Abstract: Manipulating unseen articulated objects through visual feedback is a critical but challenging task for real robots. Existing learning-based solutions mainly focus on visual affordance ...

As ancient, hollowed trees disappear in England, one researcher and his team are engineering prosthetic nests to provide an alternative home for endangered birds.

A robot that can locate lost items on command, the latest development at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), combines knowledge from the internet with a spatial map of its surroundings to ...

Abstract: In this paper we create an RGB-D 3D object detector targeted at indoor robotics use cases where one modality may be unavailable due to a specific sensor setup or a sensor failure. We ...