ResearchResearch paperRobotics & Embodied AI1 source · Oct 8, 2026

Non-Prehensile Multi-Object Placement with Mobile Robots via Diffusion-Based Trajectory Planning

Non-prehensile manipulation with mobile robots has primarily targeted placement in coarse goal regions.

Key points

  • Precision placement has been studied with manipulators on benchmarks such as Push-T, where an omnidirectional end effector can readily re-approach an object from any side.
  • We formalize multi-object pushing with a mobile robot as a multi-target assignment problem at tight tolerances.
  • We propose a diffusion planner with a causal factorization: each robot denoising step is followed by an object step conditioned on the current clean robot estimate.
  • We also design a set of pushing-specific costs for mobile robots, used for both guidance and best-of-$N$ sampling at inference.

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