Robot Learning Radar

2026-11-02

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HandMimicX: Learning Human-Like Dexterous Manipulation via an Object-Centric Policy from Egocentric Videos

Zihan Gao, Yufei Liu, Yuhong Zhang et al. · cs.RO

Manipulation 95%
Abstract

Learning dexterous manipulation from human videos remains an open challenge, particularly in the context of transferring a single demonstration into a spatially generalizable robotic skill and maintaining physically plausible human-like interactions. Unlike prior works that emphasize hand-motion imitation, we introduce an object-centric framework for acquiring dexterous skills from egocentric human RGB-D videos. Within our framework, we formulate the reinforcement learning (RL) objective in terms of object motion to decouple the underlying skill from the specific hand trajectory and impose constraints on hand-object interaction states to promote more anatomically natural hand configurations. Extensive experiments in simulation and on real robots demonstrate that our method enables efficient learning from human videos and generalizable skill transfer across novel spatial configurations.

arxiv:2610.41336Useful?👍👎
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RTPolicy: Real-Time (32.9 Hz) Multi-View Visuomotor Policy for Robotic Manipulation on Edge Devices

Xianbao Hou, Zehao Ni, Yonghao He et al. · cs.RO

Manipulation 95%
Abstract

Low inference latency is critical for closed-loop robotic manipulation, especially under asynchronous inference, where action chunks must be updated promptly to correct accumulated deviations. However, existing visuomotor policies rely on computationally expensive visual backbones, resulting in high inference latency and deployment overhead. In this paper, we propose RTPolicy, a multi-view visuomotor policy that attains accurate manipulation with high inference efficiency. Its core design combines view-aware feature fusion with visual compression to aggregate complementary information across camera views into a compact token representation. The representation conditions a flow-matching action generator with the robot state and flow time, reducing the cost of action generation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that this design reduces the computational cost of visual representation and action generation while preserving visual information required for manipulation. On the RoboTwin~2.0 single-task clean evaluation across 50 tasks, RTPolicy attains a mean success rate of 52.26\%, outperforming the strongest leaderboard baseline $\pi_0$ (46.4\%). We further evaluate RTPolicy under asynchronous streaming inference on a real bimanual platform, where RTPolicy attains a mean success rate of 72.0\% and sustains real-time inference at 30.35 ms (32.9 Hz) on the RDK S600 and 149.72 ms (6.7 Hz) on the RDK S100, both in INT16. Project Page: https://d-robotics-ai-lab.github.io/RTPolicy.project.

arxiv:2610.41625Useful?👍👎
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Direct Action-Manifold Modeling for Efficient and Robust Bimanual Manipulation

Hongren Wang, Mingyu You, Zihan Li et al. · cs.RO

Manipulation 95%
Abstract

Diffusion and flow matching visuomotor policies require iterative denoising or numerical integration for multimodal action generation, introducing latency and execution mismatch. We instead consider a different formulation: conditioned on vision and proprioception, demonstrated bimanual action chunks concentrate in a structured observation-dependent region of joint-action space, making the action target more direct to model than the generative process. Based on this view, we propose the Direct Manifold Action Transformer (DMAT), which reformulates action generation as the direct modeling of clean, observation-conditioned joint-space action chunks from stochastic interpolants, thereby enabling single-step inference without relying on iterative generative inference or auxiliary trajectory-straightening procedures. Within DMAT, local 3D geometry anchors predictions to spatial structure, while State-Consistent Spectral-Time Refinement (STR) reconciles predicted chunks with proprioception and suppresses high-frequency residuals. Across 567 standard and out-of-distribution (OOD) trials per method, DMAT outperformed Improved 3D Diffusion Policy (IDP3) and DiTFlow3D in aggregate success rate, achieving relative improvements of 129.1% and 95.7%, respectively, while generating action chunks 2.06x and 1.34x faster and remaining robust under repeated 50 N interventions. These results pave the way for a novel generative paradigm for efficient and robust bimanual manipulation.

arxiv:2610.41643Useful?👍👎

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Language-Conditioned Behavioral Cloning for Autonomous Endoscope Guidance

Ariel Rodriguez, Lorenzo Mazza, Ortrun Hellig et al. · cs.RO

Vision-language-action 94%
Abstract

Automated endoscope guidance reduces the need for continuous manual camera control during minimally invasive surgery. However, the desired camera motion depends on the surgeon's immediate intentions and cannot always be inferred from the visual operative scene alone. We propose to automate the task using language-conditioned behavioral cloning; we define 6 clinically relevant guidance behaviors and collect 235 subtask demonstrations. In preliminary phantom experiments, our policy achieves 100% success on focus, overview, and stop, 80% on search-tip and follow-tip behaviors, and 50% on horizon leveling. These results demonstrate the feasibility of learning heterogeneous surgeon-requested camera behaviors with a single visuomotor policy, while the observed failure modes motivate future work on adding temporal context for more demanding guidance tasks.

arxiv:2610.41978Useful?👍👎