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 …

Physical embodiment is a required component for robots that are structurally coupled with
their real-world environments. However, most socially interactive robots do not need to …

Manipulating deformable objects has long been a challenge in robotics due to its high
dimensional state representation and complex dynamics. Recent success in deep …

Rearranging and manipulating deformable objects such as cables, fabrics, and bags is a
long-standing challenge in robotic manipulation. The complex dynamics and high …

We present a survey of recent work on robot manipulation and sensing of deformable
objects, a field with relevant applications in diverse industries such as medicine (eg surgical …

High-velocity dynamic actions (eg, fling or throw) play a crucial role in our everyday
interaction with deformable objects by improving our efficiency and effectively expanding our …

In this paper, we present a modular robotic system to tackle the problem of generating and
performing antipodal robotic grasps for unknown objects from the n-channel image of the …

We have seen much recent progress in rigid object manipulation, but interaction with
deformable objects has notably lagged behind. Due to the large configuration space of …

Deep learning has significantly advanced computer vision and natural language processing.
While there have been some successes in robotics using deep learning, it has not been …

We would like robots to achieve purposeful manipulation by placing any instance from a
category of objects into a desired set of goal states. Existing manipulation pipelines typically …