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Visual-Tactile Peg-in-Hole Assembly Learning from Peg-out-of-Hole Disassembly

Yongqiang Zhao, Xuyang Zhang, Zhuo Chen, Matteo Leonetti, Emmanouil Spyrakos-Papastavridis, Shan Luo · 2026

Peg-in-hole (PiH) assembly is a fundamental yet challenging robotic manipulation task. While reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promise in tackling such tasks, it requires extensive exploration. In…

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Learning Hybrid-Control Policies for High-Precision In-Contact Manipulation Under Uncertainty

Hunter L. Brown, Geoffrey Hollinger, Stefan Lee · 2026

Reinforcement learning-based control policies have been frequently demonstrated to be more effective than analytical techniques for many manipulation tasks. Commonly, these methods learn neural contro…

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Learning-Based Strategy for Composite Robot Assembly Skill Adaptation

Khalil Abuibaid, Aleksandr Sidorenko, Achim Wagner, Martin Ruskowski · 2026

Contact-rich robotic skills remain challenging for industrial robots due to tight geometric tolerances, frictional variability, and uncertain contact dynamics, particularly when using position-control…

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SMASH: Mastering Scalable Whole-Body Skills for Humanoid Ping-Pong with Egocentric Vision

Junli Ren, Yinghui Li, Kai Zhang, Penglin Fu, Haoran Jiang, Yixuan Pan, Guangjun Zeng, Tao Huang, Weizhong Guo, Peng Lu, Tianyu Li, Jingbo Wang, Li Chen, Hongyang Li, Ping Luo · 2026

Existing humanoid table tennis systems remain limited by their reliance on external sensing and their inability to achieve agile whole-body coordination for precise task execution. These limitations s…

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Tac2Real: Reliable and GPU Visuotactile Simulation for Online Reinforcement Learning and Zero-Shot Real-World Deployment

Ningyu Yan, Shuai Wang, Xing Shen, Hui Wang, Hanqing Wang, Yang Xiang, Jiangmiao Pang · 2026

Visuotactile sensors are indispensable for contact-rich robotic manipulation tasks. However, policy learning with tactile feedback in simulation, especially for online reinforcement learning (RL), rem…

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Development of ML model for triboelectric nanogenerator based sign language detection system

Meshv Patel, Bikash Baro, Sayan Bayan, Mohendra Roy · 2026

Sign language recognition (SLR) is vital for bridging communication gaps between deaf and hearing communities. Vision-based approaches suffer from occlusion, computational costs, and physical constrai…

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Stablecoins as Dry Powder: A Copula-Based Risk Analysis of Cryptocurrency Markets

Elliot Jones, Toshiko Matsui, William Knottenbelt · 2026

Stablecoins serve as the fundamental infrastructure for Decentralised Finance (DeFi), acting as the primary bridge between fiat currencies and the digital asset ecosystem. While peg stability is well-…

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Efficient and Reliable Teleoperation through Real-to-Sim-to-Real Shared Autonomy

Shuo Sha, Yixuan Wang, Binghao Huang, Antonio Loquercio, Yunzhu Li · 2026

Fine-grained, contact-rich teleoperation remains slow, error-prone, and unreliable in real-world manipulation tasks, even for experienced operators. Shared autonomy offers a promising way to improve p…

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A Comprehensive Analysis of the Effects of Network Quality of Service on Robotic Telesurgery

Zhaomeng Zhang, Seyed Hamid Reza Roodabeh, Homa Alemzadeh · 2026

The viability of long-distance telesurgery hinges on reliable network Quality of Service (QoS), yet the impact of realistic network degradations on task performance is not sufficiently understood. Thi…

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Touch2Insert: Zero-Shot Peg Insertion by Touching Intersections of Peg and Hole

Masaru Yajima, Yuma Shin, Rei Kawakami, Asako Kanezaki, Kei Ota · 2026

Reliable insertion of industrial connectors remains a central challenge in robotics, requiring sub-millimeter precision under uncertainty and often without full visual access. Vision-based approaches …

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A Soft Wrist with Anisotropic and Selectable Stiffness for Robust Robot Learning in Contact-rich Manipulation

Steven Oh, Tomoya Takahashi, Cristian C. Beltran-Hernandez, Yuki Kuroda, Masashi Hamaya · 2026

Contact-rich manipulation tasks in unstructured environments pose significant robustness challenges for robot learning, where unexpected collisions can cause damage and hinder policy acquisition. Exis…

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MiDAS: A Multimodal Data Acquisition System and Dataset for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery

Keshara Weerasinghe, Seyed Hamid Reza Roodabeh, Andrew Hawkins (MD), Zhaomeng Zhang, Zachary Schrader, Homa Alemzadeh · 2026

Background: Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS) research increasingly relies on multimodal data, yet access to proprietary robot telemetry remains a major barrier. We introduce MiDAS, an …

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ExtremControl: Low-Latency Humanoid Teleoperation with Direct Extremity Control

Ziyan Xiong, Lixing Fang, Junyun Huang, Kashu Yamazaki, Hao Zhang, Chuang Gan · 2026

Building a low-latency humanoid teleoperation system is essential for collecting diverse reactive and dynamic demonstrations. However, existing approaches rely on heavily pre-processed human-to-humano…

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Zero Wrench Control via Wrench Disturbance Observer for Learning-free Peg-in-hole Assembly

Kiyoung Choi, Juwon Jeong, Sehoon Oh · 2026

This paper proposes a Dynamic Wrench Disturbance Observer (DW-DOB) designed to achieve highly sensitive zero-wrench control in contact-rich manipulation. By embedding task-space inertia into the obser…

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Contextual Bandits and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Predictive LTM Handover Decisions

Ainna Yue Moreno-Locubiche, Josep Vidal, Olga Munoz-Medina, Margarita Cabrera-Bean · 2025

This article addresses the challenge of optimizing handover (HO) in next-generation wireless networks by integrating Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS), predicting received signal power, and ut…

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Real-World Reinforcement Learning of Active Perception Behaviors

Edward S. Hu, Jie Wang, Xingfang Yuan, Fiona Luo, Muyao Li, Gaspard Lambrechts, Oleh Rybkin, Dinesh Jayaraman · 2025

A robot's instantaneous sensory observations do not always reveal task-relevant state information. Under such partial observability, optimal behavior typically involves explicitly acting to gain the m…

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VLASH: Real-Time VLAs via Future-State-Aware Asynchronous Inference

Jiaming Tang, Yufei Sun, Yilong Zhao, Shang Yang, Yujun Lin, Zhuoyang Zhang, James Hou, Yao Lu, Zhijian Liu, Song Han · 2025

Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) are becoming increasingly capable across diverse robotic tasks. However, their real-world deployment remains slow and inefficient: demonstration videos are often s…

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NeuralTouch: Neural Descriptors for Precise Sim-to-Real Tactile Robot Control

Yijiong Lin, Bowen Deng, Chenghua Lu, Max Yang, Efi Psomopoulou, Nathan F. Lepora · 2025

Grasping accuracy is a critical prerequisite for precise object manipulation, often requiring careful alignment between the robot hand and object. Neural Descriptor Fields (NDF) offer a promising visi…

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DAMM-LOAM: Degeneracy Aware Multi-Metric LiDAR Odometry and Mapping

Nishant Chandna, Akshat Kaushal · 2025

LiDAR Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems are essential for enabling precise navigation and environmental reconstruction across various applications. Although current point-to-plane I…

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Lightweight and Data-Efficient MultivariateTime Series Forecasting using Residual-Stacked Gaussian (RS-GLinear) Architecture

Abukar Ali · 2025

Following the success of Transformer architectures in language modeling, particularly their ability to capture long-range dependencies, researchers have explored how these architectures can be adapted…

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