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We present GazeGrasp, a gaze-based manipulation system enabling individuals with motor impairments to control collaborative robots using eye-gaze. The system employs an ESP32 CAM for eye tracking, MediaPipe for gaze detection, and YOLOv8…

Autonomous grasping of novel objects that are previously unseen to a robot is an ongoing challenge in robotic manipulation. In the last decades, many approaches have been presented to address this problem for specific robot hands. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Kelin Li , Nicholas Baron , Xian Zhang , Nicolas Rojas

Tool manipulation is vital for facilitating robots to complete challenging task goals. It requires reasoning about the desired effect of the task and thus properly grasping and manipulating the tool to achieve the task. Task-agnostic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Kuan Fang , Yuke Zhu , Animesh Garg , Andrey Kurenkov , Viraj Mehta , Li Fei-Fei , Silvio Savarese

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…

Given a demonstration, a robot should be able to generalize a skill to any object it encounters-but existing approaches to skill transfer often fail to adapt to objects with unfamiliar shapes. Motivated by examples of improved transfer from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Skye Thompson , Ondrej Biza , George Konidaris

Recent progress in robotic manipulation has dealt with the case of previously unknown objects in the context of relatively simple tasks, such as bin-picking. Existing methods for more constrained problems, however, such as deliberate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Chaitanya Mitash , Rahul Shome , Bowen Wen , Abdeslam Boularias , Kostas Bekris

As large models gain traction, vision-language-action (VLA) systems are enabling robots to tackle increasingly complex tasks. However, limited by the difficulty of data collection, progress has mainly focused on controlling simple gripper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Jiawei He , Danshi Li , Xinqiang Yu , Zekun Qi , Wenyao Zhang , Jiayi Chen , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Zhizheng Zhang , Li Yi , He Wang

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

Quadruped robots are increasingly used in various applications due to their high mobility and ability to operate in diverse terrains. However, most available quadruped robots are primarily focused on mobility without object manipulation…

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

Dexterous grasping of unseen objects in dynamic environments is an essential prerequisite for the advanced manipulation of autonomous robots. Prior advances rely on several assumptions that simplify the setup, including environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yannick Burkhardt , Qian Feng , Jianxiang Feng , Karan Sharma , Zhaopeng Chen , Alois Knoll

We present a method for controlling a simulated humanoid to grasp an object and move it to follow an object's trajectory. Due to the challenges in controlling a humanoid with dexterous hands, prior methods often use a disembodied hand and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zhengyi Luo , Jinkun Cao , Sammy Christen , Alexander Winkler , Kris Kitani , Weipeng Xu

Robotic grasp detection is a fundamental capability for intelligent manipulation in unstructured environments. Previous work mainly employed visual and tactile fusion to achieve stable grasp, while, the whole process depending heavily on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Teng Xue , Wenhai Liu , Mingshuo Han , Zhenyu Pan , Jin Ma , Quanquan Shao , Weiming Wang

For robot manipulation, a complete and accurate object shape is desirable. Here, we present a method that combines visual and haptic reconstruction in a closed-loop pipeline. From an initial viewpoint, the object shape is reconstructed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Lukas Rustler , Jiri Matas , Matej Hoffmann

Achieving diverse and stable dexterous grasping for general and deformable objects remains a fundamental challenge in robotics, due to high-dimensional action spaces and uncertainty in perception. In this paper, we present D3Grasp, a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Keyu Wang , Bingcong Lu , Zhengxue Cheng , Hengdi Zhang , Li Song

Effective human-robot collaboration depends on task-oriented handovers, where robots present objects in ways that support the partners intended use. However, many existing approaches neglect the humans post-handover action, relying on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Andreea Tulbure , Rene Zurbruegg , Timm Grigat , Marco Hutter

As robots become more widely available outside industrial settings, the need for reliable object grasping and manipulation is increasing. In such environments, robots must be able to grasp and manipulate novel objects in various situations.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Tomas van der Velde , Hamed Ayoobi , Hamidreza Kasaei

In this paper, we explore whether a robot can learn to regrasp a diverse set of objects to achieve various desired grasp poses. Regrasping is needed whenever a robot's current grasp pose fails to perform desired manipulation tasks. Endowing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Shuo Cheng , Kaichun Mo , Lin Shao

Currently, robotic grasping methods based on sparse partial point clouds have attained a great grasping performance on various objects while they often generate wrong grasping candidates due to the lack of geometric information on the…

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

The ability to grasp objects in-the-wild from open-ended language instructions constitutes a fundamental challenge in robotics. An open-world grasping system should be able to combine high-level contextual with low-level physical-geometric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Georgios Tziafas , Hamidreza Kasaei