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Robotic grasping is a fundamental capability for enabling autonomous manipulation, with usually infinite solutions. State-of-the-art approaches for grasping rely on learning from large-scale datasets comprising expert annotations of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Manav Kulshrestha , S. Talha Bukhari , Damon Conover , Aniket Bera

In this paper, we propose Lan-grasp, a novel approach towards more appropriate semantic grasping and placing. We leverage foundation models to equip the robot with a semantic understanding of object geometry, enabling it to identify the…

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

Robotic grasping in cluttered environments remains a significant challenge due to occlusions and complex object arrangements. We have developed ThinkGrasp, a plug-and-play vision-language grasping system that makes use of GPT-4o's advanced…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yaoyao Qian , Xupeng Zhu , Ondrej Biza , Shuo Jiang , Linfeng Zhao , Haojie Huang , Yu Qi , Robert Platt

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

Despite significant progress in robotic systems for operation within human-centric environments, existing models still heavily rely on explicit human commands to identify and manipulate specific objects. This limits their effectiveness in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Shiyu Jin , Jinxuan Xu , Yutian Lei , Liangjun Zhang

Task-oriented grasping, which involves grasping specific parts of objects based on their functions, is crucial for developing advanced robotic systems capable of performing complex tasks in dynamic environments. In this paper, we propose a…

Grasping unknown objects in unstructured environments is a critical challenge for service robots, which must operate in dynamic, real-world settings such as homes, hospitals, and warehouses. Success in these environments requires both…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Avihai Giuili , Rotem Atari , Avishai Sintov

Inferring the affordance of an object and grasping it in a task-oriented manner is crucial for robots to successfully complete manipulation tasks. Affordance indicates where and how to grasp an object by taking its functionality into…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yingbo Tang , Shuaike Zhang , Xiaoshuai Hao , Pengwei Wang , Jianlong Wu , Zhongyuan Wang , Shanghang Zhang

Language-driven grasp detection has the potential to revolutionize human-robot interaction by allowing robots to understand and execute grasping tasks based on natural language commands. However, existing approaches face two key challenges.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Quang Nguyen , Tri Le , Huy Nguyen , Thieu Vo , Tung D. Ta , Baoru Huang , Minh N. Vu , Anh Nguyen

Vision language models (VLMs) exhibit vast knowledge of the physical world, including intuition of physical and spatial properties, affordances, and motion. With fine-tuning, VLMs can also natively produce robot trajectories. We demonstrate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-16 William Xie , Max Conway , Yutong Zhang , Nikolaus Correll

Target-oriented grasping in unstructured scenes with language control is essential for intelligent robot arm grasping. The ability for the robot arm to understand the human language and execute corresponding grasping actions is a pivotal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Xinyu Chen , Jian Yang , Zonghan He , Haobin Yang , Qi Zhao , Yuhui Shi

Robotic grasping is one of the most fundamental tasks in robotic manipulation, and grasp detection/generation has long been the subject of extensive research. Recently, language-driven grasp generation has emerged as a promising direction…

Robotic grasping is a cornerstone capability of embodied systems. Many methods directly output grasps from partial information without modeling the geometry of the scene, leading to suboptimal motion and even collisions. To address these…

Building generalist robots capable of performing functional grasping in everyday, open-world environments remains a significant challenge due to the vast diversity of objects and tasks. Existing methods are either constrained to narrow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Chao Tang , Jiacheng Xu , Haofei Lu , Bolin Zou , Wenlong Dong , Hong Zhang , Danica Kragic

Robotic grasping traditionally relies on object features or shape information for learning new or applying already learned grasps. We argue however that such a strong reliance on object geometric information renders grasping and grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Philipp Zech , Justus Piater

To manipulate objects in novel, unstructured environments, robots need task-oriented grasps that target object parts based on the given task. Geometry-based methods often struggle with visually defined parts, occlusions, and unseen objects.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Edmond Tong , Advaith Balaji , Anthony Opipari , Stanley Lewis , Zhen Zeng , Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

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

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

Task-aware robotic grasping is a challenging problem that requires the integration of semantic understanding and geometric reasoning. This paper proposes a novel framework that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) and Quality Diversity…

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