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  1. quARtet Marker: A 3D-Printable Multi-Tag Fiducial for Robust Near-Frontal Pose Estimation

    Oct 1, 2026Araki Wakiuchi, Hikaru Sasaki, Takamitsu MatsubaraCategory-Level Object Pose EstimationPlanar

    Materials Informatics Initiative, RD Technology and Digital Transformation Center, JSR Corporation, 3-103-9 Tonomachi, Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan, 210-0821. · Division of Information Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama-cho, Ikoma, Nara, Japan, 630-0192.

  2. Whole-Body Aerial Grasping and Lifting via Partial Visual Observations

    Sep 30, 2026Jiaye Jin, Rui Jin, Xinhang Xu +6Robotic GraspingAerial Manipulation

    School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798 · College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Shanghai Institute of Intelligent Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China · 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

  3. Scale and Selection: What Makes Automatic Harness Evolution Work for Visual-Interface Robot Agents

    Sep 30, 2026Zhijie Wei, Ferris Tan, Jinghui WangAgentic OptimizationRobot Policies

    Novaxbot

  4. Aerial GRIPPER: A Gradient-based Real-time Inverse-game Predictor and Planner

    Sep 28, 2026Zeshuai Chen, Meng Wang, Jindou Jia +2GripperEnd-Effector Pose

    School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, 100191, Beijing, China · School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore

  5. A Simple Gripper Interface for Simulator-Agnostic Cloth Manipulation

    Sep 24, 2026Abhilash Nayak, Franco Coltraro, Maria Alberich-Carramiñana +1Motion-Aware Clothing DynamicsGripper

    Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC-UPC, Barcelona, Spain · Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

  6. A Support-Enhanced Granular-Jamming Gripper for RL-based Grasping with Continuum Manipulators

    Sep 24, 2026Danyu Liu, Tianlin Zhang, Wei Chen +3GripperRobotic Grasping

  7. Simple Torque-Observation Alignment for Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Grasping with a Direct-Drive Gripper

    Sep 24, 2026Doyoung Kim, Edgar Lee, Hyeonsun Park +4TorqueSim-To-Real Reinforcement Learning

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea

  8. The Cartesian Hand: In-Hand Manipulation with All-Linear Fingers

    Sep 22, 2026Boxi Xia, Bokuan Li, Ryan Shin +3Robotic HandsDexterous Manipulation

    Duke University

  9. A Deployable Four-Finger Payload for Teleoperated Free-Flying Manipulation with Astrobee

    Sep 22, 2026William Su, Jordan Kam, Yunosuke Nakamura +3TeleoperationAerial Manipulation

    Aerospace Engineering Program, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA · Department of Aerospace Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA · Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA +1

  10. CAST: Collision-Aware Assembly with Construction Robots using Simultaneous Trajectory Estimation and Planning

    Sep 21, 2026Karthik Shaji, Chisung Kim, John D'Amato +2Multi-Robot Motion PlanningCollision-Free Trajectories

    Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta 30332, USA · School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta 30332, USA · Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta 30332, USA

  11. Graph-Based Design of Soft Grippers with Multi-Objective Quality-Diversity Optimisation

    Sep 17, 2026Andre Farinha, Ge Shi, Harry Bowman +3GripperSoft Robotics

    CSIRO Robotics, Australia

  12. CLASP: A Cluster-Level Autonomous Selective Picking Robot with a Soft Rolling-Band Gripper for Fresh-Market Blueberry Harvesting

    Sep 16, 2026Yixuan Xia, Yilin Cai, Natalia Belen Espinoza +4Agricultural RoboticsGripper

    George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA · Department of Crop & Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30605, USA · Bio-Sensing, Automation, and Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA +3

  13. Control Architecture for Safe Grasping of Fragile Objects Using a Coarse Position-Controlled Gripper

    Sep 14, 2026Marko Pavlic, Moritz Geier, Timo Markert +1Robotic GraspingGripper

    Machine Vision and Perception Group, Chair of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Real-time Systems, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany · Resense GmbH, Klingenberg, Germany · Semantic Information Systems Group, Osnabrück University, Osnabrück, Germany

  14. From Transportation to Manipulation: Enabling Grasping in Magnetic Robotics

    Sep 14, 2026Lara Bergmann, Noah Greis, Cedric Grothues +2GripperRobotic Manipulator

    Faculty of Technology, CITEC, Bielefeld University, Germany · Fraunhofer IOSB-INA, Lemgo, Germany

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. Robot Aware Computational Design of Object Specific Passive Grippers for Additive Manufacturing

    Sep 3, 2026Abdullah Yahya Abdullah Omaisan, Ibrahim Sheikh MohamedGripperRobotic Manipulator

    1Independent Researchers, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. · 2QSS AI and Robotics Lab, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

  18. ARTiS: An Adaptive Robotic Gripper for Enhanced Tool Manipulation in Disassembly Applications

    Sep 3, 2026Roman Mykhailyshyn, Yukiyasu Domae, Kensuke HaradaGripperDexterous Manipulation

    Embodied AI Research Team, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo 135-0064, Japan · Graduate School of Engineering Science, The University of Osaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan

  19. MACAW: Reliable And Efficient Surgical Debridement Using Monocular Adaptive Compact Attention Windows

    Sep 2, 2026Ziyang Chen, Shutong Jin, Preethi Satish +6Surgical RobotsSurgery

    University of California, Berkeley, USA · David Grant USAF Medical Center, USA. · Intuitive Surgical Inc., USA.

  20. TCAM for Autonomous Deformable Manipulation: The RMC2 Champion System for WBCD 2026 Track 4

    Aug 11, 2026Guangrui Shen, Zhili He, Shigang Wang +2Deformable Linear ObjectsGripper

    TermiTech, Shenzhen, China

  21. Ultra-Low-Impedance Robotic Gripper for High-Bandwidth and Transparent Physical Interaction

    Aug 10, 2026Joon Lee, Ari Choi, Seokhwan JeongGripperHybrid Powertrain

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea

  22. A Tilt-Rotor UAV with a Gripper for Stable Contact-Based Tasks via Environmental Anchoring

    Aug 3, 2026Joshua Taylor, Nursultan Imanberdiyev, Wei-Yun Yau +2Aerial RobotsQuadrotor

    National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. · Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore.

  23. Continuously Stable Structure through Plastic Deformation

    Jul 17, 2026Junlong Xiao, Yaoqiang Pan, Xuan Zhang +2Gripper

    Faculty of Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia · Michael Yu Wang. School of Engineering, Great Bay University, Songshan Lake, Dongguan, Guangdong, China · School of Engineering, Great Bay University, Songshan Lake, Dongguan, Guangdong, China

  24. Hybrid Rigid-Soft Robotic Gripper with Shape Adaptation, Uniform Force Distribution, and Self-Locking Capabilities

    Jul 16, 2026Xi Chen, Yun Wang, Lichao Yang +2GripperSoft Pneumatic Actuators

    Intelligent Equipment Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, China. · College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China. · College of Engineering, Shanxi Agricultural University, Jinzhong, China.

  25. 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.

  26. Impedance-Guided Programmable Transmission of Localized Deformation in Modular Soft Metamaterials

    Jul 9, 2026Weiyun Xu, Daewon Hong, Zhi Zhao +2MetamaterialsDeformation

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. · Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. · National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.

  27. Monocular Vision Based Control Framework for Grasping

    Jul 8, 2026Shail Jadav, Dongheui LeeRobotic GraspingGripper

    Autonomous Systems, Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien), Vienna, Austria · Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics (DLR), German Aerospace Center, Wessling, Germany

  28. Vision Language Action (VLA) Models for Unmanned Aerial Robotics and Bimanual Manipulation: A Review

    Jul 7, 2026Inkyu Sa, Chanoh Park, Hea-Min Lee +2Bimanual ManipulationGripper

    Chef Robotics, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA · RovifyLab, Gyeonggi 13840, Republic of Korea · IT Application Research Center, Jeonbuk Regional Branch, Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI), Jeonju 54853, Republic of Korea +1

  29. Calf-Integrated Arms for Bimanual Quadruped Loco-Manipulation

    Jul 7, 2026Yan Pan, Yuanchuan Ren, Chipui Chan +2Humanoid Loco-ManipulationBimanual Manipulation

    Dept. of Computer Science, University College London, UK.

  30. HumanoidUMI: Bridging Robot-Free Demonstrations and Humanoid Whole-Body Manipulation

    Jun 25, 2026Hongwu Wang, Chenhao Yu, Youhao Hu +3Robot-Free DemonstrationsHumanoid

    Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence

  31. Improving Vision-Language-Action Model Fine-Tuning with Structured Stage and Keyframe Supervision

    Jun 25, 2026Yuan Xu, Yixiang Chen, Kai Wang +5Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsRobotic Manipulation

    School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. · New Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems (MAIS), Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. · FiveAges.

  32. Manipulider: A Multi-Engine Buoyancy-Controlled Robot for Thrusterless Underwater Gliding and Manipulation

    Jun 19, 2026Yitao Jiang, Yewei Huang, Weizhi Cao +5Underwater RobotsBidirectional Thrust

    Dept. of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA. · Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA. · Dept. of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA. +1

  33. Belt-Finger: An Affordable Soft Belt-Driven Gripper for Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation

    Jun 18, 2026Boya Zhang, Andreas Zell, Georg MartiusGripperRobotic Manipulator

    Department of Computer Science, University of Tübingen, Germany · 2Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany

  34. YUBI: Yielding Universal Bidigital Interface for Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation at Scale

    Jun 8, 2026Takehiko Ohkawa, Jumpei Arima, Yuki Noguchi +16Bimanual ManipulationGripper

    1AI Robot Association (AIRoA) · 2Toyota Motor Corporation · 4The University of Tokyo +5

  35. What Demonstration Curation Metrics Do to Your Policy

    Jun 8, 2026Aarav BediData-CurationReceiver Operating Characteristic Area Under The Curve

    Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California, Berkeley

  36. AetheRock: An Arm-Worn Robot Teaching System for Force-Guided Vision-Tactile Learning

    Jun 8, 2026Hong Li, Yue Xu, Yihan Tang +8TactileGripper

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI) · Ant Group +1

  37. VISTA: Vision-Grounded and Physics-Validated Adaptation of UMI data for VLA Training

    Jun 3, 2026Siyuan Yang, Linzheng Guo, Ouyang Lu +10Vision-Language-Action FrameworkRobotic Data Acquisition

    Institute of AI (TeleAI), China Telecom · University of Science and Technology of China · 4Northwestern Polytechnical University +5

  38. Optimal Design and Analytical Modeling of a Soft Fin-Ray Effect Gripper Finger Using the Finite Rigid Elements Method

    Jun 2, 2026Sara Adeli, Hassan SayyaadiGripperFinite Element Method

    Mechanical Engineering Department at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

  39. Toward Gripper-Integrated Active Electrosense for Pre-Contact Sensing in Underwater Soft Grippers

    Jun 2, 2026Ahsan Tanveer, Muhammad Hamza, Waqar Hussain Afridi +2GripperTactile

    Intelligent Biomimetic Design Lab, School of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, and with the State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China · National Engineering Research Center of Software Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China · Institute of Ocean Research, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

  40. Cuttlebot: a platform demonstration for complex, autonomous, bio-inspired swimmers

    May 29, 2026Alexander Nicholas White, Ang Leo Li, Alexander Yin +5Underwater RobotsSoft Robotics

    School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Connecticut; Storrs, CT, U.S.A. · Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto; Toronto, Ontario, Canada. · University of Connecticut, Institute of Materials Science; Storrs, CT, U.S.A. +1

  41. Two Degree-of-Freedom Vibratory Transport in a Grasp

    May 29, 2026C. L. Yako, Shenli Yuan, Kenneth SalisburyGripperVibration

  42. TacSE3: Equivariant SE(3) Motion Estimation from Low-Texture Visuotactile Images for In-Gripper Tracking and Compensation

    May 18, 2026Zhongyuan Liao, Junzhe Wang, Qingyang Liu +6Tactile3D Hand

    Hong Kong Center for Construction Robotics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China · School of Engineering, Great Bay University, Dongguan, China

  43. A Dexterous and Compliant Gripper With Soft Hydraulic Actuation for Microgravity Manipulation

    May 18, 2026William Su, Jordan Kam, Yixiao Wang +1GripperAerial Manipulation

    Aerospace Engineering Program, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. · Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. · Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117575.

  44. Optimal Knock-Pick Planning for Tightly Packed Tabletop Blocks With Parallel Grippers

    May 18, 2026Hao Lu, Rahul ShomeGripperPlanning

    School of Computing

  45. DexJoCo: A Benchmark and Toolkit for Task-Oriented Dexterous Manipulation on MuJoCo

    May 15, 2026Hanwen Wang, Weizhi Zhao, Xiangyu Wang +11Dexterous ManipulationGripper

    NLPR & MAIS, CASIA · SJTU · MBZUAI +3

  46. Introducing Environmental Constraints to Grasping Strategies for Paper-Like Flexible Materials Using a Soft Gripper

    May 12, 2026Yi Dong, Yang Li, Jinjun Duan +1Gripper

    College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 29 Yudao Street, Nanjing, 211106, Jiangsu, China. · Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Bionic Materials and Equipment, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 29 Yudao Street, Nanjing, 211106, Jiangsu, China.

  47. TouchDrive: Electronics-Free Tactile Sensing Interface for Assistive Grasping

    May 7, 2026Jing Xu, Xuezhi Niu, Didem Gurdur Broo +1GripperTactile

    Division of Microsystems Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering · Cyber-Physical Systems Lab, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

  48. 3D Printing of Passively Actuated Self-Folding Robots with Integrated Functional Modules

    May 6, 2026Gaolin Ge, Qifeng Yang, Haoran Lu +3Asymmetric Origami BendingSoft Robotics

    Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. · Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. · Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA. +1

  49. BifrostUMI: Bridging Robot-Free Demonstrations and Humanoid Whole-Body Manipulation

    May 5, 2026Hongwu Wang, Chenhao Yu, Youhao Hu +3Robot-Free DemonstrationsTeleoperation

    Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence

  50. ShapeGrasp: Simultaneous Visuo-Haptic Shape Completion and Grasping for Improved Robot Manipulation

    May 4, 2026Lukas Rustler, Matej HoffmannRobotic GraspingGripper

    Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.

  51. 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

  52. Stochastic Entanglement of Deterministic Origami Tentacles For Universal Robotic Gripping

    Apr 29, 2026Alec Boron, Bokun Zheng, Ziyang Zhou +2GripperAsymmetric Origami Bending

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, VA, USA

  53. 2D and 3D Grasp Planners for the GET Asymmetrical Gripper

    Apr 29, 2026Andrew Goldberg, Ethan Ransing, Anton Kourakin +3Robotic GraspingGripper

    The AUTOLab at UC Berkeley · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  54. An analysis of sensor selection for fruit picking with suction-based grippers

    Apr 27, 2026Eva Krueger, Marcus Rosette, Joseph R. DavidsonAgricultural RoboticsFruit

    Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CoRIS) Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis OR 97331, USA

  55. Cross-Modal Visuo-Tactile Representation Learning with Action Chunking Transformers for Contact-Rich Manipulation

    Jan 31, 2026Yaohua Liu, Rong Fu, Amir H. Gandomi +2TactileContact-Rich Dexterous Manipulation

    Chinese Medicine Guangdong Laboratory, Hengqin, Zhuhai 519031, China · Institute of Collaborative Innovation, University of Macau, Macau 999078, China · Faculty of Engineering & IT, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia +3

  56. Soft Pneumatic Grippers: Topology optimization, 3D-printing and Experimental validation

    Nov 24, 2025Prabhat Kumar, Chandra Prakash, Josh Pinskier +2Topology OptimizationSoft Pneumatic Actuators

    Department Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. India Institute of Technology Hyderbad, Telangana 502285, India · CSIRO Robotics, Pullenvale, QLD 4069, Australia · Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 2, Delft, 2628CD, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

  57. AntiGrounding: Executable Robot Trajectories as Visual Prompts for VLM-Guided Manipulation

    Jun 14, 2025Wenbo Li, Yiteng Chen, Wenhao Li +1Robot TrajectoriesRobotic Manipulation

    School of Software Engineering, South China University of Technology