Robots can be equipped with a range of senses to allow them to perceive and interact with
the world in a more natural and intuitive way. These senses can include vision, hearing …

Assistive robots have the potential to support disabled and elderly people in daily dressing
activities. An intermediate stage of dressing is to manipulate the garment from a crumpled …

Thin plastic bags are ubiquitous in retail stores, healthcare, food handling, recycling, homes,
and school lunchrooms. They are challenging both for perception (due to specularities and …

We present a virtual reality (VR) framework to automate the data collection process in cloth
folding tasks. The framework uses skeleton representations to help the user define the …

Sequential multi-step cloth manipulation is a challenging problem in robotic manipulation,
requiring a robot to perceive the cloth state and plan a sequence of chained actions leading …

Garment manipulation (eg unfolding folding and hanging clothes) is essential for future
robots to accomplish home-assistant tasks while highly challenging due to the diversity of …

The highly varied and deformable structure of clothing presents a challenging task in the
area of robot manipulation. Recent literature has shown an increasing interest in this field …

The field of robotics faces inherent challenges in manipulating deformable objects,
particularly in understanding and standardising fabric properties like elasticity, stiffness, and …

We present the “Busboy Problem”: automating an efficient decluttering of cups, bowls, and
silverware from a planar surface. As grasping and transporting individual items is highly …

Robotic unfolding of cloth is challenging due to the wide range of textile materials and their
ability to deform in unpredictable ways. Previous work has focused almost exclusively on …