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RoboEdit: Turning Human Manipulation Videos into Scalable Robot Experience

Yaowei Guo, Zeng Tao, Yuxin Jiang, Yunuo Chen, Zhiyang Dou, Yuxiang Ma, Yin Yang, Demetri Terzopoulos, Ying Jiang, Chenfanfu Jiang

arXiv:2608.18948Published August 19, 2026Updated August 28, 20260 citations
  • cs.RO
  • robot
  • manipulation
  • action

Abstract

Collecting robot hand-object interaction data is costly and embodiment-specific, yet abundant human-object videos remain unusable for robot training. We present RoboEdit, a human-to-robot video editing suite that transforms human manipulation videos into action-consistent, physically plausible robot videos with aligned 3D hand states. To enable scalable supervision, we introduce RoboEdit-ADC, an automatic pipeline that reconstructs and retargets 3D interactions from RGB videos across embodiments. This pipeline generates RoboEdit-14M, a large-scale dataset of 174K aligned video pairs (14M frames) spanning seven robot embodiments, diverse scenes, and interaction types. The core editing engine, RoboEdit-Trans, employs cross-embodiment adaptation modules to preserve temporal coherence while adapting appearance and motion. It further integrates a 3D Robot-State Decoder to recover per-frame hand states for structured motion supervision. Experiments show that RoboEdit achieves state-of-the-art editing quality and supports downstream robot control policies in real-world manipulation tasks. Ultimately, the RoboEdit suite unlocks the vast potential of unlabeled human videos, providing scalable, high-fidelity visual and 3D motion supervision for generalizable robot learning. Project webpage: https://roboedit.github.io/

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