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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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.

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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.

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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.

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

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

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

    *Equal contributor · †Corresponding author

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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.

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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.

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

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

    Deakin University, Australia