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

Perceiving and interacting with 3D articulated objects, such as cabinets, doors, and faucets,
pose particular challenges for future home-assistant robots performing daily tasks in human …

Contrary to the vast literature in modeling, perceiving, and understanding agent-object (eg,
human-object, hand-object, robot-object) interaction in computer vision and robotics, very …

Within the realm of service robotics, researchers have placed a great amount of effort into
learning, understanding, and representing motions as manipulations for task execution by …

Affordances are key attributes of what must be perceived by an autonomous robotic agent in
order to effectively interact with novel objects. Historically, the concept derives from the …

Dynamic environments in factories, surgical robotics, and warehouses increasingly involve
humans, machines, robots, and various other objects such as tools, fixtures, conveyors, and …

Flexible task planning continues to pose a difficult challenge for robots, where a robot is
unable to creatively adapt their task plans to new or unseen problems, which is mainly due …

This paper presents a novel structured knowledge representation called the functional
object-oriented network (FOON) to model the connectivity of the functional-related objects …

Task planning for robotic cooking involves generating a sequence of actions for a robot to
prepare a meal successfully. This paper introduces a novel task tree generation pipeline …

Despite the impressive progress achieved in robotic grasping, robots are not skilled in
sophisticated tasks (eg search and grasp a specified target in clutter). Such tasks involve not …