Forecasting 3D scene motion improves dexterous robot manipulation

PointWAM jointly predicts how hands and surrounding objects move, then converts the forecast hand trajectories into robot actions.

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Chunghyun Park · Beomjun Kim · Seungcheol Park · Heeseung Kwon · Yashu Shukla · Seunghoon Sim · +2 more

POSTECH · KAIST · Hanyang University · RLWRLD

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Park et al.

PointWAM takes a colored point cloud and a language instruction, then forecasts the future trajectories of every observed scene point and a set of hand keypoints.

Why this paper

From KAIST and 3 others · Part of Robot World Models, now 14 papers

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Jointly forecasting 3D point trajectories of scene and hands improves dexterous robotic manipulation.

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