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most citedRobot Cooking with Stir-fry: Bimanual Non-prehensile Manipulation of Semi-fluid Objects

81 citations · 114 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.CV2026

RoboTok: A Scalable Data Engine for Internet Demonstration Video Retrieval and Dexterous Manipulation Learning

Howard Qian, Yiting Chen, Yunfei Xie +6

Robot learning increasingly depends on broad and diverse demonstrations, yet collecting robot data remains expensive and difficult to scale across the wide range of real-world task…

cs.RO2026

EgoInfinity: A Web-Scale 4D Hand-Object Interaction Data Engine for Any-View Robot Retargeting and Video-to-Action Robot Learning

Gaotian Wang, Kejia Ren, Andrew Morgan +4

Internet videos constitute the largest reservoir of embodied human manipulation knowledge, yet converting arbitrary RGB footage into actionable robot training data remains a major…

cs.RO2026

ManipulationNet: An Infrastructure for Benchmarking Real-World Robot Manipulation with Physical Skill Challenges and Embodied Multimodal Reasoning

Yiting Chen, Kenneth Kimble, Edward H. Adelson +20

Dexterous manipulation enables robots to purposefully alter the physical world, transforming them from passive observers into active agents in unstructured environments. This capab…

cs.RO2025

rt-RISeg: Real-Time Model-Free Robot Interactive Segmentation for Active Instance-Level Object Understanding

Howard H. Qian, Yiting Chen, Gaotian Wang +2

Successful execution of dexterous robotic manipulation tasks in new environments, such as grasping, depends on the ability to proficiently segment unseen objects from the backgroun…

cs.RO2025

Robust Peg-in-Hole Assembly under Uncertainties via Compliant and Interactive Contact-Rich Manipulation

Yiting Chen, Kenneth Kimble, Howard H. Qian +3

Robust and adaptive robotic peg-in-hole assembly under tight tolerances is critical to various industrial applications. However, it remains an open challenge due to perceptual and…

cs.RO2025

B4P: Simultaneous Grasp and Motion Planning for Object Placement via Parallelized Bidirectional Forests and Path Repair

Benjamin H. Leebron, Kejia Ren, Yiting Chen +1

Robot pick and place systems have traditionally decoupled grasp, placement, and motion planning to build sequential optimization pipelines with the assumption that the individual c…

cs.RO2025

ARC-Calib: Autonomous Markerless Camera-to-Robot Calibration via Exploratory Robot Motions

Podshara Chanrungmaneekul, Yiting Chen, Joshua T. Grace +2

Camera-to-robot (also known as eye-to-hand) calibration is a critical component of vision-based robot manipulation. Traditional marker-based methods often require human interventio…

cs.RO2023

Implicit Articulated Robot Morphology Modeling with Configuration Space Neural Signed Distance Functions

Yiting Chen, Xiao Gao, Kunpeng Yao +3

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to implicitly encode precise robot morphology using forward kinematics based on a configuration space signed distance function. Our pro…

cs.RO2023

Sliding Touch-based Exploration for Modeling Unknown Object Shape with Multi-fingered Hands

Yiting Chen, Ahmet Ercan Tekden, Marc Peter Deisenroth +1

Efficient and accurate 3D object shape reconstruction contributes significantly to the success of a robot's physical interaction with its environment. Acquiring accurate shape info…

cs.RO2022★ 81 cited

Robot Cooking with Stir-fry: Bimanual Non-prehensile Manipulation of Semi-fluid Objects

Junjia Liu, Yiting Chen, Zhipeng Dong +4

This letter describes an approach to achieve well-known Chinese cooking art stir-fry on a bimanual robot system. Stir-fry requires a sequence of highly dynamic coordinated movement…

cs.RO2021★ 31 cited

Learning Robotic Ultrasound Scanning Skills via Human Demonstrations and Guided Explorations

Xutian Deng, Yiting Chen, Fei Chen +1

Medical ultrasound has become a routine examination approach nowadays and is widely adopted for different medical applications, so it is desired to have a robotic ultrasound system…

cs.RO2021★ 1 cited

Learning Friction Model for Tethered Capsule Robot

Yi Wang, Yuchen He, Xutian Deng +3

With the potential applications of capsule robots in medical endoscopy, accurate dynamic control of the capsule robot is becoming more and more important. In the scale of a capsule…

cs.RO2021★ 1 cited

Data Generation for Learning to Grasp in a Bin-picking Scenario

Yiting Chen, Miao Li

The rise of deep learning has greatly transformed the pipeline of robotic grasping from model-based approach to data-driven stream. Along this line, a large scale of grasping data…

cs.RO2021

Unknown Object Segmentation through Domain Adaptation

Yiting Chen, Chenguang Yang, Miao Li

The ability to segment unknown objects in cluttered scenes has a profound impact on robot grasping. The rise of deep learning has greatly transformed the pipeline of robotic graspi…