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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…
Cross-Hand Latent Representation for Vision-Language-Action Models
Guangqi Jiang, Yutong Liang, Jianglong Ye +6
Dexterous manipulation is essential for real-world robot autonomy, mirroring the central role of human hand coordination in daily activity. Humans rely on rich multimodal perceptio…
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 intractable for autonomous robots. These tasks are characterized not only by conta…
Contact-Aware Neural Dynamics
Changwei Jing, Jai Krishna Bandi, Jianglong Ye +4
High-fidelity physics simulation is essential for scalable robotic learning, but the sim-to-real gap persists, especially for tasks involving complex, dynamic, and discontinuous in…
EgoMI: Learning Active Vision and Whole-Body Manipulation from Egocentric Human Demonstrations
Justin Yu, Yide Shentu, Di Wu +3
Imitation learning from human demonstrations offers a promising approach for robot skill acquisition, but egocentric human data introduces fundamental challenges due to the embodim…
Learning to Design Soft Hands using Reward Models
Xueqian Bai, Nicklas Hansen, Adabhav Singh +5
Soft robotic hands promise to provide compliant and safe interaction with objects and environments. However, designing soft hands to be both compliant and functional across diverse…