arXiv AI
Jun 17

DeMaVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Foundation Model for Generalizable Deformable Manipulation

arXiv:2605. 31286v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-world household robots require Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation models that can acquire reusable manipulation skills across diverse objects, task conditions, and household environments.

By Taiyi Su, Jian Zhu, Tianjian Wang, Youzhang He, Zitai Huang, Jianjun Zhang, Chong Ma, Hanyang Wang, Tianjiao Zhang, Munan Yin, Weihao Ding, Yi Xu
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

MultiGraspNet: A Multitask 3D Vision Model for Multi-gripper Robotic Grasping

MultiGraspNet is a multitask 3D vision model that simultaneously predicts feasible poses for both parallel and vacuum grippers, allowing a single robot to handle multiple end effectors. Trained on the aligned GraspNet-1Billion and SuctionNet-1Billion datasets, it generates graspability masks that quantify the suitability of each scene point for successful grasps. With only 15.75 M parameters, the model achieves fast inference on a single GPU and demonstrates competitive performance against single-task models while reducing computational cost, as shown in extensive experiments and real‑world tests on a single‑arm multi‑gripper setup.

By Stephany Ortuno-Chanelo, Paolo Rabino, Enrico Civitelli, Tatiana Tommasi, Raffaello Camoriano
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