no code implementations • 3 Aug 2022 • Linda Lastrico, Luca Garello, Francesco Rea, Nicoletta Noceti, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Alessandra Sciutti, Alessandro Carfi
Humans have an extraordinary ability to communicate and read the properties of objects by simply watching them being carried by someone else.
no code implementations • 29 Mar 2022 • Luca Garello, Linda Lastrico, Alessandra Sciutti, Nicoletta Noceti, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Francesco Rea
Object manipulation is a natural activity we perform every day.
no code implementations • 1 Sep 2021 • Linda Lastrico, Alessandro Carfì, Francesco Rea, Alessandra Sciutti, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni
This study is a step towards endowing a humanoid robot with this last capability.
no code implementations • 8 Jun 2021 • Luca Garello, Linda Lastrico, Francesco Rea, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Nicoletta Noceti, Alessandra Sciutti
When transporting an object, we unconsciously adapt our movement to its properties, for instance by slowing down when the item is fragile.
no code implementations • 2 Mar 2021 • Linda Lastrico, Alessandro Carfì, Alessia Vignolo, Alessandra Sciutti, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Francesco Rea
Our final goal is to enable a robot to autonomously infer the degree of care required in object handling and to discriminate whether the item is light or heavy, just by observing a human manipulation.