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  1. Sliding Sensors: Configurable Confidence in State Estimation for Continuum Robots

    Aug 5, 2026Ella Walsh, Spencer Teetaert, Eric Diller +2RoboticsRobot State Estimation

    University of Toronto Robotics Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada

  2. Failing Gracefully: Mitigating Impact of Inevitable Robot Failures

    Aug 5, 2026Duc M. Nguyen, Saad A. Ghani, Andrew Marshall +3Robotics SimulationRobotics

    Department of Computer Science, George Mason University · RobotiXX Lab, George Mason University

  3. Embedding Large Language Models into Flow Controls: An Agentic Framework for Adaptive and Trustworthy Automated Cooking

    Aug 5, 2026Zihan Song, Hongwei Huang, Yueshuo Sun +3Language Model-Based ControlLarge Language Model-Based Robot Planning

    College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China · School of Information and Electronic Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China · State Key Laboratory for Management and Control of Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

  4. Enabling Urgency-aware Robot Swarm Intralogistics using Smart IoT Tags

    Aug 5, 2026Youssef Alboraei, Murray Groves, Shane Wen +6Swarm RoboticsRobotics

    School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology · Bristol Robotics Laboratory · University of Bristol, UK +5

  5. Stochastic Multiple Shooting Trajectory Optimization via Sequential Local Policy Evaluation

    Aug 4, 2026Ashwin Gupta, Joseph MooreTrajectory OptimizationStochastic Optimal Control

    Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering

  6. Principles of Robot Autonomy

    Aug 4, 2026Daniele Gammelli, Joseph Lorenzetti, Katie Luo +2Robotic ControlRobot Navigation

  7. Contact-Driven Localization in a Freeform Robotic Self-Assembled Structure

    Aug 3, 2026Mohammadali Rashidioun, Michael Sosa, Petras SwisslerModular RoboticsSwarm Robotics

    Institute of Technology · Industrial and Mechanical Engineering Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology

  8. Toward Certified Functional Safety for Industrial Humanoid Robots: The Fail-Passive Gap and a Feasibility Study

    Aug 3, 2026Caiwu Ding, Tao Cui, Lingyun Wang +1Legged RoboticsSafety-Critical Control

    Siemens Foundational Technologies, Siemens Corporation, Princeton, NJ, USA

  9. Situation Aware Frontier Prioritization for Quadruped Search and Rescue

    Aug 3, 2026Kevin Farias, Santiago Martin, Barbara Flores +5Exploration-Exploitation TradeoffRobotics

    Robotics and AI Lab, Technological University of Uruguay, Rivera, Uruguay

  10. Human-Centered Reflections on Care Robots: A Comparative Study of Caregiver Perspectives

    Aug 3, 2026Laura Londoño, Klaus Baumann, Abhinav Valada +1RoboticsAssistive Robotics

    Department of Psychology, University of Freiburg, Germany. · Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Germany. · Department of Theology, University of Freiburg, Germany.

  11. Environmental resilience via morphological diversity within machines

    Aug 3, 2026Alice Hein, Josh BongardRobotics

    Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont, Burlington VT & 05405, USA.

  12. ProtoAct: Turning Wet-Lab Protocols into Embodied Robotic Actions

    Aug 3, 2026Zhe Liu, Jiaming Gu, Zhaohui Du +7RoboticsLaboratory Automation

    Key Laboratory of Smart Manufacturing in Energy Chemical Process, Ministry of Education, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China · Department of Laboratory Medicine, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China +1

  13. Diffusion-Based Body Schema Learning Enabling Abnormal-State Adaptation in Musculoskeletal Robots

    Aug 2, 2026Kento Kawaharazuka, Shuhei IkemotoRoboticsDiffusion Models

    Department of Mechano-Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan. · Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 7230, Hibikino 2-4, Wakamatsu, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, 808-0135, Japan.

  14. KING: Embodiment-Aware Kinematic Graph Neural Network for Unified Motion Representation of Legged and Wheeled Robots

    Aug 2, 2026Taku Okawara, Aoki Takanose, Kenji Koide +2Graph Neural NetworksCross-Embodiment Robot Learning

    Department of Information Technology and Human Factors, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

  15. RL Bootstrapping of OpenVLA-OFT for a Novel Robot Embodiment

    Aug 2, 2026Damir Nurtdinov, Alexei Kornaev, Alexander MaloletovRobot Skill LearningCross-Embodiment Robot Learning

    Research Center of the Artificial Intelligence Institute Innopolis University Innopolis, Russia

  16. You Don't Need To Stay in The Loop: An Agentic Robotics Loop for Robot-Policy Improvement

    Aug 2, 2026Hang YuRobot Policy AdaptationRobotic Policy Evaluation

    Independent Researcher, United States.

  17. Bicycle Acrobatics with Reinforcement Learning

    Aug 1, 2026Shamel Fahmi, Arianna Ilvonen, Samuel Zapolsky +8Robot Skill LearningRobotic RL

    1Robotics and AI Institute (RAI), Cambridge, MA, USA.

  18. GeminiPainter's sequence-formed pipeline comprised of perception, cognition, planning, and action stages

    Aug 1, 2026Miguel Altamirano Cabrera, Aleksey Fedoseev, Iana Zhura +1Robotics

    Intelligent Space Robotics Lab, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russian Federation

  19. Automated Straight-line Sewing of Stretchable Fabrics with Different Lengths

    Jul 31, 2026Bingchen Jin, Akinari Kobayashi, Dipankar Bhattacharya +4Deformable Object ManipulationRobotics

    JC STEM Lab of Robotics for Soft Materials, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · Centre for Transformative Garment Production, Hong Kong Science Park, Hong Kong SAR, China · Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

  20. AquaJEPA: An Action-Conditioned Multimodal JEPA Family for Underwater Robot Dynamics

    Jul 31, 2026Alan-Barsag Gazzaev, Alexey Gavrilov, Sergey MuravyovMultimodal RobustnessJoint-Embedding Predictive Architecture

    ITMO University

  21. Advances, challenges, and opportunities for legged robots

    Jul 31, 2026Jonas Frey, Matías Mattamala, Hae-Won Park +5Legged RoboticsHumanoid Robot Locomotion

    ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland · Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA · UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA +9

  22. RoboBRIDGE: A Modular Framework for Bridging Policies to Robust Real-World Robotic Agents

    Jul 30, 2026Sihyung Yoon, Minjong Yoo, Sanghyun Ahn +2Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationRobotics

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University

  23. BioVLN: A Simulation Platform for Visual Language Navigation in Biomedical Laboratories

    Jul 29, 2026Zhe Liu, Quan Lu, Zhaohui Du +7Robotics SimulationRobot Navigation

    Key Laboratory of Smart Manufacturing in Energy Chemical Process, MoE, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China · Department of Laboratory Medicine, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China +1

  24. NeoRacer: An Open, Standardized 1:12 Scale Autonomous Race Car for Benchmarking and Education

    Jul 29, 2026Koneshka Bandyopadhyay, Ansh Mehta, Bassel El Mabsout +1Benchmark DesignAutonomous Racing

    Neobotics Foundation, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA · Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

  25. An evolutionary model of animats with VLM-based subjective evaluation

    Jul 29, 2026Shota Miyazaki, Takaya Arita, Reiji SuzukiVLM EvaluationRobotics

    Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University, Japan

  26. Transformer Transformer: A Unified Model for Motion-Conditioned Robot Co-design

    Jul 28, 2026Huy Ha, C. Karen Liu, Shuran SongRobot Morphology-Control Co-DesignDiffusion Transformer

    Stanford University · Columbia University

  27. Tripody: An Overconstrained 3-SPR-like Parallel Robot for High-Reach Construction Tasks

    Jul 28, 2026Julien Kindle, Jakub Raczy, Riccardo Balbi +3Robotic ConstructionMechanism Design

    Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland · Hilti AG, Schaan, Liechtenstein

  28. VisualPatchWorld: Code World Models as Latent Structured Representations for Planning

    Jul 28, 2026Jiaxin Bai, Jiaxuan XiongWorld Model LearningWorld Models

    Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong, China

  29. Development of a Handheld Actuation Mechanism for a Tendon-driven Robotically Steered Guidewire

    Jul 27, 2026Saima Chavenet, Timothy A. Brumfiel, Revanth Konda +1Robotic Endovascular InterventionRobotics

    Medical Robotics and Automation (Robomed) Laboratory · Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

  30. LabRobFail: A Benchmark for Robotic Failure Analysis in Chemical Self-driving Laboratory

    Jul 26, 2026Haobo Wang, Baoli Sun, Anqi Zou +8Robot Failure DetectionRobotics

    School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone, Shenzhen, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China +3