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Value as Memory: Online Value-Guided Post-training for General Robot Policies
Wenye Yu, Yijin Chen, Kaiyi Xiong +7
Real-world post-training of generalist robot policies faces two challenges: partial observability makes action selection ambiguous, while offline post-training methods delay feedba…
ForceWAM: Decoupling Future and Response Learning from Demo and Play Data for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Zijun Xu, Wendi Chen, Xinkai Wang +16
Expert demonstrations show how to complete contact-rich tasks, but provide limited coverage of how interaction forces respond to different actions. Task-agnostic play provides broa…
Contact Trajectory Prompting: In-Context Transfer of Contact-Rich Behaviors from a Single Demonstration
Xian Nie, Yujie Zang, Yuhang Zheng +8
In-context robot learning enables robots to acquire new behaviors from demonstrations without test-time parameter updates. However, visual and kinematic specifications alone may no…
FP2: Equipping Robotic Foundation Models with Force Control
Hongjie Fang, Shirun Tang, Junjian Hu +8
Robotic foundation models (RFMs) are increasingly capable of general-purpose manipulation, yet reliable physical interaction remains challenging in contact-rich settings. We presen…
FA-RDP: A Frequency-Adaptive Reactive Diffusion Policy for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Lifeng Zhuo, Wendi Chen, Han Xue +4
In contact-rich manipulation, action multimodality and reactivity dominate different stages of a single episode. Before contact, multiple trajectories might be equally valid, makin…
Asynchronous Multimodal Diffusion Policy Composition via Latency-Aware Guidance Fusion
Zihao He, Hongjie Fang, Shirun Tang +2
Diffusion policies have shown strong potential for robotic imitation learning, and recent extensions incorporate additional modalities to improve manipulation performance. However,…
Never Too Late for Force: Accelerating VLA Post-Training with Reactive Force Injection
Yi Wang, Wendi Chen, Zimo Wen +8
Pretrained vision-language-action (VLA) policies provide strong language-conditioned manipulation knowledge, but they remain largely vision-driven and can struggle once manipulatio…
AnyDexRT: Calibration-Free Dexterous Hand Retargeting with Few-Shot Human Guidance
Chenxi Wang, Ying Feng, Hongjie Fang +4
Teleoperation is a key interface for controlling dexterous robotic hands and collecting demonstrations for imitation learning. Its effectiveness largely depends on kinematic retarg…
FTP-1: A Generalist Foundation Tactile Policy Across Tactile Sensors for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Chengbo Yuan, Zicheng Zhang, Mingjie Zhou +14
Despite the success of vision-based generalist robotic policies, existing tactile-based policies remain tied to fixed embodiments and sensor setups. This is because tactile signals…
Scaling by Diversified Experience for Vision-Language-Action Models
Leiyu Wang, Zhaofengnian Wang, Xueqi Li +3
Vision-Language-Action models face significant challenges in real-world deployment due to the entanglement of high-level reasoning with low-level control, and the instability of po…
Revisiting Articulated Parts Perception in Robot Manipulation
Xiaoqian Wu, Yejie Guo, Xiaoyang Chen +3
We are surrounded by various objects with movable, articulated parts, e.g., box, handle, door. An accurate and generalizable perception of articulated parts is essential to enhance…
OpenEAI-Platform: An Open-source Embodied Artificial Intelligence Hardware-Software Unified Platform
Jinyuan Zhang, Luoyi Fan, Leiyu Wang +4
Embodied AI in the real world requires both accurate hardware and robust vision-language-action (VLA) policies. We present OpenEAI-Platform, a fully open-source platform that integ…
GeoAlign: Beyond Semantics with State-Guided Spatial Alignment in VLA Models
Yizhi Chen, Zhanxiang Cao, Xinyi Peng +14
Current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models often optimize for semantic grounding, whereas executable manipulation requires geometry-aware spatial alignment. We introduce GeoAlign,…
X-Imitator: Spatial-Aware Imitation Learning via Bidirectional Action-Pose Interaction
Kai Xiong, Hongjie Fang, Lixin Yang +1
Effectively handling the interplay between spatial perception and action generation remains a critical bottleneck in robotic manipulation. Existing methods typically treat spatial…
LIDEA: Human-to-Robot Imitation Learning via Implicit Feature Distillation and Explicit Geometry Alignment
Yifu Xu, Bokai Lin, Xinyu Zhan +4
Scaling up robot learning is hindered by the scarcity of robotic demonstrations, whereas human videos offer a vast, untapped source of interaction data. However, bridging the embod…
ActiveGlasses: Learning Manipulation with Active Vision from Ego-centric Human Demonstration
Yanwen Zou, Chenyang Shi, Wenye Yu +5
Large-scale real-world robot data collection is a prerequisite for bringing robots into everyday deployment. However, existing pipelines often rely on specialized handheld devices…
VTAM: Video-Tactile-Action Models for Complex Physical Interaction Beyond VLAs
Haoran Yuan, Weigang Yi, Zhenyu Zhang +9
Video-Action Models (VAMs) have emerged as a promising framework for embodied intelligence, learning implicit world dynamics from raw video streams to produce temporally consistent…
ForceVLA2: Unleashing Hybrid Force-Position Control with Force Awareness for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Yang Li, Zhaxizhuoma, Hongru Jiang +11
Embodied intelligence for contact-rich manipulation has predominantly relied on position control, while explicit awareness and regulation of interaction forces remain under-explore…
RoboPocket: Improve Robot Policies Instantly with Your Phone
Junjie Fang, Wendi Chen, Han Xue +7
Scaling robot learning is bottlenecked not only by data volume, but also by whether the data targets the policy's failures. Existing robot-free handheld interfaces enable portable…
Force Policy: Learning Hybrid Force-Position Control Policy under Interaction Frame for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Hongjie Fang, Shirun Tang, Mingyu Mei +9
Contact-rich manipulation demands human-like integration of perception and force feedback: vision should guide task progress, while high-frequency interaction control must stabiliz…
ImplicitRDP: An End-to-End Visual-Force Diffusion Policy with Structural Slow-Fast Learning
Wendi Chen, Han Xue, Yi Wang +6
Human-level contact-rich manipulation relies on the distinct roles of two key modalities: vision provides spatially rich but temporally slow global context, while force sensing cap…
ARMADA: Autonomous Online Failure Detection and Human Shared Control Empower Scalable Real-world Deployment and Adaptation
Wenye Yu, Jun Lv, Zixi Ying +3
Imitation learning has shown promise in learning from large-scale real-world datasets. However, pretrained policies usually perform poorly without sufficient in-domain data. Beside…
SOE: Sample-Efficient Robot Policy Self-Improvement via On-Manifold Exploration
Yang Jin, Jun Lv, Han Xue +3
Intelligent agents progress by continually refining their capabilities through actively exploring environments. Yet robot policies often lack sufficient exploration capability due…
Knowledge-Driven Imitation Learning: Enabling Generalization Across Diverse Conditions
Zhuochen Miao, Jun Lv, Hongjie Fang +2
Imitation learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm in robot manipulation, yet its generalization capability remains constrained by object-specific dependencies in limited expert…