ResearchResearch paperRobotics & Embodied AI1 source · Oct 8, 2026

StereoEngine: Scaling Stereo Bimanual Robot Data without Stereo Cameras

We propose StereoEngine, which introduces two complementary methods to synthesize stereo data for robotic manipulation.

Key points

  • Stereo vision is increasingly used for robotic manipulation, with a growing body of work incorporating it into Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models.
  • Recent generative monocular-to-stereo methods target settings such as VR content and autonomous driving.
  • No prior work produces realistic synthetic stereo data for robotic manipulation, where stereo supervision has come predominantly from simulation.
  • In the first, we warp a monocular (left) video into the right view using estimated depth and inpaint the disoccluded regions with a video diffusion model, lifting monocular demonstrations into stereo pairs without training on real stereo.

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  • [1]StereoEngine: Scaling Stereo Bimanual Robot Data without Stereo Cameras
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 8, 09:28 PM
    We propose StereoEngine, which introduces two complementary methods to synthesize stereo data for robotic manipulation.
    Stereo vision is increasingly used for robotic manipulation, with a growing body of work incorporating it into Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models.

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