Robotic Data Collection

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Robotic data collection studies how to obtain useful observations and actions for training and evaluating robots in settings such as manipulation, navigation, and human-robot interaction. Common approaches include teleoperation, wearable and egocentric human capture, autonomous collection guided by policy failures, and simulation or synthetic-data generation. Datasets increasingly combine video, robot state, force, and tactile signals, while quality checks and benchmarks test whether trajectories are feasible and useful on real hardware. The central tension is scaling data efficiently without losing the physical, sensor, and embodiment alignment needed for reliable transfer.

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  1. Robot-Aligned 3D Gaussian Splatting for Precise Reaching with Wrist-Camera VLA Policies

    Oct 26, 2026Zuoxu Wang, Xiao LiangRobotic ManipulationSynthetic Data Generation for Robotics

    Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 USA

  2. DEX-PHD: A Dexterous Portable Handheld Device for Multimodal Data Collection

    Oct 26, 2026Jooyoung Hong, Noboru Myers, Obin Kwon +2Robotic Data CollectionRobotic Manipulation

    All authors are with the KIMLAB (Kinetic Intelligent Machine LAB), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801, USA

  3. AuRA: From Atoms to Bits through Autonomous Robot Interaction

    Oct 25, 2026Xinchen Yu, Yoonkyo Jung, Haoran Chen +5Robotic Data CollectionDigital Twins

    University of Maryland, College Park · All Purpose AI

  4. DexPort: A Hand-Held Skill Interface for Dexterous Hand Data Collection

    Oct 23, 2026Amber Xie, Jiawei Fu, Xiaofeng Guo +3Robotic Data CollectionRobotic Manipulation

    Amazon FAR (Frontier AI & Robotics) · Stanford University · UC San Diego

  5. Robot Generalization Beyond Volume: The Diversity Path via Zero-Shot Capabilities

    Oct 21, 2026Rafael Felix, Flavia YanaseRobot Policy GeneralizationRobot Learning

    runibiLABS

  6. LocoPilot: Single-Operator Bilateral Teleoperation for Loco-Manipulation Policy Learning

    Oct 20, 2026Antonio Langella, Giovanni Minelli, Giovanni B. Dessy +4Loco-ManipulationRobot Teleoperation

    LocoPilot

  7. A Head Camera Is (Almost) All You Need: An Electronics-Free UMI Glove Labelled and Observed by One Moving Camera

    Oct 20, 2026Yosub Shin, Yuan Liu, Igor MolybogRobotic Data CollectionData-Efficient Robot Learning

    University of Hawaii at Manoa · Independent

  8. Scalable, Intuitive, Mixed Reality-Based Semi-Autonomous Robotic Telemanipulation for the Execution of a Fine-Grained Bimanual Task

    Oct 18, 2026Shifei Duan, Zhe Wang, Francesco De Pace +1Robot TeleoperationRobotic Data Collection

    New Dexterity research group, The University of Auckland, New Zealand · Competence Industry Manufacturing 4.0 (CIM4.0), Turin, Italy · National Technical University of Athens, Greece

  9. Towards Agentic Robots: Model, Data, Environment, and Harness

    Oct 14, 2026Chonghan Qin, Dongming Wu, Kaituo Feng +13Agentic AI for RoboticsRobotics

  10. Human Demonstrations as Post-Training Data for Any Robot Body: Retargeting the Object, Not the Hand

    Oct 14, 2026Nagasrikanth KallakuriCross-Embodiment Robot LearningRobotic Manipulation

    Dxtr AI Co.

  11. AutoRSR: Automated Real-to-Sim-to-Real Data Generation for Scalable Robot Learning

    Oct 14, 2026Jiawei Zhang, Chang Liu, Litao Deng +2Synthetic Data Generation for RoboticsRobotic Data Collection

    Renmin University of China

  12. TacClaw-Infinity: A Large-Scale Vision-Tactile-Language-Action Dataset for Dexterous Manipulation

    Oct 14, 2026Fucai Zhu, Xidong Zhang, Yichi Zhang +23Robot Manipulation DatasetsRobotic Data Collection

    Daimon Robotics · Great Bay University · Southern University of Science and Technology +13

  13. FOMI: A Force-Feedback Manipulation Interface for Teaching Contact-Rich Manipulation

    Oct 14, 2026Yishu Shen, Yiming Luo, Ruilin Wang +7Haptic Feedback for Robot TeleoperationRobotic Data Collection

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · The University of Hong Kong · Robbyant +1

  14. EgoMatrix: Physically Faithful Dexterous Robot Demonstrations from Egocentric Human Videos

    Oct 13, 2026Ziheng Wang, Yanming Shao, Ting Mao +4Hand-Object Interaction ReconstructionRobotic Data Collection

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · The University of Hong Kong · Zhejiang University +1

  15. TACROSS: An Efficient and Low-Cost Scalable Human Touch System Across Heterogeneous Tactile Sensors for Dexterous Robot Learning

    Oct 8, 2026Bo Chen, Huanzhang Hu, Junyang Ma +11Robotic Data CollectionCross-Embodiment Robot Learning

    The University of Hong Kong · INFIFORCE · The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) +3

  16. COOL: Curiosity-Driven Object Ownership Learning for Personalized Robotic Assistance

    Oct 7, 2026Samira Huber, Ruben Hammele, Sören PirkRobot LearningService Robotics

    Department of Computer Science, Kiel University, Germany

  17. FLoRa: Flight-Assisted Data Collection from Duty Cycling LoRa Nodes under Energy Constraints

    Oct 6, 2026Naresh Babu Kakarla, V. MahendranRobotic Data CollectionInternet of Things

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, 517619, India

  18. VOMMI: Collecting and Leveraging Portable Demonstrations for Mobile Manipulation

    Oct 6, 2026Yutian Zhang, Xingrui Xiong, Siyuan Ma +12Mobile ManipulationRobotic Data Collection

    ZJU · Yale · THU +5

  19. From Wearable Interfaces to Dexterous Policies: Contact Shifts and Tactile Representations

    Oct 6, 2026Ruitong Tian, Fang Xu, Noah B. Wilson +2Robotic Data CollectionRobot Teleoperation

    Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. · Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.

  20. AeroBuoy: A Drone Deployable, 3D Printed, Autonomous Robotic Buoy for Environmental Inspection in Remote and Hazardous River Systems

    Oct 5, 2026Reuben O'Brien, Angus Lynch, Minas LiarokapisRobotic InspectionRobotic Data Collection

    New Dexterity Research Group, Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

  21. RoboCap: A New Platform for Egocentric Robot Learning

    Oct 5, 2026Qasim Ali, Nikash Bhardwaj, Kheri Hughes +15Robotic Data CollectionDepth Estimation

  22. R2RI: A Multi-View Event and RGB Dataset for Robot-to-Robot Interaction

    Oct 5, 2026Gabriele Magrini, Riccardo Catalini, Federico Becattini +4Robotic Data CollectionRobotics

    Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Florence, Italy · Department of Engineering “Enzo Ferrari”, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy · Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics (DIISM), University of Siena, Siena, Italy

  23. Mulligan: Performance-Guided Data Collection for Efficient On-Robot Learning

    Oct 5, 2026Lars Ankile, Perry Dong, Rohan Bhowmik +4Robotic Data CollectionRobotic Manipulation

    Stanford University

  24. Building A Multi-Sensor Platform For Autonomous Driving Research: Challenges and Lessons Learned

    Oct 4, 2026Paulo Ricardo Marques de Araujo, Eslam Mounier, Qamar Bader +2Autonomous Driving DatasetsRobotic Data Collection

    Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada · Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt · Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, ON, Canada

  25. Leveraging Cost-effective Robotics for K-12 STEM Education through Water Quality Monitoring Tasks

    Oct 3, 2026Rishi Mukherjee, Andrew Ruiz, Travis Henderson +6Robotics EducationRobotic Data Collection

    Dept. CSE, MnRI, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN · Michigan Tech · Hitech Kids

  26. Autonomous mobile robot operations logistics: a dataset of jobs, dispatch events and robot states

    Oct 1, 2026Jan-Felix Klein, Yongkuk JeongMobile RoboticsRobotic Data Collection

    Department of Production Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden · Digital Futures, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  27. SoTa: Soft Tactile Skins for Dexterous Manipulation

    Oct 1, 2026Jingyun Yang, Baiyu Shi, Timothy Yu +6Tactile SensingTactile Sensing for Robotic Manipulation

    Stanford University · Tsinghua University · University of Cambridge

  28. H-SPAR: Hydrodynamic-aware Simulation for Particle Transport and Autonomous Robots

    Oct 1, 2026Navid Zarrabi, Nariman Yousefi, Sajad SaeediContact-Aware Motion PlanningRobotic Data Collection

    Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Mechatronics Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. · Department of Chemical Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. · Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom.

  29. EmbodiRSI: Recursive Self-Improvement for Data-Efficient Robot Adaptation

    Sep 30, 2026Haoran Lang, Haotao Lu, Shiyu Sang +6Robot Policy AdaptationRobotic Data Collection

    InstAdapt · ShanghaiTech University

  30. Coral Grow-out Robotic Assessment System (CGRAS): Scaling Coral Recruit Monitoring Through Robotics and Computer Vision

    Sep 30, 2026Dorian Tsai, Scarlett Raine, Emilio Olivastri +12Robotic Data Collection

    Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia · Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), Townsville, Australia · National Sea Simulator at AIMS