To reliably complete various manual tasks, robots should be able to handle a variety of objects, ranging from items found in ...

Imagine walking into an unfamiliar grocery store in search of bottled water. Upon spotting a cooler near a cash register, you open the cooler door and snag a cold bottle. While this may be a simple ...

Foundation models have made great advances in robotics, enabling the creation of vision-language-action (VLA) models that generalize to objects, scenes, and tasks beyond their training data. However, ...

Fig. 1(a) illustrates a typical robotic manipulation system. It features a robotic arm equipped with sensors like cameras and end-effectors such as grippers, enabling it to manipulate a wide range of ...

Robotic systems that mirror humans both in their appearance and movements, also known as humanoid robots, could be best suited for tackling many tasks that are currently performed by human agents.