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ReviewFrontiers in robotics and AI2025

Diffusion models for robotic manipulation: a survey.

Rosa Wolf, Yitian Shi, Sheng Liu, Rania Rayyes

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Review in Frontiers in robotics and AI, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. simDP: Sim-to-Real Transfer with Shared Action Spaces.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Rosa WolfAI and Robotics (AIR), Institute of Material Handling and Logistics (IFL), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany.
Yitian ShiAI and Robotics (AIR), Institute of Material Handling and Logistics (IFL), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany.
Sheng LiuAI and Robotics (AIR), Institute of Material Handling and Logistics (IFL), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany.
Rania RayyesAI and Robotics (AIR), Institute of Material Handling and Logistics (IFL), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diffusion generative models have demonstrated remarkable success in visual domains such as image and video generation. They have also recently emerged as a promising approach in robotics, especially in robot manipulations. Diffusion models leverage a probabilistic framework, and they stand out with their ability to model multi-modal distributions and their robustness to high-dimensional input and output spaces. This survey provides a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art diffusion models in robotic manipulation, including grasp learning, trajectory planning, and data augmentation. Diffusion models for scene and image augmentation lie at the intersection of robotics and computer vision for vision-based tasks to enhance generalizability and data scarcity. This paper also presents the two main frameworks of diffusion models and their integration with imitation learning and reinforcement learning. In addition, it discusses the common architectures and benchmarks and points out the challenges and advantages of current state-of-the-art diffusion-based methods.

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diffusion modelsgenerative modelsgrasp learningimitation learningrobot manipulation learning

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PMID40995149
PMCPMC12454101

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