arXiv Machine Learning

One Hand Watches The Other: Dynamic Multi-Agent Cooperation for Sample-Efficient Bimanual Manipulation in Dynamic Environments

arXiv:2607. 22119v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-stream robot manipulation policies achieve unparalleled sample efficiency and generalization by modeling actions relative to environmental reference frames.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

DynamicManip: Enabling Dynamic Manipulation from a Single Static Demonstration

arXiv:2608. 01452v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dynamic manipulation is a critical capability for robots operating in complex and dynamic environments, where robots must interact with objects that are moving or require rapid adjustments.

By Haoran Liao, Pengyue Wang, Shuoyu Chen, Kehan Cheng, Xuhang Chen, Yuhao Lin, Mu Lin, Zhizhao Liang, Xiaoyi Fan, Chengyi Xing, Dan Niu, Yi-Lin Wei, Wei-Shi Zheng
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 8

SERNF: Sample-Efficient Real-World Dexterous Policy Fine-Tuning via Action-Chunked Critics and Normalizing Flows

arXiv:2602. 09580v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-world fine-tuning of dexterous manipulation policies remains challenging due to limited real-world interaction budgets and highly multimodal action distributions.

By Chenyu Yang, Denis Tarasov, Davide Liconti, Romain Guntz, Hehui Zheng, Robert K. Katzschmann
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 14

Agent as Policy for Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2609.12541v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We demonstrate that a general-purpose agent can directly drive a physical robot throughout task execution without any task-specific or environment-spec...

By Mengzhao Jia, Yang Lin, Xixin Zhang, Zhihan Zhang, Xiaobai Liu, Meng Jiang
arXiv Computer Vision
3d ago

UniWAM Technical Report: Unified Mobile Manipulation via Mixed-Stream World-Action Modeling and Manipulation Anchor Pose Supervision

arXiv:2609.39388v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mobile manipulation requires precise navigation to a manipulation-ready pose followed by reliable object interaction. These two stages differ in acti...

By Wei Xue, Keliang Liu, Mingzhang Cui, Jinhua Xie, Jinjie Wei, Jianan Hou, Jingcheng Lu, Lintao Wang, Kaixiang Qiu, Yizhou Liu, Xinghai Ye, Jinghang Han, Mingcheng Li, Jie Gu, Shunli Wang, Lihua Zhang, Dingkang Yang
arXiv AI
Sep 18

HIL-UMI: Bringing Human-in-the-Loop Post-Training of Vision-Language-Action Models to Universal Manipulation Interface

HIL-UMI is a policy-guided Universal Manipulation Interface that enables robot‑free, human‑in‑the‑loop post‑training of vision‑language‑action models. By querying the current policy during handheld demonstrations and using an Energy Score to detect out‑of‑distribution states, it selectively collects new data and refines a progress‑based advantage estimator. The updated estimator then drives advantage‑conditioned behavioral cloning, improving performance on long‑horizon and precise manipulation tasks while reducing per‑frame collection time compared to HG‑DAgger.

By Zimu Han, Yiming Zeng, Jiyao Zhang, Zihao Zhao, Yuanfei Wang, Yixiang Jin, Shiqi Li, Shuangben Chen, Wei Huang, Ruodai Li, Hui Shen, Hao Dong