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Research paperRobotics & Embodied AI1 source · Oct 8, 2026

Dex-One2Many: Learning Dexterous Manipulation from a Single Human Demonstration

To address these coupled generalization and exploration challenges, we present Dex-One2Many, a real-to-sim-to-real framework that learns a generalizable dexterous manipulation policy from a single human video.

Key points

  • While learning dexterous manipulation from a single human video offers a promising alternative to costly robot demonstrations, many recent methods predominantly imitate demonstrated motions.
  • Such strict motion matching often limits generalization to initial object poses, goal poses, and grasps not shown in the video.
  • Our key insight is to abstract the video into sequential scene graphs that guide RL, enabling efficient exploration while preserving broad generalizability.
  • Trained entirely in simulation, Dex-One2Many transfers zero-shot to a real multi-fingered hand.

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  • [1]Dex-One2Many: Learning Dexterous Manipulation from a Single Human Demonstration
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 8, 05:59 PM
    To address these coupled generalization and exploration challenges, we present Dex-One2Many, a real-to-sim-to-real framework that learns a generalizable dexterous manipulation policy from a single human video.
    While learning dexterous manipulation from a single human video offers a promising alternative to costly robot demonstrations, many recent methods predominantly imitate demonstrated motions.

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