ResearchResearch paperRobotics & Embodied AI1 source · Oct 9, 2026

Human2Dex: Dexterous Robot Learning from Wrist-Centric Human Demonstrations

We present Human2Dex, a wrist-centric human demonstration interface that separates shared human observation and motion semantics from embodiment-specific execution.

Key points

  • Collecting dexterous manipulation demonstrations for each robot hand requires repeated task-specific data acquisition.
  • We ask whether one shared corpus of natural human demonstrations can instead serve as a reusable data interface for different dexterous hands, without collecting task demonstrations on each target robot.
  • It constructs executable supervision by retargeting fused human hand motion to each target hand, and introduces the Grasp-Pocket Interaction Representation (GPIR) to express tracked objects relative to a hand-centered Functional Grasp Pocket.
  • These results support the use of wrist-centric human demonstrations as a reusable interface across calibrated dexterous hands while retaining embodiment-specific policy learning.

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  • [1]Human2Dex: Dexterous Robot Learning from Wrist-Centric Human Demonstrations
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 9, 07:14 AM
    We present Human2Dex, a wrist-centric human demonstration interface that separates shared human observation and motion semantics from embodiment-specific execution.
    Collecting dexterous manipulation demonstrations for each robot hand requires repeated task-specific data acquisition.

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