Abstract: Jointly estimating hand and object shape facilitates the grasping task in human-to-robot handovers. Relying on hand-crafted prior knowledge about the geometric structure of the object fails ...

Abstract: We provide a method for detecting and localizing objects near a robot arm using arm-mounted miniature time-of-flight sensors. A key challenge when using arm-mounted sensors is ...

A detachable robotic hand capable of crawling and grabbing objects has been developed by a team of scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). According to its ...

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Like something from a galaxy far, far away, robots are getting closer to their big takeover.