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Open-vocabulary, task-oriented grasping of specific functional parts, particularly with dual arms, remains a key challenge, as current Vision-Language Models (VLMs), while enhancing task understanding, often struggle with precise grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Xueyang Guo , Hongwei Hu , Chengye Song , Jiale Chen , Zilin Zhao , Yu Fu , Bowen Guan , Zhenze Liu

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

Robotic grasping faces new challenges in human-robot-interaction scenarios. We consider the task that the robot grasps a target object designated by human's language directives. The robot not only needs to locate a target based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Yuhao Lu , Yixuan Fan , Beixing Deng , Fangfu Liu , Yali Li , Shengjin Wang

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

In robotic grasping, objects are often occluded in ungraspable configurations such that no pregrasp pose can be found, eg large flat boxes on the table that can only be grasped from the side. Inspired by humans' bimanual manipulation, eg…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Zhaole Sun , Kai Yuan , Wenbin Hu , Chuanyu Yang , Zhibin Li

Robotic dexterous grasping is a challenging problem due to the high degree of freedom (DoF) and complex contacts of multi-fingered robotic hands. Existing deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based methods leverage human demonstrations to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Qingtao Liu , Yu Cui , Qi Ye , Zhengnan Sun , Haoming Li , Gaofeng Li , Lin Shao , Jiming Chen

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

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

Grasp detection in cluttered scenes is a very challenging task for robots. Generating synthetic grasping data is a popular way to train and test grasp methods, as is Dex-net and GraspNet; yet, these methods generate training grasps on 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Dexin Wang , Faliang Chang , Chunsheng Liu , Rurui Yang , Nanjun Li , Hengqiang Huan

Task-oriented grasping (TOG) refers to the problem of predicting grasps on an object that enable subsequent manipulation tasks. To model the complex relationships between objects, tasks, and grasps, existing methods incorporate semantic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Chao Tang , Dehao Huang , Wenqi Ge , Weiyu Liu , Hong Zhang

Deep learning has significantly advanced computer vision and natural language processing. While there have been some successes in robotics using deep learning, it has not been widely adopted. In this paper, we present a novel robotic grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Sulabh Kumra , Christopher Kanan

Seemingly simple natural language requests to a robot are generally underspecified, for example "Can you bring me the wireless mouse?" Flat images of candidate mice may not provide the discriminative information needed for "wireless." The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Jesse Thomason , Mohit Shridhar , Yonatan Bisk , Chris Paxton , Luke Zettlemoyer

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

Robotic grasping is a fundamental ability for a robot to interact with the environment. Current methods focus on how to obtain a stable and reliable grasping pose in object level, while little work has been studied on part (shape)-wise…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yaoxian Song , Penglei Sun , Piaopiao Jin , Yi Ren , Yu Zheng , Zhixu Li , Xiaowen Chu , Yue Zhang , Tiefeng Li , Jason Gu

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…

Robotic grasping for a diverse set of objects is essential in many robot manipulation tasks. One promising approach is to learn deep grasping models from large training datasets of object images and grasp labels. However, empirical grasping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Xinghao Zhu , Yefan Zhou , Yongxiang Fan , Lingfeng Sun , Jianyu Chen , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Recognizing and grasping novel-category objects remains a crucial yet challenging problem in real-world robotic applications. Despite its significance, limited research has been conducted in this specific domain. To address this, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Li Meng , Zhao Qi , Lyu Shuchang , Wang Chunlei , Ma Yujing , Cheng Guangliang , Yang Chenguang

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…

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…

Robotic grasping is an essential and fundamental task and has been studied extensively over the past several decades. Traditional work analyzes physical models of the objects and computes force-closure grasps. Such methods require…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Yuwei Wu , Weixiao Liu , Zhiyang Liu , Gregory S. Chirikjian