SynManDex: Synthesizing Human-like Dexterous Grasps from Synthetic Human Pre-Grasps

Abstract:Human hand-object interactions encode functional intent, but direct transfer to robotic hands often fails under morphology, contact, and reachability constraints. We present SynManDex, a synthetic pipeline that uses generated human pre-grasps as affordance-aware proposals and resolves the final contacts with robot-native optimization. SynManDex samples object-conditioned digital human pre-grasps, retargets them to dexterous robotic hand poses, optimizes force-closure contacts on the target embodiment, and admits trajectories that pass checks from each step. The resulting keyframes support both grasp-and-lift demonstrations and various prehensile manipulation tasks such as tea pouring, photo taking, and flute playing, designed via VLM agents. As a result, SynManDex combines high grasp quality (86.4\% grasp stability) with 4.67/5 human-likeness (93.4\%). It achieves 80.7\% successes in simulation and 25/30 (83.3\%) real-robot successes when applied to a 36-DOF bimanual dexterous robotic platform.

Robotics (cs.RO)

arXiv:2606.09798 [cs.RO]

(or arXiv:2606.09798v1 [cs.RO] for this version)

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