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 …

Humans excel in complex long-horizon soft body manipulation tasks via flexible tool use:
bread baking requires a knife to slice the dough and a rolling pin to flatten it. Often regarded …

Robotic fabric manipulation has applications in home robotics, textiles, senior care and
surgery. Existing fabric manipulation techniques, however, are designed for specific tasks …

Robotic fabric manipulation is challenging due to the infinite dimensional configuration
space, self-occlusion, and complex dynamics of fabrics. There has been significant prior …

A fundamental challenge in manipulating fabric for clothes folding and textiles
manufacturing is computing “pick points” to effectively modify the state of an uncertain …

In recent decades, modern developed societies have experienced a significant increase in
life expectancy, resulting in a significant degree of aging in the population. This …

Robotic fabric manipulation has applications in home robotics, textiles, senior care and
surgery. Existing fabric manipulation techniques, however, are designed for specific tasks …

The Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) relies on wireless communication devices that are
arranged in an open underwater environment and can interact with other devices through …

Human–robot manipulation of soft materials, such as fabrics, composites, and sheets of
paper/cardboard, is a challenging operation that presents several relevant industrial …