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Knotting plastic bags is a common task in daily life, yet it is challenging for robots due to the bags' infinite degrees of freedom and complex physical dynamics. Existing methods often struggle in generalization to unseen bag instances or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jiayuan Zhang , Ruihai Wu , Haojun Chen , Yuran Wang , Yifan Zhong , Ceyao Zhang , Yaodong Yang , Yuanpei Chen

Robotic manipulation policies often fail to generalize because they must simultaneously learn where to attend, what actions to take, and how to execute them. We argue that high-level reasoning about where and what can be offloaded to…

Generalizable object manipulation skills are critical for intelligent and multi-functional robots to work in real-world complex scenes. Despite the recent progress in reinforcement learning, it is still very challenging to learn a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Hao Shen , Weikang Wan , He Wang

Deep learning has revolutionized the ability to learn "end-to-end" autonomous vehicle control directly from raw sensory data. While there have been recent extensions to handle forms of navigation instruction, these works are unable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Alexander Amini , Guy Rosman , Sertac Karaman , Daniela Rus

We introduce DragAnything, which utilizes a entity representation to achieve motion control for any object in controllable video generation. Comparison to existing motion control methods, DragAnything offers several advantages. Firstly,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Weijia Wu , Zhuang Li , Yuchao Gu , Rui Zhao , Yefei He , David Junhao Zhang , Mike Zheng Shou , Yan Li , Tingting Gao , Di Zhang

Autonomous drones can operate in remote and unstructured environments, enabling various real-world applications. However, the lack of effective vision-based algorithms has been a stumbling block to achieving this goal. Existing systems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Jiawei Fu , Yunlong Song , Yan Wu , Fisher Yu , Davide Scaramuzza

Mobile manipulation in dynamic environments is challenging due to movable obstacles blocking the robot's path. Traditional methods, which treat navigation and manipulation as separate tasks, often fail in such 'manipulate-to-navigate'…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yuying Zhang , Joni Pajarinen

The ability to transfer a policy from one environment to another is a promising avenue for efficient robot learning in realistic settings where task supervision is not available. This can allow us to take advantage of environments well…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Grace Zhang , Linghan Zhong , Youngwoon Lee , Joseph J. Lim

This paper introduces MobileH2R, a framework for learning generalizable vision-based human-to-mobile-robot (H2MR) handover skills. Unlike traditional fixed-base handovers, this task requires a mobile robot to reliably receive objects in a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Zifan Wang , Ziqing Chen , Junyu Chen , Jilong Wang , Yuxin Yang , Yunze Liu , Xueyi Liu , He Wang , Li Yi

We propose DINOBot, a novel imitation learning framework for robot manipulation, which leverages the image-level and pixel-level capabilities of features extracted from Vision Transformers trained with DINO. When interacting with a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Norman Di Palo , Edward Johns

Future robots are envisioned as versatile systems capable of performing a variety of household tasks. The big question remains, how can we bridge the embodiment gap while minimizing physical robot learning, which fundamentally does not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Hanzhi Chen , Boyang Sun , Anran Zhang , Marc Pollefeys , Stefan Leutenegger

This paper proposes a novel learning-based control policy with strong generalizability to new environments that enables a mobile robot to navigate autonomously through spaces filled with both static obstacles and dense crowds of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhanteng Xie , Philip Dames

Towards the aim of generalized robotic manipulation, spatial generalization is the most fundamental capability that requires the policy to work robustly under different spatial distribution of objects, environment and agent itself. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Xiuwei Xu , Angyuan Ma , Hankun Li , Bingyao Yu , Zheng Zhu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Achieving generalizable bimanual manipulation requires systems that can learn efficiently from minimal human input while adapting to real-world uncertainties and diverse embodiments. Existing approaches face a dilemma: imitation policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Huayi Zhou , Kui Jia

The paper presents a complete pipeline for learning continuous motion control policies for a mobile robot when only a non-differentiable physics simulator of robot-terrain interactions is available. The multi-modal state estimation of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Martin Pecka , Karel Zimmermann , Matěj Petrlík , Tomáš Svoboda

Realizing generalizable dynamic object manipulation on conveyor systems is important for enhancing manufacturing efficiency, as it eliminates specialized engineering for different scenarios. To this end, imitation learning emerges as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zhuoling Li , Jinrong Yang , Yong Zhao , Liangliang Ren , Xiaoyang Wu , Zhenhua Xu , Hengshuang Zhao

Recent advances in video diffusion models shows promise for generating robotic decision-making data, with trajectory conditions further enabling fine-grained control. However, existing methods primarily focus on individual object motion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xiao Fu , Xintao Wang , Xian Liu , Jianhong Bai , Runsen Xu , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Dahua Lin

The quest for fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) capable of navigating complex real-world scenarios with human-like understanding and responsiveness. In this paper, we introduce Dolphins, a novel vision-language model architected to imbibe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Yingzi Ma , Yulong Cao , Jiachen Sun , Marco Pavone , Chaowei Xiao

Our brain has an inner global positioning system which enables us to sense and navigate 3D spaces in real time. Can mobile robots replicate such a biological feat in a dynamic environment? We introduce the first spatial reasoning framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Pengdi Huang , Mingyang Wang , Huan Tian , Minglun Gong , Hao Zhang , Hui Huang

Recently, robotics has advanced significantly through the integration of larger models and large-scale datasets. However, challenges remain in applying these models to 3D spatial interactions and managing data collection costs. To address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Feng Yan , Fanfan Liu , Liming Zheng , Yufeng Zhong , Yiyang Huang , Zechao Guan , Chengjian Feng , Lin Ma