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  1. Socially-Aware Autonomous Doorway Traversal and Payload Delivery for Emergency Assistance

    Jul 6, 2026Andrew Snowdy, Ananya Trivedi, Sarvesh Prajapati +2RoboticsSocial Robot Navigation

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA

  2. DRBA: Dynamic Robotic Balance Assistant -- An assist-as-needed gait and balance rehabilitation robot for versatile training

    Jul 3, 2026Yifan Wang, Li Li, Youlong Wang +9Assistive Robotics

    School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798 Singapore

  3. Beyond Heuristics: A Standardized Real2Sim Pipeline for Physical Human Robot Interaction in Human-in-the-Loop Simulation

    Jul 3, 2026Chengyuan Yang, Yifan Wang, Chun Kwang Tan +5System IdentificationAssistive Robotics

    School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798 Singapore · Guangdong Zhongxin Intelligent Rehabilitation Research Institute, Foshan, China 528200

  4. ActiveVital: Geometry-Aware Embodied Vital Signs Monitoring for Home Healthcare Robots

    Jun 29, 2026Yuxuan Hu, Shihao Li, Yang Xiao +3Active PerceptionMillimeter-Wave Radar

    1MARS Lab, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · 2Fudan University, Shanghai, China

  5. Legible Shared Autonomy: Implicit Communication of Robot Belief through Motion

    Jun 29, 2026Jinwei Liu, Pengfei Li, Shaofeng Chen +2Robotic ManipulationShared Autonomy

    Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China · Department of Automation, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China · National Key Laboratory of Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

  6. Embodiment Meets Environment: Toward Context-Aware, Safe Physical Caregiving Robots

    Jun 26, 2026Zhanxin Wu, Ruofei Tong, Jiaying Fang +1Cross-Embodiment Robot LearningAssistive Robotics

    Cornell University

  7. A Sensorised Lattice Footplate for a Semi-Active Prosthetic Foot

    Jun 24, 2026Jinze Ge, Jingcheng Sun, Chengxu ZhouTactile SensingAssistive Robotics

    Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University College London, UK · Dept. of Computer Science, University College London, UK

  8. One Body, Two Minds: Variable Autonomy Approach for a Co-embodied Robotic Hand

    Jun 24, 2026Piotr Koczy, Yuchong Zhang, Danica Kragic +1RoboticsHuman-Robot Collaboration

    KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. · INCAR Robotics AB, Stockholm, Sweden.

  9. Assistron: Bayesian Shared Autonomy with Off-the-shelf Vision-Language-Action Models

    Jun 22, 2026Pinhao Song, Ze Fu, Yutong Hu +1Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    KU Leuven, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Research unit Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics · KU Leuven, Dept. Electrical Engineering, Research unit Processing Speech and Images

  10. Deep RL- Tuned Mo del-Free Adaptive Control for Lower-Limb Exoskeletons During Sit-to-Stand Transitions

    Jun 20, 2026Ranjeet Kumbhar, Appaso M. Gadade, Rajmeet Singh +2RL ControlRobot Trajectory Tracking

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology Patiala, India – 147004 · Department of Mechanical Engineering Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology Patiala, India – 147004 · Mechatronics Engineer, Research Office Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) Abu Dhabi, UAE

  11. Beyond Failure Recovery: An Engagement-Aware Human-in-the-loop Framework for Robotic Systems

    Jun 16, 2026Jiaying Fang, Joyce Yang, Zhanxin Wu +2Model Predictive ControlAssistive Robotics

    Cornell University

  12. Continual Online Personalization of Exoskeleton Control via Manifold-Aware Experience Replay

    Jun 16, 2026Changseob Song, Inseung KangRobotic ControlAnkle Exoskeleton Control

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

  13. ExoTraj: A General Lower-limb Exoskeleton Assistance Policy for Complex Environments

    Jun 15, 2026Xiao-Yin Liu, Guotao Li, Long Sun +2Assistive RoboticsHuman Motion Prediction

    The State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China · The School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China · The School of Automation and Intelligence, Beijing Jiaotong University, China +1

  14. An Augmented Reality Brain-Robot Interface for Generalist Robot Arm Manipulation

    Jun 15, 2026Shangkai Zhang, Rousslan Fernand Julien Dossa, Luca Nunziante +2Brain-Computer InterfacesRobotic Manipulation

    Araya Inc., Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

  15. Friction Characterization of a Cable-Driven Differential Actuation System for Lower-Limb Exoskeletons

    Jun 14, 2026Alberto Maria Nobili, Fabio Salsedo, Alessandro FilippeschiMechanism DesignRobotics

    Institute of Mechanical Intelligence and with the Department of Excellence in Robotics and AI, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy · Wearable Robotics s.r.l., Pisa, Italy

  16. TacStyle: Personalizing Tactile Robot Policies using Structured Behavior Representations

    Jun 12, 2026Kevin Robledo, Matías I. Torres Galaz, Kumar Dixhant Rai +3Robot Policy LearningRobot Policy Adaptation

    Department of Computer Science California State University, Northridge · Department of Mechanical Engineering California State University, Northridge

  17. What Robots Do Matters More Than What They Look Like: Task Context Shapes Trust in Educational HRI

    Jun 12, 2026Anna-Maria Velentza, Konstantina Nikou, Anne-Gwenn Bosser +1Assistive RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

    Univ Brest-Bretagne INP, COMMEDIA team, Lab-STICC CNRS UMR 6285, FR · LIRES Robotics Lab, University of Macedonia, GR and School of Educational Social Policies, University of Macedonia, GR

  18. Interaction Dynamics MPC for Knee Rehabilitation Exoskeletons: A Closed-Loop SEA Outer-Loop Study

    Jun 11, 2026Yongyan Cao, Jinshan TangRobotic ControlModel Predictive Control

    Voryx Robotics · George Mason University, Dept. of Health Administration and Policy

  19. Y-BotFrame: An Extensible Embodied Agent Framework for Quadruped Robot Assistants

    Jun 11, 2026Luyao Zhang, Ke Li, Yuan Ding +9Assistive RoboticsLanguage-Conditioned Robot Control

    Xidian University Xi’an, China

  20. Improving Human Diving Endurance with a Field-Deployable, Untethered Exoskeleton

    Jun 10, 2026Zhihao Zhou, Zhenmeng Ju, Rui Yang +8Underwater RoboticsAssistive Robotics

  21. JOIN: Anchor-Grasp-Conditioned Joining via Opposition, Inference, and Navigation for Bimanual Assistive Manipulation

    Jun 9, 2026Drake Moore, Matt Cheng, Xiang Zhi Tan +1Mobile ManipulationBimanual Robotic Manipulation

    Northeastern University, Boston MA 02115, USA

  22. EM-Fall: Embodied mmWave Sensing for Day-and-Night Fall Detection on Humanoid Robots

    Jun 9, 2026Yanshuo Lu, Yuxuan Hu, Shenghai Yuan +5Fall DetectionmmWave Radar Sensing

    MARS Lab · NTU · IOT Lab

  23. Exploration of Foundation Model-Based Robots in Patient and Elderly Care

    Jun 8, 2026Zhiwen Qiu, Wei Liu, Yuexing HaoRobot Foundation ModelsRobotics

    1Cornell University, Ithaca, 14850, USA · Department of Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, 85054, USA · 3Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

  24. Personalized and Robust Proactive Robot Assistance with Uncertainty-Guided LLM Reasoning

    Jun 7, 2026Alvaro Gonzalez, M. H. Hasan Shovo, Ali AyubMarkov ModelsAssistive Robotics

    Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8, Canada

  25. End-to-End Control of a Powered Knee-Ankle Prosthesis Towards Unified, Tuning-Free Assistance

    Jun 5, 2026John Shim, Christoph Nuesslein, Sixu Zhou +3Robot LocomotionAssistive Robotics

    Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0405 USA · Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0405 USA

  26. Simulation-Driven Imitation Learning for Biosignals-Free Shared-Autonomy Prosthetic Grasping

    Jun 5, 2026Kaijie Shi, Wanglong Lu, Huiling Chen +4Robotic GraspingRobotics Simulation

    Department of Computer Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL A1B 3X5, Canada · College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, 325000, China · Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL A1B 3X5, Canada

  27. What Is My Robot Thinking? Design Considerations for Transparent and Trustworthy Shared Autonomy

    Jun 5, 2026Atharv Belsare, Zohre Karimi, Connor Mattson +2Shared AutonomyAssistive Robotics

    Kahlert School of Computing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. · Robotics Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

  28. SoftPINCH: EMG-Driven Soft Exoskeleton Assistance for Finger Flexion and Grasping

    Jun 3, 2026Nicklas Nikolaj Grønvall, Magnus Malthe Sigsgaard Nielsen, Xiaofeng Xiong +1EMG-Based Gesture RecognitionRobotic Grasping

    SDU Soft Robotics, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

  29. OLIVE: Online Low-Rank Incremental Learning for Efficient Adaptive Exoskeletons

    Jun 3, 2026Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu, Ben Lengerich +2Robotic ControlLow-Rank Adaptation

    University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, California, USA · Columbia University New York, New York, USA · University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, Wisconsin, USA +1

  30. Improved Postural Stability Using a Lightweight Semi-Active Soft Back Support Device Under Standing Perturbations

    Jun 1, 2026Rohan Khatavkar, Jiefeng Sun, Hyunglae LeeRoboticsAssistive Robotics

    The authors are with the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.