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Reasoning is a hallmark of human intelligence, enabling adaptive decision-making in complex and unfamiliar scenarios. In contrast, machine intelligence remains bound to training data, lacking the ability to dynamically refine solutions at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Shaheer U. Saeed , Yipei Wang , Veeru Kasivisvanathan , Brian R. Davidson , Matthew J. Clarkson , Yipeng Hu , Daniel C. Alexander

We introduce AffordanceGrasp-R1, a reasoning-driven affordance segmentation framework for robotic grasping that combines a chain-of-thought (CoT) cold-start strategy with reinforcement learning to enhance deduction and spatial grounding. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Dingyi Zhou , Mu He , Zhuowei Fang , Xiangtong Yao , Yinlong Liu , Alois Knoll , Hu Cao

General robotic grasping systems require accurate object affordance perception in diverse open-world scenarios following human instructions. However, current studies suffer from the problem of lacking reasoning-based large-scale affordance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Dongming Wu , Yanping Fu , Saike Huang , Yingfei Liu , Fan Jia , Nian Liu , Feng Dai , Tiancai Wang , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Jianbing Shen

Grasping is a fundamental capability for robots to interact with the physical world. Humans, equipped with two hands, autonomously select appropriate grasp strategies based on the shape, size, and weight of objects, enabling robust grasping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Sizhe Yang , Yiman Xie , Zhixuan Liang , Yang Tian , Jia Zeng , Dahua Lin , Jiangmiao Pang

Robots should exist anywhere humans do: indoors, outdoors, and even unmapped environments. In contrast, the focus of recent advancements in Object Goal Navigation(OGN) has targeted navigating in indoor environments by leveraging spatial and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Quanting Xie , Tianyi Zhang , Kedi Xu , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Yonatan Bisk

This paper addresses the problem of object-goal navigation in autonomous inspections in real-world environments. Object-goal navigation is crucial to enable effective inspections in various settings, often requiring the robot to identify…

Dexterous grasping remains a fundamental yet challenging problem in robotics. A general-purpose robot must be capable of grasping diverse objects in arbitrary scenarios. However, existing research typically relies on restrictive…

Despite the enormous progress and generalization in robotic grasping in recent years, existing methods have yet to scale and generalize task-oriented grasping to the same extent. This is largely due to the scale of the datasets both in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Adithyavairavan Murali , Weiyu Liu , Kenneth Marino , Sonia Chernova , Abhinav Gupta

World models have become indispensable tools for embodied intelligence, serving as powerful simulators capable of generating realistic robotic videos while addressing critical data scarcity challenges. However, current embodied world models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yu Shang , Xin Zhang , Yinzhou Tang , Lei Jin , Chen Gao , Wei Wu , Yong Li

6-DoF grasp detection has been a fundamental and challenging problem in robotic vision. While previous works have focused on ensuring grasp stability, they often do not consider human intention conveyed through natural language, hindering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Toan Nguyen , Minh Nhat Vu , Baoru Huang , An Vuong , Quan Vuong , Ngan Le , Thieu Vo , Anh Nguyen

In language-guided visual navigation, agents locate target objects in unseen environments using natural language instructions. For reliable navigation in unfamiliar scenes, agents should possess strong perception, planning, and prediction…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yufeng Zhong , Chengjian Feng , Feng Yan , Fanfan Liu , Liming Zheng , Lin Ma

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

Grasping in cluttered environments is a fundamental but challenging robotic skill. It requires both reasoning about unseen object parts and potential collisions with the manipulator. Most existing data-driven approaches avoid this problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Adithyavairavan Murali , Arsalan Mousavian , Clemens Eppner , Chris Paxton , Dieter Fox

Robotic grasping from single-view observations remains a critical challenge in manipulation. However, existing methods still struggle to generate reliable grasp candidates and stably evaluate grasp feasibility under incomplete geometric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Lijingze Xiao , Jinhong Du , Supeng Diao , Yu Ren , Yang Cong

This paper presents a comprehensive survey on vision-based robotic grasping. We conclude three key tasks during vision-based robotic grasping, which are object localization, object pose estimation and grasp estimation. In detail, the object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Guoguang Du , Kai Wang , Shiguo Lian , Kaiyong Zhao

Interacting with real-world cluttered scenes pose several challenges to robotic agents that need to understand complex spatial dependencies among the observed objects to determine optimal pick sequences or efficient object retrieval…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Paolo Rabino , Tatiana Tommasi

We present a unified and compact scene representation for robotics, where each object in the scene is depicted by a latent code capturing geometry and appearance. This representation can be decoded for various tasks such as novel view…

Visual navigation in unknown environments based solely on natural language descriptions is a key capability for intelligent robots. In this work, we propose a navigation framework built upon off-the-shelf Visual Language Models (VLMs),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Weifan Zhang , Tingguang Li , Yuzhen Liu

Robotic grasping is a fundamental skill across all domains of robot applications. There is a large body of research for grasping objects in table-top scenarios, where finding suitable grasps is the main challenge. In this work, we are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Martin Rudorfer , Jiří Hartvich , Vojtěch Vonásek

A robotic solution for the unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) to execute the highly complex task of object manipulation in an autonomous mode is presented. This paper primarily focuses on developing an autonomous robotic system capable of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Mohit Vohra , Laxmidhar Behera