IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · RA-L 2026
Validated on 20 real-world tasks · 3 trials each on a Fetch mobile manipulator.
We introduce a novel system for human-to-robot trajectory transfer that enables robots to manipulate objects by learning from human demonstration videos. The system consists of four modules. The first module is a data collection module that is designed to collect human demonstration videos from the point of view of a robot using an MR headset. The second module is a video understanding module that detects objects and extracts 3D human-hand trajectories from demonstration videos. The third module transfers a human-hand trajectory into a reference trajectory of a robot end-effector in 3D space. The last module utilizes a trajectory optimization algorithm to solve a trajectory in the robot configuration space that can follow the end-effector trajectory transferred from the human demonstration. Consequently, these modules enable a robot to watch a human demonstration video once and then repeat the same mobile manipulation task in different environments, even when objects are placed differently from the demonstrations.

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@ARTICLE{allu2026hrt1,
title = {{HRT1: One-Shot Human-to-Robot Trajectory Transfer for Mobile Manipulation}},
author = {Allu, Sai Haneesh and P, Jishnu Jaykumar and Khargonkar, Ninad and Summers, Tyler and Yao, Jian and Xiang, Yu},
journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)},
year = {2026}
}
Send any comments or questions to Sai or Jishnu — saihaneesh.allu@utdallas.edu · jishnu.p@utdallas.edu
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