A survey of embodied learning for object-centric robotic manipulation

Y Zheng, L Yao, Y Su, Y Zhang, Y Wang… - ar** and
challenging area in embodied AI. It is crucial for advancing next-generation intelligent robots …

GLOVER: Generalizable open-vocabulary affordance reasoning for task-oriented gras**

T Ma, Z Wang, J Zhou, M Wang, J Liang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2411.12286, 2024 - arxiv.org
Inferring affordable (ie, graspable) parts of arbitrary objects based on human specifications
is essential for robots advancing toward open-vocabulary manipulation. Current grasp …

HAMSTER: Hierarchical Action Models For Open-World Robot Manipulation

Y Li, Y Deng, J Zhang, J Jang, M Memme, R Yu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Large foundation models have shown strong open-world generalization to complex
problems in vision and language, but similar levels of generalization have yet to be …

Learning from Massive Human Videos for Universal Humanoid Pose Control

J Mao, S Zhao, S Song, T Shi, J Ye, M Zhang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Scalable learning of humanoid robots is crucial for their deployment in real-world
applications. While traditional approaches primarily rely on reinforcement learning or …

One-shot imitation under mismatched execution

K Kedia, P Dan, A Chao, MA Pace… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Human demonstrations as prompts are a powerful way to program robots to do long-horizon
manipulation tasks. However, translating these demonstrations into robot-executable actions …

DenseMatcher: Learning 3D Semantic Correspondence for Category-Level Manipulation from a Single Demo

J Zhu, Y Ju, J Zhang, M Wang, Z Yuan, K Hu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Dense 3D correspondence can enhance robotic manipulation by enabling the
generalization of spatial, functional, and dynamic information from one object to an unseen …

GAPartManip: A Large-scale Part-centric Dataset for Material-Agnostic Articulated Object Manipulation

W Cui, C Zhao, S Wei, J Zhang, H Geng… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Effectively manipulating articulated objects in household scenarios is a crucial step toward
achieving general embodied artificial intelligence. Mainstream research in 3D vision has …

STRAP: Robot Sub-Trajectory Retrieval for Augmented Policy Learning

M Memmel, J Berg, B Chen, A Gupta… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Robot learning is witnessing a significant increase in the size, diversity, and complexity of
pre-collected datasets, mirroring trends in domains such as natural language processing …

AffordDP: Generalizable Diffusion Policy with Transferable Affordance

S Wu, Y Zhu, Y Huang, K Zhu, J Gu, J Yu, Y Shi… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Diffusion-based policies have shown impressive performance in robotic manipulation tasks
while struggling with out-of-domain distributions. Recent efforts attempted to enhance …

Task-Unaware Lifelong Robot Learning with Retrieval-based Weighted Local Adaptation

P Yang, X Wang, R Zhang, C Wang, F Oliehoek… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Real-world environments require robots to continuously acquire new skills while retaining
previously learned abilities, all without the need for clearly defined task boundaries. Storing …