Interview with Tao Chen, Jie Xu and Pulkit Agrawal: CoRL 2021 best paper award winners

Congratulations to Tao Chen, Jie Xu and Pulkit Agrawal who have won the CoRL 2021 best paper award! Their work, A system for general in-hand object re-orientation, was highly praised by the judging committee who commented that "the sheer scope and variation across objects tested with this method, and the range of different policy architectures and approaches tested makes this paper extremely thorough in its analysis of this reorientation task". Below, the authors tell us more about their work, the methodology, and what they are planning next. We present a system for reorienting novel objects using an anthropomorphic robotic hand with any configuration, with the hand facing both upwards and downwards. We demonstrate the capability of reorienting over 2000 geometrically different objects in both cases.