Deep reinforcement learning for robotics: A survey of real-world successes

C Tang, B Abbatematteo, J Hu… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Reinforcement learning (RL), particularly its combination with deep neural networks,
referred to as deep RL (DRL), has shown tremendous promise across a wide range of …

Foundation models in robotics: Applications, challenges, and the future

R Firoozi, J Tucker, S Tian… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
We survey applications of pretrained foundation models in robotics. Traditional deep
learning models in robotics are trained on small datasets tailored for specific tasks, which …

Toward general-purpose robots via foundation models: A survey and meta-analysis

Y Hu, Q Xie, V Jain, J Francis, J Patrikar… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Building general-purpose robots that operate seamlessly in any environment, with any
object, and utilizing various skills to complete diverse tasks has been a long-standing goal in …

NeuralFeels with neural fields: Visuotactile perception for in-hand manipulation

S Suresh, H Qi, T Wu, T Fan, L Pineda, M Lambeta… - Science Robotics, 2024 - science.org
To achieve human-level dexterity, robots must infer spatial awareness from multimodal
sensing to reason over contact interactions. During in-hand manipulation of novel objects …

Survey of learning-based approaches for robotic in-hand manipulation

AI Weinberg, A Shirizly, O Azulay… - Frontiers in Robotics and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Human dexterity is an invaluable capability for precise manipulation of objects in complex
tasks. The capability of robots to similarly grasp and perform in-hand manipulation of objects …

3d diffusion policy

Y Ze, G Zhang, K Zhang, C Hu, M Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Imitation learning provides an efficient way to teach robots dexterous skills; however,
learning complex skills robustly and generalizablely usually consumes large amounts of …

Lessons from Learning to Spin" Pens"

J Wang, Y Yuan, H Che, H Qi, Y Ma, J Malik… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In-hand manipulation of pen-like objects is an important skill in our daily lives, as many tools
such as hammers and screwdrivers are similarly shaped. However, current learning-based …

Parameterized quasi-physical simulators for dexterous manipulations transfer

X Liu, K Lyu, J Zhang, T Du, L Yi - European Conference on Computer …, 2025 - Springer
We explore the dexterous manipulation transfer problem by designing simulators. The task
wishes to transfer human manipulations to dexterous robot hand simulations and is …

Grasping diverse objects with simulated humanoids

Z Luo, J Cao, S Christen, A Winkler, K Kitani… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present a method for controlling a simulated humanoid to grasp an object and move it to
follow an object trajectory. Due to the challenges in controlling a humanoid with dexterous …

Eyesight hand: Design of a fully-actuated dexterous robot hand with integrated vision-based tactile sensors and compliant actuation

B Romero, HS Fang, P Agrawal, E Adelson - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this work, we introduce the EyeSight Hand, a novel 7 degrees of freedom (DoF) humanoid
hand featuring integrated vision-based tactile sensors tailored for enhanced whole-hand …