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[Submitted on 22 Sep 2026] Title:Optimize, Learn, Refine: Whole-Body Grasping and Pick-and-Throw with a Spiral Soft Robot View a PDF of the paper titled Optimize, Learn, Refine: Whole-Body Grasping and Pick-and-Throw with a Spiral Soft Robot, by Marwah Basuhai and 4 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Soft continuum robots can exploit distributed compliance for whole-body manipulation, but synthesizing behavior through changing contacts remains difficult. We address whole-body grasping and pick-and-throw from an initially ungrasped state through outcome-based actuation-space optimization. Grasping is quantified by tip angular sweep and body-object enclosure, while throwing further incorporates release-direction alignment and minimum release speed. These objectives allow grasping, acceleration, and release to emerge from compliant interaction without prescribing contact forces, contact locations, or body configurations. Because the resulting actuation-to-outcome mapping is nonsmooth, we utilize derivative-free CMA-ES within an optimize-learn-refine framework. CMA-ES generates solutions for sampled conditions, a task-conditioned predictor learns warm starts, and CMA-ES refines them for unseen conditions. In simulation, the method achieves 492/500 successful grasps (98.4%) and success rates of 98%, 97%, and 94% across three directional throwing trials. Learned initialization increases grasping success from 78.6% to 98.4% while reducing the median rollout count from 1184 to 816 in CMA-ES. Hardware experiments achieve a 100% grasping success rate across 50 executions and a 100% pick-and-throw success rate across 30 executions, with 10 repetitions per direction. Together, these simulation and hardware results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework across both simulated and physical whole-body manipulation tasks. Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO) Cite as: arXiv:2609.38202 [cs.RO] (or arXiv:2609.38202v1 [cs.RO] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.38202 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Ke Wu [view email] [v1] Tue, 22 Sep 2026 04:29:37 UTC (24,947 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Optimize, Learn, Refine: Whole-Body Grasping and Pick-and-Throw with a Spiral Soft Robot, by Marwah Basuhai and 4 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.RO new | recent | 2026-09 Change to browse by: cs References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Loading... Data provided by: Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)