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 …

Being an emerging technology, robotic manipulation has encountered tremendous
advancements due to technological developments starting from using sensors to artificial …

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

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

Understanding human activities and object affordances are two very important skills,
especially for personal robots which operate in human environments. In this work, we …

We propose a differentiable cloth simulator that can be embedded as a layer in deep neural
networks. This approach provides an effective, robust framework for modeling cloth …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers the potential to transform our lives in radical ways. However,
the main unanswered questions about this foreseen transformation are its depth, breadth …