12 accepted papers
Reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved great success in dexterous grasping, significantly improving grasp performance and generalization from simulation to the real world. However, fine-grained functional grasping, which is essential for downstream manipulation tasks, remains underexplored and fac
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 of high-dimensional, long-horizon exploration necessitates co…
Loco-manipulation is a fundamental challenge for humanoid robots to achieve versatile interactions in human environments. Although recent studies have made significant progress in humanoid whole-body control, loco-manipulation remains underexplored and often relies on hard-coded task definitions or
Recent advances in generative models have shown promise in generating behavior plans for long-horizon, sparse reward tasks. While these approaches have achieved promising results, they often lack a principled framework for hierarchical decomposition and struggle with the computational demands of rea…
Existing Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models struggle with complex manipulation tasks requiring high dexterity and generalization, primarily due to their reliance on synthetic data with significant sim-to-real gaps or limited teleoperated demonstrations. To address this bottleneck, we propose levera…
Learning universal policies from cross-embodied data remains a fundamental challenge in robotics. Although Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are pre-trained on large and diverse datasets, they typically rely on embodiment-specific fine-tuning to achieve strong performance in downstream tasks. This…
Collision-free navigation in dynamic environments, especially with moving pedestrians, is crucial for mobile robots. This paper introduces DUNE, a depth-based policy trained in simulation for collision-free navigation of Ackermann mobile robots in unstructured indoor environments. DUNE uses a CNN-LS…
Non-prehensile manipulation is crucial for handling objects that are too thin, large, or otherwise ungraspable in unstructured environments. While conventional planning-based approaches struggle with complex contact modeling, learning-based methods have recently emerged as a promising alternative. H…
Legged robots with advanced manipulation capabilities have the potential to significantly improve household duties and urban maintenance. Despite considerable progress in developing robust locomotion and precise manipulation methods, seamlessly integrating these into cohesive whole-body control for
Data scaling and standardized evaluation benchmarks have driven remarkable advances in natural language processing and computer vision. However, in robotics, scaling up data and establishing evaluation protocols pose significant challenges. Directly collecting real-world data is inefficient and reso…
Mobile manipulation constitutes a fundamental task for robotic assistants and garners significant attention within the robotics community. A critical challenge inherent in mobile manipulation is the effective observation of the target while approaching it for grasping. In this work, we propose a gra…
The integration of large-scale Vision-Language Models (VLMs) with embodied AI can greatly enhance the generalizability and the capacity to follow open instructions for robots. However, existing studies on object manipulation are not up to full consideration of the 6-DoF requirements, let alone estab…