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Embodied foundation models are increasingly performant in real-world domains such as robotics or autonomous driving. These models are often deployed in interactive or assistive settings, where it is important that these assistive models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Pradyumna Tambwekar , Andrew Silva , Deepak Gopinath , Jonathan DeCastro , Xiongyi Cui , Guy Rosman

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

Generating dexterous grasping has been a long-standing and challenging robotic task. Despite recent progress, existing methods primarily suffer from two issues. First, most prior arts focus on a specific type of robot hand, lacking the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Puhao Li , Tengyu Liu , Yuyang Li , Yiran Geng , Yixin Zhu , Yaodong Yang , Siyuan Huang

This paper proposes 12 multi-object grasps (MOGs) types from a human and robot grasping data set. The grasp types are then analyzed and organized into a MOG taxonomy. This paper first presents three MOG data collection setups: a human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Yu Sun , Eliza Amatova , Tianze Chen

Grasp synthesis is a fundamental task in robotic manipulation which usually has multiple feasible solutions. Multimodal grasp synthesis seeks to generate diverse sets of stable grasps conditioned on object geometry, making the robust…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 S. Talha Bukhari , Kaivalya Agrawal , Zachary Kingston , Aniket Bera

Grasping is the process of picking up an object by applying forces and torques at a set of contacts. Recent advances in deep-learning methods have allowed rapid progress in robotic object grasping. In this systematic review, we surveyed the…

In this paper, we propose a novel representation for grasping using contacts between multi-finger robotic hands and objects to be manipulated. This representation significantly reduces the prediction dimensions and accelerates the learning…

Grasping is fundamental to robotic manipulation, and recent advances in large-scale grasping datasets have provided essential training data and evaluation benchmarks, accelerating the development of learning-based methods for robust object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Siyu Ma , Wenxin Du , Chang Yu , Ying Jiang , Zeshun Zong , Tianyi Xie , Yunuo Chen , Yin Yang , Xuchen Han , Chenfanfu Jiang

The problem of grasping objects using a multi-finger hand has received significant attention in recent years. However, it remains challenging to handle a large number of unfamiliar objects in real and cluttered environments. In this work,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Hengxu Yan , Hao-Shu Fang , Cewu Lu

Goal-conditioned robotic grasping in cluttered environments remains a challenging problem due to occlusions caused by surrounding objects, which prevent direct access to the target object. A promising solution to mitigate this issue is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Boce Hu , Heng Tian , Dian Wang , Haojie Huang , Xupeng Zhu , Robin Walters , Robert Platt

Grasping an unknown object is difficult for robot hands. When the characteristics of the object are unknown, knowing how to plan the speed at and width to which the fingers are narrowed is difficult. In this paper, we propose a method to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Shunsuke Tokiwa , Hikaru Arita , Yosuke Suzuki , Kenji Tahara

Humans excel in grasping and manipulating objects because of their life-long experience and knowledge about the 3D shape and weight distribution of objects. However, the lack of such intuition in robots makes robotic grasping an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Ghazal Ghazaei , Iro Laina , Christian Rupprecht , Federico Tombari , Nassir Navab , Kianoush Nazarpour

Humanoid robots are envisioned as embodied intelligent agents capable of performing a wide range of human-level loco-manipulation tasks, particularly in scenarios requiring strenuous and repetitive labor. However, learning these skills is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Junjia Liu , Zhuo Li , Minghao Yu , Zhipeng Dong , Sylvain Calinon , Darwin Caldwell , Fei Chen

Dexterous grasping with multi-fingered hands remains challenging due to high-dimensional articulations and the cost of optimization-based pipelines. Existing end-to-end methods require training on large-scale datasets for specific hands,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Heng Zhang , Kevin Yuchen Ma , Mike Zheng Shou , Weisi Lin , Yan Wu

In recent years, as robotics has advanced, human-robot collaboration has gained increasing importance. However, current robots struggle to fully and accurately interpret human intentions from voice commands alone. Traditional gripper and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Junliang Li , Kai Ye , Haolan Kang , Mingxuan Liang , Yuhang Wu , Zhenhua Liu , Huiping Zhuang , Rui Huang , Yongquan Chen

Synthesizing 3D human avatars interacting realistically with a scene is an important problem with applications in AR/VR, video games and robotics. Towards this goal, we address the task of generating a virtual human -- hands and full body…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Purva Tendulkar , Dídac Surís , Carl Vondrick

We introduce a neural implicit representation for grasps of objects from multiple robotic hands. Different grasps across multiple robotic hands are encoded into a shared latent space. Each latent vector is learned to decode to the 3D shape…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Ninad Khargonkar , Neil Song , Zesheng Xu , Balakrishnan Prabhakaran , Yu Xiang

Autonomous bin picking poses significant challenges to vision-driven robotic systems given the complexity of the problem, ranging from various sensor modalities, to highly entangled object layouts, to diverse item properties and gripper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Maximilian Gilles , Yuhao Chen , Tim Robin Winter , E. Zhixuan Zeng , Alexander Wong

Grasping is a core task in robotics with various applications. However, most current implementations are primarily designed for rigid items, and their performance drops considerably when handling fragile or deformable materials that require…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Leonel Giacobbe , Jingdao Chen , Chuangchuang Sun

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