Perceiving and handling deformable objects is an integral part of everyday life for humans.
Automating tasks such as food handling, garment sorting, or assistive dressing requires …

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

Robotic solutions to dressing assistance have the potential to provide tremendous support
for elderly and disabled people. However, unexpected user movements may lead to …

Robot-assisted dressing is performed in close physical interaction with users who may have
a wide range of physical characteristics and abilities. Design of user adaptive and …

Under framings of grand challenges, robotics has been proposed as a solution to a wide
range of societal issues such as road safety, ageing society, economic productivity and …

The recent demographic trend across developed nations shows a dramatic increase in the
aging population, fallen fertility rates and a shortage of caregivers. Hence, the demand for …

Dressing is a fundamental task of everyday living and robots offer an opportunity to assist
people with motor impairments. While several robotic systems have explored robot-assisted …

Manipulating cloth-like deformable objects (CDOs) is a long-standing problem in the
robotics community. CDOs are flexible (non-rigid) objects that do not show a detectable level …

Assistive robots need to be able to perform a large number of tasks that imply some type of
cloth manipulation. These tasks include domestic chores such as laundry handling or bed …

Background Service robots are defined as reprogrammable, sensor-based mechatronic
devices that perform useful services in an autonomous or semi-autonomous way to human …