Manipulation Task
Robotic manipulation research focuses on enabling robots to perform complex tasks involving object interaction, driven by the need for more adaptable and robust automation. Current efforts center on developing vision-language-action models, often leveraging large language models and deep reinforcement learning, to translate natural language instructions and visual input into precise robot actions, with a strong emphasis on improving robustness and generalization across diverse scenarios and objects. This field is crucial for advancing robotics in various sectors, from manufacturing and logistics to assistive technologies, by creating robots capable of understanding and responding to complex, real-world instructions.
Papers
Efficient Skill Acquisition for Complex Manipulation Tasks in Obstructed Environments
Jun Yamada, Jack Collins, Ingmar Posner
Naming Objects for Vision-and-Language Manipulation
Tokuhiro Nishikawa, Kazumi Aoyama, Shunichi Sekiguchi, Takayoshi Takayanagi, Jianing Wu, Yu Ishihara, Tamaki Kojima, Jerry Jun Yokono