The cover for my sci-fi novel Starkinder, a biro drawing of a curving landscape with a large tree sprouting out of it in the middle and the silhouette of a young girl in the foreground. The sky is blue and the ground is pink, the biro is black ink.

Starkinder, my debut #scifi novel is not #grasping people's imaginations in the Libraro Prize! 😥 If you can spare five minutes to register and vote👇 I'd be most grateful🙏 and happy to like something for you! Happy #Friday #booksky #writingcommunity #scififri #writesky
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Opposite direction to dharma ~ Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
justdharma.org/opposite-direction-to-dh...

#DzongsarKhyentseRinpoche #practice #grasping #habit

Joint Diffusion for Universal Hand-Object Grasp Generation

Jinkun Cao, Jingyuan Liu, Kris Kitani, Yi Zhou

Action editor: Shuangfei Zhai

https://openreview.net/forum?id=TZ0ztsYR6x

#grasping #grasp #grasps

Surgical Instruments: Classification by Function
#Grasping #Clamping #Retracting #Cutting #Dissecting #Probing #Dilating #SurgicalTools #MedicalInstruments #OperatingRoom #SurgeryEquipment #iprkashmishra

Failing to recognize one's own mind ~ 3rd Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche
justdharma.org/failing-to-recognize-one...

#3rdJamgonKongtrulRinpoche #grasping #fixation #ignorance

The big spider in the middle of the web ~ Tenzin Palmo
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#TenzinPalmo #grasping #ego #web

As I look at my attempts to analyze different psychological phenemona from meditative insights, it all comes back to one thing. Grasping.

https://www.xenofact.com/2025/12/28/its-all-grasping/

#meditation #grasping #craving

Chinese model helps humanoid robots adapt to tasks without training New Chinese robot logic framework lets humanoid robots reliably grasp unfamiliar objects with an 87% success rate.

#WuhanUniversity researchers developed a new framework that could help #robots manipulate objects more easily, #grasping objects with a 87% success rate. interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/...

The happiness we seek is already here ~ Pema Chödron
justdharma.org/the-happiness-we-seek-is...

#PemaChödron #grasping #lettinggo #happiness

Join us next week at the #workshop on 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 at #IROS2025 in Hangzhou, China!

𝐎𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐬
S. D'Avella, A. Xompero, C. Oh, A. Cavallaro, K. Hang, B. Calli, Y. Sun

#robotics #AI #grasping #manipulation #handover
#benchmarking #competitions

47 is the case in point of at least 2 of the 4 noble truths. #grasping #suffering

Training-Free Pipeline Boosts Task-Oriented Grasp Success by 36.9%

A pipeline fuses grasp generators with vision‑language models, evaluates five query strategies and achieves up to 36.9% higher task‑oriented grasp success than a baseline. Read more: getnews.me/training-free-pipeline-b... #robotics #grasping

OPEN WIDE... An orangutan appears to have a sore throat. The primate is seen grasping at its throat and pulling a face in Cisarua, West Java.

📸 - Prabu Dennaga

#orangutan #throat #shock #grab #animals #wildlife #westjava #funny #grasping #funnyanimal #faces

Comprehensive Benchmark of Vision-Based Robotic Grasping Algorithms

Four vision‑based robotic grasping algorithms were benchmarked in 5,040 experiments across two labs, testing lighting, texture, noise and gripper designs. The paper is withdrawn. Read more: getnews.me/comprehensive-benchmark-... #robotics #grasping

📝Article: doi.org/10.1109/MRA....
📊Summary (slides): cse.usf.edu/~yusun/rgmc/...

#robotics #ai #benchmarking #competition #grasping #manipulation #handover #manufacturing #cloth-manipulation #in-hand-manipulation #picking-in-clutter

"Stereo Hand-Object Reconstruction for Human-to-Robot Handover"

Y. L. Pang, A. Xompero, C. Oh, A. Cavallaro
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol.10, n.6, June 2025

📝Article: doi.org/10.1109/LRA....

#robotics #ai #computervision #handover #grasping #manipulation #3Dreconstruction

RGMC 2025 Thank you for joining the 10th RGMC at ICRA 2025! The videos from the winning teams are available here We would like to thank our sponsors:

🎬Demo videos from the teams that participated to the 10th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC) 🤖 at the 2025 IEEE/RAS International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Atlanta, US are now available!

#robotics #ai #grasping #manipulation #handover #competition

G0116, Chief Herald of Arms of Malta's grant for the arms of Andrew Ronald McMillan Bell of Auchinreoch, United Kingdom. These arms have been emblazoned by me for such grant.
#Cross #Charged #Ermine #Dexter #Chief #Lion #Head #Erased #Crest #Helm #Issuant #Chapeau #Demi #Lion #Grasping #Pennon

HOGraspFlow: AI-Driven Vision Grasp Synthesis with Hand-Object Priors

HOGraspFlow is an AI system that generates robot grasp poses from a single RGB image, achieving over 83% success in trials. The paper was submitted on Sep 21, 2025. Read more: getnews.me/hograspflow-ai-driven-vi... #robotics #ai #grasping

RGMCW 2025 Upcoming deadline: Submission of Abstracts (published works) - 30 September, 11.59 pm AoE

More info on the workshop, program, and invited talks at: sites.google.com/view/iros202...

#robotics #AI #grasping #manipulation #handover
#benchmarking #competitions #workshop

Two forms of grasping ~ 14th Dalai Lama
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#14thDalaiLama #afflictions #compassion #grasping

#Grasping Claws #Passive-Lock System #No Heel #Backward-Bending Knees

Scientists give robots a sense of touch with fabric that mimics human skin Robots excel at many things, but having a good sense of touch is not among them. Whether dropping items or pinching them too tightly, which crushes the object, many robots struggle with these basic sk...

To provide #robots with a better sense of #touch, a new electronic textile (#Etextile), under development at the #UniversityatBuffalo mimics how nerves in our hands sense pressure and slipping while #grasping objects. techxplore.com/news/2025-08...

#Robotics #AI #grasping #manipulation #handover #dataset #benchmarking #workshop

#lufc #grasping #straws

UNGRASPED
—what you hold rewrites the holder

#grasping her silence
like one clutches unsent words—
they tore through my ink.

#haikufeels #senryu

#Grasping at small straws
coming up empty, empty
it’s desperation

#haikufeels #senryu #poetry

#poetry #photography #flowers #grasping #clinging #bliss

In a World of Wonder
1/3

Do not grasp at that which arises,
Cling not to that which always must pass.
Dreams do fade and arise afresh,
Nought else but Truth does last.

Continued...

I’ll never un-see Lil’ Marco grasping at his water bottle in his response to Obama’s State-of-The-Union. What a metaphor for his cowardly lil’ career.
#grasping #sycophant #truecolors

‎The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity - And Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race (Unabridged) ‎Self-Development · 2025

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#dopamine #desire #grasping #addiction
#life #human #behavior #biology #wanting #chemistry #neurotransmitter #science