Articulated tool manipulation remains a major challenge in dexterous robotics due to the need to coordinate internal degrees of freedom and contact-rich interactions. While prior work has largely focused on rigid objects, articulated tool use remains underexplored because of its physical complexity and the difficulty of learning functional grasping and manipulation policies.
arXiv:2602. 13197v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The ability to learn manipulation skills by watching videos of humans has the potential to unlock a new source of highly scalable data for robot learning.
By Albert J. Zhai, Kuo-Hao Zeng, Jiasen Lu, Ali Farhadi, Shenlong Wang, Wei-Chiu Ma
arXiv:2607. 00033v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dexterous robot manipulation can benefit from the abundance of human demonstrations, but transferring such demonstrations to robot policies remains challenging.
By Xinghao Zhu, Zixi Liu, Shalin Jain, Chenran Li, Milad Noori, Huihua Zhao, John Welsh, Michael Andres Lin, Wei Liu, Tingwu Wang, Xingye Da, Zhengyi Luo, Vishal Kulkarni, Naema Bhatti, Yuke Zhu, Linxi Fan, Bowen Wen, Danfei Xu, Soha Pouya, Yan Chang
arXiv:2606. 10244v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Yielding Universal Bidigital Interface (YUBI), a finger-aligned gripper designed to enable intuitive, ergonomic, and scalable data collection for bimanual dexterous manipulation.
By Takehiko Ohkawa, Jumpei Arima, Yuki Noguchi, Masatoshi Tateno, Makoto Sugiura, Takuya Okubo, Kengo Ikeuchi, Yuma Shin, Hiroki Nishizawa, Naoaki Kanazawa, Yuki Wakayama, Daiki Fukunaga, Koshi Makihara, Tomohiro Motoda, Floris Erich, Yukiyasu Domae, Tatsuya Matsushima, Yohishiro Okumatsu, Kei Ota
Recent work in humanoid whole-body control has found success with a simple recipe: retarget human motion to robot kinematic references, then train policies via reinforcement learning (RL) to track them. But how does this recipe transfer to dexterous manipulation?
arXiv:2606. 10614v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic foundation models pre-trained on human demonstration videos have shown promise, but a significant embodiment gap remains when the resulting policies are deployed on real robots.
By Beomjun Kim, Seong Hyeon Park, Seunghoon Sim, Seungjun Moon, Sanghyeok Lee, Jinwoo Shin
arXiv:2607. 11874v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent work in humanoid whole-body control has found success with a simple recipe: retarget human motion to robot kinematic references, then train policies via reinforcement learning (RL) to track them.
By Yunhai Feng, Natalie Leung, Jiaxuan Wang, Lujie Yang, Haozhi Qi, Preston Culbertson
arXiv:2606. 04269v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deformable object manipulation (DOM) is challenging due to high-dimensional, partially observable states that evolve through long-horizon, topology-changing interactions with multiple valid manipulation modes.
By Yilong Wang, Cheng Qian, Edward Johns
arXiv:2606. 26428v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-fingered robots promise the speed and dexterity of human hands, yet challenging problems such as precise assembly have remained out of reach.
By Tyler Ga Wei Lum, Kushal Kedia, C. Karen Liu, Jeannette Bohg
arXiv:2606. 26423v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon, contact-rich complex manipulation tasks, such as seating a GPU into a PCIe slot, demand both millimeter high precision and out-of-the-box generalization to new tasks.
By Haonan Chen, Yuxiang Ma, Stephen Tian, Xiaoshen Han, Wenlong Huang, Feiyang Wu, Yunzhu Li, Jiajun Wu, Edward H. Adelson, Yilun Du
arXiv:2606. 12109v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pre-trained Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models provide useful semantic and spatial priors, yet their parallel-gripper action interfaces do not specify how those priors should be realized by a dexterous hand.
By Chuanke Pang, Junyi Huang, Zhijun Zhao, Yaobing Wang, Kun Xu, Xilun Ding
arXiv:2608. 15917v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-scale pre-training has made robot policy fine-tuning increasingly data-efficient, but this progress has largely been driven by datasets and embodiments built around simple parallel-jaw grippers.
By Sarthak Kamat, Adam Rashid, Satvik Sharma, Aseem Doriwala, Chelsea Finn, Phillip Isola, C. Karen Liu