Robot warehouse automation has attracted significant interest in recent years, perhaps most
visibly in the Amazon Picking Challenge (APC)[1]. A fully autonomous warehouse pick-and …

Topological superconductivity is a state of matter that can host Majorana modes, the building
blocks of a topological quantum computer. Many experimental platforms predicted to show …

Robotics solutions in the industrial sector are moving towards higher degrees of flexibility. In
such a context, the latest research is focused on grasping technologies for material …

With the development of online shopping and the demand for automated packaging
systems, we propose an Internet of Things (IoT)-based automated e-fulfillment packaging …

In the last decade, automated object manipulation for construction applications has received
much attention. However, the majority of existing systems are situated in a fixed location …

Methods and systems for assessing a robotic grasping technique. The system in accordance
with various embodiments may include a warehouse management system for retrieving and …

Although modern robots in warehousing systems can perform adequately in a goods-to-
person model using hand-designed algorithms that are specialized to a particular …

When humans perform contact-rich manipulation tasks, customized tools are often
necessary to simplify the task. For instance, we use various utensils for handling food, such …

This paper studies two end-effector modalities for warehouse picking:(i) a recently
developed, underactuated three-finger hand and (ii) a custom built, vacuum-based gripper …

The diffusion of e-commerce has produced larger and larger volumes of varying items to be
handled in warehouses, with the effect that the need for picking automation is increasing …