Robot Manipulation

Robot manipulation studies how robots make contact with objects and change their surroundings through grippers, dexterous hands, arms, or tools. It includes grasping, placing, assembly, tool use, and bimanual coordination. Unlike locomotion alone, manipulation depends on object-state estimation, contact dynamics, motion planning, force control, and recovery from errors.

This topic connects perception, control, touch, learning, and hardware design. It focuses on whether systems remain reliable across object variation, environmental disturbance, and long task sequences rather than succeeding once under controlled conditions.