Task Planning for Mobile Manipulation in Retail Stores using Foundation Models with Iterative Re-planning

arXiv:2607.09962v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automation in industries such as retail, warehousing and logistics presents opportunities for greater throughput, cost reduction and mitigation of disruptions from labour shortages. Previously, such efforts have focused on back-room operations involving packing and sorting in relatively structured environments. With advances in robotic mobile manipulation hardware and foundation models, automation can now be applied to more variable and human-centr...