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Pour me a drink: Robotic Precision Pouring Carbonated Beverages into Transparent Container…
With the growing emphasis on the development and integration of service robots within household environments, we will need to endow robots with the ability to reliably pour a variety of liquids. However, liquid handling and pouring is a challenging t...
Robotic Optimization of Powdered Beverages Leveraging Computer Vision and Bayesian Optimiz…
The growing demand for innovative research in the food industry is driving the adoption of robots in large-scale experimentation, as it offers increased precision, replicability, and efficiency in product manufacturing and evaluation. To this end, we...
Exploring the Effect of Robotic Embodiment and Empathetic Tone of LLMs on Empathy Elicitat…
This study investigates the elicitation of empathy toward a third party through interaction with social agents. Participants engaged with either a physical robot or a voice-enabled chatbot, both driven by a large language model (LLM) programmed to ex...
Rearrangement Planning for General Part Assembly
Most successes in autonomous robotic assembly have been restricted to single target or category. We propose to investigate general part assembly, the task of creating novel target assemblies with unseen part shapes. As a fundamental step to a general...
huggingface/lerobot
? LeRobot: Making AI for Robotics more accessible with end-to-end learning (⭐ 22092)
andyzeng/visual-pushing-grasping
Train robotic agents to learn to plan pushing and grasping actions for manipulation with deep reinforcement learning. (⭐ 1086)
Towards a Privacy-preserving Deep Learning-based Network Intrusion Detection in Data Distr…
Data Distribution Service (DDS) is an innovative approach towards communication in ICS/IoT infrastructure and robotics. Being based on the cross-platform and cross-language API to be applicable in any computerised device, it offers the benefits of mo...
UniMoGen: Universal Motion Generation
Motion generation is a cornerstone of computer graphics, animation, gaming, and robotics, enabling the creation of realistic and varied character movements. A significant limitation of existing methods is their reliance on specific skeletal structure...
QuirkyCort/gears
Generic Educational Robotics Simulator (⭐ 85)
One Policy to Dress Them All: Learning to Dress People with Diverse Poses and Garments
Robot-assisted dressing could benefit the lives of many people such as older adults and individuals with disabilities. Despite such potential, robot-assisted dressing remains a challenging task for robotics as it involves complex manipulation of defo...
Opportunity (rover) - Wikipedia
Opportunity, also known as MER-B (Mars Exploration Rover – B) or MER-1, and nicknamed Oppy, is a robotic rover that was active on Mars from 2004 until
BRACU Mongol Tori: Next Generation Mars Exploration Rover
BRAC University (BRACU) has participated in the University Rover Challenge (URC), a robotics competition for university level students organized by the Mars Society to design and build a rover that would be of use to early explorers on Mars. BRACU ha...
Agonist-Antagonist Pouch Motors: Bidirectional Soft Actuators Enhanced by Thermally Respon…
In this study, we introduce a novel Mylar-based pouch motor design that leverages the reversible actuation capabilities of Peltier junctions to enable agonist-antagonist muscle mimicry in soft robotics. Addressing the limitations of traditional silic...
GI-NNet \& RGI-NNet: Development of Robotic Grasp Pose Models, Trainable with Large as wel…
Our way of grasping objects is challenging for efficient, intelligent and optimal grasp by COBOTs. To streamline the process, here we use deep learning techniques to help robots learn to generate and execute appropriate grasps quickly. We developed a...
The $10 Million ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition Advanced Immersive Telepresence Systems
The $10M ANA Avatar XPRIZE aimed to create avatar systems that can transport human presence to remote locations in real time. The participants of this multi-year competition developed robotic systems that allow operators to see, hear, and interact wi...
Analysis and Perspectives on the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition
The ANA Avatar XPRIZE was a four-year competition to develop a robotic "avatar" system to allow a human operator to sense, communicate, and act in a remote environment as though physically present. The competition featured a unique requirement that j...
Robustness Certification of Visual Perception Models via Camera Motion Smoothing
A vast literature shows that the learning-based visual perception model is sensitive to adversarial noises, but few works consider the robustness of robotic perception models under widely-existing camera motion perturbations. To this end, we study th...
Deep Learning for Camera Calibration and Beyond: A Survey
Camera calibration involves estimating camera parameters to infer geometric features from captured sequences, which is crucial for computer vision and robotics. However, conventional calibration is laborious and requires dedicated collection. Recent...
AngelLM/Thor
DIY 3D Printable Robotic Arm (⭐ 1387)