The takeaway: For all the progress humanoid robots have made, most are still stuck performing isolated tasks in controlled environments. The problem is getting them to handle messy, multi-step work – ...

A man found himself in a stinky situation after dropping his sunglasses into a campground vault toilet in Shaver Lake on Saturday. After the sunglasses tumbled into the toilet, the man went after them ...

SHAVER LAKE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A man trying to retrieve his sunglasses from a campsite vault toilet had to be rescued after he fell in, the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office said. First responders ...

Abstract: Robotic grasping of a target object in cluttered environments poses considerable challenges, often due to limited collision-free grasp affordances caused by the close proximity of other ...