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  1. Design of a Fully Actuated 4-DOF Robotic Finger With Joint-Specific Hybrid Remote Actuation

    Oct 7, 2026Hyojae Kang, Hyun-mok Jung, Joonho Lee +4Robotic Hand DesignTendon-Driven Actuation

    Advanced Robotics Research Center, Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMM) · Mechanical Engineering, University of Science & Technology (UST)

  2. Design optimization of tendon-driven robots considering tendon wrapping and shortcut

    Oct 7, 2026Yuta Sahara, Kento Kawaharazuka, Kei OkadaTendon-Driven Actuation

    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. · AI Center, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan.

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

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

  4. Design and Validation of an Antagonistic Tendon-Driven Dexterous Robotic Hand with Bidirectional Operation

    Sep 28, 2026Chunghyeon Lee, Hyukjun Kwon, Sungeon Kim +2Robotic Hand DesignRobotic Grasping

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sogang University, Seoul 04107, South Korea

  5. A Tendon-Driven Robotic Jellyfish with Constrained Soft Actuation and Depth Control via Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 24, 2026Jiarui Peng, Yutong Wu, Zelong Wang +5Underwater RoboticsTendon-Driven Actuation

    Hong Kong Embodied AI Lab, Hong Kong SAR, China · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China

  6. 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.

  7. History-Conditioned Flow Matching for Probabilistic Dynamics of Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots

    Sep 22, 2026Hang Yang, Tingcong Liu, Junjie Xiong +2Flow MatchingRobot Dynamics Learning

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. Aero Hand Open: A Simulation-Ready Tendon-Driven Hand for Dexterous Manipulation Learning

    Aug 28, 2026Nan Wang, Mohit Yadav, Jonathan Wulff +5Robotic Hand DesignRobotics Simulation

    Chestnut Robotics

  11. A Disturbance in the Force: Force Actuation on the RAVEN II Surgical Robot with Parallel Motor-Cable Units

    Aug 6, 2026Haonan Peng, Dun-Tin Chiang, Jordan Hendricks +5RoboticsTendon-Driven Actuation

    University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA · Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 01075, USA

  12. Modular Robotic Catheters for Endovascular Aneurysm Repair

    Jul 28, 2026Alex Ranne, Jinshi Zhao, Ali Anil Demircali +5Robotic Endovascular InterventionTendon-Driven Actuation

    Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK · Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bursa Uludag University, 16059, Bursa, Turkey +1

  13. 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

  14. Friction Characterization of a Cable-Driven Differential Actuation System for Lower-Limb Exoskeletons

    Jun 14, 2026Alberto Maria Nobili, Fabio Salsedo, Alessandro FilippeschiMechanism DesignRobotics

    Institute of Mechanical Intelligence and with the Department of Excellence in Robotics and AI, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy · Wearable Robotics s.r.l., Pisa, Italy

  15. WiXus: A Wheeled-Legged Robot with Wire-Driven Environmental Utilizing to Integrate Mobility and Manipulation

    May 20, 2026Shintaro Inoue, Kento Kawaharazuka, Temma Suzuki +2Legged RoboticsRobotics

    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

  16. Neural Operators for Design-Space Surrogate Modeling of Tendon-Actuated Continuum Robots

    May 18, 2026Branden Frieden, James M. Ferguson, Alan Kuntz +1Neural Surrogate ModelingFourier Neural Operator

    The Robotics Center and the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA. · The Departments of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA.

  17. Data-Driven Dynamic Modeling of a Tendon-Actuated Continuum Robot

    May 18, 2026Harald Minde Hansen, Bjørn Kåre Sæbø, Kristin Y. Pettersen +2Robot Dynamics IdentificationNonlinear System Identification

    European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland · Department of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway

  18. SSTL: Self-Sensing Tendon Loop for Hysteresis Modeling and Compensation in Tendon-Sheath Mechanisms

    May 16, 2026Myeongbo Park, Junhyun Park, Ihsan Ullah +2Robotic ControlMechanism Design

  19. Continuum Robot Modeling with Action Conditioned Flow Matching

    May 9, 2026Jiong Lin, Jinchen Ruan, Hod Lipson3D Shape GenerationPoint Cloud Generation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

  20. Reference-Augmented Learning for Precise Tracking Policy of Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots

    Apr 28, 2026Ziqing Zou, Ke Qiu, Haojian Lu +2Robot Trajectory TrackingRobot Policy Learning

    Department of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  21. Learning-Based Dynamics Modeling and Robust Control for Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots

    Apr 28, 2026Ziqing Zou, Ke Qiu, Fei Wang +3Robot Trajectory TrackingRobot Dynamics Learning

    Department of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  22. A Tendon-Driven Wrist Abduction-Adduction Joint Improves Performance of a 5 DoF Upper Limb Exoskeleton -- Implementation and Experimental Evaluation

    Apr 21, 2026Juwairiya S. Khan, Mostafa Mohammadi, Alexander L. Ammitzbøll +8Assistive RoboticsTendon-Driven Actuation

    Neurorehabilitation Robotics and Engineering research group, Center for Rehabilitation Robotics, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Gistrup, Denmark · Department of Materials and Production, Aalborg University, Aalborg East, Denmark · Spinal Cord Injury Centre of Western Denmark, Regional Hospital of Viborg Denmark +3

  23. Design, Modelling and Experimental Evaluation of a Tendon-driven Wrist Abduction-Adduction Mechanism for an upper limb exoskeleton

    Apr 21, 2026Juwairiya S. Khan, Mostafa Mohammadi, John Rasmussen +1Assistive RoboticsTendon-Driven Actuation

    Neurorehabilitation Robotics and Engineering, Center for Rehabilitation Robotics, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg East, Denmark

  24. MM-Hand: A 21-DOF Multi-modal Modular Dexterous Robotic Hand with Remote Actuation

    Apr 19, 2026Zhuoheng Li, Qingquan Lin, Checheng Yu +5Robotic Hand DesignDexterous Manipulation

    The University of Hong Kong · City University of Hong Kong · XiFengGu Ltd.

  25. 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

  26. Tendon-Actuated Robots with a Tapered, Flexible Polymer Backbone: Design, Fabrication, and Modeling

    Mar 19, 2026Harald Minde Hansen, Nandita Gallacher, Nicholas B. Andrews +3Continuum Robot ControlTendon-Driven Actuation

    Mechatronics, Robotics and Operation Section, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Meyrin, Switzerland · Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA · Department of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

  27. CRAFT: A Tendon-Driven Hand with Hybrid Hard-Soft Compliance

    Mar 12, 2026Leo Lin, Shivansh Patel, Jay Moon +2Robotic Hand DesignRobotic Grasping

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · UC Irvine

  28. MuJoCable: Reduced-Order Surface-Routed Cable Transmission for Tendon-Driven Robots

    Date pendingYi Zhang, Qi Shao, Yicong Lin +3Robotics SimulationRobotics