The realm of textiles spans clothing, households, healthcare, sports, and industrial
applications. The deformable nature of these objects poses unique challenges that prior …

Embodied Artificial Intelligence (Embodied AI) is crucial for achieving Artificial General
Intelligence (AGI) and serves as a foundation for various applications that bridge cyberspace …

Robotic manipulation in open-world settings requires not only task execution but also the
ability to detect and learn from failures. While recent advances in vision-language models …

Interacting with the world is a multi-sensory experience: achieving effective general-purpose
interaction requires making use of all available modalities--including vision, touch, and …

Humanoid robots have great potential to perform various human-level skills. These skills
involve locomotion, manipulation, and cognitive capabilities. Driven by advances in machine …

The integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) into autonomous machines
represents a major paradigm shift in how these systems operate and unlocks new solutions …

Wearable augmentations (WAs) designed for movement and manipulation, such as
exoskeletons and supernumerary robotic limbs, are used to enhance the physical abilities of …

In this paper we perform a novel in-depth evaluation of text-only and multimodal LLMs'
abilities to reason about object* habitats* or conditions on how objects are situated in their …

Visuo-tactile sensors aim to emulate human tactile perception, enabling robots to precisely
understand and manipulate objects. Over time, numerous meticulously designed visuo …

We present a novel autonomous robot navigation algorithm for outdoor environments that is
capable of handling diverse terrain traversability conditions. Our approach, VLM-GroNav …