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15 papers

cs.RO2026

Gen2Dex: Learning Dexterous Manipulation from Simulation-Initialized Generated Video Demonstrations

Xiaowen Qiu, Yian Wang, Haoxiang You +1

Human video demonstrations provide rich manipulation strategies for dexterous manipulation learning. We study a setting in which a fully specified simulated scene is used to genera…

cs.RO2026

DexTaG: Tactile-as-Guidance in Reinforcement Learning for Dexterous Manipulation

Han Yang, Yian Wang, Yunlong Song +2

Glove-based motion capture is emerging as a scalable approach to collecting dexterous-hand demonstration data. However, due to the kinematic gap between the human and robot hand, t…

cs.RO2026

Self-Adaptive VLA for Robust Robot Deployment

Hongxin Zhang, Chunru Lin, Tsun-Hsuan Wang +2

While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models demonstrate impressive capabilities in robotic manipulation, their memoryless nature renders them brittle to test-time environment shifts,…

cs.RO2026

IM-ENGINE: Image Editing for Embodied Data Generation

Yian Wang, Junyi Cao, Xiaowen Qiu +1

Learning-based manipulation requires supervision that is both semantically meaningful and physically executable, but current data pipelines often provide only one of these properti…

cs.RO2026

GS-Agent: Creating 4D Physical Worlds With Generative Simulation

Hongxin Zhang, Chunru Lin, Junyan Li +3

Creating dynamic and physically realistic 4D worlds from natural language descriptions is both fascinating and challenging. Traditional computer graphics methods rely on manual cre…

cs.RO2026

DLO-Lab: Benchmarking Deformable Linear Object Manipulations with Differentiable Physics

Junyi Cao, Yian Wang, Ziyan Xiong +3

We address the challenge of enabling robots to manipulate deformable linear objects (DLOs), such as ropes, cables, and rubber bands. Prior work has primarily focused on narrow, tas…

cs.RO2026

RoboWits: Unexpected Challenges for Robotic Creative Problem Solving

Chunru Lin, Hongxin Zhang, Fenghao Yu +5

The ability to reason, adapt, and creatively solve problems under unexpected challenges is essential for robots operating in real-world environments. However, current robotic bench…

cs.RO2026

PhyScensis: Physics-Augmented LLM Agents for Complex Physical Scene Arrangement

Yian Wang, Han Yang, Minghao Guo +5

Automatically generating interactive 3D environments is crucial for scaling up robotic data collection in simulation. While prior work has primarily focused on 3D asset placement,…

cs.RO2025

RobotSmith: Generative Robotic Tool Design for Acquisition of Complex Manipulation Skills

Chunru Lin, Haotian Yuan, Yian Wang +7

Endowing robots with tool design abilities is critical for enabling them to solve complex manipulation tasks that would otherwise be intractable. While recent generative frameworks…

cs.RO2025

MatchMaker: Automated Asset Generation for Robotic Assembly

Yian Wang, Bingjie Tang, Chuang Gan +4

Robotic assembly remains a significant challenge due to complexities in visual perception, functional grasping, contact-rich manipulation, and performing high-precision tasks. Simu…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Articulate AnyMesh: Open-Vocabulary 3D Articulated Objects Modeling

Xiaowen Qiu, Jincheng Yang, Yian Wang +5

3D articulated objects modeling has long been a challenging problem, since it requires to capture both accurate surface geometries and semantically meaningful and spatially precise…

cs.RO2024

UBSoft: A Simulation Platform for Robotic Skill Learning in Unbounded Soft Environments

Chunru Lin, Jugang Fan, Yian Wang +6

It is desired to equip robots with the capability of interacting with various soft materials as they are ubiquitous in the real world. While physics simulations are one of the pred…

cs.CV2024

Architect: Generating Vivid and Interactive 3D Scenes with Hierarchical 2D Inpainting

Yian Wang, Xiaowen Qiu, Jiageng Liu +6

Creating large-scale interactive 3D environments is essential for the development of Robotics and Embodied AI research. Current methods, including manual design, procedural generat…

cs.RO2024

Thin-Shell Object Manipulations With Differentiable Physics Simulations

Yian Wang, Juntian Zheng, Zhehuan Chen +4

In this work, we aim to teach robots to manipulate various thin-shell materials. Prior works studying thin-shell object manipulation mostly rely on heuristic policies or learn poli…

cs.RO2024★ 2 cited

DIFFTACTILE: A Physics-based Differentiable Tactile Simulator for Contact-rich Robotic Manipulation

Zilin Si, Gu Zhang, Qingwei Ben +4

We introduce DIFFTACTILE, a physics-based differentiable tactile simulation system designed to enhance robotic manipulation with dense and physically accurate tactile feedback. In…