Pieces of the puzzleÉ
Exploiting environment
structure
Sparse features for grasping
Working with people and tools
Learning to Grasp Novel Objects Using Vision
(Saxena et al., 2006)
A Behavior Based Arm Controller
(Connell, 1989)
Building an Autonomous Humanoid Tool User (Bluethmann et al., 2004)
Learning and Generalizing Control-Based Grasping and Manipulation Skills
(Platt, 2006)
Using action to assist perception
Better Vision Through Manipulation 
(Metta and Fitzpatrick, 2003)
Learning to grasp everyday objects