arXiv:2512. 00062v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robotic policy learning for complex real-world manipulation tasks has seen rapid recent progress, enabled in large part by the ability to collect demonstrations through human operation.
By Taewook Nam, Junmo Cho, Youngsoo Jang, Sung Ju Hwang
arXiv:2608. 14379v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently achieved promising performance in robotic manipulation.
By Yuxuan Chen, Wanruo Zhang, Xiao Li
arXiv:2608. 09138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While learned robotic policies hold promise for advancing generalizable manipulation, their practical deployment is often hindered by suboptimal execution speeds.
By David D. Yuan, Tony Z. Zhao, Kaylee Burns, Chelsea Finn
While learned robotic policies hold promise for advancing generalizable manipulation, their practical deployment is often hindered by suboptimal execution speeds. Imitation learning policies are inherently limited by hardware constraints and the speed of the operator during data collection.
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:2512. 16861v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Long-horizon manipulation has been a long-standing challenge in the robotics community.
By Zihan Zhou, Animesh Garg, Ajay Mandlekar, Caelan Garrett
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.
By Jan Ole von Hartz, Abhinav Valada, Joschka Boedecker
arXiv:2606. 24403v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Object interaction tasks have been a focus of advances in imitation learning.
By Arsh Chawla, Rahul Shome
arXiv:2410. 24035v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generating robust and reactive manipulation strategies that can adapt to changing context information is a challenging task in robotics.
By Tim R. Winter, Leonard Kl\"upfel, Ashok M. Sundaram, Werner Friedl, Maximo A. Roa, Freek Stulp, Jo\~ao Silv\'erio
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. 15641v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans combine reasoning and motor control to solve complex manipulation tasks under diverse constraints.
By Anurag Maurya, Sukhvansh Jain, Prajwal Avhad, Gautham Balachandran, Ziyi Zhou, Atharva Kshirsagar, Satyam Singh, Bowen Li. Rishabh Mukund, Ritul Singh, Jatin Vira, Suvonil Chatterjee, Devesh K. Jha
arXiv:2608. 10600v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Skill abstraction---the process of learning reusable and temporally extended behaviors---has emerged as a key paradigm for improving sample efficiency and generalization in robot learning.
By Jusuk Lee, Daesol Cho, Jonghun Shin, Seungyeon Yoo, Jonghae Park, Taekbeom Lee, H. Jin Kim