Abstract: Small and medium enterprises are increasingly adopting collaborative robots to gain a competitive edge in global markets, and a growing number of companies are producing and using service robots. In these scenarios, robotic systems must be able to grasp and manipulate a variety of tools, and interact with fast changing or even unstructured environments involving human users or co-workers. These real-world applications require innovative grasping and manipulation paradigms that are robust to uncertain environments. Solutions dealing with this challenge are currently active areas of research in robotics, and include soft manipulation, data-driven grasp planning, and human-robot collaborative manipulation. This workshop will bring together research experts as well as representatives of companies to discuss how new approaches in the field can efficiently be transferred from the research labs to the productive world.
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