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Fast grasping is critical for mobile robots in logistics, manufacturing, and service applications. Existing methods face fundamental challenges in impact stabilization under high-speed motion, real-time whole-body coordination, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Heng Tao , Yiming Zhong , Zemin Yang , Yuexin Ma

Robotic grasping is a fundamental skill across all domains of robot applications. There is a large body of research for grasping objects in table-top scenarios, where finding suitable grasps is the main challenge. In this work, we are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Martin Rudorfer , Jiří Hartvich , Vojtěch Vonásek

Dexterous grasping is a fundamental yet challenging skill in robotic manipulation, requiring precise interaction between robotic hands and objects. In this paper, we present $\mathcal{D(R,O)}$ Grasp, a novel framework that models the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Zhenyu Wei , Zhixuan Xu , Jingxiang Guo , Yiwen Hou , Chongkai Gao , Zhehao Cai , Jiayu Luo , Lin Shao

We present a diffusion-based model recipe for real-world control of a highly dexterous humanoid robotic hand, designed for sample-efficient learning and smooth fine-motor action inference. Our system features a newly designed 16-DoF…

In this work, we present GraspFlow, a refinement approach for generating context-specific grasps. We formulate the problem of grasp synthesis as a sampling problem: we seek to sample from a context-conditioned probability distribution of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Tasbolat Taunyazov , Heng Zhang , John Patrick Eala , Na Zhao , Harold Soh

Well structured visual representations can make robot learning faster and can improve generalization. In this paper, we study how we can acquire effective object-centric representations for robotic manipulation tasks without human labeling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Eric Jang , Coline Devin , Vincent Vanhoucke , Sergey Levine

A challenge in robot grasping is to achieve task-grasping which is to select a grasp that is advantageous to the success of tasks before and after grasps. One of the frameworks to address this difficulty is Learning-from-Observation (LfO),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Daichi Saito , Kazuhiro Sasabuchi , Naoki Wake , Jun Takamatsu , Hideki Koike , Katsushi Ikeuchi

Humans excel in grasping and manipulating objects because of their life-long experience and knowledge about the 3D shape and weight distribution of objects. However, the lack of such intuition in robots makes robotic grasping an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Ghazal Ghazaei , Iro Laina , Christian Rupprecht , Federico Tombari , Nassir Navab , Kianoush Nazarpour

Every time a person encounters an object with a given degree of familiarity, he/she immediately knows how to grasp it. Adaptation of the movement of the hand according to the object geometry happens effortlessly because of the accumulated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Diego Rodriguez , Antonio Di Guardo , Antonio Frisoli , Sven Behnke

As the basis for prehensile manipulation, it is vital to enable robots to grasp as robustly as humans. Our innate grasping system is prompt, accurate, flexible, and continuous across spatial and temporal domains. Few existing methods cover…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Hao-Shu Fang , Chenxi Wang , Hongjie Fang , Minghao Gou , Jirong Liu , Hengxu Yan , Wenhai Liu , Yichen Xie , Cewu Lu

Robotic grasping is a crucial task in industrial automation, where robots are increasingly expected to handle a wide range of objects. However, a significant challenge arises when robot grasping models trained on limited datasets encounter…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Srinidhi Kalgundi Srinivas , Yash Shukla , Adam Arnold , Sachin Chitta

Tactile perception is an essential ability of intelligent robots in interaction with their surrounding environments. This perception as an intermediate level acts between sensation and action and has to be defined properly to generate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Masoud Baghbahari , Aman Behal

Deep learning-based robotic grasping has made significant progress thanks to algorithmic improvements and increased data availability. However, state-of-the-art models are often trained on as few as hundreds or thousands of unique object…

Performing a grasp is a pivotal capability for a robotic gripper. We propose a new evaluation approach of grasping stability via constructing a model of grasping stiffness based on the theory of contact mechanics. First, the mathematical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Huixu Dong , Chen Qiu , Dilip K. Prasad , Ye Pan , Jiansheng Dai , I-Ming Chen

In this research, we introduce a deep reinforcement learning-based control approach to address the intricate challenge of the robotic pre-grasping phase under microgravity conditions. Leveraging reinforcement learning eliminates the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Bahador Beigomi , Zheng H. Zhu

Intelligent robot grasping is a very challenging task due to its inherent complexity and non availability of sufficient labelled data. Since making suitable labelled data available for effective training for any deep learning based model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Vandana Kushwaha , Priya Shukla , G C Nandi

Achieving precise and generalizable grasping across diverse objects and environments is essential for intelligent and collaborative robotic systems. However, existing approaches often struggle with ambiguous affordance reasoning and limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ruixiang Wang , Huayi Zhou , Xinyue Yao , Guiliang Liu , Kui Jia

An unstable grasp pose can lead to slip, thus an unstable grasp pose can be predicted by slip detection. A regrasp is required afterwards to correct the grasp pose in order to finish the task. In this work, we propose a novel regrasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Qian Feng , Zhaopeng Chen , Jun Deng , Chunhui Gao , Jianwei Zhang , Alois Knoll

Dexterous robotic hands often struggle to generalize effectively in complex environments due to the limitations of models trained on low-diversity data. However, the real world presents an inherently unbounded range of scenarios, making it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yufei Zhu , Yiming Zhong , Zemin Yang , Peishan Cong , Jingyi Yu , Xinge Zhu , Yuexin Ma

Extrinsic manipulation, a technique that enables robots to leverage extrinsic resources for object manipulation, presents practical yet challenging scenarios. Particularly in the context of extrinsic manipulation on a supporting plane,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Peng Xu , Zhiyuan Chen , Jiankun Wang , Max Q. -H. Meng