Touch sensing can help robots understand their surrounding environment, and in particular
the objects they interact with. To this end, roboticists have, in the last few decades …

A key challenge in intelligent robotics is creating robots that are capable of directly
interacting with the world around them to achieve their goals. The last decade has seen …

Deformable object manipulation (DOM) is an emerging research problem in robotics. The
ability to manipulate deformable objects endows robots with higher autonomy and promises …

Human behaviors are extremely sophisticated, relying on the adaptive, plastic and event-
driven network of sensory neurons. Such neuronal system analyzes multiple sensory cues …

Nowadays, robots are dominating the manufacturing, entertainment, and healthcare
industries. Robot vision aims to equip robots with the capabilities to discover information …

Vision and touch are two of the important sensing modalities for humans and they offer
complementary information for sensing the environment. Robots could also benefit from …

The object perception capabilities of humans are impressive, and this becomes even more
evident when trying to develop solutions with a similar proficiency in autonomous robots …

Humans perceive the world by interacting with objects, which often happens in a dynamic
way. For example, a human would shake a bottle to guess its content. However, it remains a …

Conventional visual perception technology is subject to many restrictions, such as
illumination, background clutter, and occlusion. Many intrinsic properties of objects, like …

In this paper, we introduce the problem of cross-modal visuo-tactile object recognition with
robotic active exploration. With this term, we mean that the robot observes a set of objects …