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Jeffrey Ichnowski

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NeurIPS Conference 2025 Conference Paper

RaySt3R: Predicting Novel Depth Maps for Zero-Shot Object Completion

Bardienus Duisterhof
Jan Oberst
Bowen Wen
Stan Birchfield
Deva Ramanan
Jeffrey Ichnowski

3D shape completion has broad applications in robotics, digital twin reconstruction, and extended reality (XR). Although recent advances in 3D object and scene completion have achieved impressive results, existing methods lack 3D consistency, are computationally expensive, and struggle to capture sharp object boundaries. Our work (RaySt3R) addresses these limitations by recasting 3D shape completion as a novel view synthesis problem. Specifically, given a single RGB-D image, and a novel viewpoint (encoded as a collection of query rays), we train a feedforward transformer to predict depth maps, object masks, and per-pixel confidence scores for those query rays. RaySt3R fuses these predictions across multiple query views to reconstruct complete 3D shapes. We evaluate RaySt3R on synthetic and real-world datasets, and observe it achieves state-of-the-art performance, outperforming the baselines on all datasets by up to 44% in 3D chamfer distance.

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ICRA Conference 2025 Conference Paper

Soft Robotic Dynamic in-Hand Pen Spinning

Yunchao Yao
Uksang Yoo
Jean Oh
Christopher G. Atkeson
Jeffrey Ichnowski

Dynamic in-hand manipulation remains challenging for soft robotic systems, which have demonstrated advantages in safe, compliant interactions but struggle with highspeed dynamic tasks. In this work, we present SWIFT, a system for learning dynamic tasks using a soft and compliant robotic hand. Unlike previous works that rely on simulation, quasistatic actions, and precise object models, SWIFT learns to spin a pen through trial and error using only real-world data and without requiring explicit knowledge of the pen's physical attributes. With self-labeled trials sampled from the real world, SWIFT discovers the set of pen grasping and spinning primitive parameters that enables a soft hand to spin a pen reliably. After 130 sampled actions per object, SWIFT achieves 10/10 success rate across three pens with different weights and weight distributions, demonstrating generalizability and robustness to changes in object properties. The results highlight the potential for soft robotic end-effectors to perform dynamic tasks. We also demonstrate generalization to different shapes and weights, such as a brush and a screwdriver, with 10/10 and 5/10 success rates, respectively. Videos, data, and code are available at https://soft-spin.github.io.