Link to the article about our GPAtlasRRT algorithm for tactile recovering of the shape of novel objects. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/university/colleges/eps/news/2018/7/birmingham-researchers-artificial-intelligence-advance-dexterity-robots.aspx #rrt #gp #atlas #robotics #robot #tactile #exploration #touch #novelobjects #vito #boris #softhand #humanoid #ai #artificialintelligence #dexterity #universityofbirmingham #irlab #uob #pisa

Pushing operations are encountered frequently in robotics, but have received comparatively little attention in the research comunity. In one sense, pushing is perhaps the most primitive kind of manipulation, but the relationship between applied pushes and the resulting workpiece motions are complex and hard to predict and control. Push contacts are also important to more complex tasks such as grasping. This work presents an algorithm for planning sequences of pushes, by which