3rd Workshop on Dexterous Manipulation:
Learning and Control with Diverse Data

RSS 2025 Workshop, June 25, 2025
Location: OHE 122
Poster Stand Number: 35 - 60 (Epstein Plaza)

Introduction

Dexterous manipulation is one of the hardest problems in robotics. Despite decades of research, robots still struggle with tasks that human hands perform effortlessly. Solving this challenge requires breakthroughs in multiple fields—mechanical design, motion planning, control, and machine learning. This workshop brings together experts across these disciplines to explore what’s missing and what’s next.

We invite researchers working on dexterous robotic manipulation, manipulator design, tactile sensing, visual perception, and human hand understanding from video. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in discussions, present posters, and give contributed talks. Panelists and speakers, drawn from these research communities, include leading experts from both academia and industry.

Invited Speakers

(listed alphabetically)


Workshop Schedule

Time (UTC -8) Event
08:55 - 09:00 Introduction and Opening Remark
09:00 - 09:30 Invited Talk (Karen Liu)
09:30 - 10:00 Invited Talk (Sudharshan Suresh)
10:00 - 10:30 Invited Talk (Jessica Yin)
10:30 - 11:00 Spotlight Session 1:
  • ImMimic: Cross-Domain Imitation from Human Videos via Mapping and Interpolation
  • Dexonomy: Synthesizing All Dexterous Grasp Types in a Grasp Taxonomy
  • HuDOR: Bridging the Human to Robot Dexterity Gap through Object-Oriented Rewards
  • RUKA: Rethinking the Design of Humanoid Hands with Learning
  • DexUMI: Using Human Hand as the Universal Manipulation Interface for Dexterous Manipulation
  • Scaffolding Dexterous Manipulation with Vision-Language Models
11:00 - 11:30 Poster / Demo Session
11:30 - 12:00 Invited Talk (Ankur Handa)
14:00 - 14:30 Invited Talk (Russ Tedrake)
14:30 - 15:00 Invited Talk (Wanxin Jin)
15:00 - 15:30 Invited Talk (Huazhe Xu)
15:30 - 16:00 Spotlight Session 2
  • DexWild: Dexterous Human Interactions for In-the-Wild Robot Policies
  • Reinforcement Learning for Ambidextrous Bimanual Manipulation via Morphological Symmetry
  • Learning Particle-Based World Model from Human for Robot Dexterous Manipulation
  • DEXOS: Hand Exoskeleton System for Teaching Robot Dexterous Manipulation In-The-Wild
  • Dex1B: Learning with 1B Demonstrations for Dexterous Manipulation
  • ImVR: Immersive VR Teleoperation System for General Purpose
  • Dexterous Contact-Rich Manipulation via the Contact Trust Region
16:00 - 16:30 Poster / Demo Session
16:30 - 17:25 Panel Discussion
17:25 - 17:30 Closing Remark & Award Ceremony

Accepted Papers

Call for Papers/Demos

In this workshop, our goal is to bring together researchers from various fields of robotics, such as control, optimization, learning, planning, sensing, hardware, etc., who work on dexterous manipulation.

Each accepted short paper will be eligible for a poster presentation. Selected papers will also have the opportunity to give a short spotlight talk. Note: Both poster and spotlight presentations must be given in person.

We are particularly excited to offer a platform for showcasing real-world robotic systems. Even without a formal paper, we encourage submissions of videos demonstrating your robots in action. For those able to attend in person, there will be opportunities to showcase your robots live at the workshop! We encourage researchers to submit work in the following areas (the list is not exhaustive):

Submission Guidelines

Timeline

Organizers

Contact

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