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  1. Contact as a Decision Variable: Capability-Tradeoff Contact Selection for Legged Loco-Manipulation

    Sep 24, 2026Al Jaber Mahmud, Shuai Li, Xuan WangHumanoid Loco-ManipulationContact

    George Mason University · University of Florida

  2. PROSE: A Theory of Optimal Stopping with Perishable Evidence for Peer Selection in Intermittently Connected Decentralised Learning

    Sep 20, 2026Christos AnagnostopoulosDecentralized LearningOptimal Stopping

    School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

  3. LUMO: Designing Luminous Contact Morphology for Repeatable Whole-Finger Contact Observation

    Sep 16, 2026Dong Ho Kang, Youngsu Ko, Luis SentisFingerGround Reaction Forces

    The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

  4. MiBOT: A head-worn robot that modulates cardiovascular responses through human-like soft massage

    Aug 30, 2026Alice Mylaeus, Stephanie Vogt, Berken Utku Demirel +4Soft RoboticsHumanoid Robotics

    Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland. · Department of Mechanical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

  5. EgoPHI: Estimating 3D Hand-Object Contact and Force from Egocentric Vision

    Aug 13, 2026Andela Ilic, Rachel Schuchert, Yijing Jiang +1Hand-Object Interaction DetectionGround Reaction Forces

    Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

  6. ContactIPM: A Structure-Exploiting Interior-Point Solver for Contact-Implicit Trajectory Optimization

    Aug 12, 2026Yucheng ChenPrimal-Dual MethodsRobust Trajectory

  7. A Haptic Robot Finger Designed for Guqin Instrument Playing

    Aug 7, 2026Tianwei Zhang, Hanming Yan, Yang Yang. Ziya WangRobotic HandsInstrument

    The Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society, Shenzhen, China · The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China · School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China +1

  8. Shooting for Contact: Contact-Implicit Multiple Shooting for Dynamic Motion Retargeting

    Aug 4, 2026Sergio A. Esteban, Jason H. K. Siu, Derrick Mach +4Cross-Embodiment RetargetingRigid-Body Dynamics

    Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. · School of Computing, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA.

  9. Compliant Sphere Lattice Contact: Distributed Contact Modeling for Sphere-Based Robot Representations

    Jul 31, 2026Nataliya Nechyporenko, Ava Abderezaei, Alessandro RonconeRigid-Body DynamicsContact

  10. ContactFlow: A video action conditioning that transfers across embodiments

    Jul 29, 2026Sami Azirar, Enrico Pallotta, Jan Nogga +3Real-World Manipulation TasksEfficient World-Action Model

    University of Bonn, Lamarr Institute

  11. Amortising Trajectory Optimisation for Residual MPC via Implicit Contact Differentiation

    Jul 27, 2026Daniel Layeghi, Thomas Corbères, Calum Arnott +4Robust TrajectoryImplicit Differentiation

    School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

  12. HCPG-Flow:Hierarchical Contact-Progress Guidance for Flow-Policy Robot Manipulation

    Jul 20, 2026Guanghu Xie, Mingxu Li, Shuo Zhang +5Multimodal Action DistributionsRobotic Manipulation

    State Key Laboratory of Robotics and Systems, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, Heilongjiang, China

  13. ContactMimic: Humanoid Object Interaction via Contact Control

    Jul 9, 2026Xinyao Li, Xialin He, Runpei Dong +1Articulated ObjectsContact

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  14. JointHOI: Jointly Generating Contact Maps Enhances Hand Object Interaction Generation

    Jul 2, 2026Mingyeong Song, Jungbin Cho, Jisoo Kim +5Hand-Object Interaction DetectionHuman Motion Generation

    Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea · Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea · Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, USA +1

  15. OmniContact: Chaining Meta-Skills via Contact Flow for Generalizable Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

    Jun 24, 2026Runyi Yu, Xiaoyi Lin, Ji Ma +11Humanoid Loco-ManipulationArticulated Objects

    Noitom Robotics · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Wuhan University +1

  16. Transferring Contact, Not Just Motion: Compliant Grasping Across Dexterous Hands

    Jun 14, 2026Soofiyan Atar, Yao-Ting Huang, Michael YipDexterous ManipulationBimanual Manipulation

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California San Diego, United States

  17. Gravity-guided Contact Dynamics Estimation from 3D Human Motions

    Jun 6, 2026Cuong Le, Urs Waldmann, Bastian Wandt +1Ground Reaction ForcesContact

    Linköping University

  18. Polymander II: an amphibious salamander-inspired robot with contact and flow sensors

    May 23, 2026Qiyuan Fu, Sudong Lee, Andrea Grillo +4Underwater RobotsProprioception

    Biorobotics Laboratory, EPFL, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland · CREATE Lab, EPFL, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland · Innobridge Services S`arl, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

  19. OCELOT: Odometry and Contact Estimation for Legged Robots

    May 21, 2026Emre Girgin, Cagri KilicOdometryProprioception

    Department of Aerospace Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL 32114, USA.

  20. ConTact: Contact-First Antibody CDR Design via Explicit Interface Reasoning

    May 20, 2026Mansoor Ahmed, Spencer VonBank, Nadeem Taj +3AntibodyContact

    Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA · Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA · DePauw University, Indiana, USA +2

  21. From swept contact to pose: Probe-aware registration via complementary-shape docking

    May 20, 2026Chen Chen, Yunwen Li, Yifan Xu +5Image RegistrationGround-Truth Correspondence

    Department of Automation, Tsinghua University · Tsingscribe Medical Ltd., and also with D-MAVT, ETH Zürich · Peking University School and Hospital of Stomatology

  22. TouchMap-OR: Multi-View 3D Mapping of Hand-Surface Contacts

    May 17, 2026Sophokles Ktistakis, Rui Wang, Bastian Grande +13D HandTactile

    1ETH Zurich · Institute for Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University Hospital Zurich · Department of Public and Global Health, University of Zurich

  23. Support-Safe Variational Hybrid Filtering for Contact-Mode and Sparse-Law Recovery

    May 12, 2026Marios Papamichalis, Regina RuaneExtended Kalman FilterSafety Filters

    Human Nature Lab, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511 · Department of Statistics and Data Science, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 3733 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6340

  24. Contact Matrix: Enhancing Dance Motion Synthesis with Precise Interaction Modeling

    May 6, 2026Xuhai Chen, Zhi Cen, Huaijin Pi +3Human Motion GenerationDuet

    Zhejiang University · The University of Hong Kong

  25. Bi-Level Optimization for Contact and Motion Planning in Rope-Assisted Legged Robots

    Apr 29, 2026Ruben Malacarne, Ioannis Tsikelis, Enrico Mingo Hoffman +1LocomotionMotion Planning

    Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza dell’Informazione (DISI), University of Trento · Inria, Universit´e de Lorraine, CNRS, 54000 Nancy, France

  26. A Kinematic Framework for Screening Candidate Pinch Configurations in Robotic Hand Design without Object or Contact Models

    Apr 22, 2026HyoJae Kang, Joonho Lee, Hyunmok Jung +1Robotic HandsKinematics

    Advanced Robotics Research Center, Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMM)

  27. Novel Algorithms for Smoothly Differentiable and Efficiently Vectorizable Contact Manifold Construction

    Apr 19, 2026Onur Beker, Andreas René Geist, Anselm Paulus +1Rigid-Body DynamicsDifferentiable Physics

    University of Tübingen

  28. ContactExplorer: Contact Coverage-Guided Exploration for General-Purpose Dexterous Manipulation

    Mar 11, 2026Zixuan Liu, Ruoyi Qiao, Chenrui Tie +5Contact-Rich Dexterous ManipulationDexterous Manipulation

    School of Computing, National University of Singapore · RoboScience

  29. Where to Touch, How to Contact: A Hierarchical RL-MPC Framework for Geometry-Aware Sim-to-Real Manipulation

    Jan 16, 2026Zhixian Xie, Yu Xiang, Michael Posa +1Contact-Rich Dexterous ManipulationContact

    Arizona State University · University of Texas at Dallas · University of Pennsylvania

  30. Multi-Class Human/Object Detection on Robot Manipulators using Proprioceptive Sensing

    Aug 4, 2025Justin Hehli, Marco Heiniger, Maryam Rezayati +1Human-Robot CollaborationHand-Object Interaction Detection

    Dep. of Informatics, University of Zurich, and MINDLab, Institute of Mechatronic Systems, ZHAW, Switzerland · Institute of Mechatronics system, ZHAW, Switzerland

  31. Protect Your Score: Contact Tracing With Differential Privacy Guarantees

    Date pendingRob Romijnders, Christos Louizos, Yuki M. Asano +1Δ)$-Differential PrivacyCovid-19

    University of Amsterdam · Qualcomm AI research

  32. DNA: Differentially private Neural Augmentation for contact tracing

    Date pendingRob Romijnders, Christos Louizos, Yuki M. Asano +1Covid-19Δ)$-Differential Privacy

    University of Amsterdam · Qualcomm AI research