AnyPlace: Learning Generalized Object Placement for Robot Manipulation
University of Toronto(多伦多大学);Vector Institute(向量研究所);Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学);Wilfrid Laurier University(威尔弗里德·劳里埃大学);Acceleration Consortium(加速联盟);Georgia Institute of Technology(佐治亚理工学院)
Yuchi Zhao, Miroslav Bogdanovic, Chengyuan Luo, Steven Tohme, Kourosh Darvish, Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Florian Shkurti, Animesh Garg
Object placement in robotic tasks is inherently challenging due to the diversity of object geometries and placement configurations. To address this, we propose AnyPlace, a two-stage method trained entirely on synthetic data, capable of predicting a wide range of feasible placement poses for real-world tasks. Our key insight is that by leveraging a Vision-Language Model (VLM) to identify rough placement locations, we focus only on the relevant regions for local placement, which enables us to train the low-level placement-pose-prediction model to capture diverse placements efficiently. For training, we generate a fully synthetic dataset of randomly generated objects in different placement configurations (insertion, stacking, hanging) and train local placement-prediction models. We conduct extensive evaluations in simulation, demonstrating that our method outperforms baselines in terms of success rate, coverage of possible placement modes, and precision. In real-world experiments, we show how our approach directly transfers models trained purely on synthetic data to the real world, where it successfully performs placements in scenarios where other models struggle -- such as with varying object geometries, diverse placement modes, and achieving high precision for fine placement. More at: https://any-place.github.io.
ROG-Grasp: Root-Oriented Geometry for Robotic Grasping and Placement
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel University(德雷塞尔大学电气与计算机工程系);Virginia Seafood Agricultural Research and Extension Center, and Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech(弗吉尼亚理工学院生物系统工程系和弗吉尼亚海鲜农业研究与推广中心);Amazon Store Foundation AI (SFAI)(亚马逊商店基金会人工智能(SFAI))
Analyzing the Utility of a Support Pin in Sequential Robotic Manipulation
the University of Hong Kong(香港大学);the City University of Hong Kong(香港城市大学);National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)(日本产业技术综合研究所(AIST))
RoboAfford++: A Generative AI-Enhanced Dataset for Multimodal Affordance Learning in Robotic Manipulation and Navigation
Xiaomi EV(小米电动车);Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所);Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University(清华大学深圳国际研究生院);Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China(中国人民大学 Gallagher人工智能学院);School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology(合肥工业大学计算机科学与信息工程学院)
Generating Stable Placements via Physics-guided Diffusion Models
STARS Laboratory, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies(多伦多大学航空航天研究所STARS实验室);Laboratory for Autonomous Systems and Mobile Robotics(自主系统与移动机器人实验室);University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing(Zagreb大学电气工程与计算学院)
The Role of Touch: Towards Optimal Tactile Sensing Distribution in Anthropomorphic Hands for Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation
VisLab, Institute for Systems;Soft Robotics Lab National University of Singapore, Singapore;BRAIR Lab, BioRobotics Institute Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italia
Stereo Multistage Spatial Attention for Real-Time Mobile Manipulation Under Visual Scale Variation and Disturbances
Department of Intermedia Art and Science, Waseda University(媒体艺术与科学系,早稻田大学);SB Intuitions Corp.(SB Intuitions公司);Research and Development Group, Hitachi, Ltd.(日立株式会社研发部);National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)(国家先进工业科学与技术研究院)
Learning to Reorient Objects with Stable Placements Afforded by Extrinsic Supports
The Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港中文大学);Southern University of Science and Technology(南方科技大学);Shenzhen Research Institute of the Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港中文大学深圳研究院)
CoReLIN: Constraint-based Reasoning for Zero-shot Lifelong Interactive Navigation
Purdue University(普渡大学);Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur(印度理工学院卡哈拉格普尔分校);DEVCOM Army Research Lab(DEVCOM陆军研究实验室);National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学)
Scenario Convex Programs for Dexterous Manipulation under Modeling Uncertainties
Université Paris-Saclay(巴黎萨克雷大学);CNRS(法国国家科学研究中心);CentraleSupélec(中央高等电力学院);ESME Sudria Engineering School(ESME苏德里亚工程学校);College of Computing, University Mohammed VI Polytechnic(穆罕默德六世理工大学计算机学院);ESME Research Lab.(ESME研究实验室)
SpatialHarness: Test-Time Spatial Scaffolding for Fine Robotic Manipulation
College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University(复旦大学计算机科学与人工智能学院);Singapore Management University(新加坡管理大学);Institute of Trustworthy Embodied AI, Fudan University(复旦大学可信具身智能研究院)