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Dead Code Doesn't Talk: Authentic Requirements Elicitation in Introductory Software Engineering

Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman, Vanesa Metaj, Stefan Wagner · 2026

Requirements elicitation is among the most communication-intensive activities in software engineering, yet it receives limited explicit treatment in undergraduate curricula. This paper presents a case…

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MIRROR: Visual Motion Imitation via Real-time Retargeting and Teleoperation with Parallel Differential Inverse Kinematics

Junheng Li, Lizhi Yang, Aaron D. Ames · 2026

Real-time humanoid teleoperation requires inverse kinematics (IK) solvers that are both responsive and constraint-safe under kinematic redundancy and self-collision constraints. While differential IK …

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CATNUS: Coordinate-Aware Thalamic Nuclei Segmentation Using T1-Weighted MRI

Anqi Feng, Zhangxing Bian, Samuel W. Remedios, Savannah P. Hays, Blake E. Dewey, Alexa Colinco, Jiachen Zhuo, Dan Benjamini, Jerry L. Prince · 2025

Accurate segmentation of thalamic nuclei from magnetic resonance images is important due to the distinct roles of these nuclei in overall brain function and to their differential involvement in neurol…

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Tactile Robotics: Past and Future

Nathan F. Lepora · 2025

What is the future of tactile robotics? To help define that future, this article provides a historical perspective on tactile sensing in robotics from the wealth of knowledge and expert opinion in nea…

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A Framework for Measuring How News Topics Drive Stock Movement

Qizhao Chen · 2025

In modern financial markets, news plays a critical role in shaping investor sentiment and influencing stock price movements. However, most existing studies aggregate daily news sentiment into a single…

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Rule-based Key-Point Extraction for MR-Guided Biomechanical Digital Twins of the Spine

Robert Graf, Tanja Lerchl, Kati Nispel, Hendrik Moller, Matan Atad, Julian McGinnis, Julius Maria Watrinet, Johannes Paetzold, Daniel Rueckert, Jan S. Kirschke · 2025

Digital twins offer a powerful framework for subject-specific simulation and clinical decision support, yet their development often hinges on accurate, individualized anatomical modeling. In this work…

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Deep Learning-Based Automated Segmentation of Uterine Myomas

Tausifa Jan Saleem, Mohammad Yaqub · 2025

Uterine fibroids (myomas) are the most common benign tumors of the female reproductive system, particularly among women of childbearing age. With a prevalence exceeding 70%, they pose a significant bu…

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GPT versus Humans: Uncovering Ethical Concerns in Conversational Generative AI-empowered Multi-Robot Systems

Rebekah Rousi, Niko Makitalo, Hooman Samani, Kai-Kristian Kemell, Jose Siqueira de Cerqueira, Ville Vakkuri, Tommi Mikkonen, Pekka Abrahamsson · 2024

The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) and large language models (LLMs) such ChatGPT has enabled the realization of long-harbored desires in software and robotic development. The te…

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Express Yourself: Enabling large-scale public events involving multi-human-swarm interaction for social applications with MOSAIX

Merihan Alhafnawi, Maca Gomez-Gutierrez, Edmund R. Hunt, Severin Lemaignan, Paul O'Dowd, Sabine Hauert · 2024

Robot swarms have the potential to help groups of people with social tasks, given their ability to scale to large numbers of robots and users. Developing multi-human-swarm interaction is therefore cru…

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A small-gain criterion for 2-contraction of large scale interconnected systems

David Angeli, Davide Martini, Giacomo Innocenti, Alberto Tesi · 2024

Despite modular conditions to guarantee stability for large-scale systems have been widely studied, few methods are available to tackle the case of networks with multiple equilibria. This paper introd…

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RATNUS: Rapid, Automatic Thalamic Nuclei Segmentation using Multimodal MRI inputs

Anqi Feng, Zhangxing Bian, Blake E. Dewey, Alexa Gail Colinco, Jiachen Zhuo, Jerry L. Prince · 2024

Accurate segmentation of thalamic nuclei is important for better understanding brain function and improving disease treatment. Traditional segmentation methods often rely on a single T1-weighted image…

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Play to the Score: Stage-Guided Dynamic Multi-Sensory Fusion for Robotic Manipulation

Ruoxuan Feng, Di Hu, Wenke Ma, Xuelong Li · 2024

Humans possess a remarkable talent for flexibly alternating to different senses when interacting with the environment. Picture a chef skillfully gauging the timing of ingredient additions and controll…

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Towards Open-World Mobile Manipulation in Homes: Lessons from the Neurips 2023 HomeRobot Open Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation Challenge

Sriram Yenamandra, Arun Ramachandran, Mukul Khanna, Karmesh Yadav, Jay Vakil, Andrew Melnik, Michael Buttner, Leon Harz, Lyon Brown, Gora Chand Nandi, Arjun PS, Gaurav Kumar Yadav, Rahul Kala, Robert Haschke, Yang Luo, Jinxin Zhu, Yansen Han, Bingyi Lu, Xuan Gu, Qinyuan Liu, Yaping Zhao, Qiting Ye, Chenxiao Dou, Yansong Chua, Volodymyr Kuzma, Vladyslav Humennyy, Ruslan Partsey, Jonathan Francis, Devendra Singh Chaplot, Gunjan Chhablani, Alexander Clegg, Theophile Gervet, Vidhi Jain, Ram Ramrakhya, Andrew Szot, Austin Wang, Tsung-Yen Yang, Aaron Edsinger, Charlie Kemp, Binit Shah, Zsolt Kira, Dhruv Batra, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Yonatan Bisk, Chris Paxton · 2024

In order to develop robots that can effectively serve as versatile and capable home assistants, it is crucial for them to reliably perceive and interact with a wide variety of objects across diverse e…

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Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for Overloaded Multi-group Multicast: A First Experimental Study

Xinze Lyu, Sundar Aditya, Bruno Clerckx · 2024

Multi-group multicast (MGM) is an increasingly important form of multi-user wireless communications with several potential applications, such as video streaming, federated learning, safety-critical ve…

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Automated Assessment and Adaptive Multimodal Formative Feedback Improves Psychomotor Skills Training Outcomes in Quadrotor Teleoperation

Emily Jensen, Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Bradley Hayes · 2024

The workforce will need to continually upskill in order to meet the evolving demands of industry, especially working with robotic and autonomous systems. Current training methods are not scalable and …

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Computational Fabrication and Assembly for In Situ Manufacturing

Martin Nisser · 2024

Fabrication today relies on disparate, large machines spread across industrial facilities. These are operated by domain experts to construct and assemble artefacts in sequential steps from large numbe…

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Hybrid Soft Electrostatic Metamaterial Gripper for Multi-surface, Multi-object Adaptation

Ryo Kanno, Pham H. Nguyen, Joshua Pinskier, David Howard, Sukho Song, Mirko Kovac · 2024

One of the trendsetting themes in soft robotics has been the goal of developing the ultimate universal soft robotic gripper. One that is capable of manipulating items of various shapes, sizes, thickne…

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Spectrum Coexistence of Satellite-borne Passive Radiometry and Terrestrial Next-G Networks

Mohammad Koosha, Nicholas Mastronarde · 2024

Spectrum coexistence between terrestrial Next-G cellular networks and space-borne remote sensing (RS) is now gaining attention. One major question is how this would impact RS equipment. In this study,…

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A utility belt for an agricultural robot: reflection-in-action for applied design research

Natalie Friedman, Asmita Mehta, Kari Love, Alexandra Bremers, Awsaf Ahmed, Wendy Ju · 2023

Clothing for robots can help expand a robot's functionality and also clarify the robot's purpose to bystanders. In studying how to design clothing for robots, we can shed light on the functional role …

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A Review of Communicating Robot Learning during Human-Robot Interaction

Soheil Habibian, Antonio Alvarez Valdivia, Laura H. Blumenschein, Dylan P. Losey · 2023

For robots to seamlessly interact with humans, we first need to make sure that humans and robots understand one another. Diverse algorithms have been developed to enable robots to learn from humans (i…

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