Dex4D: Task-Agnostic Point Track Policy for Sim-to-Real Dexterous Manipulation

TL;DR

Dex4D introduces a task-agnostic, simulation-trained policy for dexterous manipulation that generalizes to real-world tasks without fine-tuning, using online point tracking for perception and control.

Contribution

We propose Dex4D, a novel framework that learns a domain-agnostic point track policy in simulation, enabling zero-shot transfer to diverse real-world manipulation tasks.

Findings

Zero-shot transfer to real-world tasks without fine-tuning

Strong generalization to novel objects and scenes

Consistent improvements over prior methods

Abstract

Learning generalist policies capable of accomplishing a plethora of everyday tasks remains an open challenge in dexterous manipulation. In particular, collecting large-scale manipulation data via real-world teleoperation is expensive and difficult to scale. While learning in simulation provides a feasible alternative, designing multiple task-specific environments and rewards for training is similarly challenging. We propose Dex4D, a framework that instead leverages simulation for learning task-agnostic dexterous skills that can be flexibly recomposed to perform diverse real-world manipulation tasks. Specifically, Dex4D learns a domain-agnostic 3D point track conditioned policy capable of manipulating any object to any desired pose. We train this 'Anypose-to-Anypose' policy in simulation across thousands of objects with diverse pose configurations, covering a broad space of robot-object interactions that can be composed at test time. At deployment, this policy can be zero-shot transferred to real-world tasks without finetuning, simply by prompting it with desired object-centric point tracks extracted from generated videos. During execution, Dex4D uses online point tracking for closed-loop perception and control. Extensive experiments in simulation and on real robots show that our method enables zero-shot deployment for diverse dexterous manipulation tasks and yields consistent improvements over prior baselines. Furthermore, we demonstrate strong generalization to novel objects, scene layouts, backgrounds, and trajectories, highlighting the robustness and scalability of the proposed framework.