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The inherent difficulty and limited scalability of collecting manipulation data using multi-fingered robot hand hardware platforms have resulted in severe data scarcity, impeding research on data-driven dexterous manipulation policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Wenbin Bai , Qiyu Chen , Xiangbo Lin , Jianwen Li , Quancheng Li , Hejiang Pan , Yi Sun

Multi-step dexterous manipulation is a fundamental skill in household scenarios, yet remains an underexplored area in robotics. This paper proposes a modular approach, where each step of the manipulation process is addressed with dedicated…

Commercially accessible dexterous robot hands are increasingly prevalent, but many remain difficult to use as scientific instruments. For example, the Inspire RH56DFX hand exposes only uncalibrated proprioceptive information and shows…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xuan Tan , William Xie , Nikolaus Correll

Robotic dexterous manipulation is a challenging problem due to high degrees of freedom (DoFs) and complex contacts of multi-fingered robotic hands. Many existing deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based methods aim at improving sample…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Qingtao Liu , Zhengnan Sun , Yu Cui , Haoming Li , Gaofeng Li , Lin Shao , Jiming Chen , Qi Ye

Recently, reinforcement learning has led to dexterous manipulation skills of increasing complexity. Nonetheless, learning these skills in simulation still exhibits poor sample-efficiency which stems from the fact these skills are learned…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Gagan Khandate , Cameron Mehlman , Xingsheng Wei , Matei Ciocarlie

A key challenge in intelligent robotics is creating robots that are capable of directly interacting with the world around them to achieve their goals. The last decade has seen substantial growth in research on the problem of robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Oliver Kroemer , Scott Niekum , George Konidaris

Dexterous manipulation with anthropomorphic robot hands remains a challenging problem in robotics because of the high-dimensional state and action spaces and complex contacts. Nevertheless, skillful closed-loop manipulation is required to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Malte Mosbach , Kara Moraw , Sven Behnke

Dexterous multi-fingered hands can provide robots with the ability to flexibly perform a wide range of manipulation skills. However, many of the more complex behaviors are also notoriously difficult to control: Performing in-hand object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Anusha Nagabandi , Kurt Konoglie , Sergey Levine , Vikash Kumar

Dexterous multi-fingered hands can accomplish fine manipulation behaviors that are infeasible with simple robotic grippers. However, sophisticated multi-fingered hands are often expensive and fragile. Low-cost soft hands offer an appealing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Abhishek Gupta , Clemens Eppner , Sergey Levine , Pieter Abbeel

In this work, we introduce the EyeSight Hand, a novel 7 degrees of freedom (DoF) humanoid hand featuring integrated vision-based tactile sensors tailored for enhanced whole-hand manipulation. Additionally, we introduce an actuation scheme…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Branden Romero , Hao-Shu Fang , Pulkit Agrawal , Edward Adelson

This paper addresses the scarcity of low-cost but high-dexterity platforms for collecting real-world multi-fingered robot manipulation data towards generalist robot autonomy. To achieve it, we propose the RAPID Hand, a co-optimized hardware…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zhaoliang Wan , Zetong Bi , Zida Zhou , Hao Ren , Yiming Zeng , Yihan Li , Lu Qi , Xu Yang , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Hui Cheng

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…

Dexterous robotic hands enable robots to perform complex manipulations that require fine-grained control and adaptability. Achieving such manipulation is challenging because the high degrees of freedom tightly couple hand and arm motions,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ying Feng , Hongjie Fang , Yinong He , Jingjing Chen , Chenxi Wang , Zihao He , Ruonan Liu , Cewu Lu

In this paper, we introduce RealDex, a pioneering dataset capturing authentic dexterous hand grasping motions infused with human behavioral patterns, enriched by multi-view and multimodal visual data. Utilizing a teleoperation system, we…

Autonomous grasping remains challenging as unlike humans, robots do not possess a sophisticated sensing nor delicate interaction capability with the real environment. Among other efforts that tried to close the gap between them,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Tai Hoang

In this work, we aim to learn dexterous manipulation of deformable objects using multi-fingered hands. Reinforcement learning approaches for dexterous rigid object manipulation would struggle in this setting due to the complexity of physics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Sizhe Li , Zhiao Huang , Tao Chen , Tao Du , Hao Su , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

Dexterous manipulation is a fundamental capability for robotic systems, yet progress has been limited by hardware trade-offs between precision, compactness, strength, and affordability. Existing control methods impose compromises on hand…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Anya Zorin , Irmak Guzey , Billy Yan , Aadhithya Iyer , Lisa Kondrich , Nikhil X. Bhattasali , Lerrel Pinto

Kinematic retargeting from human hands to robot hands is essential for transferring dexterity from humans to robots in manipulation teleoperation and imitation learning. However, due to mechanical differences between human and robot hands,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Chendong Xin , Mingrui Yu , Yongpeng Jiang , Zhefeng Zhang , Xiang Li

Continuous in-hand manipulation is an important physical interaction skill, where tactile sensing provides indispensable contact information to enable dexterous manipulation of small objects. This work proposed a framework for end-to-end…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Wenbin Hu , Bidan Huang , Wang Wei Lee , Sicheng Yang , Yu Zheng , Zhibin Li

We automate soft robotic hand design iteration by co-optimizing design and control policy for dexterous manipulation skills in simulation. Our design iteration pipeline combines genetic algorithms and policy transfer to learn control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Pragna Mannam , Xingyu Liu , Ding Zhao , Jean Oh , Nancy Pollard