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 …

Manipulation of deformable objects has given rise to an important set of open problems in
the field of robotics. Application areas include robotic surgery, household robotics …

We present a survey of recent work on robot manipulation and sensing of deformable
objects, a field with relevant applications in diverse industries such as medicine (eg surgical …

As robots are increasingly participating in our daily lives, the quests to mimic human abilities
have driven the advancements of robotic multimodal senses. However, current perceptual …

Simulation is widely applied in robotics research to save time and resources. There have
been several works to simulate optical tactile sensors that leverage either a smoothing …

Soft tactile sensing technologies provide the potential to endow a sense of touch to robots
for gras** and manipulating objects. During the execution of such tasks, having accurate …

Gras** and dexterous manipulation remain fundamental challenges in robotics, above all
when performed with multifingered robotic hands. Having simulation tools to design and test …

To realize a higher-level autonomy of surgical knot tying in minimally invasive surgery (MIS),
automated suture gras**, which bridges the suture stitching and loo** procedures, is an …

Robotic vision plays a key role for perceiving the environment in gras** applications.
However, the conventional framed-based robotic vision, suffering from motion blur and low …

Damage-free gras** of deformable objects has been a long-standing difficult problem in
the field of robotics. Humans can perceive the physical properties of objects and apply …