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Emergency Stopping for Liquid-manipulating Robots

Samuli Hynninen, Ville Kyrki ยท 2026

Manipulating open liquid containers is challenging because liquids are highly sensitive to vessel accelerations and jerks. Although spill-free liquid manipulation has been widely studied, emergency stโ€ฆ

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Singularity Avoidance in Inverse Kinematics: A Unified Treatment of Classical and Learning-based Methods

Vishnu Rudrasamudram, Hariharasudan Malaichamee ยท 2026

Singular configurations cause loss of task-space mobility, unbounded joint velocities, and solver divergence in inverse kinematics (IK) for serial manipulators. No existing survey bridges classical siโ€ฆ

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AffordSim: A Scalable Data Generator and Benchmark for Affordance-Aware Robotic Manipulation

Mingyang Li, Haofan Xu, Haowen Sun, Xinzhe Chen, Sihua Ren, Liqi Huang, Xinyang Sui, Chenyang Miao, Qiongjie Cui, Zeyang Liu, Xingyu Chen, Xuguang Lan ยท 2026

Simulation-based data generation has become a dominant paradigm for training robotic manipulation policies, yet existing platforms do not incorporate object affordance information into trajectory geneโ€ฆ

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Minimal Embodiment Enables Efficient Learning of Number Concepts in Robot

Zhegong Shangguan, Alessandro Di Nuovo, Angelo Cangelosi ยท 2026

Robots are increasingly entering human-interactive scenarios that require understanding of quantity. How intelligent systems acquire abstract numerical concepts from sensorimotor experience remains a โ€ฆ

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Robust Adaptive Backstepping Impedance Control of Robots in Unknown Environments

Reza Nazmara, Alap Kshirsagar, Jan Peters, A. Pedro Aguiar ยท 2026

This paper presents a Robust Adaptive Backstepping Impedance Control (RABIC) strategy for robots operating in contact-rich and uncertain environments. The proposed control strategy considers the complโ€ฆ

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AEROS: A Single-Agent Operating Architecture with Embodied Capability Modules

Xue Qin, Simin Luan, Cong Yang, Zhijun Li ยท 2026

Robotic systems lack a principled abstraction for organizing intelligence, capabilities, and execution in a unified manner. Existing approaches either couple skills within monolithic architectures or โ€ฆ

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frax: Fast Robot Kinematics and Dynamics in JAX

Daniel Morton, Marco Pavone ยท 2026

In robot control, planning, and learning, there is a need for rigid-body dynamics libraries that are highly performant, easy to use, and compatible with CPUs and accelerators. While existing librariesโ€ฆ

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Efficient Onboard Spacecraft Pose Estimation with Event Cameras and Neuromorphic Hardware

Arunkumar Rathinam, Jules Lecomte, Jost Reelsen, Gregor Lenz, Axel von Arnim, Djamila Aouada ยท 2026

Reliable relative pose estimation is a key enabler for autonomous rendezvous and proximity operations, yet space imagery is notoriously challenging due to extreme illumination, high contrast, and fastโ€ฆ

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Hybrid Framework for Robotic Manipulation: Integrating Reinforcement Learning and Large Language Models

Md Saad, Sajjad Hussain, Mohd Suhaib ยท 2026

This paper introduces a new hybrid framework that combines Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve robotic manipulation tasks. By utilizing RL for accurate low-level coโ€ฆ

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Copilot-Assisted Second-Thought Framework for Brain-to-Robot Hand Motion Decoding

Yizhe Li, Shixiao Wang, Jian K. Liu ยท 2026

Motor kinematics prediction (MKP) from electroencephalography (EEG) is an important research area for developing movement-related brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). While traditional methods often relyโ€ฆ

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GIFT: Generalizing Intent for Flexible Test-Time Rewards

Fin Amin, Nathaniel Dennler, Andreea Bobu ยท 2026

Robots learn reward functions from user demonstrations, but these rewards often fail to generalize to new environments. This failure occurs because learned rewards latch onto spurious correlations in โ€ฆ

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ROBOGATE: Adaptive Failure Discovery for Safe Robot Policy Deployment via Two-Stage Boundary-Focused Sampling

Azuki Kim ยท 2026

Deploying learned robot manipulation policies in industrial settings requires rigorous pre-deployment validation, yet exhaustive testing across high-dimensional parameter spaces is intractable. We preโ€ฆ

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Bayesian Active Object Recognition and 6D Pose Estimation from Multimodal Contact Sensing

Haodong Zheng, Gabriele M. Caddeo, Andrei C. Jalba, Wijnand A. IJsselsteijn, Lorenzo Natale, Raymond H. Cuijpers ยท 2026

We present an active tactile exploration framework for joint object recognition and 6D pose estimation. The proposed method integrates wrist force/torque sensing, GelSight tactile sensing, and free-spโ€ฆ

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ToMPC: Task-oriented Model Predictive Control via ADMM for Safe Robotic Manipulation

Xinyu Jia, Wenxin Wang, Jun Yang, Yongping Pan, Haoyong Yu ยท 2026

This paper proposes a task-oriented model predictive control (ToMPC) framework for safe and efficient robotic manipulation in open workspaces. The framework unifies collision-free motion and robot-envโ€ฆ

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Dance2Hesitate: A Multi-Modal Dataset of Dancer-Taught Hesitancy for Understandable Robot Motion

Srikrishna Bangalore Raghu, Anna Soukhovei, Divya Sai Sindhuja Vankineni, Alexandra Bacula, Alessandro Roncone ยท 2026

In human-robot collaboration, a robot's expression of hesitancy is a critical factor that shapes human coordination strategies, attention allocation, and safety-related judgments. However, designing hโ€ฆ

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An Open-Source Robotics Research Platform for Autonomous Laparoscopic Surgery

Ariel Rodriguez, Lorenzo Mazza, Martin Lelis, Rayan Younis, Sebastian Bodenstedt, Martin Wagner, Stefanie Speidel ยท 2026

Autonomous robot-assisted surgery demands reliable, high-precision platforms that strictly adhere to the safety and kinematic constraints of minimally invasive procedures. Existing research platforms,โ€ฆ

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Zero-shot Interactive Perception

Venkatesh Sripada, Frank Guerin, Amir Ghalamzan ยท 2026

Interactive perception (IP) enables robots to extract hidden information in their workspace and execute manipulation plans by physically interacting with objects and altering the state of the environmโ€ฆ

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Constrained Sampling to Guide Universal Manipulation RL

Marc Toussaint, Cornelius V. Braun, Eckart Cobo-Briesewitz, Sayantan Auddy, Armand Jordana, Justin Carpentier ยท 2026

We consider how model-based solvers can be leveraged to guide training of a universal policy to control from any feasible start state to any feasible goal in a contact-rich manipulation setting. Whileโ€ฆ

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Self-Supervised Bootstrapping of Action-Predictive Embodied Reasoning

Milan Ganai, Katie Luo, Jonas Frey, Clark Barrett, Marco Pavone ยท 2026

Embodied Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has significantly enhanced Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, yet current methods rely on rigid templates to specify reasoning primitives (e.g., objects in โ€ฆ

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Learning-guided Kansa collocation for forward and inverse PDEs beyond linearity

Zheyuan Hu, Weitao Chen, Cengiz Oztireli, Chenliang Zhou, Fangcheng Zhong ยท 2026

Partial Differential Equations are precise in modelling the physical, biological and graphical phenomena. However, the numerical methods suffer from the curse of dimensionality, high computation costsโ€ฆ

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