arXiv:2606. 12109v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot generalization in robotic manipulation, yet the vast majority of pre-trained pipelines remain strictly confined to low-DoF parallel grippers.
By Chuanke Pang, Junyi Huang, Zhijun Zhao, Yaobing Wang, Kun Xu, Xilun Ding
ADEPT is a reinforcement‑learning framework that first pre‑trains a dexterous policy on a generic object reposing task and then post‑trains downstream policies using this pretrained behavior as a prior. The approach avoids relearning basic skills for each new task, and employs a stable post‑training recipe—behavior‑cloning distillation, critic warm‑up, and conservative on‑policy updates—to preserve the pretrained capabilities. ADEPT’s joint‑space Geometric Fabric mediates between the policy and the robot, enabling zero‑shot sim‑to‑real transfer on a 23‑DoF Kuka‑Allegro and a 29‑DoF Flexiv‑Sharpa, where the robots solve long‑horizon tasks from challenging initial states at human‑level speed.
By Jayjun Lee, Jessica Yin, Asif Rana, Nicholas Blauch, Sam Mady, Mohak Bhardwaj, Nima Fazeli, Nathan Ratliff, Karl Van Wyk, Ankur Handa
arXiv:2609.01596v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Real-world robotic assembly at sub-millimeter tolerances demands spatial precision, compliant interaction, and robustness to contact failures. We pre...
By Haoyuan Deng, Haichao Liu, Wenkai Guo, Yuan Ling, Zaijia Yang, Yuanjiang Xue, Haosheng Sun, Liangzi Wang, Ziwei Wang
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:2608. 19759v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multifingered grasping is a crucial robotic skill, but current deep-learning grasp planners often struggle to generalize to new objects because they are trained on limited, object-specific datasets.
By Julien Merand, Boris Meden, Mathieu Grossard, Liming Chen
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:2604. 04138v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Dexterous manipulation requires planning a grasp configuration suited to the object and task, which is then executed through coordinated multi-finger control.
By Juhan Park, Taerim Yoon, Seungmin Kim, Joong-Gil Kim, Wontae Ye, Jeongeun Park, Yoonbyung Chai, Geonwoo Cho, Geunwoo Cho, Dohyeong Kim, Kyungjae Lee, Yong-Jae Kim, Sungjoon Choi
The paper introduces a continual‑learning framework for single‑view 6‑DoF grasp synthesis with a parallel‑jaw gripper in cluttered scenes. Instead of fine‑tuning a large parametric model, the method updates grasp scores via memory in a learned embedding space and optionally incorporates user demonstrations to generate new candidate grasps. Experiments in simulation and real‑world trials (over 1500 grasps) show that the approach matches baseline performance before adaptation, improves online on unseen objects, and achieves over 90% success on challenging categories after just 50 online attempts.
By Giulio Schiavi, Andrei Cramariuc, Michael Pantic, Roland Siegwart
Real-world robotic assembly at sub-millimeter tolerances demands spatial precision, compliant interaction, and robustness to contact failures. We present Facet-0, a robotic foundation model that predi...
arXiv:2506. 04147v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Building capable household and industrial robots requires mastering the control of versatile, high-degree-of-freedom (DoF) systems such as mobile manipulators.
By Jiaheng Hu, Peter Stone, Roberto Mart\'in-Mart\'in
AdaRoboVLG is a Vision‑Language‑Grasp framework that separates a generalizable base grasp policy from task‑specific understanding. The base policy generates and evaluates physically feasible grasp candidates using kinematic mapping and force‑closure stability, while foundation‑model modules supply composable spatial, cognitive, and temporal priors that adapt grasp synthesis to different robotic hands and environments without retraining. Experiments show strong cross‑hand generalization, effective handling of diverse grasping challenges, and functional grasping in cluttered, dynamic settings.
By Sixu Yan, Shikang Wang, Binhua Huang, Xuanlai Tang, Guohua Fan, Fan Huang, Haoxuan Li, Yongkang Li, Yuhan Li, Bencheng Liao, Zeyu Zhang, Wenyu Liu, Hangxin Liu, Xinggang Wang
arXiv:2606. 02194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distilling expert demonstration data into large generative models using behavioral cloning is a scalable approach to learning capable policies for robotic control, particularly for dexterous manipulation.
By Christian Scherer, Joe Watson, Theo Gruner, Daniel Palenicek, Ingmar Posner, Jan Peters