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Stochastic Entanglement of Deterministic Origami Tentacles For Universal Robotic Gripping

Alec Boron, Bokun Zheng, Ziyang Zhou, Noel Naughton, Suyi Li ยท 2026

Origami-inspired robotic grippers have shown promising potential for object manipulation tasks due to their compact volume and mechanical flexibility. However, robust capture of objects with random shโ€ฆ

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An Algebraic State Observer for a Class of Physical Systems

Alexey Bobtsov, Jose Guadalupe Romero, Romeo Ortega, Anton Pyrkin ยท 2026

In this paper we present a radically new approach to design state observers for nonlinear systems, with particular emphasis on physical ones. Our objective is to obtain an algebraic relation between tโ€ฆ

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Muscle-inspired magnetic actuators that push, pull, crawl, and grasp

Muhammad Bilal Khan, Florian Hofmann, Kilian Schafer, Matthias Lutzi, Oliver Gutfleisch ยท 2026

Functional magnetic composites capable of large deformation, load bearing, and multifunctional motion are essential for next-generation adaptive soft robots. Here, we present muscle-inspired magnetic โ€ฆ

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Hi-LOAM: Hierarchical Implicit Neural Fields for LiDAR Odometry and Mapping

Zhiliu Yang, Jianyuan Zhang, Lianhui Zhao, Jinyu Dai, Zhu Yang ยท 2026

LiDAR Odometry and Mapping (LOAM) is a pivotal technique for embodied-AI applications such as autonomous driving and robot navigation. Most existing LOAM frameworks are either contingent on the supervโ€ฆ

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Koopman Operator Framework for Modeling and Control of Off-Road Vehicle on Deformable Terrain

Kartik Loya, Phanindra Tallapragada ยท 2026

This work presents a hybrid physics-informed and data-driven modeling framework for predictive control of autonomous off-road vehicles operating on deformable terrain. Traditional high-fidelity terramโ€ฆ

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Viewport-based Neural 360{\deg} Image Compression

Jingwei Liao, Bo Chen, Klara Nahrstedt, Zhisheng Yan ยท 2026

Given the popularity of 360{\deg} images on social media platforms, 360{\deg} image compression becomes a critical technology for media storage and transmission. Conventional 360{\deg} image compressiโ€ฆ

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Development of Low-Cost and Bidirectional Syringe Pumps for Soft Robotics Applications

Krishamsu Subedi Chhetri, Aryan Mayor, Elise Corbin, Logan Walker, John Rieffel ยท 2026

Soft robotics leverages deformable materials to develop robots capable of navigating unstructured and dynamic environments. Silicone Voxel-Based Soft Robots (Silibots) are a type of pneumatically actuโ€ฆ

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Concurrent Prehensile and Nonprehensile Manipulation: A Practical Approach to Multi-Stage Dexterous Tasks

Hao Jiang, Yue Wu, Yue Wang, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Daniel Seita ยท 2026

Dexterous hands enable concurrent prehensile and nonprehensile manipulation, such as holding one object while interacting with another, a capability essential for everyday tasks yet underexplored in rโ€ฆ

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Trajectory Optimization for Self-Wrap-Aware Cable-Towed Planar Object Manipulation under Implicit Tension Constraints

Yu Li, Amin Fakhari, Hamid Sadeghian ยท 2026

Cable/rope elements are pervasive in deformable-object manipulation, often serving as a deformable force-transmission medium whose routing and contact determine how wrenches are delivered. In cable-toโ€ฆ

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Label Hijacking in Track Consensus-Based Distributed Multi-Target Tracking

Helena Calatrava, Shuo Tang, Pau Closas ยท 2026

Distributed multi-target tracking (DMTT) in limited field-of-view (FoV) sensor networks commonly suffers from label inconsistency, whereby different nodes disagree on the identity of the same target. โ€ฆ

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Loss Design and Architecture Selection for Long-Tailed Multi-Label Chest X-Ray Classification

Nikhileswara Rao Sulake ยท 2026

Long-tailed class distributions pose a significant challenge for multi-label chest X-ray (CXR) classification, where rare but clinically important findings are severely underrepresented. In this work,โ€ฆ

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Goal-Oriented Access Optimization for ISAC-Enabled Digital Twins

Fabio Saggese, Federico Chiariotti, Shashi Raj Pandey, Henk Wymeersch, Luca Sanguinetti, Petar Popovski ยท 2026

The digital twins (DTs) of physical systems and environments enable real-time remote tracking, control, and learning, but require low-latency transmission of updates and sensory data to maintain alignโ€ฆ

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Rigidity-Based Multi-Finger Coordination for Precise In-Hand Manipulation of Force-Sensitive Objects

Xinan Rong, Changhuang Wan, Aochen He, Xiaolong Li, Gangshan Jing ยท 2026

Precise in-hand manipulation of force-sensitive objects typically requires judicious coordinated force planning as well as accurate contact force feedback and control. Unlike multi-arm platforms with โ€ฆ

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NeuroSleep: Neuromorphic Event-Driven Single-Channel EEG Sleep Staging for Edge-Efficient Sensing

Boyu Li, Xingchun Zhu, Yonghui Wu ยท 2026

Objective. Reliable, continuous neural sensing on wearable edge platforms is fundamental to long-term health monitoring; however, for electroencephalography (EEG)-based sleep monitoring, dense high-frโ€ฆ

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Exploring Polarimetric Properties Preservation during Reconstruction of PolSAR images using Complex-valued Convolutional Neural Networks

Quentin Gabot, Joana Frontera-Pons, Jeremy Fix, Chengfang Ren, Jean-Philippe Ovarlez ยท 2026

The inherently complex-valued nature of Polarimetric SAR data necessitates using specialized algorithms capable of directly processing complex-valued representations. However, this aspect remains undeโ€ฆ

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MobileManiBench: Simplifying Model Verification for Mobile Manipulation

Wenbo Wang, Fangyun Wei, QiXiu Li, Xi Chen, Yaobo Liang, Chang Xu, Jiaolong Yang, Baining Guo ยท 2026

Vision-language-action models have advanced robotic manipulation but remain constrained by reliance on the large, teleoperation-collected datasets dominated by the static, tabletop scenes. We propose โ€ฆ

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MVP-LAM: Learning Action-Centric Latent Action via Cross-Viewpoint Reconstruction

Jung Min Lee, Dohyeok Lee, Seokhun Ju, Taehyun Cho, Jin Woo Koo, Li Zhao, Sangwoo Hong, Jungwoo Lee ยท 2026

Learning \emph{latent actions} from diverse human videos enables scaling robot learning beyond embodiment-specific robot datasets, and these latent actions have recently been used as pseudo-action labโ€ฆ

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Multi-function Robotized Surgical Dissector for Endoscopic Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy: Preclinical Study and Evaluation

Runfeng Zhu, Xin Zhong, Qingxiang Zhao, Jing Lin, Zhong Wu, Kang Li ยท 2026

Patients suffering chronic severe pulmonary thromboembolism need Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy (PTE) to remove the thromb and intima located inside pulmonary artery (PA). During the surgery, a surgeโ€ฆ

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Visible Light Positioning With Lam\'e Curve LEDs: A Generic Approach for Camera Pose Estimation

Wenxuan Pan, Yang Yang, Dong Wei, Zhiyu Zhu, Jintao Wang, Huan Wu, Yao Nie ยท 2026

Camera-based visible light positioning (VLP) is a promising technique for accurate and low-cost indoor camera pose estimation (CPE). To reduce the number of required light-emitting diodes (LEDs), advaโ€ฆ

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Invited: Toward Sustainable and Transparent Benchmarking for Academic Physical Design Research

Liwen Jiang, Andrew B. Kahng, Zhiang Wang, Zhiyu Zheng ยท 2026

This paper presents RosettaStone 2.0, an open benchmark translation and evaluation framework built on OpenROAD-Research. RosettaStone 2.0 provides complete RTL-to-GDS reference flows for both conventiโ€ฆ

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