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The ability to robustly grasp a variety of objects is essential for dexterous robots. In this paper, we present a framework for zero-shot dynamic dexterous grasping using single-view visual inputs, designed to be resilient to various…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Hui Zhang , Zijian Wu , Linyi Huang , Sammy Christen , Jie Song

While there have been significant strides in dexterous manipulation, most of it is limited to benchmark tasks like in-hand reorientation which are of limited utility in the real world. The main benefit of dexterous hands over two-fingered…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Ananye Agarwal , Shagun Uppal , Kenneth Shaw , Deepak Pathak

A pivotal challenge in robotics is achieving fast, safe, and robust dexterous grasping across a diverse range of objects, an important goal within industrial applications. However, existing methods often have very limited speed, dexterity,…

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

Many robotic tasks require grasping objects at specific object parts instead of arbitrarily, a crucial capability for interactions beyond simple pick-and-place, such as human-robot interaction, handovers, or tool use. Prior work has focused…

This work tackles the problem of task-oriented dexterous hand pose synthesis, which involves generating a static hand pose capable of applying a task-specific set of wrenches to manipulate objects. Unlike previous approaches that focus…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Jiayi Chen , Yuxing Chen , Jialiang Zhang , He Wang

Generalizable grasping with high-degree-of-freedom (DoF) dexterous hands remains challenging in tiered workspaces, where occlusion, narrow clearances, and height-dependent constraints are substantially stronger than in open tabletop scenes.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Wensheng Wang , Chuanjun Guo , Wei Wei , Tong Wu , Ning Tan

Robotic dexterous grasping is important for interacting with the environment. To unleash the potential of data-driven models for dexterous grasping, a large-scale, high-quality dataset is essential. While gradient-based optimization offers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Jiayi Chen , Yubin Ke , He Wang

Dexterous manipulation requires planning a grasp configuration suited to the object and task, which is then executed through coordinated multi-finger control. However, specifying grasp plans with dense pose or contact targets for every…

To fully utilize the versatility of a multi-fingered dexterous robotic hand for executing diverse object grasps, one must consider the rich physical constraints introduced by hand-object interaction and object geometry. We propose an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Albert Wu , Michelle Guo , C. Karen Liu

To perform household tasks, assistive robots receive commands in the form of user language instructions for tool manipulation. The initial stage involves selecting the intended tool (i.e., object grounding) and grasping it in a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Chao Tang , Dehao Huang , Lingxiao Meng , Weiyu Liu , Hong Zhang

Fast grasping is critical for mobile robots in logistics, manufacturing, and service applications. Existing methods face fundamental challenges in impact stabilization under high-speed motion, real-time whole-body coordination, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Heng Tao , Yiming Zhong , Zemin Yang , Yuexin Ma

Robust and human-like dexterous grasping of general objects is a critical capability for advancing intelligent robotic manipulation in real-world scenarios. However, existing reinforcement learning methods guided by grasp priors often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Fangting Xu , Jilin Zhu , Xiaoming Gu , Jianzhong Tang

Dexterous hands enable concurrent prehensile and nonprehensile manipulation, such as holding one object while interacting with another, a capability essential for everyday tasks yet underexplored in robotics. Learning such long-horizon,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Hao Jiang , Yue Wu , Yue Wang , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Daniel Seita

Data-driven approaches have become a dominant paradigm for robotic grasp planning. However, the performance of these approaches is enormously influenced by the quality of the available training data. In this paper, we propose a framework to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Junnan Jiang , Yuyang Tu , Xiaohui Xiao , Zhongtao Fu , Jianwei Zhang , Fei Chen , Miao Li

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

Reinforcement learning is a promising method for robotic grasping as it can learn effective reaching and grasping policies in difficult scenarios. However, achieving human-like manipulation capabilities with sophisticated robotic hands is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Martin Schuck , Jan Brüdigam , Alexandre Capone , Stefan Sosnowski , Sandra Hirche

Task-oriented grasping (TOG), which refers to synthesizing grasps on an object that are configurationally compatible with the downstream manipulation task, is the first milestone towards tool manipulation. Analogous to the activation of two…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Chao Tang , Dehao Huang , Wenlong Dong , Ruinian Xu , Hong Zhang

Grasping large and flat objects (e.g. a book or a pan) is often regarded as an ungraspable task, which poses significant challenges due to the unreachable grasping poses. Previous works leverage Extrinsic Dexterity like walls or table edges…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Chengzhong Ma , Houxue Yang , Hanbo Zhang , Zeyang Liu , Chao Zhao , Jian Tang , Xuguang Lan , Nanning Zheng

Dexterous grasping is fundamental to robotics, yet data-driven grasp prediction heavily relies on large, diverse datasets that are costly to generate and typically limited to a narrow set of gripper morphologies. Analytical grasp synthesis…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-18 René Zurbrügg , Andrei Cramariuc , Marco Hutter