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Manipulation of deformable objects, such as ropes and cloth, is an important but challenging problem in robotics. We present a learning-based system where a robot takes as input a sequence of images of a human manipulating a rope from an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Ashvin Nair , Dian Chen , Pulkit Agrawal , Phillip Isola , Pieter Abbeel , Jitendra Malik , Sergey Levine

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…

Learning-based approaches to grasp planning are preferred over analytical methods due to their ability to better generalize to new, partially observed objects. However, data collection remains one of the biggest bottlenecks for grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Qingkai Lu , Mark Van der Merwe , Tucker Hermans

Rapid and reliable robot bin picking is a critical challenge in automating warehouses, often measured in picks-per-hour (PPH). We explore increasing PPH using faster motions based on optimizing over a set of candidate grasps. The source of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Jeffrey Ichnowski , Michael Danielczuk , Jingyi Xu , Vishal Satish , Ken Goldberg

Robotic grasp detection task is still challenging, particularly for novel objects. With the recent advance of deep learning, there have been several works on detecting robotic grasp using neural networks. Typically, regression based grasp…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Dongwon Park , Se Young Chun

Grasping moving objects, such as goods on a belt or living animals, is an important but challenging task in robotics. Conventional approaches rely on a set of manually defined object motion patterns for training, resulting in poor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Tianhao Wu , Fangwei Zhong , Yiran Geng , Hongchen Wang , Yongjian Zhu , Yizhou Wang , Hao Dong

Grasping is one of the most fundamental challenging capabilities in robotic manipulation, especially in unstructured, cluttered, and semantically diverse environments. Recent researches have increasingly explored language-guided…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Zebin Jiang , Tianle Jin , Xiangtong Yao , Alois Knoll , Hu Cao

Modern approaches to grasp planning often involve deep learning. However, there are only a few large datasets of labelled grasping examples on physical robots, and available datasets involve relatively simple planar grasps with two-fingered…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Rajan Iyengar , Victor Reyes Osorio , Presish Bhattachan , Adrian Ragobar , Bryan Tripp

Learning-based grasping can afford real-time grasp motion planning of multi-fingered robotics hands thanks to its high computational efficiency. However, learning-based methods are required to explore large search spaces during the learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Yunsik Jung , Lingfeng Tao , Michael Bowman , Jiucai Zhang , Xiaoli Zhang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become a prevailing tool for learning physical dynamics. However, they still encounter several challenges: 1) Physical laws abide by symmetry, which is a vital inductive bias accounting for model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Jiaqi Han , Wenbing Huang , Hengbo Ma , Jiachen Li , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

We address the problem of robotic grasping of known and unknown objects using implicit behavior cloning. We train a grasp evaluation model from a small number of demonstrations that outputs higher values for grasp candidates that are more…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Gergely Sóti , Xi Huang , Christian Wurll , Björn Hein

Neural networks are often regarded as universal equations that can estimate any function. This flexibility, however, comes with the drawback of high complexity, rendering these networks into black box models, which is especially relevant in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Al-Harith Farhad , Khalil Abuibaid , Christiane Plociennik , Achim Wagner , Martin Ruskowski

Our way of grasping objects is challenging for efficient, intelligent and optimal grasp by COBOTs. To streamline the process, here we use deep learning techniques to help robots learn to generate and execute appropriate grasps quickly. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Priya Shukla , Nilotpal Pramanik , Deepesh Mehta , G. C. Nandi

In order to explore robotic grasping in unstructured and dynamic environments, this work addresses the visual perception phase involved in the task. This phase involves the processing of visual data to obtain the location of the object to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Eduardo Godinho Ribeiro , Raul de Queiroz Mendes , Valdir Grassi

The problem of grasping objects using a multi-finger hand has received significant attention in recent years. However, it remains challenging to handle a large number of unfamiliar objects in real and cluttered environments. In this work,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Hengxu Yan , Hao-Shu Fang , Cewu Lu

While there exists many methods for manipulating rigid objects with parallel-jaw grippers, grasping with multi-finger robotic hands remains a quite unexplored research topic. Reasoning and planning collision-free trajectories on the…

Grasping objects intelligently is a challenging task even for humans and we spend a considerable amount of time during our childhood to learn how to grasp objects correctly. In the case of robots, we can not afford to spend that much time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Priya Shukla , Vandana Kushwaha , G. C. Nandi

Developing personal robots that can perform a diverse range of manipulation tasks in unstructured environments necessitates solving several challenges for robotic grasping systems. We take a step towards this broader goal by presenting the…

Adaptive robotics plays an essential role in achieving truly co-creative cyber physical systems. In robotic manipulation tasks, one of the biggest challenges is to estimate the pose of given workpieces. Even though the recent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Dániel Horváth , Kristóf Bocsi , Gábor Erdős , Zoltán Istenes

Humans grasp unfamiliar objects by combining an initial visual estimate with tactile and proprioceptive feedback during interaction. We present ShapeGrasp, a robotic implementation of this approach. The proposed method is an iterative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Lukas Rustler , Matej Hoffmann