arXiv:2606.30632v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Can the robot use a plate to cut a cake if no knife is available? Tool use greatly expands robot capabilities, but to use tools creatively beyond their intended functions, the robot faces the challenge of $\textit{open-world affordance grounding}$: select an open-category object to act as a tool and localize its specific region of action. To this end, we introduce GROW$^2$ (GROunding Which and Where), which leverages object parts as a natural abstraction to split the grounding process hierarchically into semantic and geometric levels, thus bypa

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