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Recent years in robotics and imitation learning have shown remarkable progress in training large-scale foundation models by leveraging data across a multitude of embodiments. The success of such policies might lead us to wonder: just how…

Achieving generalizable and precise robotic manipulation across diverse environments remains a critical challenge, largely due to limitations in spatial perception. While prior imitation-learning approaches have made progress, their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yiqi Huang , Travis Davies , Jiahuan Yan , Jiankai Sun , Xiang Chen , Luhui Hu

This paper focuses on the problem of learning 6-DOF grasping with a parallel jaw gripper in simulation. We propose the notion of a geometry-aware representation in grasping based on the assumption that knowledge of 3D geometry is at the…

Humans have impressive generalization capabilities when it comes to manipulating objects and tools in completely novel environments. These capabilities are, at least partially, a result of humans having internal models of their bodies and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Sarah Bechtle , Neha Das , Franziska Meier

Deep generative models have recently shown great promise in imitation learning for motor control. Given enough data, even supervised approaches can do one-shot imitation learning; however, they are vulnerable to cascading failures when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Ziyu Wang , Josh Merel , Scott Reed , Greg Wayne , Nando de Freitas , Nicolas Heess

We propose a new volumetric grasp model that is equivariant to rotations around the vertical axis, leading to a significant improvement in sampling efficiency. Our model employs a tri-plane volumetric feature representation -- i.e., the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Pinhao Song , Yutong Hu , Pengteng Li , Renaud Detry

Embodiment is an important characteristic for all intelligent agents (creatures and robots), while existing scene description tasks mainly focus on analyzing images passively and the semantic understanding of the scenario is separated from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Sinan Tan , Huaping Liu , Di Guo , Xinyu Zhang , Fuchun Sun

There has been increasing interest in smart factories powered by robotics systems to tackle repetitive, laborious tasks. One impactful yet challenging task in robotics-powered smart factory applications is robotic grasping: using robotic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Yuhao Chen , E. Zhixuan Zeng , Maximilian Gilles , Alexander Wong

The intricate kinematics of the human hand enable simultaneous grasping and manipulation of multiple objects, essential for tasks such as object transfer and in-hand manipulation. Despite its significance, the domain of robotic multi-object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Yuyang Li , Bo Liu , Yiran Geng , Puhao Li , Yaodong Yang , Yixin Zhu , Tengyu Liu , Siyuan Huang

In planar grasp detection, the goal is to learn a function from an image of a scene onto a set of feasible grasp poses in $\mathrm{SE}(2)$. In this paper, we recognize that the optimal grasp function is $\mathrm{SE}(2)$-equivariant and can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Xupeng Zhu , Dian Wang , Ondrej Biza , Guanang Su , Robin Walters , Robert Platt

Robotic grasping is a fundamental aspect of robot functionality, defining how robots interact with objects. Despite substantial progress, its generalizability to counter-intuitive or long-tailed scenarios, such as objects with uncommon…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Dingkun Guo , Yuqi Xiang , Shuqi Zhao , Xinghao Zhu , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Mingyu Ding , Wei Zhan

Tactile and kinesthetic perceptions are crucial for human dexterous manipulation, enabling reliable grasping of objects via proprioceptive sensorimotor integration. For robotic hands, even though acquiring such tactile and kinesthetic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Ce Guo , Xieyuanli Chen , Zhiwen Zeng , Zirui Guo , Yihong Li , Haoran Xiao , Dewen Hu , Huimin Lu

Deep learning is an established framework for learning hierarchical data representations. While compute power is in abundance, one of the main challenges in applying this framework to robotic grasping has been obtaining the amount of data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Matthew Veres , Medhat Moussa , Graham W. Taylor

Imitation learning and world models have shown significant promise in advancing generalizable robotic learning, with robotic grasping remaining a critical challenge for achieving precise manipulation. Existing methods often rely heavily on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Yiqi Huang , Travis Davies , Jiahuan Yan , Xiang Chen , Yu Tian , Luhui Hu

In this paper, we address the problem of task-oriented grasping for humanoid robots, emphasizing the need to align with human social norms and task-specific objectives. Existing methods, employ a variety of open-loop and closed-loop…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Dimitrios Dimou , José Santos-Victor , Plinio Moreno

Effectively handling the interplay between spatial perception and action generation remains a critical bottleneck in robotic manipulation. Existing methods typically treat spatial perception and action execution as decoupled or strictly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Kai Xiong , Hongjie Fang , Lixin Yang , Cewu Lu

Robotic grasping is a fundamental skill required for object manipulation in robotics. Multi-fingered robotic hands, which mimic the structure of the human hand, can potentially perform complex object manipulation. Nevertheless, current…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Philipp Blättner , Johannes Brand , Gerhard Neumann , Ngo Anh Vien

Autonomous robotic grasping plays an important role in intelligent robotics. However, how to help the robot grasp specific objects in object stacking scenes is still an open problem, because there are two main challenges for autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Hanbo Zhang , Xuguang Lan , Site Bai , Lipeng Wan , Chenjie Yang , Nanning Zheng

Grasping in cluttered scenes has always been a great challenge for robots, due to the requirement of the ability to well understand the scene and object information. Previous works usually assume that the geometry information of the objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Yiming Li , Tao Kong , Ruihang Chu , Yifeng Li , Peng Wang , Lei Li

Recently, end-to-end learning frameworks are gaining prevalence in the field of robot control. These frameworks input states/images and directly predict the torques or the action parameters. However, these approaches are often critiqued due…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-29 Lerrel Pinto , Abhinav Gupta