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. 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.
EgoSpeedUp is a framework that transfers human manipulation tempo to robot policies by aligning and retiming robot demonstrations using phase-wise tempo estimates derived from human demonstrations. The method improves task success rates by an average of 25 percentage points and reduces successful execution time by 36.5% on two real-world manipulation tasks. It demonstrates that human manipulation tempo can serve as an effective temporal reference for faster and more reliable robot policies.
By Hanbit Oh, Yukiyasu Domae, Takuma Yagi
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: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