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DemoGen: Synthetic Demonstration Generation for Data-Efficient Visuomotor Policy Learning

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arxiv 2502.16932 v1 pith:ZNTPC2FW submitted 2025-02-24 cs.RO

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keywords demogendatademonstrationacrossconfigurationsgenerationhuman-collectedmanipulation
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Visuomotor policies have shown great promise in robotic manipulation but often require substantial amounts of human-collected data for effective performance. A key reason underlying the data demands is their limited spatial generalization capability, which necessitates extensive data collection across different object configurations. In this work, we present DemoGen, a low-cost, fully synthetic approach for automatic demonstration generation. Using only one human-collected demonstration per task, DemoGen generates spatially augmented demonstrations by adapting the demonstrated action trajectory to novel object configurations. Visual observations are synthesized by leveraging 3D point clouds as the modality and rearranging the subjects in the scene via 3D editing. Empirically, DemoGen significantly enhances policy performance across a diverse range of real-world manipulation tasks, showing its applicability even in challenging scenarios involving deformable objects, dexterous hand end-effectors, and bimanual platforms. Furthermore, DemoGen can be extended to enable additional out-of-distribution capabilities, including disturbance resistance and obstacle avoidance.

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    DynamicManip synthesizes diverse dynamic manipulation demonstrations from one static demonstration and uses stage-aware adaptive inference to improve success rates and reduce latency.

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    SIDO morphs static demonstrations into counterfactual future-pose samples, training a goal-conditioned policy that, paired with a pose predictor, grasps objects whose motion was unseen during training.

  3. Worlds in One Demo: A Synthetic Data Engine for Learning Open-World Mobile Manipulation

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    From one real demonstration, WANDA synthesizes diverse mobile-manipulation trajectories, reaching 54.8% average real-world task progress and zero-shot deployment on a morphologically different robot.

  4. AffordGen: Generating Diverse Demonstrations for Generalizable Object Manipulation with Afford Correspondence

    cs.RO 2026-04 unverdicted novelty 6.0 of 10

    AffordGen synthesizes large-scale affordance-aware manipulation trajectories via keypoint correspondence on 3D meshes, enabling zero-shot visuomotor policies for unseen objects from few source demos.

  5. DynaMimicGen: A Data Generation Framework for Robot Learning of Dynamic Tasks

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    DynaMimicGen generates large robot-training datasets from one or two demonstrations by adapting DMP-based trajectories in real time to moving object poses, improving downstream imitation-learning policies over MimicGen.

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    A robot policy trained on one real demonstration plus AI-generated 3D views succeeds from novel initial poses, including opposite-side starts, across six real manipulation tasks.

  7. Constraint-Preserving Data Generation for Visuomotor Policy Learning

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  8. TypeTele: Releasing Dexterity in Teleoperation by Dexterous Manipulation Types

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