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Scaling Bimanual Household Manipulation from 1,500 hours of Demonstrations to On-Policy Corrections

arXiv 2609.03591 ↗First posted 3 Sep 2026cs.ROcited by 0

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Abstract (arXiv)

Learning generalist policies for robust bimanual manipulation is bottlenecked by the scarcity of high quality large scale human demonstration data. In this work, we release 1,500 hours of diverse bimanual manipulation demonstrations covering everyday household tasks, and use this comprehensive corpus to train XR-2, a powerful vision-language-action (VLA) model. Enabled by a purpose built high throughput data pipeline and a carefully designed multi stage training paradigm, XR-2 attains strong manipulation performance in our systematic experiments while retaining favorable training efficiency and high data utilization. We further study two critical scaling axes: varying the amount of expert demonstration data, and post training on DAgger correction data from real time human interventions. In both settings, task success rate improves steadily over the data ranges we probe, exhibiting a clear consistent scaling trend at our current data scale. These results validate both the learning capacity of XR-2 and the promising scaling properties of the released dataset, which we open source to support reproducible research on bimanual robot manipulation learning.

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