6-DOF Grasping Revolution: How NVIDIA’s GraspGen Framework Transforms Robot Pick-and-Place

GraspGen Explained: A Friendly Guide to 6-DOF Robot Grasping for Everyone A Diffusion-based Framework for 6-DOF Grasping “ How a new open-source framework lets robots pick up almost anything—without weeks of re-engineering. 1. Why Better Grasping Still Matters Pick-and-place sounds simple, yet warehouse robots still drop mugs, kitchen assistants miss forks, and lunar rovers struggle with oddly shaped rocks. Three stubborn problems keep coming back: Different grippers → one change of hardware and yesterday’s code is useless. Cluttered scenes → toys on a rug, tools in a drawer; the camera never sees the whole object. Unknown objects → you can’t …