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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

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

Performing robotic grasping from a cluttered bin based on human instructions is a challenging task, as it requires understanding both the nuances of free-form language and the spatial relationships between objects. Vision-Language Models…

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 assistance is essential for restoring autonomy in individuals with motor impairments, particularly in unstructured environments where object categories and user intentions are diverse and unpredictable. We present OVGrasp, a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Chen Hu , Shan Luo , Letizia Gionfrida

Achieving precise and generalizable grasping across diverse objects and environments is essential for intelligent and collaborative robotic systems. However, existing approaches often struggle with ambiguous affordance reasoning and limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ruixiang Wang , Huayi Zhou , Xinyue Yao , Guiliang Liu , Kui Jia

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

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

Service robots are expected to autonomously and efficiently work in human-centric environments. For this type of robots, object perception and manipulation are challenging tasks due to need for accurate and real-time response. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-05 S. Hamidreza Kasaei , Nima Shafii , Luis Seabra Lopes , Ana Maria Tome

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…

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

The ability of a robot to pick an object, known as robot grasping, is crucial for several applications, such as assembly or sorting. In such tasks, selecting the right target to pick is as essential as inferring a correct configuration of…

Zero-Shot Object Goal Navigation (ZS-OGN) enables robots or agents to navigate toward objects of unseen categories without object-specific training. Traditional approaches often leverage categorical semantic information for navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Shuaihang Yuan , Hao Huang , Yu Hao , Congcong Wen , Anthony Tzes , Yi Fang

Enabling robots to grasp objects specified through natural language is essential for effective human-robot interaction, yet it remains a significant challenge. Existing approaches often struggle with open-form language expressions and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Houjian Yu , Zheming Zhou , Min Sun , Omid Ghasemalizadeh , Yuyin Sun , Cheng-Hao Kuo , Arnie Sen , Changhyun Choi

Artificial intelligence is essential to succeed in challenging activities that involve dynamic environments, such as object manipulation tasks in indoor scenes. Most of the state-of-the-art literature explores robotic grasping methods by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Paola Ardón , Èric Pairet , Ron Petrick , Subramanian Ramamoorthy , Katrin Lohan

Recent open-vocabulary robot mapping methods enrich dense geometric maps with pre-trained visual-language features, achieving a high level of detail and guiding robots to find objects specified by open-vocabulary language queries. While the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Fujing Xie , Sören Schwertfeger , Hermann Blum

In order for robots to interact with objects effectively, they must understand the form and function of each object they encounter. Essentially, robots need to understand which actions each object affords, and where those affordances can be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Edmond Tong , Anthony Opipari , Stanley Lewis , Zhen Zeng , Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

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

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
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