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Alex Qiu

4 accepted papers

2026

DexFruit: Dexterous Manipulation and Gaussian Splatting Inspection of Fruit

RA-L 2026

Dexfruit is a robotic manipulation framework that enables gentle, autonomous handling of fragile fruit and precise evaluation of damage. Soft fruits have long faced an issue of produce loss in both the harvesting and post-harvesting processes due to their extreme fragility and susceptibility to brui

Cited by 2SourcecodeScholar
2026

DexFruit: Dexterous Manipulation and Gaussian Splatting Inspection of Fruit

ICRA 2026poster

DexFruit is a robotic manipulation framework that enables gentle, autonomous handling of fragile fruit and precise evaluation of damage. Soft fruits have long faced an issue of produce loss in both the harvesting and post-harvesting processes due to their extreme fragility and susceptibility to brui…

2024

Compliant Robotic Gripper with Integrated Ripeness Sensing for Blackberry Harvesting

ICRA 2024poster

Global blackberry demand has been surging due to their antioxidant and nutritional value in a traditional diet. However, blackberries have extreme fragility (resulting in up to 85% of harvest batches sustaining damage) and near-ripe and ripe blackberries are difficult to distinguish in normal lighti…

Cited by 1SourceScholar
2023

Tendon-Driven Soft Robotic Gripper with Integrated Ripeness Sensing for Blackberry Harvesting

ICRA 2023poster

Growing global demand for food, coupled with continuing labor shortages, motivate the need for automated agricultural harvesting. While some specialty crops (e.g., apples, peaches, blueberries) can be harvested via existing harvesting modalities, fruits such as blackberries and raspberries require d…

Cited by 25SourceScholar