ReForce: Learning Force-aware Retargeting for Dexterous Manipulation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.15560v1
• Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2026 06:13:14 GMT
• Title: ReForce: Learning Force-aware Retargeting for Dexterous Manipulation
• Abstract summary: ReForce is a Force-aware Retargeting method that turns human motion and forces into robot actions that reproduce the intended contact.<n>It supports both online force-aware teleoperation and offline data translation.<n>It achieves lower force-tracking error and stronger multi-finger contact engagement on contact-rich tasks such as paper-cup grasping and tongs manipulation.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Human demonstrations offer a scalable data source for dexterous manipulation, but transferring them to robot actions remains challenging due to the embodiment gap. Today's retargeting is mostly kinematic, yet manipulation is decided by force, which governs how the hand interacts with the object and how the object moves. In this paper, we present ReForce, a Force-aware Retargeting method that turns human motion and forces into robot actions that reproduce the intended contact. ReForce predicts a residual on the kinematically retargeted action to reach the desired force, using a general force tracker trained on large-scale simulation interactions. It supports both online force-aware teleoperation and offline data translation. In simulation and on real hardware, ReForce achieves lower force-tracking error and stronger multi-finger contact engagement on contact-rich tasks such as paper-cup grasping and tongs manipulation.

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