In the past few years a new scenario for robot-based applications has emerged. Service and
mobile robots have opened new market niches. Also, new frameworks for shop-floor robot …

In order to complete many complex operations and attain more general-purpose utility,
robotic grasp is a necessary skill to master. As the most common essential action of robots in …

Humans coordinate the abundant degrees of freedom (DoFs) of hands to dexterously
perform tasks in everyday life. We imitate human strategies to advance the dexterity of multi …

A primary challenge in robotic tool use is achieving precise manipulation with dexterous
robotic hands to mimic human actions. It requires understanding human tool use and …

To enable robots to use tools, the initial step is teaching robots to employ dexterous gestures
for touching specific areas precisely where tasks are performed. Affordance features of …

Successful grasp is an important and long-standing issue for robots to interact with the real
world. Most recent studies have devoted more attention to stable grasp rather than functional …

This work addresses the problem of transporting an object along a desired planar trajectory
by pushing with mobile robots. More specifically, we concentrate on establishing optimal …

This paper presents a planner that enables robots to manipulate objects under changing
external forces. Particularly, we focus on the scenario where a human applies a sequence of …

Analytical dexterous grasping synthesis is often driven by grasp quality metrics. However,
existing metrics possess many problems, such as being computationally expensive …

This paper deals with the problem of purposefully failing (breaking) or yielding objects by a
robotic gripper. Robotic harvesting is considered as an application domain that motivates …