Generative Artificial Intelligence in Robotic Manipulation: A Survey
LimX Dynamics（灵蜥科技）；University of Hong Kong（香港大学）；Southern University of Science and Technology（南方科技大学）；Zhejiang University（浙江大学）；The Hong Kong Polytechnic University（香港理工大学）；The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科技大学）；Tsinghua University（清华大学）；Great Bay University（大湾区大学）
Kun Zhang, Peng Yun, Jun Cen, Junhao Cai, Didi Zhu, Hangjie Yuan, Chao Zhao, Tao Feng, Michael Yu Wang, Qifeng Chen, Jia Pan, Wei Zhang, Bo Yang, Hua Chen
This survey provides a comprehensive review on recent advancements of generative learning models in robotic manipulation, addressing key challenges in the field. Robotic manipulation faces critical bottlenecks, including significant challenges in insufficient data and inefficient data acquisition, long-horizon and complex task planning, and the multi-modality reasoning ability for robust policy learning performance across diverse environments. To tackle these challenges, this survey introduces several generative model paradigms, including Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), diffusion models, probabilistic flow models, and autoregressive models, highlighting their strengths and limitations. The applications of these models are categorized into three hierarchical layers: the Foundation Layer, focusing on data generation and reward generation; the Intermediate Layer, covering language, code, visual, and state generation; and the Policy Layer, emphasizing grasp generation and trajectory generation. Each layer is explored in detail, along with notable works that have advanced the state of the art. Finally, the survey outlines future research directions and challenges, emphasizing the need for improved efficiency in data utilization, better handling of long-horizon tasks, and enhanced generalization across diverse robotic scenarios. All the related resources, including research papers, open-source data, and projects, are collected for the community in https://github.com/GAI4Manipulation/AwesomeGAIManipulation
RGBManip: Monocular Image-based Robotic Manipulation through Active Object Pose Estimation
Hyperplane Lab, School of CS, Peking University（北京大学计算机学院超平面实验室）；National Key Laboratory for Multimedia Information Processing（多媒体信息处理国家重点实验室）；Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI)（北京人工智能研究院）；Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学计算机科学与工程学系）
Learning Smooth and Robust Space Robotic Manipulation of Dynamic Target via Inter-frame Correlation
Research Center for Intelligent Robotics, School of Astronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University（西北工业大学航天学院智能机器人研究中心）；School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University（西北工业大学自动化学院）；School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Sichuan University（四川大学空天科学与工程学院）
Benchmarking Simulated Robotic Manipulation through a Real World Dataset
Data61, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)（联邦科学与工业研究组织（CSIRO）Data61研究所）；Queensland University of Technology (QUT)（昆士兰科技大学（QUT））
Deep Reinforcement Learning for the Control of Robotic Manipulation: A Focussed Mini-Review
ICube Lab Robotics Department Strasbourg University UMR 7357 CNRS（斯特拉斯堡大学ICube实验室机器人系 UMR 7357 CNRS）；ICube Lab UMR 7357 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS（ICube实验室 UMR 7357 法国国家科学研究中心）
Research Challenges and Progress in Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competitions
University of South Florida（南佛罗里达大学）；National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)（美国国家标准与技术研究院）；German Aerospace Center (DLR)（德国航空航天中心）；Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)（伍斯特理工学院）
Challenges and Outlook in Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects
Cognitive Robotics, TU Delft（代尔夫特理工大学认知机器人）；Honda Research Institute, Europe（本田研究院欧洲）；LIRMM - Université de Montpellier CNRS（蒙彼利埃大学 CNRS LIRMM）；COSMER laboratory EA 7398, Universié de Toulon（土伦大学 COSMER 实验室 EA 7398）；The Hong Kong Polytechnic University（香港理工大学）；University of Texas at Austin（德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校）；University of Michigan（密歇根大学）；Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II（那不勒斯费德里科二世大学）；Osaka University（大阪大学）；National Institute of AIST（产业技术综合研究所）；Tsinghua University（清华大学）；The University of Hong Kong（香港大学）；Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University（卡内基梅隆大学机器人研究所）
DORA: Object Affordance-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Dexterous Robotic Manipulation
TAMS (Technical Aspects of Multimodal Systems), Department of Informatics, Universität Hamburg（技术多模态系统（TAMS），信息学院，汉堡大学）；Agile Robots AG（敏捷机器人公司）；Technical University of Munich（慕尼黑技术大学）
