The field of autonomous mobile robots has undergone dramatic advancements over the past
decades. Despite achieving important milestones, several challenges are yet to be …

Robotic assembly is one of the oldest and most challenging applications of robotics. In other
areas of robotics, such as perception and grasping, simulation has rapidly accelerated …

Assembly planning is the core of automating product assembly, maintenance, and recycling
for modern industrial manufacturing. Despite its importance and long history of research …

Abstract We introduce Breaking Bad, a large-scale dataset of fractured objects. Our dataset
consists of over one million fractured objects simulated from ten thousand base models. The …

In this paper, we present a survey on recent trends in robotics and artificial intelligence in the
furniture industry. We first introduce the state-of-the-art applications of traditional and …

Robotic manipulation tasks, such as object rearrangement, play a crucial role in enabling
robots to interact with complex and arbitrary environments. Existing work focuses primarily …

The automated assembly of complex products requires a system that can automatically plan
a physically feasible sequence of actions for assembling many parts together. In this paper …

Most successes in autonomous robotic assembly have been restricted to single target or
category. We propose to investigate general part assembly, the task of creating novel target …

Automating the assembly of objects from their parts is a complex problem with innumerable
applications in manufacturing, maintenance, and recycling. Unlike existing research, which …

Agility and flexibility in production are essential to meet the challenge of the demand surge
for diverse personalized products that come in small volumes. Automatic assembly is one …