , Moritz Bächer

We present UniBiDex a unified teleoperation framework for robotic bimanual dexterous manipulation that supports both VRbased and leaderfollower input modalities UniBiDex enables realtime contactrich dualarm teleoperation by integrating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Zhongxuan Li , Zeliang Guo , Jun Hu , David Navarro-Alarcon , Jia Pan , Hongmin Wu , Peng Zhou

Human hand actions are quite complex, especially when they involve object manipulation, mainly due to the high dimensionality of the hand and the vast action space that entails. Imitating those actions with dexterous hand models involves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Dafni Antotsiou , Guillermo Garcia-Hernando , Tae-Kyun Kim

Dexterous robotic manipulation remains a challenging domain due to its strict demands for precision and robustness on both hardware and software. While dexterous robotic hands have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in complex tasks,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Zilin Si , Kevin Lee Zhang , Zeynep Temel , Oliver Kroemer

This paper investigates humanoid whole-body dexterous manipulation, where the efficient collection of high-quality demonstration data remains a central bottleneck. Existing teleoperation systems often suffer from limited portability,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Liang Heng , Yihe Tang , Jiajun Xu , Henghui Bao , Di Huang , Yue Wang

Human dexterity relies on rapid, sub-second motor adjustments, yet capturing these high-frequency dynamics remains an enduring challenge in biomechanics and robotics. Existing motion capture paradigms are compromised by a trade-off between…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Haoyang Luo , Zihang Zhao , Leiyao Cui , Saiyao Zhang , Liu Yang , Zhi Han , Xiyuan Tang , Yixin Zhu

Accurate and high-fidelity demonstration data acquisition is a critical bottleneck for deploying robot Imitation Learning (IL) systems, particularly when dealing with heterogeneous robotic platforms. Existing teleoperation systems often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Xu Chi , Chao Zhang , Yang Su , Lingfeng Dou , Fujia Yang , Jiakuo Zhao , Haoyu Zhou , Xiaoyou Jia , Yong Zhou , Shan An

Dexterous hands enable concurrent prehensile and nonprehensile manipulation, such as holding one object while interacting with another, a capability essential for everyday tasks yet underexplored in robotics. Learning such long-horizon,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Hao Jiang , Yue Wu , Yue Wang , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Daniel Seita

Robotic dexterous manipulation requires continuously reconciling objectives and constraints defined on heterogeneous geometric spaces: a robot controlled on a $\mathbb{R}^7$ configuration manifold may need to track end effector poses on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Albert Wu , Riccardo Bonalli , Thomas Lew , C. Karen Liu

Dextrous in-hand manipulation with a multi-fingered robotic hand is a challenging task, esp. when performed with the hand oriented upside down, demanding permanent force-closure, and when no external sensors are used. For the task of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Johannes Pitz , Lennart Röstel , Leon Sievers , Berthold Bäuml

Reinforcement learning is a promising method for robotic grasping as it can learn effective reaching and grasping policies in difficult scenarios. However, achieving human-like manipulation capabilities with sophisticated robotic hands is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Martin Schuck , Jan Brüdigam , Alexandre Capone , Stefan Sosnowski , Sandra Hirche

This paper introduces GEX, an innovative low-cost dexterous manipulation system that combines the GX11 tri-finger anthropomorphic hand (11 DoF) with the EX12 tri-finger exoskeleton glove (12 DoF), forming a closed-loop teleoperation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Yunlong Dong , Xing Liu , Jun Wan , Zelin Deng

Existing learning approaches to dexterous manipulation use demonstrations or interactions with the environment to train black-box neural networks that provide little control over how the robot learns the skills or how it would perform post…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Abhineet Jain , Jack Kolb , Harish Ravichandar

Data-driven dexterous hand manipulation requires large-scale, physically consistent demonstration data. Simulation and video-based methods suffer from sim-to-real gaps and retargeting problems, while MoCap glove-based teleoperation systems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Joonho Koh , Haechan Jung , Nayoung Kim , Wook Ko , Changjoo Nam

As an important branch of embodied artificial intelligence, mobile manipulators are increasingly applied in intelligent services, but their redundant degrees of freedom also limit efficient motion planning in cluttered environments. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Chenyu Zhang , Shiying Sun , Kuan Liu , Chuanbao Zhou , Xiaoguang Zhao , Min Tan , Yanlong Huang

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