Learning Visuotactile Skills with Two Multifingered Hands

T Lin, Y Zhang, Q Li, H Qi, B Yi, S Levine… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Aiming to replicate human-like dexterity, perceptual experiences, and motion patterns, we
explore learning from human demonstrations using a bimanual system with multifingered …

Twisting lids off with two hands

T Lin, ZH Yin, H Qi, P Abbeel, J Malik - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.02338, 2024 - arxiv.org
Manipulating objects with two multi-fingered hands has been a long-standing challenge in
robotics, attributed to the contact-rich nature of many manipulation tasks and the complexity …

AcTExplore: Active Tactile Exploration on Unknown Objects

AH Shahidzadeh, SJ Yoo, P Mantripragada… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Tactile exploration plays a crucial role in understanding object structures for fundamental
robotics tasks such as grasping and manipulation. However, efficiently exploring such …

RoboPack: Learning Tactile-Informed Dynamics Models for Dense Packing

B Ai, S Tian, H Shi, Y Wang, C Tan, Y Li… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Tactile feedback is critical for understanding the dynamics of both rigid and deformable
objects in many manipulation tasks, such as non-prehensile manipulation and dense …

Snap-it, Tap-it, Splat-it: Tactile-Informed 3D Gaussian Splatting for Reconstructing Challenging Surfaces

M Comi, A Tonioni, M Yang, J Tremblay… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Touch and vision go hand in hand, mutually enhancing our ability to understand the world.
From a research perspective, the problem of mixing touch and vision is underexplored and …

VinT-6D: A Large-Scale Object-in-hand Dataset from Vision, Touch and Proprioception

Z Wan, Y Ling, S Yi, L Qi, WW Lee, M Lu, S Yang… - Forty-first International … - openreview.net
This paper addresses the scarcity of large-scale datasets for accurate object-in-hand pose
estimation, which is crucial for robotic in-hand manipulation within the" Perception-Planning …

ContactMPC: Towards Online Adaptive Control for Contact-Rich Dexterous Manipulation

A Lakshmipathy, NS Pollard - 2nd Workshop on Dexterous Manipulation … - openreview.net
Model-based controllers are appealing due to their speed, transparency, and ability to adapt
to new situations without strong reliance on extensive previously compiled data. However …