3 papers
cs.RO2026
Play2Perfect: What Matters in Dexterous Play Pretraining for Precise Assembly?
Tyler Ga Wei Lum, Kushal Kedia, C. Karen Liu +1
Multi-fingered robots promise the speed and dexterity of human hands, yet challenging problems such as precise assembly have remained out of reach. These tasks are contact-rich, ma…
cs.RO2026
SimToolReal: An Object-Centric Policy for Zero-Shot Dexterous Tool Manipulation
Kushal Kedia, Tyler Ga Wei Lum, Jeannette Bohg +1
The ability to manipulate tools significantly expands the set of tasks a robot can perform. Yet, tool manipulation represents a challenging class of dexterity, requiring grasping t…
cs.RO2026
Scaffolding Dexterous Manipulation with Vision-Language Models
Vincent de Bakker, Joey Hejna, Tyler Ga Wei Lum +6
Dexterous robotic hands are essential for performing complex manipulation tasks, yet remain difficult to train due to the challenges of demonstration collection and high-dimensiona…