Topic

Egocentric & human data

Turning first-person human video and wearable capture into robot training signal, bypassing teleoperation.

53papers in 2026-07

4.55%of all cs.RO that month

+0.85ppshare change, last 6 vs prior 12 months

24-month volume

arXiv query: cat:cs.RO AND (abs:"egocentric" OR abs:"human video" OR abs:"human demonstrations")

Presented at reading clubs

These already have a slide kit, so they are the fastest ones to pick up and present.

2026-06-29

VLK: Learning Humanoid Loco-Manipulation from Synthetic Interactions in Reconstructed Scenes

Yen-Jen Wang, Jiaman Li, Sirui Chen +9

clubHumanoids & locomotion Egocentric & human data

2026-05-24

HumanEgo: Zero-Shot Robot Learning from Minutes of Human Egocentric Videos

Zhi Wang, Botao He, Kelin Yu +4 · 9 citations

clubEgocentric & human data Imitation & diffusion policies

2026-04-08

EgoVerse: An Egocentric Human Dataset for Robot Learning from Around the World

Ryan Punamiya, Simar Kareer, Zeyi Liu +37 · 34 citations

clubEgocentric & human data Data collection & teleoperation

2026-02-18

EgoScale: Scaling Dexterous Manipulation with Diverse Egocentric Human Data

Ruijie Zheng, Dantong Niu, Yuqi Xie +12 · 71 citations

clubVision-language-action Dexterous manipulation

2026-02-06

DreamDojo: A Generalist Robot World Model from Large-Scale Human Videos

Shenyuan Gao, William Liang, Kaiyuan Zheng +27 · 96 citations

clubWorld models Dexterous manipulation

2025-12-27

Emergence of Human to Robot Transfer in Vision-Language-Action Models

Simar Kareer, Karl Pertsch, James Darpinian +5 · 39 citations

clubVision-language-action Egocentric & human data

2025-11-20

Dexterity from Smart Lenses: Multi-Fingered Robot Manipulation with In-the-Wild Human Demonstrations

Irmak Guzey, Haozhi Qi, Julen Urain +10 · 16 citations

clubDexterous manipulation Egocentric & human data

2025-09-23

EgoBridge: Domain Adaptation for Generalizable Imitation from Egocentric Human Data

Ryan Punamiya, Dhruv Patel, Patcharapong Aphiwetsa +5 · 30 citations

clubNeurIPSEgocentric & human data Imitation & diffusion policies

2025-09-04

EMMA: Scaling Mobile Manipulation via Egocentric Human Data

Lawrence Y. Zhu, Pranav Kuppili, Ryan Punamiya +5 · 35 citations

clubRA-LEgocentric & human data Imitation & diffusion policies

2025-07-16

EgoVLA: Learning Vision-Language-Action Models from Egocentric Human Videos

Ruihan Yang, Qinxi Yu, Yecheng Wu +12 · 131 citations

clubVision-language-action Humanoids & locomotion

2025-05-26

EgoZero: Robot Learning from Smart Glasses

Vincent Liu, Ademi Adeniji, Haotian Zhan +4 · 41 citations

clubEgocentric & human data Data collection & teleoperation

2025-05-16

EgoDex: Learning Dexterous Manipulation from Large-Scale Egocentric Video

Ryan Hoque, Peide Huang, David J. Yoon +2 · 193 citations

clubICLR 2026Dexterous manipulation Egocentric & human data

Recent work

2026-08-27

Riemann-1.0: An Embodied World Action Model for Physical AI

Haofeng Sun, Jiangbo Pei, Fei Kang +13

Egocentric & human data Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks

2026-08-26

Zero-WAM: In-Context World-Action Modeling from Human Videos for Open-Ended Task Generalization

Jiaming Zhou, Qihang Zhang, Gangwei Xu +9

Egocentric & human data

2026-08-26

One Policy, Many Embodiments: Unified Camera-Centric Action Geometry Pre-training for Heterogeneous Embodied Manipulation

Xiaomi Embodied Intelligence Team, University of Macau, : +21

Vision-language-action Humanoids & locomotion

2026-08-25

SkyDrive: Learning to Drive in a New City from Aerial Traffic Monitoring

Weijiang Xiong, Lan Feng, Alexandre Alahi +1

Egocentric & human data Imitation & diffusion policies

2026-08-25

Fiber Optic Sensing Glove for High Performance Dexterous Manipulation Capture

J. D. Peiffer, Taylor Niehues, Li Guan +2

Dexterous manipulation Egocentric & human data

2026-08-25

Dynamical System-Based Imitation Learning and Neuroadaptive Control for Trajectory Recovery in Autonomous Ships

Yeyson A. Becerra-Mora, José Ángel Acosta

Egocentric & human data Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks

2026-08-24

Triplet2Track: A Hierarchical System with Object-Centric Representations for Reliable Long-Horizon Manipulation

Jianxiang Liu, Gaojing Zhang, Chuan Wen +4

Vision-language-action Egocentric & human data

2026-08-23

EMPIRE: Explicit Manipulation Planning as a Learnable Intermediate Representation for Egocentric Hand-Motion Forecasting

Wen Wang, Ruibing Hou, Hong Chang +2

Dexterous manipulation Egocentric & human data

2026-08-23

LD4WAM: Learning Latent Dynamics from Human Videos for World Action Models

Zhenhao Shen, Jiaqi Liang, Jasper Lu +11

World models Dexterous manipulation

2026-08-23

The Imitator Game: Benchmarking Robot Imitative Ability Beyond Action Prediction

Xunzhe Zhou, Yiyang Cai, Fengyi Wang +9

Egocentric & human data Foundation models & pretraining

2026-08-21

ViTacPhys: Physical Property-Aware Grasping from Human Visual-Tactile Demonstrations

Yiwen Liu, Yujun Zhu, Kui Jia +3

Dexterous manipulation Egocentric & human data

2026-08-21

Beyond Imitation: Self-Improving Robot Policies via Off-Policy Q-Planning

Varun Giridhar, Anant Khandelwal, Jeremy A. Collins +2

Egocentric & human data Tactile & force sensing

2026-08-21

TaPeR: Probabilistic Recovery of Sparse Task Precedence Graphs from a Handful of Demonstrations

Adrian Röfer, Karla Stepanova, Abhinav Valada

Egocentric & human data

2026-08-21

Demonstration-Guided Humanoid Stand-Up on an Emulated Deformable Surface

Aniruddh Kushwah, Vyankatesh Ashtekar, Ashish Dutta

Humanoids & locomotion Egocentric & human data

2026-08-21

Rethinking Demonstration Unlearning in Imitation Learning for Robotics

Jiazhuo Li, Yu Zhang, Yiming Fei +4

Egocentric & human data Imitation & diffusion policies

2026-08-20

Towards Professional Tennis Styles for Humanoid Robots with Adaptive Motion Planning and Tracking

Tao Huang, Ruofei Liu, Xuchen Tang +15

Humanoids & locomotion Egocentric & human data

2026-08-19

RoboEdit: Turning Human Manipulation Videos into Scalable Robot Experience

Yaowei Guo, Zeng Tao, Yuxin Jiang +7

Egocentric & human data Foundation models & pretraining

2026-08-18

VERAGMIL: Virtual Environment for Scooping Granular Foods with Imitation Learning Models

Amanuel Ergogo, Diego Dall'Alba, Przemyslaw Korzeniowski

IROSEgocentric & human data Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks

2026-08-18

Revisiting the "Push-T" Robot Manipulation Task with Agentic Robotics

Shuangyu Xie, Kaiyuan Chen, Ken Goldberg

Egocentric & human data Imitation & diffusion policies

2026-08-18

Hydra-0: Action Flow for Generalist World Modeling and Control

Hongyu Li, Bowen Wen, Xinghao Zhu +8

World models Egocentric & human data

2026-08-18

CompCPZ: Preserving Multi-Modal Intent in Language-Guided Robot Manipulation

Zhen Zhang, Ahmad Hafez, Peng Xie +3

Vision-language-action Humanoids & locomotion

2026-08-17

Neurosymbolic Embodied Agents

Mohammad Albinhassan, Yuming Feng, Alessandra Russo +1

Egocentric & human data Navigation & mobility

2026-08-17

Exposing the Long-tail in Embodied Urban Navigation via Scalable Learning from In-the-Wild Videos

Bingyi Xia, Han Bao, Zhewei Chen +5

Vision-language-action Egocentric & human data

2026-08-17

HiPHI: A Large-Scale Benchmark for High-Precision Human Motion and Object-Interaction

Jiahao Ji, Ji Ma, Runhan Zhang +12

Humanoids & locomotion Egocentric & human data

2026-08-16

ReForce: Learning Force-aware Retargeting for Dexterous Manipulation

Yuhang Wu, Lingqi Zeng, Changwei Jing +2

Dexterous manipulation Egocentric & human data

2026-08-15

EgoTac: In-the-wild Tactile Prediction from Egocentric Vision

Wenkang Zhang, Chengbo Yuan, Zicheng Zhang +2

Dexterous manipulation Egocentric & human data

2026-08-14

OccPlanner: Goal-Aware Occupancy-Conditioned Diffusion Planner for Pixel-Goal Navigation

Binling Huang, Nianjin Ye, Xi Yang +6

Egocentric & human data Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks

2026-08-14

AdvDex: Learning Dexterous Manipulation from Human Demonstrations via Joint-Aligned Actions and Adversarial Learning

Zhiyue Zhao, Jingyi Wu, Hairuo Liu +5

Vision-language-action Dexterous manipulation

2026-08-13

H2R-Bench: Benchmarking Human-to-Robot Manipulation Video Generation in World Models

Dingyi Rong, Yue Shi, Chaofan Ma +6 · 1 citation

World models Egocentric & human data

2026-08-13

EgoPHI: Estimating Contact and Force from Egocentric Vision

Andela Ilic, Rachel Schuchert, Yijing Jiang +1

ECCV 2026Dexterous manipulation Egocentric & human data

2026-08-13

HumanoidVLN: A Physics-Grounded Simulator and Benchmark for Vision-Language Navigation Across Diverse Humanoid Embodiments

Quan-Dung Pham, Anh Dao, The-Anh Nguyen +8

Humanoids & locomotion Egocentric & human data

2026-08-12

Can Vision-Language Models Assess Proxemic Risk from Egocentric Robot Images?

Vladyslava Rudas, Dmytro Kuzmenko

ECCV 2026Egocentric & human data Navigation & mobility

2026-08-12

HandEdit: A Unified Benchmark for Egocentric Human-to-Robot Dexterous Hand Image Editing

Zhenjie Yang, Xingyu Jiao, Guopeng Zhong +18

Dexterous manipulation Egocentric & human data

2026-08-11

OAA: Three Phases of Vocal Guidance in Human-Drone Teleoperation

Allan Henry, Christian Graff, Solange Rossato +2

Egocentric & human data Navigation & mobility

2026-08-10

Hierarchical Fast-Slow ReAct Agent for Zero-Shot Object-Goal Navigation

Zhaochen Lan, Zhi Yang, Yuxiang Fu +1

Egocentric & human data Navigation & mobility

2026-08-10

High Fidelity Capture, Reconstruction, and Transfer of Human Demonstrations for Robot-Assisted Bathing

Arjun S. Lakshmipathy, Jonathan P. King, Ethan Zuo +6

RSS 2026Dexterous manipulation Egocentric & human data

2026-08-08

Ego-OSCAR: Egocentric Open source Stereo CAptuRe System

Gunjan Paul, Senthil Palanisamy, Satpal Singh Rathore +3

Egocentric & human data Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-07

WNM-3D: A World Navigation Model with 3D Scene Conditioning for Closed-Loop VLN

Yuehao Huang, Yunzi Wu, Xiaotao Zhang +7

Vision-language-action Egocentric & human data

2026-08-07

C2Dex: Contact-Consistent Reconstruction and Retargeting for Dexterous Manipulation from Monocular Video

Jie Ren, Zhehao Jiang, Yinhong Yang +9

Dexterous manipulation Egocentric & human data

2026-08-07

CrossTracer: Cross-Embodiment Navigation via VLA Model Reasoning and Trace Residuals Adapting

Yao Wang, Siyuan Wang, Zhirui Sun +4

Vision-language-action Humanoids & locomotion

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