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Publications (12)

cs.RO2020

TossingBot: Learning to Throw Arbitrary Objects with Residual Physics

Andy Zeng, Shuran Song, Johnny Lee +2

We investigate whether a robot arm can learn to pick and throw arbitrary objects into selected boxes quickly and accurately. Throwing has the potential to increase the physical rea…

cs.CV2019

ClearGrasp: 3D Shape Estimation of Transparent Objects for Manipulation

Shreeyak S. Sajjan, Matthew Moore, Mike Pan +4

Transparent objects are a common part of everyday life, yet they possess unique visual properties that make them incredibly difficult for standard 3D sensors to produce accurate de…

cs.HC2025

InstructPipe: Generating Visual Blocks Pipelines with Human Instructions and LLMs

Zhongyi Zhou, Jing Jin, Vrushank Phadnis +16

Visual programming has the potential of providing novice programmers with a low-code experience to build customized processing pipelines. Existing systems typically require users t…

cs.CV2020

Grasping in the Wild:Learning 6DoF Closed-Loop Grasping from Low-Cost Demonstrations

Shuran Song, Andy Zeng, Johnny Lee +1

Intelligent manipulation benefits from the capacity to flexibly control an end-effector with high degrees of freedom (DoF) and dynamically react to the environment. However, due to…

cs.HC2025

Augmented Object Intelligence with XR-Objects

Mustafa Doga Dogan, Eric J. Gonzalez, Karan Ahuja +5

Seamless integration of physical objects as interactive digital entities remains a challenge for spatial computing. This paper explores Augmented Object Intelligence (AOI) in the c…

cs.RO2022

Learning to Fold Real Garments with One Arm: A Case Study in Cloud-Based Robotics Research

Ryan Hoque, Kaushik Shivakumar, Shrey Aeron +7

Autonomous fabric manipulation is a longstanding challenge in robotics, but evaluating progress is difficult due to the cost and diversity of robot hardware. Using Reach, a cloud r…

cs.RO2020

Form2Fit: Learning Shape Priors for Generalizable Assembly from Disassembly

Kevin Zakka, Andy Zeng, Johnny Lee +1

Is it possible to learn policies for robotic assembly that can generalize to new objects? We explore this idea in the context of the kit assembly task. Since classic methods rely h…

cs.CV2022

Socratic Models: Composing Zero-Shot Multimodal Reasoning with Language

Andy Zeng, Maria Attarian, Brian Ichter +10

Large pretrained (e.g., "foundation") models exhibit distinct capabilities depending on the domain of data they are trained on. While these domains are generic, they may only barel…

cs.RO2021

Implicit Behavioral Cloning

Pete Florence, Corey Lynch, Andy Zeng +7

We find that across a wide range of robot policy learning scenarios, treating supervised policy learning with an implicit model generally performs better, on average, than commonly…

cs.RO2022

Transporter Networks: Rearranging the Visual World for Robotic Manipulation

Andy Zeng, Pete Florence, Jonathan Tompson +9

Robotic manipulation can be formulated as inducing a sequence of spatial displacements: where the space being moved can encompass an object, part of an object, or end effector. In…

cs.RO2018

Learning Synergies between Pushing and Grasping with Self-supervised Deep Reinforcement Learning

Andy Zeng, Shuran Song, Stefan Welker +3

Skilled robotic manipulation benefits from complex synergies between non-prehensile (e.g. pushing) and prehensile (e.g. grasping) actions: pushing can help rearrange cluttered obje…

cs.RO2020

Spatial Action Maps for Mobile Manipulation

Jimmy Wu, Xingyuan Sun, Andy Zeng +4

Typical end-to-end formulations for learning robotic navigation involve predicting a small set of steering command actions (e.g., step forward, turn left, turn right, etc.) from im…