For robots to be useful outside labs and specialized factories we need a way to teach them
new useful behaviors quickly. Current approaches lack either the generality to onboard new …

The development of future technologies can be highly influenced by our deeper
understanding of the principles that underlie living organisms. The Living Machines …

Cable routing is a challenging task for robotic automation. To accomplish the task, it requires
a high-level path planner to generate a sequence of cable configurations from the initial …

As automation is spreading in all the industry domains, the presence of robots is becoming
unavoidable inside factories, warehouses and manufacturing facilities. Although a great …

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is developing performance tests and
associated artifacts to benchmark research in the area of robotic assembly. Sets of …

Three challenges limit the progress of robot learning research: robots are expensive (few
labs can participate), everyone uses different robots (findings do not generalize across labs) …

A human hand can grasp a desired number of objects at once from a pile based solely on
tactile sensing. To do so, a robot needs to make a grasp in a pile, sense the number of …

Grasping unknown objects in unstructured environments is one of the most challenging and
demanding tasks for robotic bin picking systems. Developing a holistic approach is crucial to …

This paper proposes 12 multi-object grasps (MOGs) types from a human and robot grasping
data set. The grasp types are then analyzed and organized into a MOG taxonomy. This …

In this letter, we present a planning method considering regrasp and mobility for the
manipulation problem of a long deformable object in an industrial scenario. The object is …