Projects - Ongoing

Project Title – foundaTion mOdels for Robots that haNdle smAll, soft and Deformable Objects

Keywords -  Robotics; Deep learning; Foundation models; Artificial Intelligence; Knowledge graphs

TORNADO will develop an innovative, multifunctional and adaptive cloud robotics platform, supporting advanced navigation of an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) within complex, time-varying, real-world, human-populated indoor environments. The TORNADO AMR will be able to manipulate small, soft or deformable objects (SSDs) to an unprecedented degree of success, as well as to naturally interact with humans via hand gestures or verbal conversation, by exploiting the zero-shot generalization abilities of deep neural Foundation Models (FMs) for robotics.