Soft-bodied robots, due to their intrinsic compliance, have shown great potential for
operating within unstructured environment and interacting with unknown objects. This letter …

This letter reviews the source code published with the papers of a flagship robotics research
conference, 2017 International Conference on Robotics and Automation. The aim is to …

Humans are good at recomposing novel objects, ie they can identify commonalities between
unknown objects from general structure to finer detail, an ability difficult to replicate by …

Interpreting objects with basic geometric primitives has long been studied in computer
vision. Among geometric primitives, superquadrics are well known for their ability to …

Abstract Purpose of Review The field of humanoid robotics, perception plays a fundamental
role in enabling robots to interact seamlessly with humans and their surroundings, leading to …

Visual servoing in telerobotics provides information to the operator about the remote location
and assists in the task execution to reduce stress on the user. Occlusions in this scenario …

Indoor service robots need to build an object-centric semantic map to understand and
execute human instructions. Conventional visual simultaneous localization and map** …

With the improvements in their computational and physical intelligence, robots are now
capable of operating in real-world environments. However, manipulation and gras** …

Performing a demanding manipulation task with a multi-legged loco-manipulation platform
may require the exploitation of multiple external contacts with different environment surfaces …

This work proposes a method to grasp unknown objects with robotic hands based on
demonstrations by a skilled human operator. Not only are humans efficacious at gras** …