MotionTrans: Human VR Data Enable Motion-Level Learning for Robotic Manipulation Policies

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Main Authors: Yuan, Chengbo, Zhou, Rui, Liu, Mengzhen, Hu, Yingdong, Wang, Shengjie, Yi, Li, Wen, Chuan, Zhang, Shanghang, Gao, Yang
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author Yuan, Chengbo
Zhou, Rui
Liu, Mengzhen
Hu, Yingdong
Wang, Shengjie
Yi, Li
Wen, Chuan
Zhang, Shanghang
Gao, Yang
author_facet Yuan, Chengbo
Zhou, Rui
Liu, Mengzhen
Hu, Yingdong
Wang, Shengjie
Yi, Li
Wen, Chuan
Zhang, Shanghang
Gao, Yang
contents Scaling real robot data is a key bottleneck in imitation learning, leading to the use of auxiliary data for policy training. While other aspects of robotic manipulation such as image or language understanding may be learned from internet-based datasets, acquiring motion knowledge remains challenging. Human data, with its rich diversity of manipulation behaviors, offers a valuable resource for this purpose. While previous works show that using human data can bring benefits, such as improving robustness and training efficiency, it remains unclear whether it can realize its greatest advantage: enabling robot policies to directly learn new motions for task completion. In this paper, we systematically explore this potential through multi-task human-robot cotraining. We introduce MotionTrans, a framework that includes a data collection system, a human data transformation pipeline, and a weighted cotraining strategy. By cotraining 30 human-robot tasks simultaneously, we direcly transfer motions of 13 tasks from human data to deployable end-to-end robot policies. Notably, 9 tasks achieve non-trivial success rates in zero-shot manner. MotionTrans also significantly enhances pretraining-finetuning performance (+40% success rate). Through ablation study, we also identify key factors for successful motion learning: cotraining with robot data and broad task-related motion coverage. These findings unlock the potential of motion-level learning from human data, offering insights into its effective use for training robotic manipulation policies. All data, code, and model weights are open-sourced https://motiontrans.github.io/.
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spellingShingle MotionTrans: Human VR Data Enable Motion-Level Learning for Robotic Manipulation Policies
Yuan, Chengbo
Zhou, Rui
Liu, Mengzhen
Hu, Yingdong
Wang, Shengjie
Yi, Li
Wen, Chuan
Zhang, Shanghang
Gao, Yang
Robotics
Scaling real robot data is a key bottleneck in imitation learning, leading to the use of auxiliary data for policy training. While other aspects of robotic manipulation such as image or language understanding may be learned from internet-based datasets, acquiring motion knowledge remains challenging. Human data, with its rich diversity of manipulation behaviors, offers a valuable resource for this purpose. While previous works show that using human data can bring benefits, such as improving robustness and training efficiency, it remains unclear whether it can realize its greatest advantage: enabling robot policies to directly learn new motions for task completion. In this paper, we systematically explore this potential through multi-task human-robot cotraining. We introduce MotionTrans, a framework that includes a data collection system, a human data transformation pipeline, and a weighted cotraining strategy. By cotraining 30 human-robot tasks simultaneously, we direcly transfer motions of 13 tasks from human data to deployable end-to-end robot policies. Notably, 9 tasks achieve non-trivial success rates in zero-shot manner. MotionTrans also significantly enhances pretraining-finetuning performance (+40% success rate). Through ablation study, we also identify key factors for successful motion learning: cotraining with robot data and broad task-related motion coverage. These findings unlock the potential of motion-level learning from human data, offering insights into its effective use for training robotic manipulation policies. All data, code, and model weights are open-sourced https://motiontrans.github.io/.
title MotionTrans: Human VR Data Enable Motion-Level Learning for Robotic Manipulation Policies
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17759