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  1. PhoneBot: A Low-Cost Open Humanoid Robot Platform Reusing Smartphones

    Oct 6, 2026Ruochen Hou, Quanyou Wang, Daniel Koh +1Humanoid Robot LocomotionRobotics

    Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa), Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

  2. WareFly-VLA: A Vision-Language-Action Framework for UAV Navigation and Human Tracking in Smart Warehouses

    Oct 6, 2026Thinh D. Le, Son T. Nguyen, Duong Q. Nguyen +3Aerial RoboticsUAV Navigation

    Center for AI Research, VinUniversity, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · College of Engineering and Computer Science, VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam · VinRobotics, Hanoi, Vietnam

  3. Reactive Exploration of Unknown Environments for Redundant Robots using Virtual Model Control

    Oct 6, 2026Alessio Canzolino, Omar Faris, Alessandro De Blasi +1Active Vision for Robot ManipulationRobotics

    Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi”, University of Bologna, Italy · Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK.

  4. Toward Trustworthy Physical AI for Human Interaction

    Oct 5, 2026Niccolò Pagliarani, Maximilian Stölzle, Cosima du Pasquier +6RoboticsRobot Safety

    The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pontedera, Italy. · CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. · CHARM Lab, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. +3

  5. Lego-Like Stiffness Configuration of Planar Compliant Modules for Task-Specific Flexible Interfaces

    Oct 5, 2026Siyue Yao, Xiaochi Xie, Shixuan Zhao +4Mechanism DesignModular Robotics

    State Key Laboratory of Mechanical Systems and Vibration, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, USA · Shanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Robotics; META Robotics Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China +1

  6. 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

  7. ArtifactArena: Evaluating Models by What They Build in the Physical World

    Oct 5, 2026Kushagra Tiwary*, David Mayo*, Nikhil Behari +5Robotics SimulationRobotics

    InfoLab, MIT CSAIL · Camera Culture, MIT Media Lab · Department of Psychiatry, NYU Grossman School of Medicine +1

  8. Future Anchored Verification and Online Recovery for World Action Models

    Oct 5, 2026Zhibin Qin, Zhenxiong Tan, Xinchao WangWorld Models for RoboticsRobotics

    National University of Singapore

  9. Infant simulator with an embodied caregiver: Generating infant-perspective touch and vision during social interaction

    Oct 5, 2026Noemi Vaculinova, Matej HoffmannRobotics SimulationHuman Behavior Simulation

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

  10. A State Based Dispatch Controller for Hospital Delivery Robots with Shared Human and Infrastructure Resources

    Oct 5, 2026Krzysztof Siwek, Aleksandra ŚwietlickaRoboticsHuman-Robot Collaboration

    Faculty of Electrical Engineering Warsaw University of Technology Koszykowa 75, 00-662 Warszawa · Faculty of Control, Robotics and Electrical Engineering Poznań University of Technology Piotrowo 3a, 61-138 Poznan

  11. Transporting Unsecured Stacked Payloads with a Quadrupedal Robot via Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning

    Oct 5, 2026Nobuo Namura, Masayuki Hiromoto, Kento Uemura +2Multi-Objective Reinforcement LearningRobot Policy Adaptation

    Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, Japan

  12. The Unexpired Plan: A Free Monitor for Accelerated Diffusion Policies

    Oct 5, 2026Yi Zhao, Sebastian SchererRoboticsDiffusion Policy

    AirLab, The Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  13. Vela: Scaling Vision-Language-Action Models with Adaptive Action Curve Parametrization

    Oct 4, 2026Yifan Li, Jiaxu Wang, Dongming Wu +4Robot Foundation ModelsRobotics

    Fudan University · Shanghai Innovation Institute · The Chinese University of Hong Kong +1

  14. Towards Physical Underwater Robotic Assistance for Scuba Diver Movement in Confined Spaces

    Oct 1, 2026Demetrious T. Kutzke, Junaed SattarRoboticsUnderwater Robotics

  15. ChunkVLA-AM: Parallel Action Chunking for Vision-Language-Action Robot Control in Additive Manufacturing

    Oct 1, 2026Zhugang Liu, Kaichuang Zhang, Jinman Zhang +7RoboticsVision-Language-Action Models

    Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley · Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida · Department of Computer Science, San Diego State University +1

  16. ALFRED: Requirement-driven development of an open-source mobile manipulator for long-term plant monitoring

    Oct 1, 2026Ciarán Miceal Johnson, Christopher Quail, Garry Ellard +3Modular RoboticsMobile Robotics

  17. Neuro-Symbolic Predicate Learning for Semantic Safe Robot Control

    Sep 30, 2026Zihan Ye, Jiayi Liu, Puze Liu +4Robotic ControlRobotics

    TU Darmstadt · AIML group · Hessian AI +5

  18. What to Attend, What to Keep: Skill-Conditioned Visuotactile Representation with Progress-Guided Event Memory

    Sep 29, 2026Amir-Hossein Shahidzadeh, Seungjae Lee, Eadom Dessalene +5Contact-Rich Robotic ManipulationVisuo-Tactile Representation Learning

    Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

  19. Draft: A Parametric Tool for Robot Design Exploration

    Sep 29, 2026David Nguyen, Marcelo Coelho, Sangbae KimRobot Morphology-Control Co-DesignRobotics Simulation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  20. Recompositional Robotics: Cross-Domain, Open-set, and Lifelong Modularity Beyond Morphology

    Sep 29, 2026Steven Swanbeck, Jonathan Salfity, Corrie Van Sice +2Modular RoboticsRobotics

    Texas Robotics and the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA

  21. Towards Spatial Perception for Heterogeneous Robot Collaboration in Subterranean Mining Environments

    Sep 29, 2026Mario Alberto Valdes Saucedo, Akash Patel, Christoforos Kanellakis +1RoboticsHeterogeneous Collaborative Perception

    Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Group, Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, 971 87 Luleå, Sweden

  22. From Sky to Soil: A Morphing Aerial-Ground Robot for Seed Deployment

    Sep 29, 2026Namai Chandra, Lining YaoAerial RoboticsRobotics

    Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India · Morphing Matter Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

  23. Learning to Explore Hidden Kinematics for Articulated Object Manipulation

    Sep 29, 2026Ruiyao Liu, Boshu Lei, Zhuoyang Pan +1RL for RoboticsActive Perception

    GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

  24. Distilling Privileged Control Barrier Functions into RGB-Only Safety Filters for Dynamic Visual Navigation

    Sep 29, 2026Seungyeon Yoo, Gawon Lee, Seungwoo Jung +2Control Barrier FunctionsRobotics

    Department of Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  25. Closed-Form Cartesian Forward Kinetostatics for Spatial Multi-Segment Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots

    Sep 29, 2026Ke Wu, Fangju Yang, Xiaohui Zhang +4RoboticsContinuum Robot Control

  26. SkillWeaver: Agentic Exploration over Neural Interaction Skills for Scalable Robot Data Generation

    Sep 28, 2026He Zhu, Lusen Zhao, Kwan Man Cheng +2Robot Skill LearningRobotics Simulation

    Carnegie Mellon University · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  27. RoboCompiler: Graph-Native Compilation of Closed-Chain Robots for Consistent Modeling, Control, and Simulation

    Sep 28, 2026Mehdi Heydari Shahna, Joongheon Kim, Jouni MattilaRobotic ControlRobotics Simulation

    Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

  28. Robot Tool Design from Scratch via Behavior-Aware Hierarchical Optimization

    Sep 28, 2026Yinghan Chen, Xiyao Tian, Yizan Dai +2Robot Morphology-Control Co-DesignRobotics

    Institute for AI, Peking University. · School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University. · Yuanpei College, Peking University. +4

  29. AGRO-SUVIDE: Agentic Robotics for Surgical Viscoelastic Debridement

    Sep 28, 2026Shutong Jin, Ziyang Chen, Preethi Satish +4Robot Skill LearningRobotics

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. · Department of Robotics, Perception and Learning, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SE 10044, Sweden. · Intuitive Surgical, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, USA.

  30. Robot-Assisted Deployment and Maintenance of Inflatable Modules for Lunar Habitation: A Field Demonstration

    Sep 28, 2026Kentaro Uno, Shamistan Karimov, Ashutosh Mishra +5Robotic ConstructionModular Robotics

    Space Robotics Lab. (SRL) in Department of Aerospace Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan · Department of Electrical Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Noda 278-8510, Japan

  31. Large Language Models for Model-Based Robot Design

    Sep 27, 2026Andrew Wilhelm, Angelina Zhao, Nils NappLarge Language Model-Guided OptimizationRobotics

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14850, United States

  32. Markerless Multi-Modal Autonomous Robotic Inspection of Large Space Structures

    Sep 24, 2026Juan De Dios Alfaro, Arturo Ríos, David Rodríguez-Martínez +1Robotic InspectionSpace Robotics

    Space Robotics Laboratory, University Institute for Research in Mechatronics and Cyber-Physical Systems, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain.

  33. Anthropomimetic Soft Robotic Forearm with Independently Articulated Carpal Bones Enabling Human-Like Adaptive Stiffness Modulability

    Sep 24, 2026Yoshinobu Obata, Yinlai Jiang, Hiroshi Yokoi +1Robotic Hand DesignRobotics

    Department of Mechanical and Intelligent Systems Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan · Center for Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

  34. From Passive Execution to Active Exploration: Agentic Embodied Manipulation in Realistic Environments

    Sep 24, 2026Shilin Ma, Chubin Zhang, Xulong Bai +3Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationActive Vision for Robot Manipulation

    Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University

  35. Design and Evaluation of LLM Chaining-Based Task Planning for General Purpose Service Robots

    Sep 24, 2026Lucas Da Mota Bruno, Jiahao Sim, Yoshinobu HagiwaraLarge Language Model-Based Robot PlanningRobotics

    Grad. School of Science and Engineering Soka University Tokyo, Japan · Faculty of Science and Engineering Soka University Tokyo, Japan

  36. Fly, Drive, Reconfigure: A Modular Reconfigurable Aerial-Ground Platform for Field Operations

    Sep 24, 2026Li-Yu Lo, Yanbaihui Liu, Chengchuan Shu +3Modular RoboticsMulti-Robot Systems

    Duke University

  37. Learning Air-Ground Motion Control with Temporal Mode Switching and Cross-Terrain Tracking

    Sep 22, 2026Ruitian Pang, Mingrui Li, Xuanting Liu +10RL ControlRobot Trajectory Tracking

    The State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China. · Department of Dynamics and Control, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China. · Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China. +1

  38. Benchmarking Robots for Everyday Environments: From Lab Experiments to Real-World Operations

    Sep 22, 2026Raphael Memmesheimer, Martina Overbeck, Dominik Beyer +19RoboticsRobot Safety

    Autonomous Intelligent Systems, University of Bonn, Germany · FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, Germany · School of Business and Economics, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany +8

  39. Shaft-Configuration-Adaptive Catheter Tip Position Estimation via Motor-History Conditioned Residual Learning

    Sep 22, 2026Peihan Zhang, Michael C. Yip, Ankur Kapoor +1Residual LearningRobotics

    Digital Technology & Innovation, Siemens Healthineers, Princeton, NJ, USA. · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, United States.

  40. Zephyron: Integrated Design and Analytical Evaluation of a Solar-Assisted Mobile Manipulator for Multimodal Environmental Reconnaissance and Distributed Visual Inference

    Sep 22, 2026Sabik Bin Sultan, Shafi Bin Sultan, Safwan SadadMobile ManipulationMobile Robotics

    Bangladesh Air Force Shaheen College Kurmitola · St.Joseph Higher Secondary School · Greenland Residential School

  41. A Reconfigurable Bidirectional Cable-Driven Hip Exoskeleton with Swappable Bench/Backpack Dual-configuration Actuation

    Sep 22, 2026YuanLong Ji, Shuhan Xiang, Qihan Ye +1RoboticsAssistive Robotics

    School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University; the Key Laboratory of Biomechanics and Mechanobiology (Beihang University), Ministry of Education; Key Laboratory of Innovation and Transformation of Advanced Medical Devices, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; National Medical Innovation Platform for Industry-Education Integration in Advanced Medical Devices (Interdiscipline of Medicine and Engineering), Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China

  42. Visuomotor Robotic Pruning in Planar Orchards Using Hybrid Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 21, 2026Abhinav Jain, Cindy Grimm, Stefan LeeVisuomotor Policy LearningRobotics

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

  43. Estimation and Control of Tensegrity Manipulator Kinematics based on Strut Inclination Angles

    Sep 21, 2026Tufail Ahmad Bhat, Shuhei IkemotoRobotic ControlRobotics

    Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

  44. StenoVLA-3D: 3D-Aware Reasoning VLA for Navigation Through Gastrointestinal Stenoses

    Sep 21, 2026Tamima Tabassum, Yiming Huang, Tianchun Wu +7EndoscopyRobotics

    *Equal contributor · †Corresponding author

  45. Phrase-Level Robotic Guqin Performance: Bimanual Motion Planning and Audio-Tactile Interaction Monitoring

    Sep 21, 2026Zhen Wang, Zhiheng Chen, Tianyuan Bao +1Bimanual Robotic ManipulationRobotics

    The Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society, Shenzhen, China · The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

  46. Anticipatory Robot Goalkeeping via Monotone Optimal Stopping

    Sep 21, 2026Hao E. Zhang, Ruize Geng, Yisen Li +8Optimal StoppingRobotics

    Carnegie Mellon University · University of Texas at Arlington · General Motors

  47. PackLab: A Comprehensive Framework for Developing, Training, and Evaluating MLLMs in Robotic Bin Packing

    Sep 20, 2026Donghao Zhou, Jia-Hui Pan, Fan Zhang +6Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationRobotics

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong · M-A-P · Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  48. Design and Control of a Cable-Driven Switchable Actuator with Torque/Tension Dual Modes for Exoskeletons

    Sep 20, 2026YuanLong Ji, Xu Liu, Xinyuan Cai +8Robotic ControlRobotics

    School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University; the Key Laboratory of Biomechanics and Mechanobiology (Beihang University), Ministry of Education; Key Laboratory of Innovation and Transformation of Advanced Medical Devices, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; National Medical Innovation Platform for Industry-Education Integration in Advanced Medical Devices (Interdiscipline of Medicine and Engineering), Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China · School of Engineering Medicine, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China · School of Physics and Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Longyan University, Longyan, 364012, China

  49. Conflicting Pattern Formation by Teams of Anonymous, Fully Disoriented Robots

    Sep 20, 2026Animesh Maiti, Prakhar Shukla, Subhash BhagatMulti-Robot Formation ControlMobile Robotics

    Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

  50. INSPECT: Learning Robot View Selection from Assistant Use

    Sep 17, 2026Di Wen, Kailun Yang, Wenhao Guo +7Active PerceptionRobotic Inspection

    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe 76131, Germany · Hunan University, Changsha 410012, China · Independent Researcher

  51. Bayesian Continuum Robot Dynamics and State Estimation

    Sep 17, 2026James M. Ferguson, Tucker Hermans, Alan KuntzFactor Graph OptimizationRobotics

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, TN, USA. · Kahlert School of Computing and Robotics Center, University of Utah, UT, USA.

  52. Towards AI-enhanced control: a numerical technique for trajectory smoothing of a parallel robot for pancreatic surgery

    Sep 17, 2026Iosif Birlescu, Alexandru Pusca, Bogdan Gherman +4Robotic ControlTrajectory Optimization

    LS2N - équipe RoMas, LS2N · CESTER, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 400114 Cluj-Napoca, Romania · École Centrale Nantes, Nantes Université, CNRS, LS2N, UMR 6004, F-44000 Nantes, France +2

  53. Spatial-Semantic Uncertainty in VLM-Based Target Search: Balancing Exploration and Identification

    Sep 17, 2026Alkesh K. Srivastava, Jonathan Diller, Vijay Kumar +1Belief-Space PlanningVision-Language Models

    Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 19122 USA · University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 USA

  54. Resilient Motion Planning for Free-Flying Space Robots under Actuator Failures

    Sep 17, 2026Nicolas de Maddalena, Joris Verhagen, Jana TumovaSpace RoboticsRobotics

    Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, ZH, Switzerland · Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, and also affiliated with Digital Futures.

  55. Execution-Aware Pre-Execution Ranking for Grasp-Conditioned Robotic Placement

    Sep 17, 2026Tianyuan Liu, Rutherford Agbeshi Patamia, Benjamin Champion +2Robotic GraspingRobotics

    Deakin University, Australia

  56. Quantifying Mechanical Intelligence in Legged Robots with Information Theory

    Sep 17, 2026Zach J. PattersonRobotics

    Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case Western Reserve University

  57. OmniCalib: Target-Free, Task-Structured Self-Calibration for Humanoid Robots

    Sep 17, 2026Kaixiang Lu, Haiyu Lan, Chunxiao Qiao +6RoboticsCamera Calibration

  58. Self-excited actuation enables adaptive and resilient flapping-wing flight

    Sep 16, 2026Rundong Yang, Ethan S. Wold, Ellen Liu +5Robotic ControlAerial Robotics

    Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, 92161, USA · School of Biological Sciences and School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA · Mechanical Industrial Engineering, Montana State University, MT, 59717, USA

  59. GLAMDRING: Gait Learning And Morphology co-Design via Reinforcement LearnING of CPGs

    Sep 16, 2026Amogh Joshi, Kaushik RoyRobot Morphology-Control Co-DesignRobotics

    Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA

  60. From Rollout to Reset: A Graph-Based Harness for Autonomous Long-Horizon Manipulation Evaluation

    Sep 16, 2026Jing Jiang, Yue Yang, Xinkai Jiang +3Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationRobotic Policy Evaluation

    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA