Perceiving and handling deformable objects is an integral part of everyday life for humans.
Automating tasks such as food handling, garment sorting, or assistive dressing requires …

BACKGROUND Humans have a fantastic ability to manipulate objects of various shapes,
sizes, and materials and can control the objects' position in confined spaces with the …

Fine manipulation tasks, such as threading cable ties or slotting a battery, are notoriously
difficult for robots because they require precision, careful coordination of contact forces, and …

Achieving human-level dexterity is an important open problem in robotics. However, tasks of
dexterous hand manipulation even at the baby level are challenging to solve through …

In this survey, we present the current status on robots performing manipulation tasks that
require varying contact with the environment, such that the robot must either implicitly or …

Nowadays, the field of mobile robotics has experienced an important evolution and these
robots are more commonly proposed to solve different tasks autonomously. The use of …

The wide interest of research and industry in the human–robot interaction (HRI) related
topics is proportional to the increased productivity and flexibility of the production lines, as it …

We address the problem of goal-directed cloth manipulation, a challenging task due to the
deformability of cloth. Our insight is that optical flow, a technique normally used for motion …

In this paper, we present a recent survey on robotic grippers. In many cases, modern
grippers outperform their older counterparts which are now stronger, more repeatable, and …

We present Neural A*, a novel data-driven search method for path planning problems.
Despite the recent increasing attention to data-driven path planning, machine learning …