A team of researchers from MIT and the Institute of AI and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI) has introduced a groundbreaking framework for robotic manipulation, addressing the challenge of enabling robots to understand and manipulate objects in unpredictable and cluttered environments. The problem at hand is the need for robots to have a detailed understanding of 3D…

A team of researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Carnegie Mellon University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of California Berkeley, Meta AI Research, and Mistral AI has developed a universal navigation system called GO To Any Thing (GOAT). This system is designed for extended autonomous operation in home and warehouse environments. GOAT is a…

Researchers from MIT and Meta AI have developed an object reorientation controller that can utilize a single depth camera to reorient diverse shapes of objects in real-time. The challenge addressed by this development is the need for a versatile and efficient object manipulation system that can generalize to new conditions without requiring a consistent pose…