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Human hands possess the dexterity to interact with diverse objects such as grasping specific parts of the objects and/or approaching them from desired directions. More importantly, humans can grasp objects of any shape without…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Hui Zhang , Sammy Christen , Zicong Fan , Otmar Hilliges , Jie Song

Manipulation of objects by exploiting their contact with the environment can enhance both the dexterity and payload capability of robotic manipulators. A common way to manipulate heavy objects beyond the payload capability of a robot is to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Amin Fakhari , Aditya Patankar , Nilanjan Chakraborty

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,…

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

The progressive prevalence of robots in human-suited environments has given rise to a myriad of object manipulation techniques, in which dexterity plays a paramount role. It is well-established that humans exhibit extraordinary dexterity…

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

This paper presents a robotic manipulation technique for dexterous ungrasping. It refers to the capability of securely transferring a grasped object from the gripper to the robot's environment, i.e. the inverse of grasping or picking,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Chung Hee Kim , Ka Hei Mak , Jungwon Seo

Dexterous robotic manipulation remains a longstanding challenge in robotics due to the high dimensionality of control spaces and the semantic complexity of object interaction. In this paper, we propose an object affordance-guided…

Achieving reliable robotic manipulation, such as dexterous grasping, requires a synergy between physically stable interactions and semantic task guidance, yet these objectives are often treated as separate, disjoint goals. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Han Yi Shin , Heeju Ko , Jaewon Mun , Qixing Huang , Jaehyeok Lee , Sung June Kim , Honglak Lee , Sujin Jang , Sangpil Kim

Although robotic applications increasingly demand versatile and dynamic object handling, most existing techniques are predominantly focused on grasp-based manipulation, limiting their applicability in non-prehensile tasks. To address this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hamidreza Raei , Elena De Momi , Arash Ajoudani

In-hand manipulation using multiple dexterous fingers is a critical robotic skill that can reduce the reliance on large arm motions, thereby saving space and energy. This letter focuses on in-grasp object movement, which refers to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Mingrui Yu , Yongpeng Jiang , Chen Chen , Yongyi Jia , Xiang Li

Dexterous in-hand manipulation in robotics, particularly with multi-fingered robotic hands, poses significant challenges due to the intricate avoidance of collisions among fingers and the object being manipulated. Collision-free paths for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xiao Gao , Kunpeng Yao , Farshad Khadivar , Aude Billard

Recent advances have been made in learning of grasps for fully actuated hands. A typical approach learns the target locations of finger links on the object. When a new object must be grasped, new finger locations are generated, and a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Marek Kopicki , Carlos J. Rosales , Hamal Marino , Marco Gabiccini , Jeremy L. Wyatt

Dexterous manipulation is a critical aspect of human capability, enabling interaction with a wide variety of objects. Recent advancements in learning from human demonstrations and teleoperation have enabled progress for robots in such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Shuqi Zhao , Xinghao Zhu , Yuxin Chen , Chenran Li , Lichen Xie , Xiang Zhang , Mingyu Ding , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Reaching-and-grasping is a fundamental skill for robotic manipulation, but existing methods usually train models on a specific gripper and cannot be reused on another gripper. In this paper, we propose a novel method that can learn a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Qijin She , Shishun Zhang , Yunfan Ye , Ruizhen Hu , Kai Xu

Multi-step dexterous manipulation is a fundamental skill in household scenarios, yet remains an underexplored area in robotics. This paper proposes a modular approach, where each step of the manipulation process is addressed with dedicated…

Grasping target objects is a fundamental skill for robotic manipulation, but in cluttered environments with stacked or occluded objects, a single-step grasp is often insufficient. To address this, previous work has introduced pushing as an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Lijingze Xiao , Jinhong Du , Yang Cong , Supeng Diao , Yu Ren

The inherent difficulty and limited scalability of collecting manipulation data using multi-fingered robot hand hardware platforms have resulted in severe data scarcity, impeding research on data-driven dexterous manipulation policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Wenbin Bai , Qiyu Chen , Xiangbo Lin , Jianwen Li , Quancheng Li , Hejiang Pan , Yi Sun

Dexterous robotic hands have the capability to interact with a wide variety of household objects to perform tasks like grasping. However, learning robust real world grasping policies for arbitrary objects has proven challenging due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Zoey Qiuyu Chen , Karl Van Wyk , Yu-Wei Chao , Wei Yang , Arsalan Mousavian , Abhishek Gupta , Dieter Fox

Learning diverse dexterous manipulation behaviors with assorted objects remains an open grand challenge. While policy learning methods offer a powerful avenue to attack this problem, they require extensive per-task engineering and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Sudeep Dasari , Abhinav Gupta , Vikash Kumar