This edition of NVIDIA Robotics Research and Development Digest (R2D2) explores several contact-rich manipulation workflows for robotic assembly tasks from NVIDIA Research and how they can address key challenges with fixed automation, such as robustness, adaptability, and scalability. Contact-rich manipulation refers to robotic tasks that involve continuous or repeated physical contact…
]]>Simulation is an essential tool for robots learning new skills. These skills include perception (understanding the world from camera images), planning (formulating a sequence of actions to solve a problem), and control (generating motor commands to change a robot’s position and orientation). Robotic assembly is ubiquitous in the automotive, aerospace, electronics…
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