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Dexterity is often seen as a cornerstone of complex manipulation. Humans are able to perform a host of skills with their hands, from making food to operating tools. In this paper, we investigate these challenges, especially in the case of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Aditya Kannan , Kenneth Shaw , Shikhar Bahl , Pragna Mannam , Deepak Pathak

Dexterous manipulation is a cornerstone capability for robotic systems aiming to interact with the physical world in a human-like manner. Although vision-based methods have advanced rapidly, tactile sensing remains crucial for fine-grained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Liang Heng , Haoran Geng , Kaifeng Zhang , Pieter Abbeel , Jitendra Malik

We propose a sim-to-real framework for dexterous manipulation which can generalize to new objects of the same category in the real world. The key of our framework is to train the manipulation policy with point cloud inputs and dexterous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Yuzhe Qin , Binghao Huang , Zhao-Heng Yin , Hao Su , Xiaolong Wang

Universal grasping with multi-fingered dexterous hands is a fundamental challenge in robotic manipulation. While recent approaches successfully learn closed-loop grasping policies using reinforcement learning (RL), the inherent difficulty…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Haoqi Yuan , Ziye Huang , Ye Wang , Chuan Mao , Chaoyi Xu , Zongqing Lu

In recent years, dual-arm manipulation has become an area of strong interest in robotics, with end-to-end learning emerging as the predominant strategy for solving bimanual tasks. A critical limitation of such learning-based approaches,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Iryna Hurova , Alinjar Dan , Karl Kruusamäe , Arun Kumar Singh

For robotic manipulation, existing robotics datasets and simulation benchmarks predominantly cater to robot-arm platforms. However, for humanoid robots equipped with dual arms and dexterous hands, simulation tasks and high-quality…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zhi Jing , Siyuan Yang , Jicong Ao , Ting Xiao , Yu-Gang Jiang , Chenjia Bai

Achieving human-like dexterous manipulation through the collaboration of multi-fingered hands with robotic arms remains a longstanding challenge in robotics, primarily due to the scarcity of high-quality demonstrations and the complexity of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yushan Bai , Fulin Chen , Hongzheng Sun , Yuchuang Tong , En Li , Zhengtao Zhang

Generating dexterous grasping has been a long-standing and challenging robotic task. Despite recent progress, existing methods primarily suffer from two issues. First, most prior arts focus on a specific type of robot hand, lacking the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Puhao Li , Tengyu Liu , Yuyang Li , Yiran Geng , Yixin Zhu , Yaodong Yang , Siyuan Huang

Teaching a multi-fingered dexterous robot to grasp objects in the real world has been a challenging problem due to its high dimensional state and action space. We propose a robot-learning system that can take a small number of human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Zoey Qiuyu Chen , Karl Van Wyk , Yu-Wei Chao , Wei Yang , Arsalan Mousavian , Abhishek Gupta , Dieter Fox

Existing research that addressed cable manipulation relied on two-fingered grippers, which make it difficult to perform similar cable manipulation tasks that humans perform. However, unlike dexterous manipulation of rigid objects, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Sun Zhaole , Xiao Gao , Xiaofeng Mao , Jihong Zhu , Aude Billard , Robert B. Fisher

Dexterous manipulation remains challenging due to the cost of collecting real-robot teleoperation data, the heterogeneity of hand embodiments, and the high dimensionality of control. We present UniDex, a robot foundation suite that couples…

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 ability to manipulate tools significantly expands the set of tasks a robot can perform. Yet, tool manipulation represents a challenging class of dexterity, requiring grasping thin objects, in-hand object rotations, and forceful…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Kushal Kedia , Tyler Ga Wei Lum , Jeannette Bohg , C. Karen Liu

Learning generalist policies capable of accomplishing a plethora of everyday tasks remains an open challenge in dexterous manipulation. In particular, collecting large-scale manipulation data via real-world teleoperation is expensive and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Yuxuan Kuang , Sungjae Park , Katerina Fragkiadaki , Shubham Tulsiani

Human manipulation skills represent a pinnacle of their voluntary motor functions, requiring the coordination of many degrees of freedom and processing of high-dimensional sensor input to achieve remarkable dexterity. Thus, we set out to…

Data scarcity fundamentally limits the generalization of bimanual dexterous manipulation, as real-world data collection for dexterous hands is expensive and labor-intensive. Human manipulation videos, as a direct carrier of manipulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Juncheng Mu , Sizhe Yang , Yiming Bao , Hojin Bae , Tianming Wei , Linning Xu , Boyi Li , Huazhe Xu , Jiangmiao Pang

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…

Articulated objects are ubiquitous in daily life. In this paper, we present DexSim2Real$^{2}$, a novel framework for goal-conditioned articulated object manipulation. The core of our framework is constructing an explicit world model of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Taoran Jiang , Yixuan Guan , Liqian Ma , Jing Xu , Jiaojiao Meng , Weihang Chen , Zecui Zeng , Lusong Li , Dan Wu , Rui Chen

While significant progress has been made on understanding hand-object interactions in computer vision, it is still very challenging for robots to perform complex dexterous manipulation. In this paper, we propose a new platform and pipeline…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Yuzhe Qin , Yueh-Hua Wu , Shaowei Liu , Hanwen Jiang , Ruihan Yang , Yang Fu , Xiaolong Wang

This paper introduces GEX, an innovative low-cost dexterous manipulation system that combines the GX11 tri-finger anthropomorphic hand (11 DoF) with the EX12 tri-finger exoskeleton glove (12 DoF), forming a closed-loop teleoperation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Yunlong Dong , Xing Liu , Jun Wan , Zelin Deng