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 …

This paper presents a comprehensive survey of data-driven robotic visual grasping
detection (DRVGD) for unknown objects. We review both object-oriented and scene …

Deformable object manipulation (DOM) is an emerging research problem in robotics. The
ability to manipulate deformable objects endows robots with higher autonomy and promises …

Modeling and manipulating elasto-plastic objects are essential capabilities for robots to
perform complex industrial and household interaction tasks (eg, stuffing dumplings, rolling …

Humans excel in complex long-horizon soft body manipulation tasks via flexible tool use:
bread baking requires a knife to slice the dough and a rolling pin to flatten it. Often regarded …

Manipulation of deformable objects has given rise to an important set of open problems in
the field of robotics. Application areas include robotic surgery, household robotics …

The robotic manipulation of deformable linear objects (DLOs) has broad application
prospects in many fields. However, a key issue is to obtain the exact deformation models (ie …

Many assembled products contain parts that are not rigid, and there is a large variety of such
parts, which might be as different as cables, sheet metals, plastic covers, or foams. The …

Robots are nowadays faced with the challenge of handling deformable objects in industrial
operations. In particular, the problem of shape control, which aims at giving a specific …

Using a deformable sheet to handle objects is convenient and found in many practical
applications. For object manipulation through a deformable sheet that is held by multiple …