Explore the challenges and advancements in robot manipulation for the logistics industry in this Stanford seminar featuring Samir Menon, Robert Sun, and Kunal Shah from Dexterity AI. Delve into the unique obstacles faced when automating logistics tasks, including extreme variability in object handling and integration with existing human-centric workflows. Discover how Dexterity's robotic systems intelligently manipulate thousands of items in production, operate in dynamic environments, and collaborate using touch sensing. Learn about the technical innovations employed across machine learning, simulation, modeling, algorithms, control, and robotic hardware and software. Gain insights into valuable automation workflows such as palletizing, depalletizing, kitting for fulfillment, and singulation for induction. Understand the impact of these robotic solutions on addressing labor shortages and surging e-commerce demands. Explore open problems in the field that can inspire future robotics research. This comprehensive seminar covers topics ranging from logistics challenges to imaging, processing, controls planning, and motion planning in the context of robotic manipulation. Read more