Nearly every company that makes some sort of product has a research and development (R&D) division. This applies just as much to software developers as it does to hardware manufacturers. In an ideal ...

Deformable object manipulation in robotics is an increasingly critical research area, addressing the challenge of handling materials that do not maintain a fixed shape under manipulation. Unlike rigid ...

Researchers have compiled a dataset that captures the detailed behavior of a robotic system physically pushing hundreds of different objects. Using the dataset -- the largest and most diverse of its ...