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This survey provides a comprehensive review on recent advancements of generative learning models in robotic manipulation, addressing key challenges in the field. Robotic manipulation faces critical bottlenecks, including significant…

Grasping is a fundamental robot skill, yet despite significant research advancements, learning-based 6-DOF grasping approaches are still not turnkey and struggle to generalize across different embodiments and in-the-wild settings. We build…

Existing approaches in Federated Learning (FL) mainly focus on sending model parameters or gradients from clients to a server. However, these methods are plagued by significant inefficiency, privacy, and security concerns. Thanks to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jie Zhang , Xiaohua Qi , Bo Zhao

Furniture assembly is a crucial yet challenging task for robots, requiring precise dual-arm coordination where one arm manipulates parts while the other provides collaborative support and stabilization. To accomplish this task more…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Jiaqi Liang , Yue Chen , Qize Yu , Yan Shen , Haipeng Zhang , Hao Dong , Ruihai Wu

Imitation learning has traditionally been applied to learn a single task from demonstrations thereof. The requirement of structured and isolated demonstrations limits the scalability of imitation learning approaches as they are difficult to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Karol Hausman , Yevgen Chebotar , Stefan Schaal , Gaurav Sukhatme , Joseph Lim

We present a cross robot visuomotor learning framework that integrates diffusion policy based control with 3D semantic scene representations from D3Fields to enable category level generalization in manipulation. Its modular design supports…

Training vision-based manipulation policies that are robust across diverse visual environments remains an important and unresolved challenge in robot learning. Current approaches often sidestep the problem by relying on invariant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Sumeet Batra , Gaurav Sukhatme

Improving the generalization capabilities of general-purpose robotic manipulation agents in the real world has long been a significant challenge. Existing approaches often rely on collecting large-scale robotic data which is costly and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Jiange Yang , Wenhui Tan , Chuhao Jin , Keling Yao , Bei Liu , Jianlong Fu , Ruihua Song , Gangshan Wu , Limin Wang

The goal of general-purpose robotics is to create agents that can seamlessly adapt to and operate in diverse, unstructured human environments. Imitation learning has become a key paradigm for robotic manipulation, yet collecting large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Liu Liu , Xiaofeng Wang , Guosheng Zhao , Keyu Li , Wenkang Qin , Jiagang Zhu , Jiaxiong Qiu , Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang , Zhizhong Su

Dexterous grasp synthesis must jointly satisfy functional intent and physical feasibility, yet existing pipelines often decouple semantic grounding from refinement, yielding unstable or non-functional contacts under object and pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yifan Han , Yichuan Peng , Pengfei Yi , Junyan Li , Hanqing Wang , Gaojing Zhang , Qi Peng Liu , Wenzhao Lian

Affordances - i.e. possibilities for action that an environment or objects in it provide - are important for robots operating in human environments to perceive. Existing approaches train such capabilities on annotated static images or…

3D affordance reasoning is essential in associating human instructions with the functional regions of 3D objects, facilitating precise, task-oriented manipulations in embodied AI. However, current methods, which predominantly depend on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Zeming Wei , Junyi Lin , Yang Liu , Weixing Chen , Jingzhou Luo , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

Recent advances in task planning leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve generalizability by combining such models with classical planning algorithms to address their inherent limitations in reasoning capabilities. However, these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Timo Birr , Christoph Pohl , Abdelrahman Younes , Tamim Asfour

Recent advances in vision, language, and multimodal learning have substantially accelerated progress in robotic foundation models, with robot manipulation remaining a central and challenging problem. This survey examines robot manipulation…

Affordance learning considers the interaction opportunities for an actor in the scene and thus has wide application in scene understanding and intelligent robotics. In this paper, we focus on contextual affordance learning, i.e., using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Jieteng Yao , Junjie Chen , Li Niu , Bin Sheng

Dexterous robotic hands are appealing for their agility and human-like morphology, yet their high degree of freedom makes learning to manipulate challenging. We introduce an approach for learning dexterous grasping. Our key idea is to embed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Priyanka Mandikal , Kristen Grauman

3D affordance grounding aims to highlight the actionable regions on 3D objects, which is crucial for robotic manipulation. Previous research primarily focused on learning affordance knowledge from static cues such as language and images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Hanqing Wang , Mingyu Liu , Xiaoyu Chen , Chengwei MA , Yiming Zhong , Wenti Yin , Yuhao Liu , Zhiqing Cui , Jiahao Yuan , Lu Dai , Zhiyuan Ma , Hui Xiong

Affordance grounding focuses on predicting the specific regions of objects that are associated with the actions to be performed by robots. It plays a vital role in the fields of human-robot interaction, human-object interaction, embodied…

As deep learning technologies advance, increasingly more data is necessary to generate general and robust models for various tasks. In the medical domain, however, large-scale and multi-parties data training and analyses are infeasible due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Qi Chang , Zhennan Yan , Lohendran Baskaran , Hui Qu , Yikai Zhang , Tong Zhang , Shaoting Zhang , Dimitris N. Metaxas

The commonly used latent space embedding techniques, such as Principal Component Analysis, Factor Analysis, and manifold learning techniques, are typically used for learning effective representations of homogeneous data. However, they do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Yasin Yilmaz , Mehmet Aktukmak , Alfred O. Hero