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Grasping is the process of picking up an object by applying forces and torques at a set of contacts. Recent advances in deep-learning methods have allowed rapid progress in robotic object grasping. In this systematic review, we surveyed the…

Grasping and manipulating objects is an important human skill. Since most objects are designed to be manipulated by human hands, anthropomorphic hands can enable richer human-robot interaction. Desirable grasps are not only stable, but also…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Samarth Brahmbhatt , Ankur Handa , James Hays , Dieter Fox

Nonprehensile manipulation, such as pushing and pulling, enables robots to move, align, or reposition objects that may be difficult to grasp due to their geometry, size, or relationship to the robot or the environment. Much of the existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Yunshuang Li , Yiyang Ling , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Daniel Seita

Human hands possess the dexterity to interact with diverse objects such as grasping specific parts of the objects and/or approaching them from desired directions. More importantly, humans can grasp objects of any shape without…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Hui Zhang , Sammy Christen , Zicong Fan , Otmar Hilliges , Jie Song

Dexterous grasping in cluttered environments presents substantial challenges due to the high degrees of freedom of dexterous hands, occlusion, and potential collisions arising from diverse object geometries and complex layouts. To address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jiyao Zhang , Zhiyuan Ma , Tianhao Wu , Zeyuan Chen , Hao Dong

In this paper, we consider the problem of non-prehensile manipulation using grasped objects. This problem is a superset of many common manipulation skills including instances of tool-use (e.g., grasped spatula flipping a burger) and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Miquel Oller , Dmitry Berenson , Nima Fazeli

Grasping in cluttered scenes remains highly challenging for dexterous hands due to the scarcity of data. To address this problem, we present a large-scale synthetic benchmark, encompassing 1319 objects, 8270 scenes, and 427 million grasps.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Jialiang Zhang , Haoran Liu , Danshi Li , Xinqiang Yu , Haoran Geng , Yufei Ding , Jiayi Chen , He Wang

Dexterous robotic hands are appealing for their agility and human-like morphology, yet their high degree of freedom makes learning to manipulate challenging. We introduce an approach for learning dexterous grasping. Our key idea is to embed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Priyanka Mandikal , Kristen Grauman

The study of hand-object interaction requires generating viable grasp poses for high-dimensional multi-finger models, often relying on analytic grasp synthesis which tends to produce brittle and unnatural results. This paper presents…

Functional grasping with dexterous robotic hands is a key capability for enabling tool use and complex manipulation, yet progress has been constrained by two persistent bottlenecks: the scarcity of large-scale datasets and the absence of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Xingyi He , Adhitya Polavaram , Yunhao Cao , Om Deshmukh , Tianrui Wang , Xiaowei Zhou , Kuan Fang

One goal of dexterous robotic grasping is to allow robots to handle objects with the same level of flexibility and adaptability as humans. However, it remains a challenging task to generate an optimal grasping strategy for dexterous hands,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Fuqiang Zhao , Dzmitry Tsetserukou , Qian Liu

Picking diverse objects in the real world is a fundamental robotics skill. However, many objects in such settings are bulky, heavy, or irregularly shaped, making them ungraspable by conventional end effectors like suction grippers and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Albert Wu , Dan Kruse

Task-oriented dexterous grasping holds broad application prospects in robotic manipulation and human-object interaction. However, most existing methods still struggle to generalize across diverse objects and task instructions, as they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Juntao Jian , Yi-Lin Wei , Chengjie Mou , Yuhao Lin , Xing Zhu , Yujun Shen , Wei-Shi Zheng , Ruizhen Hu

Generating grasps for a dexterous hand often requires numerous grasping annotations. However, annotating high DoF dexterous hand poses is quite challenging. Especially for functional grasps, requiring the hand to grasp the object in a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Rina Wu , Tianqiang Zhu , Xiangbo Lin , Yi Sun

In robotic grasping, objects are often occluded in ungraspable configurations such that no pregrasp pose can be found, eg large flat boxes on the table that can only be grasped from the side. Inspired by humans' bimanual manipulation, eg…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Zhaole Sun , Kai Yuan , Wenbin Hu , Chuanyu Yang , Zhibin Li

Recent advancements in prosthetic technology have increasingly focused on enhancing dexterity and autonomy through intelligent control systems. Vision-based approaches offer promising results for enabling prosthetic hands to interact more…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shifa Sulaiman , Akash Bachhar , Ming Shen , Simon Bøgh

The intricate kinematics of the human hand enable simultaneous grasping and manipulation of multiple objects, essential for tasks such as object transfer and in-hand manipulation. Despite its significance, the domain of robotic multi-object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Yuyang Li , Bo Liu , Yiran Geng , Puhao Li , Yaodong Yang , Yixin Zhu , Tengyu Liu , Siyuan Huang

Generating dexterous grasping has been a long-standing and challenging robotic task. Despite recent progress, existing methods primarily suffer from two issues. First, most prior arts focus on a specific type of robot hand, lacking the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Puhao Li , Tengyu Liu , Yuyang Li , Yiran Geng , Yixin Zhu , Yaodong Yang , Siyuan Huang

To achieve a successful grasp, gripper attributes such as its geometry and kinematics play a role as important as the object geometry. The majority of previous work has focused on developing grasp methods that generalize over novel object…

Can a robot grasp an unknown object without seeing it? In this paper, we present a tactile-sensing based approach to this challenging problem of grasping novel objects without prior knowledge of their location or physical properties. Our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Adithyavairavan Murali , Yin Li , Dhiraj Gandhi , Abhinav Gupta