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- pretty_name: ManiSoft
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- license: mit
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  language:
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  - en
 
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  - 1K<n<10K
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  task_categories:
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  - robotics
 
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  tags:
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  - robotics
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  - soft-robotics
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  - simulation
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- # ManiSoft
 
 
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  ManiSoft is a soft-robot manipulation dataset and benchmark for vision-language-action learning. It contains expert demonstrations for four manipulation tasks:
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- ### Typical Examples
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- Extract all dataset shards under the downloaded directory and keep the original tar files:
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- ```bash
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- bash data_extract.sh ./ManiSoft 8 0
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- ```
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- Extract all dataset shards and delete each tar file after successful extraction:
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- ```bash
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- bash data_extract.sh ./ManiSoft 8 1
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- ```
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- Extract only the `clean` subset:
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- ```bash
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- bash data_extract.sh ./ManiSoft/clean 8 1
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- ```
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- ### What the Script Does
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- - recursively finds all `.tar` files under `tar_root_dir`
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- - extracts them in parallel
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- - restores files into the original relative paths stored in each tar shard
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- - optionally removes the source tar files after successful extraction
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  ## Recommended Workflow
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  ```bash
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  tar -xvf assets.tar
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  ```
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  ## Notes
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  - The extraction script requires a Unix-like shell environment with `bash`, `find`, `tar`, and standard job control support.
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  - Different shards may expand into the same `train/` or `eval/` directory tree. This is expected.
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- - `trajectory.pkl` is the main expert trajectory file used for imitation learning and replay.
 
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  language:
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  - en
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+ license: mit
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  size_categories:
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  - 1K<n<10K
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  task_categories:
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  - robotics
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+ pretty_name: ManiSoft
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  tags:
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  - robotics
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  - soft-robotics
 
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  - simulation
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+ # ManiSoft: Towards Vision-Language Manipulation for Soft Continuum Robotics
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+ [**Project Page**](https://buaa-colalab.github.io/ManiSoft) | [**Paper**](https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.18617) | [**GitHub**](https://github.com/buaa-colalab/ManiSoft)
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  ManiSoft is a soft-robot manipulation dataset and benchmark for vision-language-action learning. It contains expert demonstrations for four manipulation tasks:
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  - `0`: keep tar files
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  ## Recommended Workflow
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  ```bash
 
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  tar -xvf assets.tar
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  ```
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+ ## Citation
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+ If you use ManiSoft in your research, please cite:
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @article{wei2026manisoft,
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+ title={ManiSoft: Towards Vision-Language Manipulation for Soft Continuum Robotics},
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+ author={Ziyu Wei and Luting Wang and Chen Gao and Li Wen and Si Liu},
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+ journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.18617},
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+ year={2026},
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+ }
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+ ```
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  ## Notes
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  - The extraction script requires a Unix-like shell environment with `bash`, `find`, `tar`, and standard job control support.
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  - Different shards may expand into the same `train/` or `eval/` directory tree. This is expected.
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+ - `trajectory.pkl` is the main expert trajectory file used for imitation learning and replay.