Sensing the Unseen: Dexterous Tool Manipulation Through Touch and Vision

1403 Tepper School Building

Abstract: Dexterous tool manipulation is a dance between tool motion, deformation, and force transmission choreographed by the robot's end-effector. Take for example the use of a spatula. How should the robot reason jointly over the tool’s geometry and forces imparted to the environment through vision and touch? In this talk, I will present our recent [...]