Intelligent robotic grasping?

Abstract

Mutual interest between the fields of robotics and cognitive sciences has been steadily growing in the recent years, especially through the bridging of artificial intelligence research. Nevertheless, the differences in goals and methodology and the lack of a common language make of true interdisciplinary research still a pioneering work. As the following review will expose, grasping is not an exception to this situation. A brief description of traditional and bio-inspired research in robotic vision-based grasping is presented and critically discussed in this chapter, with the purpose of defining a few important guidelines required to achieve fruitful cross-disciplinary research. The chapter includes a proposal for grounding symbolic representations in sensorimotor interactions for robotic grasping, synthesized in Sect. 3.3.