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  1. A Kinematic Framework for Screening Candidate Pinch Configurations in Robotic Hand Design without Object or Contact Models

    Apr 22, 2026HyoJae Kang, Joonho Lee, Hyunmok Jung +1Robotic Hand DesignRobotic Grasping

    Advanced Robotics Research Center, Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMM)

  2. Kinematic Optimization of Phalanx Length Ratios in Robotic Hands Using Potential Dexterity

    Apr 22, 2026HyoJae Kang, Joonho Lee, Jeongdo Ahn +1Robotic Hand DesignMechanism Design

    Advanced Robotics Research Center, Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMM)

  3. Benefits of Low-Cost Bio-Inspiration in the Age of Overparametrization

    Apr 22, 2026Kevin Godin-Dubois, Anil Yaman, Anna V. KononovaRobotic ControlRobotic RL

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands · LIACS, Leiden Universiteit, Netherlands

  4. Cortex 2.0: Grounding World Models in Real-World Industrial Deployment

    Apr 22, 2026Adriana Aida, Walid Amer, Katarina Bankovic +25Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationWorld Models for Robotics

    Sereact GmbH

  5. LLM-Guided Safety Agent for Edge Robotics with an ISO-Compliant Perception-Compute-Control Architecture

    Apr 22, 2026Xu Huang, Ruofan Zhang, Lu Cheng +9RoboticsRobot Safety

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · SIMMIR Tech

  6. A Gesture-Based Visual Learning Model for Acoustophoretic Interactions using a Swarm of AcoustoBots

    Apr 21, 2026Alex Lin, Lei Gao, Narsimlu Kemsaram +1Multi-Robot SystemsRobotics

    Department of Computer Science University College London London, United Kingdom · Department of Artificial Intelligence University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  7. Reinforcement Learning Enabled Adaptive Multi-Task Control for Bipedal Soccer Robots

    Apr 21, 2026Yulai Zhang, Yinrong Zhang, Ting Wu +1Legged RoboticsHumanoid Robot Control

    School of Future Technology, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China

  8. HELM: Harness-Enhanced Long-horizon Memory for Vision-Language-Action Manipulation

    Apr 20, 2026Zijian Zeng, Fei Ding, Huiming Yang +1Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationRobot Failure Recovery

    Tsinghua University · Alibaba Group · Bengbu University

  9. EmbodiedLGR: Integrating Lightweight Graph Representation and Retrieval for Semantic-Spatial Memory in Robotic Agents

    Apr 20, 2026Paolo Riva, Leonardo Gargani, Matteo Frosi +1Graph Retrieval-Augmented GenerationEmbodied QA

    Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

  10. Equanimity in HRI: Applying Calm Technology Principles to Human-Robot Interaction

    Apr 20, 2026Barbara Sienkiewicz, Bipin IndurkhyaRoboticsAssistive Robotics

    Cognitive Science Department, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

  11. ST-ππ: Structured SpatioTemporal VLA for Robotic Manipulation

    Apr 20, 2026Chuanhao Ma, Hanyu Zhou, Shihan Peng +3Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationRobotics

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology · School of Computing, National University of Singapore · School of Computing, Macquarie University

  12. Periodic Steady-State Control of a Handkerchief-Spinning Task Using a Parallel Anti-Parallelogram Tendon-driven Wrist

    Apr 20, 2026Lei Liu, Haonan Zhang, Huahang Xu +8Robotic ControlDexterous Manipulation

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · School of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University, Beijing, China +10

  13. OmniVLA-RL: A Vision-Language-Action Model with Spatial Understanding and Online RL

    Apr 20, 2026Haoxiang Jie, Yaoyuan Yan, Xiangyu Wei +4Flow MatchingPolicy Optimization

    1AI Lab, Country Garden Services · 3VBot · 2Omni AI +1

  14. Web-Gewu: A Browser-Based Interactive Playground for Robot Reinforcement Learning

    Apr 18, 2026Kaixuan Chen, Linqi YeRobotics SimulationAI in Education

    School of Future Technology, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China

  15. Time-Division Multiplexing Actuation in Tendon-Driven Arms: Lightweight Design and Fault Tolerance

    Apr 18, 2026Shoujie Li, Changqing Guo, Jianle Xu +4Robotic ControlRobotics

    Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China · School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639956, Singapore · Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

  16. Chain Of Interaction Benchmark (COIN): When Reasoning meets Embodied Interaction

    Apr 18, 2026Xianhao Wang, Xiaojian Ma, Haozhe Hu +7Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationRobotics

    University of Science and Technology of China · Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI) · Xidian University +2

  17. A Reconfigurable Pneumatic Joint Enabling Localized Selective Stiffening and Shape Locking in Vine-Inspired Robots

    Apr 17, 2026Ayodele James Oyejide, Ustaz A. Yaqub, Samir Erturk +2RoboticsSoft Robotics

    Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Kadir Has University, Cibali, Istanbul, Türkiye · Department of Computer Engineering, Kadir Has University, Cibali, Istanbul, Türkiye · Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Türkiye

  18. DTEA: A Dual-Topology Elastic Actuator Enabling Real-Time Switching Between Series and Parallel Compliance

    Apr 17, 2026Vishal Ramesh, Aman Singh, Shishir KolathayaRobotics

    Department of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India

  19. Limits of Lamarckian Evolution Under Pressure of Morphological Novelty

    Apr 17, 2026Jed R Muff, Karine Miras, A. E. EibenRoboticsEvolutionary Robotics

    Department of Computer Science Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  20. Factor Graph-Based Shape Estimation for Continuum Robots via Magnus Expansion

    Apr 17, 2026Lorenzo Ticozzi, Patricio A. Vela, Panagiotis TsiotrasFactor Graph OptimizationRobotics

    School of Aerospace Engineering · School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  21. Benchmarking Classical Coverage Path Planning Heuristics on Irregular Hexagonal Grids for Maritime Coverage Scenarios

    Apr 16, 2026Carlos S. Sepúlveda, Gonzalo A. RuzRoboticsGraph-Based Planning

    Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile · Millennium Nucleus for Social Data Science (SODAS) · Millennium Nucleus in Data Science for Plant Resilience (PhytoLearning)

  22. POMDP-based Object Search with Growing State Space and Hybrid Action Domain

    Apr 16, 2026Yongbo Chen, Hesheng Wang, Shoudong Huang +1Mobile RoboticsMonte Carlo Tree Search

    School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, People’s Republic of China · School of Computing, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia (The main part of this work is completed at ANU) · Key Laboratory of System Control and Information Processing, Ministry of Education of China, Shanghai, 200240, People’s Republic of China +1

  23. An Intelligent Robotic and Bio-Digestor Framework for Smart Waste Management

    Apr 16, 2026Radhika Khatri, Adit Tewari, Nikhil Sharma +1RoboticsParticle Swarm Optimization

    BITS Pilani Dubai Campus

  24. DigiForest: Digital Analytics and Robotics for Sustainable Forestry

    Apr 16, 2026Marco Camurri, Enrico Tomelleri, Matías Mattamala +18Robotics

    Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, University of Trento, via Sommarive 9, 38123 Trento (TN), Italy · Faculty of Engineering, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, via Bruno Buozzi 1, 39100 Bozen-Bolzano (BZ), Italy · Faculty of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, piazza Universit`a 5, 39100 Bozen-Bolzano (BZ), Italy +9

  25. HazardArena: Evaluating Semantic Safety in Vision-Language-Action Models

    Apr 14, 2026Zixing Chen, Yifeng Gao, Li Wang +8RoboticsAI Safety Evaluation

    Fudan University · City University of Hong Kong · Shanghai Innovation Institute

  26. CableTract: A Co-Designed Cable-Driven Field Robot for Low-Compaction, Off-Grid Capable Agriculture

    Apr 10, 2026Ozgur YilmazRoboticsHardware-Software Co-Design

    Adana Science and Technology University, Adana, Türkiye

  27. ECM Contracts: Contract-Aware, Versioned, and Governable Capability Interfaces for Embodied Agents

    Apr 10, 2026Xue Qin, Simin Luan, Cong Yang +1Software EngineeringRobotics

    School of Software, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. · School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. · School of Future Science and Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou,2026 China.

  28. Designing Privacy-Preserving Visual Perception for Robot Navigation Based on User Privacy Preferences

    Apr 7, 2026Xuying Huang, Sicong Pan, Delphine Reinhardt +1Robot NavigationRobotics

    Humanoid Robots Lab, University of Bonn, the Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and the Center for Robotics, Bonn, Germany · Computer Security and Privacy, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany

  29. Towards Considerate Human-Robot Coexistence: A Dual-Space Framework of Robot Design and Human Perception in Healthcare

    Apr 6, 2026Yuanchen Bai, Zijian Ding, Ruixiang Han +3RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

    Cornell Tech, New York, USA · Department of Information Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA · University of Maryland, College Park

  30. RHINO-AR: An Augmented Reality Exhibit for Teaching Mobile Robotics Concepts in Museums

    Mar 26, 2026Nils Dengler, Tim Graf, Leif Van Holland +3Mobile RoboticsRobot Navigation

    Humanoid Robots Lab, University of Bonn, Germany · Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and the Center for Robotics, Bonn, Germany