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Feb 19, 2026 · Vine-inspired robotic gripper gently lifts heavy and fragile objects The new design could be adapted to assist the elderly, sort warehouse products, or unload heavy cargo.
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Apr 30, 2025 · 5 fun facts about robots The definition of robotics is older than actual robots. In fact, the ancient Greek writer Homer described "intelligent machines" such as wheeled tripod machines in …
Smart Automation in Luxury Leather Shoe Polishing: A Human Centric Robotic Approach
The polishing of luxury leather shoes is a delicate, labor intensive process traditionally performed by skilled craftsmen. Footwear companies aim to automate parts of this process to enhance quality, productivity, and operator well-being, but the uni...
Four-Arm Manipulation via Feet Interfaces
We seek to augment human manipulation by enabling humans to control two robotic arms in addition to their natural arms using their feet. Thereby, the hands are free to perform tasks of high dexterity, while the feet-controlled arms perform tasks requ...
Bag All You Need: Learning a Generalizable Bagging Strategy for Heterogeneous Objects
We introduce a practical robotics solution for the task of heterogeneous bagging, requiring the placement of multiple rigid and deformable objects into a deformable bag. This is a difficult task as it features complex interactions between multiple hi...
SPATIALGEN: Layout-guided 3D Indoor Scene Generation
Creating high-fidelity 3D models of indoor environments is essential for applications in design, virtual reality, and robotics. However, manual 3D modeling remains time-consuming and labor-intensive. While recent advances in generative AI have enable...
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Synthesis and Execution of Communicative Robotic Movements with Generative Adversarial Net…
Object manipulation is a natural activity we perform every day. How humans handle objects can communicate not only the willfulness of the acting, or key aspects of the context where we operate, but also the properties of the objects involved, without...
HPPS: A Hierarchical Progressive Perception System for Luggage Trolley Detection and Local…
The robotic autonomous luggage trolley collection system employs robots to gather and transport scattered luggage trolleys at airports. However, existing methods for detecting and locating these luggage trolleys often fail when they are not fully vis...
Mobile ALOHA: Learning Bimanual Mobile Manipulation with Low-Cost Whole-Body Teleoperation
Imitation learning from human demonstrations has shown impressive performance in robotics. However, most results focus on table-top manipulation, lacking the mobility and dexterity necessary for generally useful tasks. In this work, we develop a syst...
SROS2: Usable Cyber Security Tools for ROS 2
ROS 2 is rapidly becoming a standard in the robotics industry. Built upon DDS as its default communication middleware and used in safety-critical scenarios, adding security to robots and ROS computational graphs is increasingly becoming a concern. Th...
Procedurally Provisioned Access Control for Robotic Systems
Security of robotics systems, as well as of the related middleware infrastructures, is a critical issue for industrial and domestic IoT, and it needs to be continuously assessed throughout the whole development lifecycle. The next generation open sou...
Grasp2Vec: Learning Object Representations from Self-Supervised Grasping
Well structured visual representations can make robot learning faster and can improve generalization. In this paper, we study how we can acquire effective object-centric representations for robotic manipulation tasks without human labeling by using a...
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Jan 14, 2026 · Intuitive (Nasdaq: ISRG), headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, is a global leader in minimally invasive care and the pioneer of robotic-assisted surgery. Our technologies include the da …
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PaiP: An Operational Aware Interactive Planner for Unknown Cabinet Environments
Box/cabinet scenarios with stacked objects pose significant challenges for robotic motion due to visual occlusions and constrained free space. Traditional collision-free trajectory planning methods often fail when no collision-free paths exist, and m...
CabiNet: Scaling Neural Collision Detection for Object Rearrangement with Procedural Scene…
We address the important problem of generalizing robotic rearrangement to clutter without any explicit object models. We first generate over 650K cluttered scenes - orders of magnitude more than prior work - in diverse everyday environments, such as...
Instant Policy: In-Context Imitation Learning via Graph Diffusion
Following the impressive capabilities of in-context learning with large transformers, In-Context Imitation Learning (ICIL) is a promising opportunity for robotics. We introduce Instant Policy, which learns new tasks instantly (without further trainin...