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With advances in data-driven machine learning research, a wide variety of prediction models have been proposed to capture spatio-temporal features for the analysis of video streams. Recognising actions and detecting action transitions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Harshala Gammulle , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Simon Denman , Lachlan Tychsen-Smith , Lars Petersson , Clinton Fookes

Imitation learning for robotic manipulation faces a fundamental challenge: the scarcity of large-scale, high-quality robot demonstration data. Recent robotic foundation models often pre-train on cross-embodiment robot datasets to increase…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Hongzhe Bi , Lingxuan Wu , Tianwei Lin , Hengkai Tan , Zhizhong Su , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Learning diverse manipulation skills for real-world robots is severely bottlenecked by the reliance on costly and hard-to-scale teleoperated demonstrations. While human videos offer a scalable alternative, effectively transferring…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Han Zhou , Jinjin Cao , Liyuan Ma , Xueji Fang , Guo-jun Qi

Learning a generalist embodied agent capable of completing multiple tasks poses challenges, primarily stemming from the scarcity of action-labeled robotic datasets. In contrast, a vast amount of human videos exist, capturing intricate tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Haoran He , Chenjia Bai , Ling Pan , Weinan Zhang , Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li

The rise of deep learning has caused a paradigm shift in robotics research, favoring methods that require large amounts of data. Unfortunately, it is prohibitively expensive to generate such data sets on a physical platform. Therefore,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Fabio Muratore , Fabio Ramos , Greg Turk , Wenhao Yu , Michael Gienger , Jan Peters

Interactive robot learning is a challenging problem as the robot is present with human users who expect the robot to learn novel skills to solve novel tasks perpetually with sample efficiency. In this work we present a framework for robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Weiwei Gu , Suresh Kondepudi , Anmol Gupta , Lixiao Huang , Nakul Gopalan

Robot imitation learning is often hindered by the high cost of collecting large-scale, real-world data. This challenge is especially significant for low-cost robots designed for home use, as they must be both user-friendly and affordable.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Tao Zhang , Song Xia , Ye Wang , Qin Jin

A long-standing goal in robot learning is to develop methods for robots to acquire new skills autonomously. While reinforcement learning (RL) comes with the promise of enabling autonomous data collection, it remains challenging to scale in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Suvir Mirchandani , Suneel Belkhale , Joey Hejna , Evelyn Choi , Md Sazzad Islam , Dorsa Sadigh

This paper presents GenH2R, a framework for learning generalizable vision-based human-to-robot (H2R) handover skills. The goal is to equip robots with the ability to reliably receive objects with unseen geometry handed over by humans in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Zifan Wang , Junyu Chen , Ziqing Chen , Pengwei Xie , Rui Chen , Li Yi

There are many different ways a robot can move in Human-Robot Interaction. One way is to use techniques from film animation to instruct the robot to move. This article is a systematic literature review of human-robot trials, pilots, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Trenton Schulz , Jim Torresen , Jo Herstad

Learning robotic manipulation from human videos is a promising solution to the data bottleneck in robotics, but the distribution shift between humans and robots remains a critical challenge. Existing approaches often produce entangled…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Zhiyuan Li , Wenyan Yang , Wenshuai Zhao , Yue Ma , Yuanpeng Tu , Pekka Marttinen , Joni Pajarinen

Vision-based human-to-robot handover is an important and challenging task in human-robot interaction. Recent work has attempted to train robot policies by interacting with dynamic virtual humans in simulated environments, where the policies…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Sammy Christen , Lan Feng , Wei Yang , Yu-Wei Chao , Otmar Hilliges , Jie Song

Learning generic skills for humanoid robots interacting with 3D scenes by mimicking human data is a key research challenge with significant implications for robotics and real-world applications. However, existing methodologies and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yun Liu , Bowen Yang , Licheng Zhong , He Wang , Li Yi

Social robot navigation is an evolving research field that aims to find efficient strategies to safely navigate dynamic environments populated by humans. A critical challenge in this domain is the accurate modeling of human motion, which…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Tommaso Van Der Meer , Andrea Garulli , Antonio Giannitrapani , Renato Quartullo

When robots enter everyday human environments, they need to understand their tasks and how they should perform those tasks. To encode these, reward functions, which specify the objective of a robot, are employed. However, designing reward…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Erdem Bıyık

Learning new skills by observing humans' behaviors is an essential capability of AI. In this work, we leverage instructional videos to study humans' decision-making processes, focusing on learning a model to plan goal-directed actions in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Jing Bi , Jiebo Luo , Chenliang Xu

From loco-motion to dextrous manipulation, humanoid robots have made remarkable strides in demonstrating complex full-body capabilities. However, the majority of current robot learning datasets and benchmarks mainly focus on stationary…

The last half-decade has seen a steep rise in the number of contributions on safe learning methods for real-world robotic deployments from both the control and reinforcement learning communities. This article provides a concise but holistic…

Recent advances in generalist robot manipulation leverage pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and large-scale robot demonstrations to tackle diverse tasks in a zero-shot manner. A key challenge remains: scaling high-quality,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Alexander Spiridonov , Jan-Nico Zaech , Nikolay Nikolov , Luc Van Gool , Danda Pani Paudel

Multi-task learning by robots poses the challenge of the domain knowledge: complexity of tasks, complexity of the actions required, relationship between tasks for transfer learning. We demonstrate that this domain knowledge can be learned…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Sao Mai Nguyen , Nicolas Duminy , Alexandre Manoury , Dominique Duhaut , Cédric Buche