As robots become more generalized and deployed in diverse environments, they must interact with complex objects, many with multiple independent joints or degrees of freedom (DoF) requiring precise control. A common strategy is object modeling, where compact state-space models are learned from real-world observations and paired with classical planning. However, existing methods often rely on prior knowledge or focus on single-DoF objects, limiting their applicability. They also fail to handle occluded joints and ignore the manipulation sequences needed to access them. We address this by learning object models from human demonstrations. We introduce Object Kinematic Sequence Machines (OKSMs), a novel representation capturing both kinematic constraints and manipulation order for multi-DoF objects. To estimate these models from point cloud data, we present Pokenet, a deep neural network trained on human demonstrations. We validate our approach on 8,000 simulated and 1,600 real-world annotated samples. Pokenet improves joint axis and state estimation by over 20 percent on real-world data compared to prior methods. Finally, we demonstrate OKSMs on a Sawyer robot using inverse kinematics-based planning to manipulate multi-DoF objects.
SMART: Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Articulated Object Manipulation via Large-Scale Synthetic Pretraining
Institute of Artificial Intelligence, China Telecom(中国电信人工智能研究院);Technical University of Munich(慕尼黑工业大学);Harbin Institute of Technology(哈尔滨工业大学);Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学);Tsinghua University(清华大学);Zhejiang University(浙江大学)
Explosive Jumping with Rigid and Articulated Soft Quadrupeds via Example Guided Reinforcement Learning
Cognitive Robotics, Delft University of Technology(德鲁夫特理工大学认知机器人实验室);Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester(曼彻斯特大学计算机科学系);Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento(特伦托大学工业工程系);Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, German Aerospace Center (DLR)(德国航空航天中心机器人与机电一体化研究所)
ArticuBot: Learning Universal Articulated Object Manipulation Policy via Large Scale Simulation
Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University(卡内基梅隆大学机器人学院);IIIS, Tsinghua University(清华大学人工智能研究所);Department of Computer Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University(国立阳明交通大学计算机科学系)
FoLD: Force-Informed Learning for Dexterous Articulated Object Manipulation
University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学);Institute of AI for Industries, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院人工智能产业研究院);Shenzhen University(深圳大学)
AdaManip: Adaptive Articulated Object Manipulation Environments and Policy Learning
Peking University(北京大学);Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications(北京邮电大学);Inst. for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University(北京大学人工智能研究院);Nat’l Eng. Research Center of Visual Technology, Peking University(北京大学视觉技术国家工程研究中心);State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, Peking University(北京大学通用人工智能国家重点实验室)
Kinematic-aware Prompting for Generalizable Articulated Object Manipulation with LLMs
Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China(中国人民大学高瓴人工智能学院);Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory(上海人工智能实验室);Northwestern Polytechnical University(西北工业大学);Institute of Artificial Intelligence, China Telecom Corp Ltd(中国电信股份有限公司人工智能研究院)
Part-Guided 3D RL for Sim2Real Articulated Object Manipulation
Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist)(北京信息科学与技术国家研究中心(BNRist));Shanghai AI Laboratory(上海人工智能实验室);University of California San Diego(加利福尼亚大学圣迭戈分校);Tsinghua University(清华大学)
Sim2Real$^2$: Actively Building Explicit Physics Model for Precise Articulated Object Manipulation
Tsinghua University(清华大学);Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications(北京邮电大学);AVIC Chengdu Aircraft Industrial (Group) Co., Ltd(中航工业成都飞机工业(集团)有限责任公司)
DexSim2Real$^{2}$: Building Explicit World Model for Precise Articulated Object Dexterous Manipulation
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University(清华大学机械工程系);Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM), Georgia Institute of Technology(机器人与智能机器研究所(IRIM),佐治亚理工学院);JD Explore Academy, Beijing, China(京东探索研究院,北京,中国)
TONAV: Task-Oriented Navigation and Action-Velocity Chunk Learning for Articulated Object Quadrupedal Mobile Manipulation
School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hunan University(湖南大学人工智能与机器人学院);National Engineering Research Center of Robot Visual Perception and Control Technology, Hunan University(湖南大学机器人视觉感知与控制技术国家工程研究中心);College of Semiconductors (College of Integrated Circuits), Hunan University(湖南大学半导体学院(集成电路学院))
RiEMann: Near Real-Time SE(3)-Equivariant Robot Manipulation without Point Cloud Segmentation
National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学);Tsinghua IIIS(清华大学智能产业研究院);Tsinghua University(清华大学);Shanghai AI Lab(上海人工智能实验室);Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute(上海期智研究院)
Scalable Trajectory Generation for Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation
Institute for AI, Peking University(人工智能研究院,北京大学);Institute of Unmanned System, Beihang University(无人系统研究院,北航);School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University(心理学与认知科学学院,北京大学);State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence(通用人工智能国家重点实验室);Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University(北京行为与心理健康重点实验室,北京大学);Yuanpei College, Peking University(元培学院,北京大学);Embodied Intelligence Lab, PKU-Wuhan Institute for Artificial Intelligence(具身智能实验室,PKU-武汉人工智能研究所)
AffordCraft: Scalable Construction of Task-Ready Simulation Assets from Single Images
College of AI, Tsinghua University(清华大学人工智能学院);School of Computer Science, Chongqing University(重庆大学计算机学院);School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology(华中科技大学网络空间安全学院);College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学设计与工程学院)
3D Generation for Embodied AI and Robotic Simulation: A Survey
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(香港科技大学);Wuhan University(武汉大学);Harbin Institute of Technology(哈尔滨工业大学);Xinjiang University(新疆大学);Tencent(腾讯)
WireCraft: A Simulation Benchmark for Industrial DLO Manipulation
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto(多伦多大学机械与工业工程系);Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto(多伦多大学计算机科学系);CREFLE Inc.(CREFLE公司)