Abstract: Understanding the environment is crucial for autonomous robots to perform navigation and manipulation tasks. Never-seen-before objects may have complex appearances and dynamics, where only ...

Krupa Padhy uncovers how we really learn foreign languages – in a dual challenge involving both Portuguese and Mandarin.

It’s a familiar moment in math class—students are asked to solve a problem, and some jump in confidently while others freeze, unsure where to begin. When students don’t yet have a clear mental model ...

Abstract: The adaptive grasp of unknown objects has been a long-term challenge in robot manipulation. It has been shown that the center of mass (CoM) plays an important role in human natural grasp. In ...