#dexterous-manipulation

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01 ·Time Series·★ MEMBER·PAPER·8 min read Paper Walkthrough: PointWAM — Forecasting the Scene and the Hands as 3D Point Trajectories to Teach Robot Hands from Human Video PointWAM splits the world into scene points and hand keypoints, forecasts where both will move in one shared 3D frame, then converts the hand forecast into robot actions. Pre-trained on 1.15M human-video episodes, it lifts average DexJoCo success from 12.1% to 69.0%. A from-scratch walkthrough grounded in the paper. 02 ·Paper Deep-Dives·★ MEMBER·PAPER·11 min read Paper Walkthrough — RoboTok: Mining the Web for Demonstrations That Move Like Yours A ground-up walkthrough of RoboTok (arXiv:2609.03199), a data engine that pulls manipulation-relevant human demonstrations out of web video. Covers how DTW defines 'similar motion', how that ranking is distilled into an embedding for inner-product search, and what the results do and don't show.