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:2610.14691v2 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Recent advances in 3D hand-object interaction (HOI) perception have opened new opportunities for learning dexterous robotic skills from human videos....
By Zihan Gao, Yuhong Zhang, Mengzhe Wang, Kaisheng Liu, Shengpeng Li, Siyao Xiao, Runqing Cheng, Xiao Lin, Zhifang Liu, Haoqian Wang
Dex-One2Many introduces a real-to-sim-to-real framework that learns a generalizable dexterous manipulation policy from a single human video. By abstracting the video into sequential scene graphs, the method guides reinforcement learning with dense rewards and diverse reset states, enabling efficient exploration while preserving broad generalizability. Trained entirely in simulation, Dex-One2Many achieves zero‑shot transfer to a real multi‑fingered hand and outperforms baselines by 6.5% on seen configurations and 71% on unseen scenarios across five tool‑use and manipulation tasks.
By Jusuk Lee, Sungha Kim, Yeonsoo Park, Jonguk Cheon, Yoonkyo Jung, Yongjun You, H. Jin Kim, Jia-Bin Huang, Furong Huang, Youngseok Jang, Seungjae Lee
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: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
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