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This paper proposes a novel learning-free three-stage method that predicts grasping poses, enabling robots to pick up and transfer previously unseen objects. Our method first identifies potential structures that can afford the action of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Wanze Li , Wan Su , Gregory S. Chirikjian

Grasping is a fundamental skill for interacting with and manipulating objects in the environment. However, this ability can be challenging for individuals with hand impairments. Soft hand exoskeletons designed to assist grasping can enhance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Chen Hu , Enrica Tricomi , Eojin Rho , Daekyum Kim , Lorenzo Masia , Shan Luo , Letizia Gionfrida

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

In this work, we present a deep reinforcement learning based method to solve the problem of robotic grasping using visio-motor feedback. The use of a deep learning based approach reduces the complexity caused by the use of hand-designed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Shirin Joshi , Sulabh Kumra , Ferat Sahin

Grasping skill is a major ability that a wide number of real-life applications require for robotisation. State-of-the-art robotic grasping methods perform prediction of object grasp locations based on deep neural networks. However, such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Amaury Depierre , Emmanuel Dellandréa , Liming Chen

The ability to grasp objects in-the-wild from open-ended language instructions constitutes a fundamental challenge in robotics. An open-world grasping system should be able to combine high-level contextual with low-level physical-geometric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Georgios Tziafas , Hamidreza Kasaei

In grasp detection, the robot estimates the position and orientation of potential grasp configurations directly from sensor data. This paper explores the relationship between viewpoint and grasp detection performance. Specifically, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Marcus Gualtieri , Robert Platt

Large foundation models have shown strong open-world generalization to complex problems in vision and language, but similar levels of generalization have yet to be achieved in robotics. One fundamental challenge is that the models exhibit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Guoqing Ma , Siheng Wang , Zeyu Zhang , Shan Yu , Hao Tang

Precise manipulation that is generalizable across scenes and objects remains a persistent challenge in robotics. Current approaches for this task heavily depend on having a significant number of training instances to handle objects with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Nikolaos Tsagkas , Jack Rome , Subramanian Ramamoorthy , Oisin Mac Aodha , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu

To aid humans in everyday tasks, robots need to know which objects exist in the scene, where they are, and how to grasp and manipulate them in different situations. Therefore, object recognition and grasping are two key functionalities for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Hamidreza Kasaei , Sha Luo , Remo Sasso , Mohammadreza Kasaei

In densely cluttered environments, physical interference, visual occlusions, and unstable contacts often cause direct dexterous grasping to fail, while aggressive singulation strategies may compromise safety. Enabling robots to adaptively…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Zixuan Chen , Wenquan Zhang , Jing Fang , Ruiming Zeng , Zhixuan Xu , Yiwen Hou , Xinke Wang , Jieqi Shi , Jing Huo , Yang Gao

Robotic grasping is one of the most fundamental robotic manipulation tasks and has been actively studied. However, how to quickly teach a robot to grasp a novel target object in clutter remains challenging. This paper attempts to tackle the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Yang Yang , Yuanhao Liu , Hengyue Liang , Xibai Lou , Changhyun Choi

Zero-shot anomaly detection (ZSAD) requires detecting and localizing anomalies without access to target-class anomaly samples. Mainstream methods rely on vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP: they build hand-crafted or learned prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yanning Hou , Peiyuan Li , Zirui Liu , Yitong Wang , Yanran Ruan , Jianfeng Qiu , Ke Xu

This paper introduces VisionPAD, a novel self-supervised pre-training paradigm designed for vision-centric algorithms in autonomous driving. In contrast to previous approaches that employ neural rendering with explicit depth supervision,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Haiming Zhang , Wending Zhou , Yiyao Zhu , Xu Yan , Jiantao Gao , Dongfeng Bai , Yingjie Cai , Bingbing Liu , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

Robot grasping of desktop object is widely used in intelligent manufacturing, logistics, and agriculture.Although vision-language models (VLMs) show strong potential for robotic manipulation, their deployment in low-level grasping faces key…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yiran Ling , Wenxuan Li , Siying Dong , Yize Zhang , Xiaoyao Huang , Jing Jiang , Ruonan Li , Jie Liu

Despite remarkable progress in Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) for robot manipulation, these large pre-trained models require fine-tuning to be deployed in specific environments. These fine-tuned models are highly sensitive to camera…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Hyeongjun Heo , Seungyeon Woo , Sang Min Kim , Junho Kim , Junho Lee , Yonghyeon Lee , Young Min Kim

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 is an essential skill for robots to interact with humans and the environment. In this paper, we build a vision-based, robust and real-time robotic grasp approach with fully convolutional neural network. The main component of our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Hanbo Zhang , Xinwen Zhou , Xuguang Lan , Jin Li , Zhiqiang Tian , Nanning Zheng

Building generalist robots capable of performing functional grasping in everyday, open-world environments remains a significant challenge due to the vast diversity of objects and tasks. Existing methods are either constrained to narrow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Chao Tang , Jiacheng Xu , Haofei Lu , Bolin Zou , Wenlong Dong , Hong Zhang , Danica Kragic

Embodied foundation models are gaining increasing attention for their zero-shot generalization, scalability, and adaptability to new tasks through few-shot post-training. However, existing models rely heavily on real-world data, which is…