Uni-Skill: Building Self-Evolving Skill Repository for Generalizable Robotic Manipulation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02623v1
• Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:49:37 GMT
• Title: Uni-Skill: Building Self-Evolving Skill Repository for Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
• Authors: Senwei Xie, Yuntian Zhang, Ruiping Wang, Xilin Chen,
• Abstract summary: Uni-Skill is a skill-centric framework that supports skill-aware planning.<n>Uni-Skill requests for new skill implementations when existing ones are insufficient.<n>Skill is a VerbNet-inspired repository derived from large-scale unstructured robotic videos.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: While skill-centric approaches leverage foundation models to enhance generalization in compositional tasks, they often rely on fixed skill libraries, limiting adaptability to new tasks without manual intervention. To address this, we propose Uni-Skill, a Unified Skill-centric framework that supports skill-aware planning and facilitates automatic skill evolution. Unlike prior methods that restrict planning to predefined skills, Uni-Skill requests for new skill implementations when existing ones are insufficient, ensuring adaptable planning with self-augmented skill library. To support automatic implementation of diverse skills requested by the planning module, we construct SkillFolder, a VerbNet-inspired repository derived from large-scale unstructured robotic videos. SkillFolder introduces a hierarchical skill taxonomy that captures diverse skill descriptions at multiple levels of abstraction. By populating this taxonomy with large-scale, automatically annotated demonstrations, Uni-Skill shifts the paradigm of skill acquisition from inefficient manual annotation to efficient offline structural retrieval. Retrieved examples provide semantic supervision over behavior patterns and fine-grained references for spatial trajectories, enabling few-shot skill inference without deployment-time demonstrations. Comprehensive experiments in both simulation and real-world settings verify the state-of-the-art performance of Uni-Skill over existing VLM-based skill-centric approaches, highlighting its advanced reasoning capabilities and strong zero-shot generalization across a wide range of novel tasks.

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