Pushing is a motion primitive useful to handle objects that are too large, too heavy, or too cluttered to be grasped. It is at the core of much of robotic manipulation, in particular when physical interaction is involved. It seems reasonable then to wish for robots to understand how pushed objects move.
['Kuan-Ting Yu', 'Maria Bauza', 'Nima Fazeli', 'Alberto Rodriguez']
More than a million ways to be pushed. A high-fidelity experimental dataset of planar pushing