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

    Sep 30, 2026Rikhat Akizhanov, Yangsong Zhang, Nikolai Kaliazin +5ForceProcess-Level Supervision

    MBZUAI · ETH Zürich · EPFL

  2. StreamDecisionBench: Evaluating Decisions in Force on Evolving Language Streams

    Sep 29, 2026Jhen-Ke Lin, Chung Chun WangLarge Language Model DecisionsLarge Language Model Judges

    National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

  3. FP2: Equipping Robotic Foundation Models with Force Control

    Sep 29, 2026Hongjie Fang, Shirun Tang, Junjian Hu +8Real-World Manipulation TasksForce

    FORTE Lab. · Noematrix. · SJTU. +7

  4. Proprioceptive Force Estimation for Quadruped Locomotion and Human-Robot Interaction

    Sep 28, 2026Run Wang, Xu Yang, Alapati Tuerxun +1Ground Reaction ForcesProprioception

    Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  5. VisForce: Visual Grounding of Current and Desired Forces for Goal-Conditioned Dexterous Manipulation

    Sep 22, 2026Jung-Woo Lee, Soo-Chul LimContact-Rich Dexterous ManipulationDexterous Manipulation

  6. EMGBlend: Heterogeneity-Aware Self-Supervised Pretraining for Gesture and Force Decoding

    Sep 22, 2026Yuwei Jia, Cheng Zhong, Jinyang Yu +1Surface ElectromyographyElectrocardiogram Foundation Models

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China · Dexwise, China · Shenzhen University, China

  7. Object-Centered Reconstruction for Vision-Based 3D Force Estimation

    Sep 20, 2026Zhonghao Zhang, Mingyeung Wu, Hao Yang +3Ground Reaction ForcesSurgical Robots

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States. · Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States.

  8. Energy-Regularized Imitation Learning for Force- and Work-Aware Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 16, 2026Toshiki Otani, Hiromu Taketsugu, Norimichi UkitaRobotic Manipulation PoliciesRobotic Manipulation

    Toyota Technological Institute, Japan

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

    Sep 15, 2026Svetoslav Kolev, Lingni Ma, Michael Goesele +3FingerGround Reaction Forces

    Meta Reality Labs Research

  10. DuctAM: A Duct-Assisted Quadrotor-Based Aerial Manipulator Enabling High-Force Push-and-Pull Interactions

    Sep 14, 2026Yi Wang, Rui Jin, Xinhang Xu +4Aerial ManipulationAerial Navigation

    School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798 · NTU–VinUni Joint Research Laboratory for Embodied AI and Robotics, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, and VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam

  11. Robust Underwater Grasping of Sloped Objects with a Waterproof Passive Adaptive Gripper

    Sep 14, 2026Jooyoung Hong, Daewon Hong, Joohyung KimUnderwater RobotsGripper

    KIMLAB (Kinetic Intelligent Machine LAB), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801, USA

  12. TacClip: a clip-on sensor measures dynamic contact forces without covering the fingerpads

    Sep 8, 2026Yuqian Ye, Hao Li, Jingxi Xu +3FingerForce

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA · Ant Group, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

  13. 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

  14. Learning to Predict Contact Force Distributions from Vision Leveraging Object Geometry Priors

    Aug 1, 2026Ryo Hanai, Yukiyasu Domaea, Ixchel G. Ramirez-Alpizar +3ForceRigid-Body Dynamics

    Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo, Japan · Intelligent Systems Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo, Japan · Institute of AI and Robotics, Graduate School of Fundamental Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

  15. Never Too Late for Force: Accelerating VLA Post-Training with Reactive Force Injection

    Jul 15, 2026Yi Wang, Wendi Chen, Zimo Wen +8Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsReal-World Manipulation Tasks

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shanghai Innovation Institute · Southern University of Science and Technology +1

  16. The Nonsmooth Impact Direction (NSID) of Robotic Systems

    Jul 15, 2026Annika Kirner, Christian OttRigid-Body DynamicsForce

    Automation and Control Institute, TU Wien, 1040 Vienna, Austria · Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, German Aerospace Center (DLR), 82234 Wessling, Germany

  17. NeuralActuator: Neural Actuation Modeling for Robot Dynamics and External Force Perception

    Jul 13, 2026Zhiyang Dou, John U. Onyemelukwe, Hangxing Zhang +9ActuatorInverse Dynamics

    1MIT · 2Amazon Robotics

  18. PinFT: Miniature 5-Axis Force/Torque Sensor Embeddable to Tweezer-like Tool

    Jul 10, 2026Leo King, Jenny Chen, Tae Myung HuhGround Reaction ForcesGripper

    Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.

  19. A Bayesian Filtering Approach for Learning Lagrangian Dynamics from Noisy Measurements

    Jun 30, 2026Kundan Kumar, Shreya Das, Simo SärkkäBayesian FilteringLagrangian Methods

  20. Multisensory Continual Learning: Adapting Pretrained Visuomotor Policies to Force

    Jun 29, 2026Jaden Clark, Changhao Wang, Yihuai Gao +5Visuomotor PolicyLarge-Scale Robot Demonstration Datasets

    Stanford University

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

    Jun 28, 2026Aditya Prakash, Panagiotis TsiotrasGround Reaction ForcesCosserat Rod Theory

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

  22. FORCE: Efficient VLA Reinforcement Fine-Tuning via Value-Calibrated Warm-up and Self-Distillation

    Jun 24, 2026Shuyi Zhang, Yunfan Lou, Hongyang Cheng +8Reinforcement Fine-TuningModel Fine-Tuning

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing, China · State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China

  23. TacVerse: A Multi-Sensor Dataset and Benchmark for Cross-Sensor Vision-Based Tactile Perception

    Jun 24, 2026Lan Wei, Gurmeher Khurana, Sirine Bhouri +6TactileTac

    Imperial College London, UK. · Queen Mary University of London, UK · King’s College London, UK

  24. TaCauchy: An Extensible FEM Framework for Vision-Based Tactile Simulation

    Jun 18, 2026Hengfei Zhao, Yifan Xie, Junhao Gong +6TactileForce

    Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China · Huawei Inc., Shenzhen, China

  25. The N2D Haptic Glove: A Multi-Finger Glove for 2D Directional Force Feedback for Contact Rich Manipulation

    Jun 12, 2026Yao-Ting Huang, Jake Honma, Omar Hernandez +4Haptic FeedbackTeleoperation

    Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. · Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. · Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.

  26. Loss-Guided Adaptive Scale Refinement for Molecular Force Prediction

    Jun 8, 2026Limin YuMolecular Property PredictionForce

    School of Medical Imaging, Division of Medical Technology, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300203, China

  27. Dense Force Estimation with an Event-based Optical Tactile Sensor

    Jun 8, 2026Agis Politis, René Zurbrügg, Valentina CavinatoTactileForce

    Sony Advanced Visual Sensing, Zurich, Switzerland · Computer Vision and Geometry Group at ETH Zürich

  28. Compliance-Based Sensor Placement for Force Sensing on a Sensorized Prostate Phantom

    Jun 5, 2026Sizhe Tian, Yinoussa Adagolodjo, Jeremie DequidtOptimal Sensor PlacementGround Reaction Forces

    CRIStAL, DEFROST · Inria, CNRS, Centrale Lille, UMR 9189 CRIStAL, University of Lille, Lille, France. · CRIStAL, Polytech Lille, DEFROST

  29. From Pixels to Newtons: Predicting In Vivo Joint Contact Forces from Monocular Video

    Jun 4, 2026Jessy LauerBiomechanicsForce

    Harvard

  30. SC-MFJ: A Simple Haptic Quality Metric for Medical Image Segmentation

    Jun 4, 2026Souraj Adhikary, Negar Chabi, Andre MastmeyerMulti Organ Computed Tomography SegmentationHaptic Feedback

    Jade University of Applied Sciences Friedrich-Paffrath-Str. 101 26389 Wilhelmshaven, Germany

  31. Shaft-integrated Force Sensing with Transformer-based Dynamics Compensation for Telesurgery

    May 29, 2026Shuyuan Yang, Grant Boone, Timo Markert +4Surgical RobotsGround Reaction Forces

    Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44016, USA · Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA · Resense GmbH, Germany +3

  32. Aerodynamic force reconstruction using physics-informed Gaussian processes

    May 21, 2026Gledson Rodrigo Tondo, Igor Kavrakov, Guido MorgenthalAerodynamicsGaussian Process

    Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Weimar, Germany · University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom

  33. Analytical and Experimental Force Analysis of a Soft Linear Pneumatic Actuator

    May 21, 2026Mohammed AbboodiSoft Pneumatic ActuatorsForce

  34. pyforce-1.0.0: Python Framework for data-driven model Order Reduction of multi-physiCs problEms

    May 18, 2026Stefano Riva, Yantao Luo, Carolina Introini +1Reduced-Order ModelsFinite Element Method

    Department of Energy, Nuclear Engineering Division, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy · Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering and Emirates Nuclear Technology Center, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi (127788), United Arab Emirates

  35. Towards Robotic Dexterous Hand Intelligence: A Survey

    May 13, 2026Weiguang Zhao, Tian Liang, Xihao Guo +3Robotic HandsForce

    University of Liverpool · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University · Duke Kunshan University +1

  36. ForceFlow: Learning to Feel and Act via Contact-Driven Flow Matching

    May 11, 2026Shuoheng Zhang, Yifu Yuan, Hongyao Tang +7ForceMultimodal Action Distributions

    Tianjin University · Shanghai AI Lab · Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab

  37. InterPhys: Physics-aware Human Motion Synthesis in a Dynamic Scene

    May 1, 2026Chaoyue Xing, Wei Mao, Miaomiao LiuHuman MotionHuman Motion Generation

    Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

  38. A Model-based Visual Contact Localization and Force Sensing System for Compliant Robotic Grippers

    May 1, 2026Kaiwen Zuo, Shuyuan Yang, Zonghe ChuaGround Reaction ForcesGripper

    Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA

  39. An Experimental Modular Instrument With a Haptic Feedback Framework for Robotic Surgery Training

    Apr 30, 2026Walid Shaker, Mustafa Suphi ErdenSurgical RobotsHaptic Feedback

    School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK

  40. Interaction Forces and Internal Loads in Parallel Manipulators with Actuation Redundancy

    Apr 29, 2026Joshua Flight, Clément GosselinTorqueContact Wrench Estimation

  41. Approximation of the Basset force in the Maxey-Riley-Gatignol equations via universal differential equations

    Apr 9, 2026Finn Sommer, Vamika Rathi, Sebastian Goetschel +1Ordinary Differential EquationsTime Discretization

    Chair Computational Mathematics, Institute of Mathematics, Hamburg University of Technology, 21073 Hamburg, Germany

  42. TriPilot-FF: Coordinated Whole-Body Teleoperation with Force Feedback

    Feb 10, 2026Zihao Li, Yanan Zhou, Ranpeng Qiu +3TeleoperationHaptic Feedback

    Zeno AI · Zhejiang University · University of Sydney

  43. ADAPT: Lightweight, Long-Range Machine Learning Force Fields Without Graphs

    Sep 28, 2025Evan Dramko, Yihuang Xiong, Yizhi Zhu +4First-Principles CalculationPhotonic Transformer Accelerators

    Department of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA · Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA · Department of Materials Science and Nanoengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA +2

  44. CoinFT: A Coin-Sized, Capacitive 6-Axis Force Torque Sensor for Robotic Applications

    Mar 25, 2025Hojung Choi, Jun En Low, Tae Myung Huh +7Ground Reaction ForcesTorque

    Stanford University, CA, USA. · University of California Santa Cruz, CA, USA. · Reality Labs Research, Meta Platforms Inc, WA, USA.

  45. MuJoCable: Reduced-Order Surface-Routed Cable Transmission for Tendon-Driven Robots

    Date pendingYi Zhang, Qi Shao, Yicong Lin +3MujocoWiring