When your robot grasps an object using dexterous hands or grippers, it should understand the Task-Oriented Affordances of the Object(TOAO), as different tasks often require attention to specific parts of the object. To address this challenge, we propose GauTOAO, a Gaussian-based framework for Task-Oriented Affordance of Objects, which leverages vision-language models in a zero-shot manner to predict affordance-relevant regions of an object, given a natural language query. Our approach introduces a new paradigm: "static camera, moving object," allowing the robot to better observe and understand the object in hand during manipulation. GauTOAO addresses the limitations of existing methods, which often lack effective spatial grouping, by extracting a comprehensive 3D object mask using DINO features. This mask is then used to conditionally query gaussians, producing a refined semantic distribution over the object for the specified task. This approach results in more accurate TOAO extraction, enhancing the robot's understanding of the object and improving task performance. We validate the effectiveness of GauTOAO through real-world experiments, demonstrating its capability to generalize across various tasks.
Task-Aware Bimanual Affordance Prediction via VLM-Guided Semantic-Geometric Reasoning
Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Darmstadt(达姆施塔特工业大学计算机科学系);German Research Center for AI (DFKI)(德国人工智能研究中心);Centre for Cognitive Science, Technical University of Darmstadt(达姆施塔特工业大学认知科学中心);Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence (Hessian.AI), Darmstadt(黑森州人工智能中心);Robotics Institute Germany (RIG)(德国机器人研究所)
RAGNet: Large-scale Reasoning-based Affordance Segmentation Benchmark towards General Grasping
The Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港中文大学);Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院计算技术研究所);Dexmal;Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence(穆罕默德·本·扎耶德人工智能大学);SKL-IOTSC, CIS, University of Macau(澳门科学馆-物联网与智能系统研究中心,澳门大学)
A4A: Cross-Embodiment Transfer of Action-Oriented 4D Affordances from Human Demonstrations
Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学);Rutgers University–New Brunswick(罗格斯大学新布朗斯维克分校);Nanyang Technological University(南洋理工大学);The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (GZ)(香港科技大学(广州));Shanghai AI Laboratory(上海人工智能实验室)
Learning 6-DoF Task-oriented Grasp Detection via Implicit Estimation and Visual Affordance
Universität Hamburg(汉堡大学);Agile Robots AG(敏捷机器人公司);Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology(北京信息科学与技术国家研究中心);Tsinghua University(清华大学)
AffordGrasp: In-Context Affordance Reasoning for Open-Vocabulary Task-Oriented Grasping in Clutter
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所);Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)(哈尔滨工业大学(深圳));Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence(北京人工智能研究院);Peking University(北京大学)
GIFT: Guided Intermediate Feature Training via Action-Oriented Structural Supervision for Robotic Manipulation
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所);University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学);National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学);Tsinghua University(清华大学);Fudan University(复旦大学)
该研究提出 GIFT 框架,通过几何对齐、可供性预测和目标区域重建约束中间特征,在 LIBERO-Plus 和 RoboCasa 数据集上,其多个变体在机器人操作任务中显著优于基准模型,性能提升明显。
Afford-X: Generalizable and Slim Affordance Reasoning for Task-oriented Manipulation
Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University(北京大学人工智能研究院);Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(香港科技大学计算机科学与工程系);Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院沈阳自动化研究所);Institute for Al Industry Research, Tsinghua University(清华大学人工智能产业研究院);Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University(清华大学计算机科学系)
Affordance2Action: Task-Conditioned Scene-level Affordance Grounding for Real-Time Manipulation
Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University-New Brunswick(罗格斯大学新布朗斯维尔回声分校计算机科学系);The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (GZ)(香港科学与技术大学(GZ));Shanghai AI Laboratory(上海人工智能实验室)
TD-TOG Dataset: Benchmarking Zero-Shot and One-Shot Task-Oriented Grasping for Object Generalization
University of Aberdeen(阿伯丁大学);Bank of Valletta(瓦莱塔银行);Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1(里昂第一大学);CNRS(法国国家科学研究中心);École Centrale de Lyon(里昂中央理工学院);INSA Lyon(里昂国立应用科学学院);Université Lumière Lyon 2(里昂第二大学);Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt(维尔茨堡-施韦因富特应用技术大学)
Embodied Robot Manipulation in the Era of Foundation Models: Planning and Learning Perspectives
Xi’an Jiaotong Univeristy(西安交通大学);Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)(香港科技大学(广州));Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院);Westlake University(西湖大学);Zhejiang University(浙江大学);University of Sydney(悉尼大学);BAAI(百度人工智能研究院);Peking University(北京大学)
CoINS: Counterfactual Interactive Navigation via Skill-Aware VLM
School of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, Peking University(北京大学先进制造与机器人学院);Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港中文大学机械与自动化工程系);College of Design and Engineering, National University Of Singapore(新加坡国立大学设计与工程学院);Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester(曼彻斯特大学计算机科学系)