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most citedDexterous Manipulation through Imitation Learning: A Survey

2 citations · 4 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.RO2026

Function beyond Form: Functional Correspondence for Cross-Embodiment Dexterous Grasp Generation

Bolin Zou, Wenlong Dong, Mu Ai +4

Cross-embodiment dexterous grasp generation remains challenging because robotic hands differ substantially in geometry, topology, and kinematics. Existing approaches often lack exp…

cs.RO2026

RoboICL: Embodied In-Context Learning with GPT-6 Astra

Fangcheng Liu, Yeqing Shen, Anda Cheng +7

General-purpose vision-language models offer a promising way to zero-shot robot control: \gptastra{} excels at open-ended and language- or image-conditioned manipulation but remain…

cs.RO2026

Imperfection for Precision: Upcycling Imperfect Data for High-Precision Robotic Manipulation

Hao Wei, Yang Liu, Chao Tang +7

Training vision-language-action (VLA) models for high-precision manipulation typically requires task-specific, high-quality data (e.g., teleoperation), which is slow and expensive…

cs.RO2026

What Matters in Designing World Action Models: An Empirical Study

Chao Tang, Haoqing Wang, Zilang Cen +9

World Action Models (WAMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for generalizable robot control. Despite the growing number of WAM systems, existing works often introduce unified s…

cs.RO2026

PSR: Predictive Sensorimotor Representation Learning for Contact-Rich Manipulation

Shengbao Li, Peng Xu, Chao Tang +8

Contact-rich manipulation requires policies to generate precise actions by reasoning over contact forces, robot configurations, and interaction histories beyond visual observations…

cs.RO2026

Grasp as You Dream: Imitating Functional Grasping from Generated Human Demonstrations

Chao Tang, Jiacheng Xu, Haofei Lu +4

Building generalist robots capable of performing functional grasping in everyday, open-world environments remains a significant challenge due to the vast diversity of objects and t…

cs.RO2026

Easy-IIL: Reducing Human Operational Burden in Interactive Imitation Learning via an Assistant Expert

Chengjie Zhang, Chao Tang, Wenlong Dong +3

Interactive Imitation Learning (IIL) typically relies on extensive human involvement for both offline demonstration and online interaction. Prior work primarily focuses on reducing…

cs.RO2025★ 2 cited

Dexterous Manipulation through Imitation Learning: A Survey

Shan An, Ziyu Meng, Chao Tang +9

Dexterous manipulation, which refers to the ability of a robotic hand or multi-fingered end-effector to skillfully control, reorient, and manipulate objects through precise, coordi…

cs.RO2025

FlowPlan: Zero-Shot Task Planning with LLM Flow Engineering for Robotic Instruction Following

Zijun Lin, Chao Tang, Hanjing Ye +1

Robotic instruction following tasks require seamless integration of visual perception, task planning, target localization, and motion execution. However, existing task planning met…

cs.RO2025

HGDiffuser: Efficient Task-Oriented Grasp Generation via Human-Guided Grasp Diffusion Models

Dehao Huang, Wenlong Dong, Chao Tang +1

Task-oriented grasping (TOG) is essential for robots to perform manipulation tasks, requiring grasps that are both stable and compliant with task-specific constraints. Humans natur…

cs.RO2025

FUNCTO: Function-Centric One-Shot Imitation Learning for Tool Manipulation

Chao Tang, Anxing Xiao, Yuhong Deng +5

Learning tool use from a single human demonstration video offers a highly intuitive and efficient approach to robot teaching. While humans can effortlessly generalize a demonstrate…

cs.RO2024

RTAGrasp: Learning Task-Oriented Grasping from Human Videos via Retrieval, Transfer, and Alignment

Wenlong Dong, Dehao Huang, Jiangshan Liu +2

Task-oriented grasping (TOG) is crucial for robots to accomplish manipulation tasks, requiring the determination of TOG positions and directions. Existing methods either rely on co…

cs.RO2024★ 2 cited

FoundationGrasp: Generalizable Task-Oriented Grasping with Foundation Models

Chao Tang, Dehao Huang, Wenlong Dong +2

Task-oriented grasping (TOG), which refers to synthesizing grasps on an object that are configurationally compatible with the downstream manipulation task, is the first milestone t…

cs.RO2024

Commonsense Scene Graph-based Target Localization for Object Search

Wenqi Ge, Chao Tang, Hong Zhang

Object search is a fundamental skill for household robots, yet the core problem lies in the robot's ability to locate the target object accurately. The dynamic nature of household…