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  1. EgoPhys: Estimating Peak Contact Force and Mechanical Work from Egocentric Manipulation Video

    Oct 8, 2026Zhuo Dong, Jianhua Yang, Haohao Li +4Contact Force EstimationHuman-Object Interaction

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Shandong University, Jinan, China · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

  2. Tactile Reconstruction of Contact Task Frames and Forces for Hybrid Force/Motion Control

    Oct 7, 2026Antonio Rapuano, Simone Orelli, Barbara Bazzana +2Contact Force EstimationForce-Controlled Robotic Manipulation

    Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy. · Robotics and Mechatronics Department, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands.

  3. PACT: End-to-End Learning of Human Pose, Contacts, and Forces from Video

    Sep 30, 2026Rikhat Akizhanov, Yangsong Zhang, Nikolai Kaliazin +5Contact Force EstimationHuman Pose Estimation

    MBZUAI · ETH Zürich · EPFL

  4. Layered e-skin for Shear Sensing

    Sep 18, 2026Qingzheng Cong, Alexis W. M. Devillard, Abu Bakar Dawood +7Tactile SensingTactile Sensing for Robotic Manipulation

    Queen Mary University of London, E1 4NS, UK · The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London SW7 2AZ, UK · King’s College London, SE1 7EU, UK

  5. ZeroTouch: Tactile-Supervised Visual Contact Estimation for Contact-Rich Manipulation

    Sep 18, 2026Dmitriy Kosenkov, Daniia Zinniatullina, Miguel Altamirano Cabrera +3Robotic GraspingContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    Intelligent Space Robotics Laboratory, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russian Federation.

  6. TouchSight: Bare-Handed Tactile Prediction from Egocentric Video via Generative Visual Augmentation

    Sep 17, 2026Danyan Zhou, Jinxuan Lu, Jiawei Lin +3Vision-Based Tactile SensingVisual-to-Tactile Prediction

    THU · Xspark AI · HKUST (GZ) +1

  7. Beyond Gestures: Estimating Full Hand Pose and Contact Forces from Wrist-Worn Pressure Sensor Array

    Sep 15, 2026Svetoslav Kolev, Lingni Ma, Michael Goesele +3Tactile Sensing3D Hand Pose Estimation

    Meta Reality Labs Research

  8. EgoTac: In-the-wild Tactile Prediction from Egocentric Vision

    Aug 15, 2026Wenkang Zhang, Chengbo Yuan, Zicheng Zhang +2Visual-to-Tactile PredictionContact Force Estimation

    Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Tsinghua University +1

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

    Aug 13, 2026Andela Ilic, Rachel Schuchert, Yijing Jiang +1Hand-Object Interaction DetectionEgocentric Vision

    Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

  10. Scalable Open-Source Visuotactile Sensor for 6-Axis Contact Wrench Estimation in Tensegrity Robots

    Jul 17, 2026Wenzhe Tong, Jonathan Mi, Xili Yi +2Vision-Based Tactile SensingTensegrity Robotics

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

  11. Multi-Contact Force Estimation for Continuum Robots via Gaussian-Parameterized Factor Graphs

    Jun 28, 2026Aditya Prakash, Panagiotis TsiotrasContact Force EstimationRobot State Estimation

    School of Aerospace Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA, USA

  12. ForceBand: Learning Forceful Manipulation with sEMG

    Jun 24, 2026Botao He, Zhi Wang, Linna Kuang +8Robot Skill LearningContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    Amazon FAR · University of Maryland · Johns Hopkins University

  13. FACTR 2: Learning External Force Sensing for Commodity Robot Arms Improves Policy Learning

    Jun 10, 2026Steven Oh, Jason Jingzhou Liu, Tony Tao +5Robot Imitation LearningLong-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

    Carnegie Mellon University · Waseda University

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

    Jun 6, 2026Cuong Le, Urs Waldmann, Bastian Wandt +1Contact Force Estimation

    Linköping University

  15. Tactile-Proprioceptive Sensor Fusion for Contact Wrench Estimation in Whole-Body Physical Human-Robot Interaction

    May 27, 2026Junha Min, Junghyeon Ma, Jiwung Kwon +3Tactile SensingContact Force Estimation

    Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology), Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea · Kinetic Intelligent Machine Lab (KIMLAB), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61801, USA

  16. PRIME: Physically-consistent Robotic Inertial and Motion Estimation for Legged and Humanoid Robots

    May 17, 2026Jiarong Kang, Kunzhao Ren, Tao Pang +1Robot Dynamics IdentificationRobot Locomotion

    University of Wisconsin-Madison · Shanghai Innovation Institute

  17. SixthSense: Task-Agnostic Proprioception-Only Whole-Body Wrench Estimation for Humanoids

    May 2, 2026Xingzhou Chen, Xiayan Xu, Yan Ning +8Robotic PerceptionHumanoid Robotics

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China · Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · Tencent Robotics X, Shenzhen, China

  18. Multifingered force-aware control for humanoid robots

    Mar 9, 2026Pasquale Marra, Gabriele M. Caddeo, Ugo Pattacini +1Humanoid Robot ControlForce-Controlled Robotic Manipulation

    Humanoid Sensing and Perception, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy. · DIBRIS, Universit`a di Genova, Via All’Opera Pia, 13, Genoa, Italy. · MESH Facility, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy

  19. Cable-driven Continuum Robotics: Proprioception via Proximal-integrated Force Sensing

    Mar 8, 2026Gang Zhang, Junyan Yan, Jibiao Chen +1Contact Force EstimationContinuum Robot Shape Estimation

    Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering and T Stone Robotics Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong · Curve Robotics Limited, Hong Kong · Shun Hing Institute of Advanced Engineering and Multi-Scale Medical Robotics Center, Hong Kong

  20. External Photoreflective Tactile Sensing Based on Surface Deformation Measurement

    Nov 9, 2025Seiichi Yamamoto, Hiroki Ishizuka, Takumi Kawasetsu +6Tactile SensingContact Force Estimation

    Graduate School of Engineering Science, The University of Osaka, Toyonaka 560-0043, Japan

  21. Learning Contact Dynamics through Touching: Action-conditional Graph Neural Networks for Robotic Peg Insertion

    Sep 15, 2025Zongyao Yi, Joachim Hertzberg, Martin AtzmuellerGraph Neural NetworksContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI Niedersachsen, Osnabrück, Germany · Osnabrück University, Institute of Computer Science, Osnabrück, Germany