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Robots interacting with humans through natural language can unlock numerous applications such as Referring Grasp Synthesis (RGS). Given a text query, RGS determines a stable grasp pose to manipulate the referred object in the robot's…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Vineet Bhat , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Ramesh Karri , Farshad Khorrami

We present a novel approach to robotic grasp planning using both a learned grasp proposal network and a learned 3D shape reconstruction network. Our system generates 6-DOF grasps from a single RGB-D image of the target object, which is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Daniel Yang , Tarik Tosun , Ben Eisner , Volkan Isler , Daniel Lee

Flexible instruction-guided 6-DoF grasping is a significant yet challenging task for real-world robotic systems. Existing methods utilize the contextual understanding capabilities of the large language models (LLMs) to establish mappings…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Xiaomeng Chu , Jiajun Deng , Guoliang You , Wei Liu , Xingchen Li , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

Grasping of diverse objects in unstructured environments remains a significant challenge. Open-loop grasping methods, effective in controlled settings, struggle in cluttered environments. Grasp prediction errors and object pose changes…

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

The existing language-driven grasping methods struggle to fully handle ambiguous instructions containing implicit intents. To tackle this challenge, we propose LangGrasp, a novel language-interactive robotic grasping framework. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Yunhan Lin , Wenqi Wu , Zhijie Zhang , Huasong Min

Robotic grasping is one of the most fundamental robotic manipulation tasks and has been actively studied. However, how to quickly teach a robot to grasp a novel target object in clutter remains challenging. This paper attempts to tackle the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Yang Yang , Yuanhao Liu , Hengyue Liang , Xibai Lou , Changhyun Choi

This paper aims to improve robots' versatility and adaptability by allowing them to use a large variety of end-effector tools and quickly adapt to new tools. We propose AdaGrasp, a method to learn a single grasping policy that generalizes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Zhenjia Xu , Beichun Qi , Shubham Agrawal , Shuran Song

We consider the problem of closed-loop robotic grasping and present a novel planner which uses Visual Feedback and an uncertainty-aware Adaptive Sampling strategy (VFAS) to close the loop. At each iteration, our method VFAS-Grasp builds a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Pedro Piacenza , Jiacheng Yuan , Jinwook Huh , Volkan Isler

Reliable object grasping is a crucial capability for autonomous robots. However, many existing grasping approaches focus on general clutter removal without explicitly modeling objects and thus only relying on the visible local geometry. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Eugenio Chisari , Nick Heppert , Tim Welschehold , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

Visual prediction models are a promising solution for visual-based robotic grasping of cluttered, unknown soft objects. Previous models from the literature are computationally greedy, which limits reproducibility; although some consider…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Anji Ma , Yoann Fleytoux , Jean-Bapstiste Mouret , Serena Ivaldi

Robot grasping of desktop object is widely used in intelligent manufacturing, logistics, and agriculture.Although vision-language models (VLMs) show strong potential for robotic manipulation, their deployment in low-level grasping faces key…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yiran Ling , Wenxuan Li , Siying Dong , Yize Zhang , Xiaoyao Huang , Jing Jiang , Ruonan Li , Jie Liu

When performing manipulation-based activities such as picking objects, a mobile robot needs to position its base at a location that supports successful execution. To address this problem, prominent approaches typically rely on costly grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Manish Saini , Melvin Paul Jacob , Minh Nguyen , Nico Hochgeschwender

Task-oriented grasping of unfamiliar objects is a necessary skill for robots in dynamic in-home environments. Inspired by the human capability to grasp such objects through intuition about their shape and structure, we present a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Samuel Li , Sarthak Bhagat , Joseph Campbell , Yaqi Xie , Woojun Kim , Katia Sycara , Simon Stepputtis

Fast and robust object grasping in clutter is a crucial component of robotics. Most current works resort to the whole observed point cloud for 6-Dof grasp generation, ignoring the guidance information excavated from global semantics, thus…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Siang Chen , Wei Tang , Pengwei Xie , Wenming Yang , Guijin Wang

Currently, task-oriented grasp detection approaches are mostly based on pixel-level affordance detection and semantic segmentation. These pixel-level approaches heavily rely on the accuracy of a 2D affordance mask, and the generated grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Wenkai Chen , Hongzhuo Liang , Zhaopeng Chen , Fuchun Sun , Jianwei Zhang

Bridging the gap between natural language commands and autonomous execution in unstructured environments remains an open challenge for robotics. This requires robots to perceive and reason over the current task scene through multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jin Wang , Kim Tien Ly , Jacques Cloete , Nikos Tsagarakis , Ioannis Havoutis

A significant challenge for real-world robotic manipulation is the effective 6DoF grasping of objects in cluttered scenes from any single viewpoint without the need for additional scene exploration. This work reinterprets grasping as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Snehal Jauhri , Ishikaa Lunawat , Georgia Chalvatzaki

Successful robotic grasping in cluttered environments not only requires a model to visually ground a target object but also to reason about obstructions that must be cleared beforehand. While current vision-language embodied reasoning…

Achieving reliable robotic manipulation, such as dexterous grasping, requires a synergy between physically stable interactions and semantic task guidance, yet these objectives are often treated as separate, disjoint goals. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Han Yi Shin , Heeju Ko , Jaewon Mun , Qixing Huang , Jaehyeok Lee , Sung June Kim , Honglak Lee , Sujin Jang , Sangpil Kim