3 papers
cs.RO2026
Residual Compliant Policy: Learning Compliant Policies from Few Demonstrations
Chunyu Jiang, Yichen Cai, Shuai Li +6
Contact-rich manipulation requires a robot to be precise in free space to establish the intended contacts, and compliant once in contact to avoid excessive forces. Imitation learni…
cs.RO2025
Apple: Toward General Active Perception via Reinforcement Learning
Tim Schneider, Cristiana de Farias, Roberto Calandra +2
Active perception is a fundamental skill that enables us humans to deal with uncertainty in our inherently partially observable environment. For senses such as touch, where the inf…
cs.RO2025
GIFT: Geometry-Induced Functional Transfer for Category-level Object Manipulation
Cristiana de Farias, Luis Figueredo, Riddhiman Laha +5
Robotic manipulation of unfamiliar objects in new environments is challenging due to limited generalisation capabilities. We propose a new skill transfer framework, GIFT (Geometry-…