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cs.RO2026

Smooth Operator: A Real-Time Sampling-Based Algorithm for Kinematic Hand Retargeting

Robert Jomar Malate, Erik Bauer, Norica Bacuieti +4

Advances in learning-based robotic manipulation, such as Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and Video Action Models (VAMs), heavily rely on high-quality teleoperation data. Their…

cs.RO2025

mimic-video: Video-Action Models for Generalizable Robot Control Beyond VLAs

Jonas Pai, Liam Achenbach, Victoriano Montesinos +3

Prevailing Vision-Language-Action Models (VLAs) for robotic manipulation are built upon vision-language backbones pretrained on large-scale, but disconnected static web data. As a…

cs.RO2025

mimic-one: a Scalable Model Recipe for General Purpose Robot Dexterity

Elvis Nava, Victoriano Montesinos, Erik Bauer +8

We present a diffusion-based model recipe for real-world control of a highly dexterous humanoid robotic hand, designed for sample-efficient learning and smooth fine-motor action in…

cs.RO2025

Latent Action Diffusion for Cross-Embodiment Manipulation

Erik Bauer, Elvis Nava, Robert K. Katzschmann

End-to-end learning is emerging as a powerful paradigm for robotic manipulation, but its effectiveness is limited by data scarcity and the heterogeneity of action spaces across rob…

cs.RO2022★ 4 cited

Fast Aquatic Swimmer Optimization with Differentiable Projective Dynamics and Neural Network Hydrodynamic Models

Elvis Nava, John Z. Zhang, Mike Y. Michelis +5

Aquatic locomotion is a classic fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problem of interest to biologists and engineers. Solving the fully coupled FSI equations for incompressible Navier…

cs.RO2021★ 19 cited

Sim2Real for Soft Robotic Fish via Differentiable Simulation

John Z. Zhang, Yu Zhang, Pingchuan Ma +5

Accurate simulation of soft mechanisms under dynamic actuation is critical for the design of soft robots. We address this gap with our differentiable simulation tool by learning th…