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Humans and animals are capable of learning a new behavior by observing others perform the skill just once. We consider the problem of allowing a robot to do the same -- learning from a raw video pixels of a human, even when there is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Tianhe Yu , Chelsea Finn , Annie Xie , Sudeep Dasari , Tianhao Zhang , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

Robot learning is at an inflection point, driven by rapid advancements in machine learning and the growing availability of large-scale robotics data. This shift from classical, model-based methods to data-driven, learning-based paradigms is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Francesco Capuano , Caroline Pascal , Adil Zouitine , Thomas Wolf , Michel Aractingi

The proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs) has s fueled a shift in robot learning from automation towards general embodied Artificial Intelligence (AI). Adopting foundation models together with traditional learning methods to robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Xuan Xiao , Jiahang Liu , Zhipeng Wang , Yanmin Zhou , Yong Qi , Qian Cheng , Bin He , Shuo Jiang

Object manipulation is a basic element in everyday human lives. Robotic manipulation has progressed from maneuvering single-rigid-body objects with firm grasping to maneuvering soft objects and handling contact-rich actions. Meanwhile,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Leidi Zhao , Raheem Lawhorn , Siddharth Patil , Steve Susanibar , Lu Lu , Cong Wang , Bo Ouyang

Imitation learning from human demonstrations is a promising paradigm for teaching robots manipulation skills in the real world. However, learning complex long-horizon tasks often requires an unattainable amount of demonstrations. To reduce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Chen Wang , Linxi Fan , Jiankai Sun , Ruohan Zhang , Li Fei-Fei , Danfei Xu , Yuke Zhu , Anima Anandkumar

Human video generation is a dynamic and rapidly evolving task that aims to synthesize 2D human body video sequences with generative models given control conditions such as text, audio, and pose. With the potential for wide-ranging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Wentao Lei , Jinting Wang , Fengji Ma , Guanjie Huang , Li Liu

We present an approach to learn general robot manipulation priors from 3D hand-object interaction trajectories. We build a framework to use in-the-wild videos to generate sensorimotor robot trajectories. We do so by lifting both the human…

Learning generalizable visual representations across different embodied environments is essential for effective robotic manipulation in real-world scenarios. However, the limited scale and diversity of robot demonstration data pose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jiaming Zhou , Teli Ma , Kun-Yu Lin , Zifan Wang , Ronghe Qiu , Junwei Liang

Mimicry is a fundamental learning mechanism in humans, enabling individuals to learn new tasks by observing and imitating experts. However, applying this ability to robots presents significant challenges due to the inherent differences…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Hanjung Kim , Jaehyun Kang , Hyolim Kang , Meedeum Cho , Seon Joo Kim , Youngwoon Lee

Human dexterity is an invaluable capability for precise manipulation of objects in complex tasks. The capability of robots to similarly grasp and perform in-hand manipulation of objects is critical for their use in the ever changing human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Abraham Itzhak Weinberg , Alon Shirizly , Osher Azulay , Avishai Sintov

Humanoid robots are envisioned as embodied intelligent agents capable of performing a wide range of human-level loco-manipulation tasks, particularly in scenarios requiring strenuous and repetitive labor. However, learning these skills is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Junjia Liu , Zhuo Li , Minghao Yu , Zhipeng Dong , Sylvain Calinon , Darwin Caldwell , Fei Chen

Video coding has traditionally been developed to support services such as video streaming, videoconferencing, digital TV, and so on. The main intent was to enable human viewing of the encoded content. However, with the advances in deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Hadi Hadizadeh , Ivan V. Bajić

Visual-based human action recognition can be found in various application fields, e.g., surveillance systems, sports analytics, medical assistive technologies, or human-robot interaction frameworks, and it concerns the identification and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Antonios Gasteratos , Stavros N. Moutsis , Konstantinos A. Tsintotas , Yiannis Aloimonos

Imitation learning offers a promising path for robots to learn general-purpose behaviors, but traditionally has exhibited limited scalability due to high data supervision requirements and brittle generalization. Inspired by recent advances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Soroush Nasiriany , Tian Gao , Ajay Mandlekar , Yuke Zhu

We tackle the problem of learning complex, general behaviors directly in the real world. We propose an approach for robots to efficiently learn manipulation skills using only a handful of real-world interaction trajectories from many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Russell Mendonca , Shikhar Bahl , Deepak Pathak

Humans are able to seamlessly visually imitate others, by inferring their intentions and using past experience to achieve the same end goal. In other words, we can parse complex semantic knowledge from raw video and efficiently translate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Sudeep Dasari , Abhinav Gupta

Can we learn robot manipulation for everyday tasks, only by watching videos of humans doing arbitrary tasks in different unstructured settings? Unlike widely adopted strategies of learning task-specific behaviors or direct imitation of a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Homanga Bharadhwaj , Abhinav Gupta , Shubham Tulsiani , Vikash Kumar

Embodied intelligence has witnessed remarkable progress in recent years, driven by advances in computer vision, natural language processing, and the rise of large-scale multimodal models. Among its core challenges, robot manipulation stands…

Learning from visual data opens the potential to accrue a large range of manipulation behaviors by leveraging human demonstrations without specifying each of them mathematically, but rather through natural task specification. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Haoyu Xiong , Quanzhou Li , Yun-Chun Chen , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Samarth Sinha , Animesh Garg

Building a robot that can understand and learn to interact by watching humans has inspired several vision problems. However, despite some successful results on static datasets, it remains unclear how current models can be used on a robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Shikhar Bahl , Russell Mendonca , Lili Chen , Unnat Jain , Deepak Pathak