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We introduce Robowheel, a data engine that converts human hand object interaction (HOI) videos into training-ready supervision for cross morphology robotic learning. From monocular RGB or RGB-D inputs, we perform high precision HOI…

We propose DemoDiffusion, a simple method for enabling robots to perform manipulation tasks by imitating a single human demonstration, without requiring task-specific training or paired human-robot data. Our approach is based on two…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Sungjae Park , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Shubham Tulsiani

Imitation learning from human hand motion data presents a promising avenue for imbuing robots with human-like dexterity in real-world manipulation tasks. Despite this potential, substantial challenges persist, particularly with the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Chen Wang , Haochen Shi , Weizhuo Wang , Ruohan Zhang , Li Fei-Fei , C. Karen Liu

Despite increasing dataset scale and model capacity, robot manipulation policies still struggle to generalize beyond their training distributions. As a result, deploying state-of-the-art policies in new environments, tasks, or robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Omar Rayyan , Maximilian Gilles , Yuchen Cui

Teaching robots dexterous manipulation skills, such as tool use, presents a significant challenge. Current approaches can be broadly categorized into two strategies: human teleoperation (for imitation learning) and sim-to-real reinforcement…

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…

Physics-based humanoid control has achieved remarkable progress in enabling realistic and high-performing single-agent behaviors, yet extending these capabilities to cooperative human-object interaction (HOI) remains challenging. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Stefan Lionar , Gim Hee Lee

We address the challenging task of text-driven 3D human-object interaction (HOI) motion generation. Existing methods primarily rely on a direct text-to-HOI mapping, which suffers from three key limitations due to the significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yin Wang , Ziyao Zhang , Zhiying Leng , Haitian Liu , Frederick W. B. Li , Mu Li , Xiaohui Liang

For contact-intensive tasks, the ability to generate policies that produce comprehensive tactile-aware motions is essential. However, existing data collection and skill learning systems for dexterous manipulation often suffer from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xingyu Zhang , Chaofan Zhang , Boyue Zhang , Zhinan Peng , Shaowei Cui , Shuo Wang

In the context of imitation learning applied to dexterous robotic hands, the high complexity of the systems makes learning complex manipulation tasks challenging. However, the numerous datasets depicting human hands in various different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Davide Liconti , Yasunori Toshimitsu , Robert Katzschmann

This paper presents a multi-contact motion adaptation framework that enables teleoperation of high degree-of-freedom (DoF) robots, such as quadrupeds and humanoids, for loco-manipulation tasks in multi-contact settings. Our proposed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Quentin Rouxel , Kai Yuan , Ruoshi Wen , Zhibin Li

Dexterous manipulation requires careful reasoning over extrinsic contacts. The prevalence of deforming tools in human environments, the use of deformable sensors, and the increasing number of soft robots yields a need for approaches that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Mark Van der Merwe , Miquel Oller , Dmitry Berenson , Nima Fazeli

Humans interact with objects all the time. Enabling a humanoid to learn human-object interaction (HOI) is a key step for future smart animation and intelligent robotics systems. However, recent progress in physics-based HOI requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Yinhuai Wang , Jing Lin , Ailing Zeng , Zhengyi Luo , Jian Zhang , Lei Zhang

We present DexUMI - a data collection and policy learning framework that uses the human hand as the natural interface to transfer dexterous manipulation skills to various robot hands. DexUMI includes hardware and software adaptations to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Mengda Xu , Han Zhang , Yifan Hou , Zhenjia Xu , Linxi Fan , Manuela Veloso , Shuran Song

We address the problem of generating realistic 3D motions of humans interacting with objects in a scene. Our key idea is to create a neural interaction field attached to a specific object, which outputs the distance to the valid interaction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Nilesh Kulkarni , Davis Rempe , Kyle Genova , Abhijit Kundu , Justin Johnson , David Fouhey , Leonidas Guibas

Teaching robots dexterous manipulation skills often requires collecting hundreds of demonstrations using wearables or teleoperation, a process that is challenging to scale. Videos of human-object interactions are easier to collect and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Tyler Ga Wei Lum , Olivia Y. Lee , C. Karen Liu , Jeannette Bohg

Functional grasping with dexterous robotic hands is a key capability for enabling tool use and complex manipulation, yet progress has been constrained by two persistent bottlenecks: the scarcity of large-scale datasets and the absence of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Xingyi He , Adhitya Polavaram , Yunhao Cao , Om Deshmukh , Tianrui Wang , Xiaowei Zhou , Kuan Fang

In this work, we aim to learn a unified vision-based policy for multi-fingered robot hands to manipulate a variety of objects in diverse poses. Though prior work has shown benefits of using human videos for policy learning, performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zerui Chen , Shizhe Chen , Etienne Arlaud , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Humanoid robots derive much of their dexterity from hyper-dexterous whole-body movements, enabling tasks that require a large operational workspace: such as picking objects off the ground. However, achieving these capabilities on real…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Jialong Li , Xuxin Cheng , Tianshu Huang , Shiqi Yang , Ri-Zhao Qiu , Xiaolong Wang

Human-like dexterous hands with multiple fingers offer human-level manipulation capabilities, but training control policies that can directly deploy on real hardware remains difficult due to contact-rich physics and imperfect actuation. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Zhe Zhao , Haoyu Dong , Zhengmao He , Yang Li , Xinyu Yi , Zhibin Li