[Explainer] What Is TAMP? How Robots Plan Tasks and Motions Together

Robot planning how to move a cup around a kettle to a tray

Task and motion planning links a robot’s discrete action sequence with grasps, placements and collision-free trajectories. Using a kitchen example, we explain how TAMP backtracks when geometry invalidates a plan—and why uncertainty, deformable objects and execution errors still require sensing and replanning.