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  1. COOL: Curiosity-Driven Object Ownership Learning for Personalized Robotic Assistance

    Oct 7, 2026Samira Huber, Ruben Hammele, Sören PirkRobot LearningAssistive Robotics

    Department of Computer Science, Kiel University, Germany

  2. A Unified Kinematic Representation Enables Reusable Biological Joint Moment Estimation

    Oct 6, 2026Jinwoo Hwang, Ilseung Park, Changseob Song +3Assistive Robotics

    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  3. Event-Driven Proactive Robot Assistance through Vision-Language Reasoning

    Oct 6, 2026Fengkai Liu, Hao Su, Haozhuang Chi +6Human-Robot CollaborationVLM Reasoning

    The University of Osaka · Nanyang Technological University · The University of Tokyo

  4. Lightweight and Resource-Efficient Perception for Robotic Guide Dogs

    Oct 2, 2026Jinse Kwon, Yoojin Lim, Choonghan Lee +3Camera-LiDAR FusionAssistive Robotics

    Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Pusan National University, Korea · Division of Electronics and Information Engineering, Jeonbuk National University, Korea

  5. Subject-Specific Predictive Musculoskeletal Simulations of Lower-Limb Exoskeleton Assistance: Metabolic and Biomechanical Effects of Joint Assistance Strategies

    Oct 2, 2026Neethan Ratnakumar, Mariya Tohfafarosh, Xianlian ZhouEnergy-Efficient Robot LocomotionAssistive Robotics

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka · Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, 07102, USA

  6. Towards Physical Underwater Robotic Assistance for Scuba Diver Movement in Confined Spaces

    Oct 1, 2026Demetrious T. Kutzke, Junaed SattarRoboticsUnderwater Robotics

  7. ShowerFlex: Achieving Pseudo-Static Balancing in a Continuum Shower Hose

    Oct 1, 2026Zhiyu Ren, Girish KrishnanMechanism DesignAssistive Robotics

    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Urbana, Illinois 61801

  8. General Performance Guarantee for Human Torque Estimation-Based Task-Agnostic Assistive Exoskeleton Control

    Sep 30, 2026Duy Hoang, Bastien Berret, Olivier Bruneau +1Robotic ControlAssistive Robotics

    Universit´e Paris-Saclay, CNRS, ENS Paris-Saclay, LMF, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France · Universit´e Paris-Saclay, Inria, CIAMS, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France · Universit´e Paris-Saclay, ENS Paris-Saclay, LURPA, 91190 Gif-Sur-Yvette, France

  9. AIfred: Augmented Learning through Functional Robotic Embodiment at the Desk

    Sep 30, 2026Gregorio Orlando, Milan Groshev, Eduardo Castelló FerrerGenerative AI in EducationAssistive Robotics

    CyPhy Life, Robotics & AI Lab, School of Science & Technology, IE University, Spain

  10. TALK-Dem: Benchmarking Embodied Task Planning under Dementia-Associated Communication Patterns

    Sep 29, 2026Guangxin Zhao, Yiran Hu, Yuan Cao +7Large Language Model-Based Robot PlanningRobot Task Planning

    University of Notre Dame · Nanyang Technological University · Tohoku University

  11. Robots That Take Initiative: A Framework for Building and Evaluating Proactive Robots

    Sep 24, 2026Maithili Patel, Sonia ChernovaHuman-in-the-Loop EvaluationRobotic Policy Evaluation

    School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

  12. Safety-Constrained Model Predictive Control for an Omnidirectional Walking Assistive Robot Using Control Barrier Function

    Sep 22, 2026Andrea Fortuna, Marta Lorenzini, Elisa Motta +3Energy-Efficient Robot LocomotionControl Barrier Functions

    Human-Robot Interfaces and Interaction Laboratory, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy · Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy · Dep. of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Epidemiology and Hygiene, INAIL, Rome, Italy

  13. A Reconfigurable Bidirectional Cable-Driven Hip Exoskeleton with Swappable Bench/Backpack Dual-configuration Actuation

    Sep 22, 2026YuanLong Ji, Shuhan Xiang, Qihan Ye +1RoboticsAssistive Robotics

    School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University; the Key Laboratory of Biomechanics and Mechanobiology (Beihang University), Ministry of Education; Key Laboratory of Innovation and Transformation of Advanced Medical Devices, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; National Medical Innovation Platform for Industry-Education Integration in Advanced Medical Devices (Interdiscipline of Medicine and Engineering), Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China

  14. Effects of Assistance Delay on Joint Mechanics and Energetics in Biological Torque Control of a Hip Exoskeleton

    Sep 21, 2026Jimin An, Ryan Lee, Jingshu Peng +2Robotic ControlAssistive Robotics

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213 USA

  15. Learning to Plan in Human-Robot Collaboration: Multimodal Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Interaction

    Sep 21, 2026Afagh Mehri Shervedani, Siyu Li, Natawut Monaikul +3Reinforcement LearningRobotic RL

    University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607 USA · California State University Channel Islands

  16. Ask Before It Tells: Benchmark-to-Robot Body-Cue Transfer for a Question-First Bedside Robot

    Sep 21, 2026Dongsik YoonHuman Activity RecognitionAssistive Robotics

    HDC LABS, Republic of Korea

  17. Design and Control of a Cable-Driven Switchable Actuator with Torque/Tension Dual Modes for Exoskeletons

    Sep 20, 2026YuanLong Ji, Xu Liu, Xinyuan Cai +8Robotic ControlRobotics

    School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University; the Key Laboratory of Biomechanics and Mechanobiology (Beihang University), Ministry of Education; Key Laboratory of Innovation and Transformation of Advanced Medical Devices, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; National Medical Innovation Platform for Industry-Education Integration in Advanced Medical Devices (Interdiscipline of Medicine and Engineering), Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China · School of Engineering Medicine, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China · School of Physics and Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Longyan University, Longyan, 364012, China

  18. RoboFind: Multi-Agent Personalized Object Search for People Who Are Blind or Have Low Vision

    Sep 17, 2026Ruiping Liu, Shaofang Quan, Qian Yin +10Assistive RoboticsMulti-Agent Systems

    The authors are with the Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe 76131, Germany. · The author is with the School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and the National Engineering Research Center of Robot Visual Perception and Control Technology, Hunan University, Changsha 410012, China. · The author is with Mercedes-Benz.

  19. UniExo: Unified Multi-Skill Policies for Musculoskeletal Locomotion and Co-Adaptive Exoskeleton Control

    Sep 17, 2026Yifei Yuan, Jakob Wolf, Ghaith Androwis +1Robot Imitation LearningAssistive Robotics

    Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA · Kessler Foundation, West Orange, NJ 07052, USA

  20. From Wizard-of-Oz Human-Robot Dialogue Collection to a Taxonomy of Robot Response Decisions: A Retrospective Analysis of Assistive Pilot Interactions

    Sep 16, 2026Guangping Liu, Nicholas Hawkins, Tipu Sultan +2Assistive RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

    Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, 2Department of Computer Science, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO 63103, United States. · Department of Computer Science, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO 63103, United States.

  21. Overcoming technical adoption barriers for mobile service robots in rehabilitation

    Sep 15, 2026Christian Sternitzke, Sebastian Blumenthal, Lukas Kleedoerfer +2Mobile RoboticsAssistive Robotics

    TEDIRO Healthcare Robotics, Ehrenbergstr. 11, 98693 Ilmenau, Germany · MetraLabs GmbH Neue Technologien und Systeme, Weimarer Str. 28, 98693 Ilmenau, Germany

  22. Understanding User Preferences of a Slope-Aware Variable-Admittance Filter for a Robot Guide Dog

    Sep 14, 2026Federico Esposito, Mario Selvaggio, Aaron Link +1Admittance ControlAssistive Robotics

    Federico Esposito, Mario Selvaggio, Aaron Link, and Fabio Ruggiero

  23. Assistance Torque Estimation via Dynamics-Aware Optimization for Lower-Limb Exoskeleton in Complex Environments

    Sep 14, 2026Xiao-Yin Liu, Guotao Li, Weiqun Wang +1Data-Driven ControlAnkle Exoskeleton Control

    State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. · The School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy Sciences, Beijing, China.

  24. A Deployable Architecture for Robot-Mediated Tasks (DART): Evaluation in Socially Assistive Robot-Guided Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Exercises

    Sep 14, 2026Mina Kian, Lydia Ignatova, Jiong Wang +12RoboticsAssistive Robotics

    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

  25. Two-Stage Personalized Gait Phase Estimation in Stroke Survivors During Exoskeleton-Assisted Walking: An Offline Feasibility Study

    Sep 14, 2026Hyungseok Ryu, Pilwon HurGait AnalysisAssistive Robotics

    Department of Mechanical and Robotics Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju 61005, Republic of Korea

  26. A Personalized Dynamic Balance Evaluation Paradigm for Hip Exoskeleton-Assisted Walking under Unexpected Ground Perturbations

    Sep 13, 2026Yun Chen, Oluwasegun T. Akinniyi, Qiang ZhangHuman-in-the-Loop EvaluationAssistive Robotics

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35401, USA

  27. A Novel Robot-Assisted Learning Pedagogy for Children with ASD

    Sep 13, 2026Laura Boccanfuso, Erin Barney, Marilena Mademtzi +7Assistive RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

    Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA · Now at Van Robotics, Inc. · Yale Social Robotics Lab, Department of Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA +1

  28. DYAD: A Multimodal Dataset of Co-Located Human Assistance

    Sep 8, 2026Akhil Ajikumar, Mahya Qorbani, Sakib Reza +2Human-AI InteractionAssistive Robotics

    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA · Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA · Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA

  29. A Physics-Consistent Benchmark for Contact-Rich Human-Robot Interaction in Assistive Care

    Sep 2, 2026Chengxiao He, Shanghai Yuan, Liuqun Fan +1Human-Robot InteractionAssistive Robotics

    School of Mechanical and Robotics Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China · Centre for Advanced Robotics Technology Innovation, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

  30. Design and Validation of a Lightweight, Low-Profile Powered Knee Prosthesis with Quasi-Direct Drive Actuation

    Sep 2, 2026Ross J. Cortino, Ryan Posh, Emily G. Keller +1Assistive Robotics

    Robotics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109