titleDexJoCo: A Benchmark and Toolkit for Task-Oriented Dexterous Manipulation on MuJoCo
authorsHanwen Wang, Weizhi Zhao, Xiangyu Wang, Siyuan Huang, He Lin, Boyuan Zheng, Rongtao Xu, Gang Wang, Yao Mu, He Wang, Lue Fan, Hongsheng Li, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Tieniu Tan
date2026-05-15
venuearXiv (preprint, not peer reviewed)
idarXiv:2605.16257
upvotes54 (Hugging Face Daily Papers, 2026-11-01)
linksabs pdf hf code
abstractAchieving human-level manipulation requires dexterous robotic hands capable of complex object interactions. Advancing such capabilities further demands standardized benchmarks for systematic evaluation. However, existing dexterous benchmarks lack tasks that reflect the unique manipulation capabilities of dexterous hands over parallel grippers, as well as comprehensive evaluation pipelines. In this paper, we present DexJoCo, a benchmark and toolkit for task-oriented dexterous manipulation, comprising 11 functionally grounded tasks that evaluate tool-use, bimanual coordination, long-horizon execution, and reasoning. We develop a low-cost data collection system and collect 1.1K trajectories across these tasks, with support for domain randomization to assess robustness. We benchmark modern models under diverse settings, including visual and dynamics randomization, multi-task training, and action-head adaptation. Through extensive empirical analysis, we identify several important insights and common limitations of current policies in dexterous manipulation, highlighting key challenges for future research in dexterous hand robot learning. Project page available at: https://dexjoco.github.io

cite

@misc{wang2026dexjoco,
  title={DexJoCo: A Benchmark and Toolkit for Task-Oriented Dexterous Manipulation on MuJoCo},
  author={Hanwen Wang and Weizhi Zhao and Xiangyu Wang and Siyuan Huang and He Lin and Boyuan Zheng and Rongtao Xu and Gang Wang and Yao Mu and He Wang and Lue Fan and Hongsheng Li and Zhaoxiang Zhang and Tieniu Tan},
  year={2026},
  eprint={2605.16257},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16257}
}