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arxiv: 2605.29298 · v1 · pith:X6EAI2D7new · submitted 2026-05-28 · 💻 cs.RO

MonoDuo: Using One Robot Arm to Learn Bimanual Policies

Sandeep Bajamahal , Lawrence Yunliang Chen , Toru Lin , Zehan Ma , Jitendra Malik , Ken Goldberg This is my paper

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keywords bimanual manipulationsingle-arm datasynthetic demonstrationszero-shot transferrobot policy learninghuman-robot collaborationmanipulation tasks
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The pith

Single-arm robot demonstrations paired with humans can train bimanual policies that transfer zero-shot to real two-arm robots.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper demonstrates a method to learn two-armed robot skills using data from one robot arm working alongside a human collaborator. Data collection involves the robot handling one side of a task while the human handles the other, then swapping roles to capture both sides. Computer vision steps convert these sessions into synthetic full bimanual demonstrations for any target two-arm robot. Policies trained on the resulting data achieve up to 70 percent success when deployed directly on real bimanual hardware across five tasks. A small set of 25 real demonstrations from the target robot then raises performance by 65 to 70 percent compared with training from scratch.

Core claim

MonoDuo collects paired single-arm robot and human data for bimanual tasks, converts it into synthetic demonstrations for target bimanual robots through hand-pose estimation, image and point-cloud segmentation, and inpainting, and trains policies on these demonstrations that support zero-shot deployment on unseen bimanual configurations with success rates up to 70 percent and substantial gains from few-shot finetuning.

What carries the argument

The synthetic demonstration generation pipeline that augments single-arm robot plus human collaboration data into kinematically grounded bimanual demonstrations for the target robot.

If this is right

  • Bimanual policies can be trained without any real two-arm robot data and deployed directly on new robot hardware.
  • Twenty-five real demonstrations from the target robot produce large performance gains over training from scratch.
  • The approach covers tasks such as box lifting, backpack packing, cloth folding, jacket zipping, and plate handover.
  • Single-arm robots already present in labs become a practical data source for bimanual skill learning.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same single-arm plus human collection pattern could extend to multi-robot coordination tasks beyond two arms.
  • Improving the accuracy of the hand-pose and inpainting steps would likely raise zero-shot success rates further.
  • The method points toward hybrid human-robot data pipelines that reduce dependence on scarce multi-robot hardware.
  • Testing the pipeline on robots with very different kinematics from the source arm would reveal the limits of the synthetic transfer.

Load-bearing premise

The vision-based steps that create synthetic bimanual demonstrations from single-arm and human data preserve the necessary movement constraints so that policies transfer to the real target robot.

What would settle it

Policies trained solely on the synthetic data achieve zero success on the physical bimanual robot while policies trained from scratch on real bimanual data succeed, even after the few-shot stage.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.29298 by Jitendra Malik, Ken Goldberg, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Sandeep Bajamahal, Toru Lin, Zehan Ma.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of MonoDuo. The teleoperation system uses a fixed RGB-D camera and a wrist-mounted camera. We begin by teleoperating a single-arm robot to collaborate with a human arm on a bimanual task, alternating left-right arm roles across episodes. This results in complementary interaction data covering both sides of the task. These human-robot bimanual demonstrations are then augmented into synthetic robot-… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: From Human-Robot Demonstrations to Robot-Robot Policies. Given collaborative demonstration trajectories between a single-arm robot and a human, MonoDuo uses state-of-the-art diffusion models to augment the image data and generate synthetic dataset tailored to a specified bimanual robot. Policies trained with the augmented dataset can be deployed on this target bimanual robot zero-shot. The same dataset can… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Data Collection and Dataset Augmentation. Left: We apply HaMeR [72] to estimate the hand pose at each frame and refine with ICP [73], [74]. The refined hand pose is then retargeted into robot end-effector actions in the source dataset. Right: We perform cross-painting from both the source robot and the human arm to the target robot. We resolve the morphology gap between human and robot by retargeting the h… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Examples of zero-shot rollout on the target bimanual UR5e. Left: Lift Box; Right: Pack Bag. Single-Arm policies do not coordinate the actions well, leading to asynchronous movements as shown in the Lift Box task and collision in the Pack Bag task. Policies trained without cross-painting are less robust and misgrasps often. MonoDuo exhibits coordinated behaviors while being precise. on the target robot dire… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Bimanual coordination is essential for many real-world manipulation tasks, yet learning bimanual robot policies is limited by the scarcity of bimanual robots and datasets. Single-arm robots, however, are widely available in research labs. Can we leverage them to train bimanual robot policies? We present MonoDuo, a framework for learning bimanual manipulation policies using single-arm robot demonstrations paired with human collaboration. MonoDuo collects data by teleoperating a single-arm robot to perform one side of a bimanual task while a human performs the other, then swapping roles to cover both sides. RGB-D observations from a wrist-mounted and fixed camera are augmented into synthetic demonstrations for target bimanual robots using state-of-the-art hand pose estimation, image and point cloud segmentation, and inpainting. These synthetic demonstrations, grounded in real robot kinematics, are used to train bimanual policies. We evaluate MonoDuo on five tasks: box lifting, backpack packing, cloth folding, jacket zipping, and plate handover. Compared to approaches relying solely on human bimanual videos, MonoDuo enables zero-shot deployment on unseen bimanual robot configurations, achieving success rates up to 70%. With only 25 target robot demonstrations, few-shot finetuning further boosts success rates by 65-70% over training from scratch, demonstrating MonoDuo's effectiveness in efficiently transferring knowledge from single-arm robot data to bimanual robot policies.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript presents MonoDuo, a framework that collects single-arm robot demonstrations paired with human actions for bimanual tasks, then uses hand-pose estimation, segmentation, and inpainting to create synthetic bimanual demonstrations for training policies on target bimanual robots. It evaluates this on five tasks (box lifting, backpack packing, cloth folding, jacket zipping, plate handover) and claims zero-shot success rates up to 70% on unseen bimanual configurations, with few-shot finetuning using 25 demonstrations yielding 65-70% improvements over training from scratch.

Significance. If the synthetic data fidelity holds, the approach could meaningfully reduce reliance on scarce bimanual robot hardware by repurposing widely available single-arm platforms, providing a scalable path to bimanual policy learning. The reported few-shot gains indicate that the generated demonstrations supply a useful inductive bias beyond pure human video data.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the zero-shot success rates up to 70% and few-shot gains of 65-70% are stated without any mention of the number of trials, evaluation protocol, failure modes, or statistical measures. This information is load-bearing for the central transfer claim, as it is required to assess whether the synthetic demonstrations preserve kinematic and dynamic constraints.
  2. [Methods] Methods (synthetic data pipeline): no error metrics, ground-truth trajectory comparisons, or ablations are reported for the hand-pose estimation, segmentation, and inpainting steps. Systematic errors in joint angles or contact geometry would directly undermine the zero-shot deployment result on unseen bimanual configurations.
  3. [Experiments] Experiments: the comparison against human-bimanual-video baselines is asserted but no quantitative tables, success-rate breakdowns per task, or controls isolating the single-arm robot contribution versus synthetic augmentation are provided.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the description of the data collection and augmentation pipeline is compressed; separating the method overview from the quantitative claims would improve readability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on evaluation clarity and pipeline validation. We address each major comment below, providing clarifications from the manuscript and committing to targeted revisions where appropriate.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the zero-shot success rates up to 70% and few-shot gains of 65-70% are stated without any mention of the number of trials, evaluation protocol, failure modes, or statistical measures. This information is load-bearing for the central transfer claim, as it is required to assess whether the synthetic demonstrations preserve kinematic and dynamic constraints.

    Authors: The abstract is a concise summary; full evaluation details appear in Section 4. Each task used 10 independent trials on the target bimanual setup, with success defined as task completion within time limits without object drops or constraint violations. Means and standard deviations are in Table 1, with qualitative failure mode discussion in Section 4.3. We will revise the abstract to note 'over 10 trials per task' to improve standalone readability. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Methods] Methods (synthetic data pipeline): no error metrics, ground-truth trajectory comparisons, or ablations are reported for the hand-pose estimation, segmentation, and inpainting steps. Systematic errors in joint angles or contact geometry would directly undermine the zero-shot deployment result on unseen bimanual configurations.

    Authors: The manuscript prioritizes end-to-end policy transfer as the key validation. We agree intermediate metrics would strengthen the work and will add in revision: hand-pose estimation error against manual annotations on held-out frames, plus an ablation removing each pipeline stage (pose estimation, segmentation, inpainting) and reporting resulting policy success rates. This directly addresses potential systematic errors in kinematics and contacts. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Experiments] Experiments: the comparison against human-bimanual-video baselines is asserted but no quantitative tables, success-rate breakdowns per task, or controls isolating the single-arm robot contribution versus synthetic augmentation are provided.

    Authors: Table 1 already reports per-task zero-shot and few-shot success rates for MonoDuo versus human-video baselines across all five tasks. We will expand the table with explicit breakdowns and add a control ablation isolating the single-arm robot grounding by comparing against a human-video-only variant without robot kinematics. This clarifies the contribution of the synthetic pipeline. revision: partial

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full rationale

The paper presents an empirical framework: single-arm robot + human collaboration data is augmented via hand-pose estimation, segmentation, and inpainting to create synthetic bimanual demonstrations, which are then used to train policies evaluated on real tasks. No equations, parameter fits, or self-citations are described as load-bearing steps. Claims rest on measured success rates (zero-shot up to 70%, few-shot gains) rather than any reduction of outputs to inputs by construction. The central assumption about synthetic data fidelity is an empirical prerequisite, not a definitional or fitted tautology.

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Abstract-only review; the approach implicitly assumes that current SOTA hand-pose estimation and inpainting produce kinematically valid demonstrations without introducing artifacts that break policy learning. No free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are explicitly introduced in the provided text.

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