Abstract
A flow-matching model generates diverse human grasps from RGB-D images, enabling zero-shot robotic grasping with improved performance over existing methods.
Humans can grasp objects effortlessly, whereas multi-fingered robots are far from this level of generality. We argue that the most natural source of robot grasping data is from humans, who pick up thousands of objects every day. We present HUG, a flow-matching model that generates diverse human grasps for any user-specified object in a single RGB-D image captured from a stereo camera. Using smart glasses, we first collect 1M-HUGs, an egocentric dataset of human grasps spanning 1M frames (27.8 hrs) and 6,707 object instances across 41 buildings. Next, to model the distribution of natural human grasps, our novel flow-matching model fuses RGB and depth observations to output a grasp parameterized by wrist translation, wrist rotation, and MANO hand pose. Predicted grasps can be retargeted to various robot hands, enabling zero-shot grasping in everyday scenes. To standardize evaluation, we build a new simulated benchmark, HUG-Bench, of 90 unseen objects from five geometric categories and various sizes, with metric-scale 3D meshes. We evaluate HUG in the real world on the 30-object test set of HUG-Bench across multiple stereo cameras, robot embodiments, and household environments. HUG outperforms the state-of-the-art grasping baselines by +23% and +34% on our challenging object set. Code, data, benchmark, checkpoints, and an interactive demo are released on our website: https://grasping.io/
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Learning dexterous multifingered grasping entirely from human data.
This looks like a really solid step forward for robot manipulation. Scaling up to a million frames of egocentric data seems like a smart way to get past the bottleneck of synthetic or hand-labeled grasping datasets.
I am curious how much the performance drops when the model encounters an object that is significantly different in scale or geometry from the ones in the training distribution. Is the flow-matching robust enough for truly novel shapes?
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