4 papers
Deco: Extending Cherished Physical Objects into AI Companion Agents through Dual Embodiment
Zhihan Jiang, Mengyuan Millie Wu, Ruishi Zou +14
Physical objects (e.g., plush toys) can transcend materiality to become emotional anchors and provide companionship. However, these bonds remain one-sided because most physical obj…
Collaborative Object Handover in a Robot Crafting Assistant
Leimin Tian, Shiyu Xu, Kerry He +3
Robots are increasingly working alongside people, delivering food to patrons in restaurants or helping workers on assembly lines. These scenarios often involve object handovers bet…
Rotating Objects via In-Hand Pivoting using Vision, Force and Touch
Shiyu Xu, Tianyuan Liu, Michael Wong +2
We propose a robotic manipulation system that can pivot objects on a surface using vision, wrist force and tactile sensing. We aim to control the rotation of an object around the g…
Crafting with a Robot Assistant: Use Social Cues to Inform Adaptive Handovers in Human-Robot Collaboration
Leimin Tian, Kerry He, Shiyu Xu +2
We study human-robot handovers in a naturalistic collaboration scenario, where a mobile manipulator robot assists a person during a crafting session by providing and retrieving obj…