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most citedGeometric Retargeting: A Principled, Ultrafast Neural Hand Retargeting Algorithm

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cs.RO2026

T-Rex: Tactile-Reactive Dexterous Manipulation

Dantong Niu, Zhuoyang Liu, Zekai Wang +31

The ability to react dynamically to tactile signals has long been considered crucial to agile human-level dexterity. Yet contemporary learning-based Vision-Language-Action (VLA) mo…

cs.RO2026

Mana: Dexterous Manipulation of Articulated Tools

Zhao-Heng Yin, Guanya Shi, Pieter Abbeel +1

Articulated tool manipulation remains a major challenge in dexterous robotics due to the need to coordinate internal degrees of freedom and contact-rich interactions. While prior w…

cs.RO2026

How to Peel with a Knife: Aligning Fine-Grained Manipulation with Human Preference

Toru Lin, Shuying Deng, Zhao-Heng Yin +2

Many essential manipulation tasks - such as food preparation, surgery, and craftsmanship - remain difficult for autonomous robots. These tasks are characterized not only by contact…

cs.RO2025

Lightning Grasp: High Performance Procedural Grasp Synthesis with Contact Fields

Zhao-Heng Yin, Pieter Abbeel

Despite years of research, real-time diverse grasp synthesis for dexterous hands remains an unsolved core challenge in robotics and computer graphics. We present Lightning Grasp, a…

cs.RO2025

Object-centric 3D Motion Field for Robot Learning from Human Videos

Zhao-Heng Yin, Sherry Yang, Pieter Abbeel

Learning robot control policies from human videos is a promising direction for scaling up robot learning. However, how to extract action knowledge (or action representations) from…

cs.RO2025

FastTD3: Simple, Fast, and Capable Reinforcement Learning for Humanoid Control

Younggyo Seo, Carmelo Sferrazza, Haoran Geng +3

Reinforcement learning (RL) has driven significant progress in robotics, but its complexity and long training times remain major bottlenecks. In this report, we introduce FastTD3,…

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

Geometric Retargeting: A Principled, Ultrafast Neural Hand Retargeting Algorithm

Zhao-Heng Yin, Changhao Wang, Luis Pineda +4

We introduce Geometric Retargeting (GeoRT), an ultrafast, and principled neural hand retargeting algorithm for teleoperation, developed as part of our recent Dexterity Gen (DexGen)…

cs.RO2025

DexterityGen: Foundation Controller for Unprecedented Dexterity

Zhao-Heng Yin, Changhao Wang, Luis Pineda +11

Teaching robots dexterous manipulation skills, such as tool use, presents a significant challenge. Current approaches can be broadly categorized into two strategies: human teleoper…

cs.RO2024

Offline Imitation Learning Through Graph Search and Retrieval

Zhao-Heng Yin, Pieter Abbeel

Imitation learning is a powerful machine learning algorithm for a robot to acquire manipulation skills. Nevertheless, many real-world manipulation tasks involve precise and dextero…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Twisting Lids Off with Two Hands

Toru Lin, Zhao-Heng Yin, Haozhi Qi +2

Manipulating objects with two multi-fingered hands has been a long-standing challenge in robotics, due to the contact-rich nature of many manipulation tasks and the complexity inhe…

cs.RO2023

Robot Synesthesia: In-Hand Manipulation with Visuotactile Sensing

Ying Yuan, Haichuan Che, Yuzhe Qin +6

Executing contact-rich manipulation tasks necessitates the fusion of tactile and visual feedback. However, the distinct nature of these modalities poses significant challenges. In…