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Intelligent vision control systems for surgical robots should adapt to unknown and diverse objects while being robust to system disturbances. Previous methods did not meet these requirements due to mainly relying on pose estimation and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Hongbin Lin , Bin Li , Chun Wai Wong , Juan Rojas , Xiangyu Chu , Kwok Wai Samuel Au

Robots navigating dynamic, cluttered, and semantically complex environments must integrate perception, symbolic reasoning, and spatial planning to generalize across diverse layouts and object categories. Existing methods often rely on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Ahmed Alanazi , Duy Ho , Yugyung Lee

Robotic grasping is a fundamental capability for enabling autonomous manipulation, with usually infinite solutions. State-of-the-art approaches for grasping rely on learning from large-scale datasets comprising expert annotations of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Manav Kulshrestha , S. Talha Bukhari , Damon Conover , Aniket Bera

Embodied navigation presents a core challenge for intelligent robots, requiring the comprehension of visual environments, natural language instructions, and autonomous exploration. Existing models often fall short in offering a unified…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xinda Xue , Junjun Hu , Minghua Luo , Shichao Xie , Jintao Chen , Zixun Xie , Kuichen Quan , Wei Guo , Mu Xu , Zedong Chu

Warehouse robotic systems equipped with vacuum grippers must reliably grasp a diverse range of objects from densely packed shelves. However, these environments present significant challenges, including occlusions, diverse object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Paolo Torrado , Joshua Levin , Markus Grotz , Joshua Smith

Robotic grasping is a primitive skill for complex tasks and is fundamental to intelligence. For general 6-Dof grasping, most previous methods directly extract scene-level semantic or geometric information, while few of them consider the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Pengwei Xie , Siang Chen , Wei Tang , Dingchang Hu , Wenming Yang , Guijin Wang

We present FuncGrasp, a framework that can infer dense yet reliable grasp configurations for unseen objects using one annotated object and single-view RGB-D observation via categorical priors. Unlike previous works that only transfer a set…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Hanzhi Chen , Binbin Xu , Stefan Leutenegger

Deep learning has enabled remarkable improvements in grasp synthesis for previously unseen objects from partial object views. However, existing approaches lack the ability to explicitly reason about the full 3D geometry of the object when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Mark Van der Merwe , Qingkai Lu , Balakumar Sundaralingam , Martin Matak , Tucker Hermans

Visual commonsense reasoning (VCR) is a challenging multi-modal task, which requires high-level cognition and commonsense reasoning ability about the real world. In recent years, large-scale pre-training approaches have been developed and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Cheng Yang , Rui Xu , Ye Guo , Peixiang Huang , Yiru Chen , Wenkui Ding , Zhongyuan Wang , Hong Zhou

We address the problem of robotic grasping of known and unknown objects using implicit behavior cloning. We train a grasp evaluation model from a small number of demonstrations that outputs higher values for grasp candidates that are more…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Gergely Sóti , Xi Huang , Christian Wurll , Björn Hein

Accurate grasping is the key to several robotic tasks including assembly and household robotics. Executing a successful grasp in a cluttered environment requires multiple levels of scene understanding: First, the robot needs to analyze the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-13 René Zurbrügg , Yifan Liu , Francis Engelmann , Suryansh Kumar , Marco Hutter , Vaishakh Patil , Fisher Yu

Grasp synthesis is one of the challenging tasks for any robot object manipulation task. In this paper, we present a new deep learning-based grasp synthesis approach for 3D objects. In particular, we propose an end-to-end 3D Convolutional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Yikun Li , Lambert Schomaker , S. Hamidreza Kasaei

General-purpose robotic manipulation, including reach and grasp, is essential for deployment into households and workspaces involving diverse and evolving tasks. Recent advances propose using large pre-trained models, such as Large Language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Huiyi Wang , Fahim Shahriar , Alireza Azimi , Gautham Vasan , Rupam Mahmood , Colin Bellinger

Abstract visual reasoning (AVR) enables humans to quickly discover and generalize abstract rules to new scenarios. Designing intelligent systems with human-like AVR abilities has been a long-standing topic in the artificial intelligence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Fan Shi , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

In teleoperation, research has mainly focused on target approaching, where we deal with the more challenging object manipulation task by advancing the shared control technique. Appropriately manipulating an object is challenging due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Michael Bowman , Songpo Li , Xiaoli Zhang

Self-supervised grasp learning, i.e., learning to grasp by trial and error, has made great progress. However, it is still time-consuming to train such a model and also a challenge to apply it in practice. This work presents an accelerating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Yanxu Hou , Jun Li

We address goal-based imitation learning, where the aim is to output the symbolic goal from a third-person video demonstration. This enables the robot to plan for execution and reproduce the same goal in a completely different environment.…

Adversarial attacks on robotic grasping provide valuable insights into evaluating and improving the robustness of these systems. Unlike studies that focus solely on neural network predictions while overlooking the physical principles of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Xiaofei Wang , Mingliang Han , Tianyu Hao , Cegang Li , Yunbo Zhao , Keke Tang

Grasp detection is a persistent and intricate challenge with various industrial applications. Recently, many methods and datasets have been proposed to tackle the grasp detection problem. However, most of them do not consider using natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 An Dinh Vuong , Minh Nhat Vu , Baoru Huang , Nghia Nguyen , Hieu Le , Thieu Vo , Anh Nguyen

The ability to successfully grasp objects is crucial in robotics, as it enables several interactive downstream applications. To this end, most approaches either compute the full 6D pose for the object of interest or learn to predict a set…