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

Project Information

TORNADO

Grant agreement ID: 101189557

DOI

10.3030/101189557

EC signature date 11 November 2024

Start date 1 January 2025

End date 30 June 2028

Funded under

• Digital, Industry and Space

Total cost

€ 7 449 095,00

EU contribution

€ 7 449 095,00

Coordinated by

IOTAM INTERNET OF THINGS APPLICATIONS AND MULTI LAYER DEVELOPMENT LTD
Cyprus

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (9)

Human Perception in Social Tasks: A Comparative Evaluation of Autonomous and Teleoperated Robots

Author(s): Lavinia Hriscu, Alberto Sanfeliu, Anaís Garrell
Published in: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Issue 11, 2025, ISSN 2377-3766
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2025.3632091

Information-Theoretic Detection of Bimanual Interactions for Dual-Arm Robot Plan Generation

Author(s): Elena Merlo, Marta Lagomarsino, Arash Ajoudani
Published in: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Issue 10, 2025, ISSN 2377-3766
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2025.3552216

TLA: tactile-language-action model for contact-rich manipulation

Author(s): Peng Hao, Chaofan Zhang, Dingzhe Li, Xiaoge Cao, Xiaoshuai Hao, Shaowei Cui, Shuo Wang
Published in: Robot Learning, 2026, ISSN 2960-1436
Publisher: ELS Publishing Co. Limited
DOI: 10.55092/RL20260001

Collaborative Transport Robots (CTRs) Applicable in the Proximal Urban Environment: a Review

Author(s): Anais Garrell Zulueta, Iván del Pino Bastida, Àngel Santamaria Navarro, Alberto Sanfeliu Cortés
Published in: ACE: Architecture, City and Environment, Issue 20, 2025, ISSN 1886-4805
Publisher: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
DOI: 10.5821/ACE.20.58.12627

Survey on Hand Gesture Recognition From Visual Input

Author(s): Manousos Linardakis, Iraklis Varlamis, Georgios Th. Papadopoulos
Published in: IEEE Access, Issue 13, 2025, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3593428

RPF-Search: Field-Based Search for Robot Person Following in Unknown Dynamic Environments

Author(s): Hanjing Ye, Kuanqi Cai, Yu Zhan, Bingyi Xia, Arash Ajoudani, Hong Zhang
Published in: IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Issue 30, 2025, ISSN 1083-4435
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2025.3588874

Exploiting Information Theory for Intuitive Robot Programming of Manual Activities

Author(s): Elena Merlo, Marta Lagomarsino, Edoardo Lamon, Arash Ajoudani
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Issue 41, 2025, ISSN 1552-3098
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2025.3530267

A Human-in-The-Loop Approach to Robot Action Replanning Through LLM Common-Sense Reasoning

Author(s): Elena Merlo, Marta Lagomarsino, Arash Ajoudani
Published in: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Issue 10, 2025, ISSN 2377-3766
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2025.3604702

Just-in-Time Informed Trees: Manipulability-Aware Asymptotically Optimized Motion Planning

Author(s): Kuanqi Cai, Liding Zhang, Xinwen Su, Kejia Chen, Chaoqun Wang, Sami Haddadin, Alois Knoll, Arash Ajoudani, Luis Figueredo
Published in: IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Issue 30, 2025, ISSN 1083-4435
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2025.3570573

Conference proceedings (4)

TORNADO: Foundation Models for Robots that Handle Small, Soft and Deformable Objects

Author(s): Maria Moutousi, Andreas El Saer, Nikos Nikolaou, Alberto Sanfeliu, Anaís Garrell, Lukáš Bláha, Martin Čech, Evangelos K. Markakis, Ioannis Kefaloukos, Marta Lagomarsino, George Margetis, Emmanouil Adamakis, Athanasios Poulakidas, Filopoimin Lykokanellos, Artemis Stefanidou, Jorgen Cani, Panagiotis Radoglou-Grammatikis, Marios Siganos, Arash Ajoudani, Georgios Th. Papadopoulos
Published in: 2025 6th International Conference in Electronic Engineering & Information Technology (EEITE), 2025, ISBN 979-8-3315-4419-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EEITE65381.2025.11166473

TORNADO: Foundation Models for Robots that Handle Small, Soft and Deformable Objects

Author(s): Maria Moutousi, Andreas El Saer, Nikos Nikolaou, Alberto Sanfeliu
Published in: EEITE 2025 conference, 2025
Publisher: Research Gate
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.16483.67362

Robotics in Healthcare: A review of ethical considerations and societal implications

Author(s): Anastasia Ntagianta, Stavroula Ntoa, George Margetis, Constantine Stephanidis
Published in: 2025 6th International Conference in Electronic Engineering & Information Technology (EEITE), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EEITE65381.2025.11165854

AI or Human? Understanding Perceptions of Embodied Robots with LLMs

Author(s): Lavinia Hriscu, Alberto Sanfeliu, Anaís Garrell
Published in: 2025 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2025, ISSN 1944-9437
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/RO-MAN63969.2025.11217802