6 papers
GROW: Grounding Which and Where for Robot Tool Use
Yuhong Deng, Yuyao Liu, David Hsu
Can the robot use a plate to cut a cake if no knife is available? Tool use greatly expands robot capabilities, but to use tools creatively beyond their intended functions, the robo…
Differentiable Contact Dynamics for Stable Object Placement Under Geometric Uncertainties
Linfeng Li, Gang Yang, Lin Shao +1
From serving a cup of coffee to positioning mechanical parts during assembly, stable object placement is a crucial skill for future robots. It becomes particularly challenging unde…
CLASP: General-Purpose Clothes Manipulation with Semantic Keypoints
Yuhong Deng, Chao Tang, Cunjun Yu +2
Clothes manipulation, such as folding or hanging, is a critical capability for home service robots. Despite recent advances, most existing methods remain limited to specific clothe…
MimicFunc: Imitating Tool Manipulation from a Single Human Video via Functional Correspondence
Chao Tang, Anxing Xiao, Yuhong Deng +5
Imitating tool manipulation from human videos offers an intuitive approach to teaching robots, while also providing a promising and scalable alternative to labor-intensive teleoper…
General-purpose Clothes Manipulation with Semantic Keypoints
Yuhong Deng, David Hsu
Clothes manipulation is a critical capability for household robots; yet, existing methods are often confined to specific tasks, such as folding or flattening, due to the complex hi…
FUNCTO: Function-Centric One-Shot Imitation Learning for Tool Manipulation
Chao Tang, Anxing Xiao, Yuhong Deng +5
Learning tool use from a single human demonstration video offers a highly intuitive and efficient approach to robot teaching. While humans can effortlessly generalize a demonstrate…