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Perceiving and manipulating 3D articulated objects in diverse environments is essential for home-assistant robots. Recent studies have shown that point-level affordance provides actionable priors for downstream manipulation tasks. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Ruihai Wu , Kai Cheng , Yan Shen , Chuanruo Ning , Guanqi Zhan , Hao Dong

Robots need to understand their environment to perform their task. If it is possible to pre-program a visual scene analysis process in closed environments, robots operating in an open environment would benefit from the ability to learn it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Leni K. Le Goff , Oussama Yaakoubi , Alexandre Coninx , Stephane Doncieux

Intelligent agents accomplish different tasks by utilizing various objects based on their affordance, but how to select appropriate objects according to task context is not well-explored. Current studies treat objects within the affordance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Haojie Huang , Hongchen Luo , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

While large language models (LLMs) are successful in completing various language processing tasks, they easily fail to interact with the physical world by generating control sequences properly. We find that the main reason is that LLMs are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Guangran Cheng , Chuheng Zhang , Wenzhe Cai , Li Zhao , Changyin Sun , Jiang Bian

Enabling humans and robots to collaborate effectively requires purposeful communication and an understanding of each other's affordances. Prior work in human-robot collaboration has incorporated knowledge of human affordances, i.e., their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Drake Moore , Mark Zolotas , Taskin Padir

Affordance refers to the functional properties that an agent perceives and utilizes from its environment, and is key perceptual information required for robots to perform actions. This information is rich and multimodal in nature. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yizhou Huang , Fan Yang , Guoliang Zhu , Gen Li , Hao Shi , Yukun Zuo , Wenrui Chen , Zhiyong Li , Kailun Yang

Affordance information about a scene provides important clues as to what actions may be executed in pursuit of meeting a specified goal state. Thus, integrating affordance-based reasoning into symbolic action plannning pipelines would…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Fu-Jen Chu , Ruinian Xu , Chao Tang , Patricio A. Vela

This paper introduces an automatic affordance reasoning paradigm tailored to minimal semantic inputs, addressing the critical challenges of classifying and manipulating unseen classes of objects in household settings. Inspired by human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Ceng Zhang , Xin Meng , Dongchen Qi , Gregory S. Chirikjian

Recent advances in reasoning with large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance on complex mathematical tasks, including combinatorial optimization. Techniques such as Chain-of-Thought and In-Context Learning have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Marylou Fauchard , Florian Carichon , Margarida Carvalho , Golnoosh Farnadi

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) capable of processing both text and visual inputs are increasingly being explored for uses in physics education, such as tutoring, formative assessment, and grading. This study evaluates a range of…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-09-12 Giulia Polverini , Bor Gregorcic

We explore how intermediate policy representations can facilitate generalization by providing guidance on how to perform manipulation tasks. Existing representations such as language, goal images, and trajectory sketches have been shown to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Soroush Nasiriany , Sean Kirmani , Tianli Ding , Laura Smith , Yuke Zhu , Danny Driess , Dorsa Sadigh , Ted Xiao

In education, the capability of generating human-like text of Large Language Models (LLMs) inspired work on how they can increase the efficiency of learning and teaching. We study the affordability of these models for educators and students…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Bianca Raimondi , Saverio Giallorenzo , Maurizio Gabbrielli

With the rapid progress of Large Language Models (LLMs), it becomes increasingly important to understand their abilities and limitations. In two experiments, we investigate the causal and compositional reasoning abilities of LLMs and humans…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Magnus F. Gjerde , Vanessa Cheung , David Lagnado

Humans commonly identify 3D object affordance through observed interactions in images or videos, and once formed, such knowledge can be generically generalized to novel objects. Inspired by this principle, we advocate for a novel framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Lei Yao , Yong Chen , Yuejiao Su , Yi Wang , Moyun Liu , Lap-Pui Chau

Recent advances in task planning leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve generalizability by combining such models with classical planning algorithms to address their inherent limitations in reasoning capabilities. However, these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Timo Birr , Christoph Pohl , Abdelrahman Younes , Tamim Asfour

We address the problem of affordance reasoning in diverse scenes that appear in the real world. Affordances relate the agent's actions to their effects when taken on the surrounding objects. In our work, we take the egocentric view of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Ching-Yao Chuang , Jiaman Li , Antonio Torralba , Sanja Fidler

LMMs have shown impressive visual understanding capabilities, with the potential to be applied in agents, which demand strong reasoning and planning abilities. Nevertheless, existing benchmarks mostly assess their reasoning abilities in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Miaosen Zhang , Qi Dai , Yifan Yang , Jianmin Bao , Dongdong Chen , Kai Qiu , Chong Luo , Xin Geng , Baining Guo

Full models of the world require complex knowledge of immense detail. While pre-trained large models have been hypothesized to contain similar knowledge due to extensive pre-training on vast amounts of internet scale data, using them…

Bargaining is often regarded as a logical arena rather than an art or a matter of intuition, yet Large Language Models (LLMs) still struggle to navigate it due to limited strategic depth and difficulty adapting to complex human factors.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jihwan Oh , Murad Aghazada , Yooju Shin , Se-Young Yun , Taehyeon Kim

Affordances enable robots to have a semantic understanding of their surroundings. This allows them to have more acting flexibility when completing a given task. Capturing object affordances in a machine learning model is a difficult task,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 George Potter , Gertjan Burghouts , Joris Sijs