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GBPP: Grasp-Aware Base Placement Prediction for Robots via Two-Stage Learning

arXiv:2509. 11594v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: GBPP is a fast learning based scorer that selects a robot base pose for grasping from a single RGB-D snapshot.

arXiv AI

Jun 26

Learning Motion Feasibility from Point Clouds in Cluttered Environments

arXiv:2606. 26700v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Motion feasibility prediction plays a central role in robotics, particularly in task and motion planning and manipulation.

By Sajid Ansari, Arthi, Girish Varma, Antony Thomas

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arXiv AI

Jul 17

Beyond Visual Grasping: Benchmarking Complex Grasping from Detection to Execution

arXiv:2607. 14341v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust robotic grasping remains a fundamental challenge for complex real-world applications.

By Hanyi Zhang, Khang Nguyen, Charith Munasinghe, Basu Hela, Tianyu Li, Zihong Luo, Hoan Nguyen, Hans Wernher van de Venn, Yalin Zheng, Ravi Prakash, Tung D. Ta, Anh Nguyen, Baoru Huang

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arXiv AI

Jun 19

Human Universal Grasping

arXiv:2606. 17054v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans can grasp objects effortlessly, whereas multi-fingered robots are far from this level of generality.

By Kevin Yuanbo Wu, Tianxing Zhou, Isaac Tu, Billy Yan, Irmak Guzey, David Fouhey, Dandan Shan, Lerrel Pinto

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arXiv AI

Jun 9

EgoAERO: Learning Dexterous Manipulation from a Single Egocentric Video without Object Assets

arXiv:2606. 08057v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Egocentric RGB-D videos offer a natural source of human dexterous manipulation demonstrations, but existing data is difficult to use for robot learning because object pose, geometry, and contact information are often missing or require pre-scanned object assets.

By Yichen Niu, Haoran Lv, Xinrui Zhang, Xueyao Wan, Shiyu Gao, Ying Ai, Hui Xu, Yongqi Hu, Hengyi Zhang, Yang Xie, Zhaxizhuoma, Yue Zhao, Zhenshan Bing, Yan Ding, Jianxing Liu

robotics

arXiv AI

Jun 12

Bounding Boxes as Goals: Language-Conditioned Grasping via Neuro-Symbolic Planning

arXiv:2606. 12910v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For robotics to be effectively integrated into household or industrial environments, machines must adapt to natural-language prompts in real time.

By Allison Andreyev, Landon Eum, Nestor Tiglao, Romel Gomez

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 10

Dexterous Point Policy: Learning Point-based Dexterous Hand Policies from Human Demonstrations

arXiv:2606. 10614v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic foundation models pre-trained on human demonstration videos have shown promise, but a significant embodiment gap remains when the resulting policies are deployed on real robots.

By Beomjun Kim, Seong Hyeon Park, Seunghoon Sim, Seungjun Moon, Sanghyeok Lee, Jinwoo Shin

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Iterative Grasp Pose Refinement: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for 2D Vision

arXiv:2608. 17628v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Developing robots capable of understanding and manipulating objects requires compact, interpretable, and generalizable representations.

By Amir Arsalan Nematollahi, Shayan Ahmadi, Mehdi Tale Masouleh, Ahmad Kalhor

reinforcement-learning robotics

arXiv AI

Jul 14

Pickalo: Leveraging 6D Pose Estimation for Low-Cost Industrial Bin Picking

arXiv:2604. 04690v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bin picking in real industrial environments remains challenging due to severe clutter, occlusions, and the high cost of traditional 3D sensing setups.

By Alessandro Tarsi, Matteo Mastrogiuseppe, Saverio Taliani, Simone Cortinovis, Ugo Pattacini

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arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 4

GraRe: Grasp Candidate Re-Ranking for Frozen 6-DoF Grasp Detectors

arXiv:2608. 00946v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing 6-DoF grasp detectors typically rank grasp candidates by detector confidence.

By Jibao Yuan, Yuhui Zhao, Yinzhen Lv, Chao Xu, Shun Li, Chenxi Deng, Shaofei Chen

llms robotics

arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 28

Variational Neural Belief Parameterizations for Robust Dexterous Grasping under Multimodal Uncertainty

arXiv:2604. 25897v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Contact variability, sensing uncertainty, and external disturbances make grasp execution stochastic.

By Clinton Enwerem, Shreya Kalyanaraman, John S. Baras, Calin Belta

robotics multimodal

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 16

Imitating What Works: Simulation-Filtered Modular Policy Learning from Human Videos

arXiv:2602. 13197v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The ability to learn manipulation skills by watching videos of humans has the potential to unlock a new source of highly scalable data for robot learning.

By Albert J. Zhai, Kuo-Hao Zeng, Jiasen Lu, Ali Farhadi, Shenlong Wang, Wei-Chiu Ma

robotics

arXiv AI

Jul 2

Learning Dexterous Manipulation Using Contact Wrench Guidance From Human Demonstration

arXiv:2607. 00033v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dexterous robot manipulation can benefit from the abundance of human demonstrations, but transferring such demonstrations to robot policies remains challenging.

By Xinghao Zhu, Zixi Liu, Shalin Jain, Chenran Li, Milad Noori, Huihua Zhao, John Welsh, Michael Andres Lin, Wei Liu, Tingwu Wang, Xingye Da, Zhengyi Luo, Vishal Kulkarni, Naema Bhatti, Yuke Zhu, Linxi Fan, Bowen Wen, Danfei Xu, Soha Pouya, Yan Chang

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