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A survey of autonomous robots and multi-robot navigation: Perception, planning and collaboration
June 2025
The development of autonomous robots and the wide range of communication resources hold significant potential for enhancing multi-robot collaboration and its applications. Over the past decades, there...
Wearable sensors for activity monitoring and motion control: A review
March 2023
Wearable sensors for activity monitoring currently are being designed and developed, driven by an increasing demand in health care for noninvasive patient monitoring and rehabilitation training. This...
Motion planning for robotics: A review for sampling-based planners
March 2025
Recent advancements in robotics have transformed industries such as manufacturing, logistics, surgery, and planetary exploration. A key challenge is developing efficient motion planning algorithms that...
Large language model-based task planning for service robots: A review
March 2026
With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) and robotics, service robots are increasingly becoming an integral part of daily life, offering a wide range of services in complex environments....
IMU-based motion capture system for rehabilitation applications: A systematic review
June 2023
In recent years, the use of inertial measurement unit (IMU)-based motion capture (Mocap) systems in rehabilitation has grown significantly. This paper aimed to provide an overview of current IMU-based...
A survey on the visual perception of humanoid robot
March 2025
In recent years, humanoid robots have gained significant attention due to their potential to revolutionize various industries, from healthcare to manufacturing. A key factor driving this transformation...
Exoskeletons in the context of soldiers: Current status and future research trends
September 2025
Modern military drills and conventional training, performed under all-weather conditions, impose exacting challenges on soldiers. This has motivated the development of exoskeleton robot systems, leveraging...
Human-like dexterous manipulation for anthropomorphic five-fingered hands: A review
March 2025
Humans excel at dexterous manipulation; however, achieving human-level dexterity remains a significant challenge for robots. Technological breakthroughs in the design of anthropomorphic robotic hands,...
Large language models for human–robot interaction: A review
December 2023
The fusion of large language models and robotic systems has introduced a transformative paradigm in human–robot interaction, offering unparalleled capabilities in natural language understanding and...
Development and experimental characterization of a robotic butterfly with a mass shifter mechanism
December 2022
The development of biomimetic aerial robots has emerged as a new solution for studying the flight mechanisms of flying creatures. This study designs a biomimetic robotic butterfly steered via a mass...
Humanoid dexterous hands from structure to gesture semantics for enhanced human–robot interaction: A review
December 2025
As human–robot interaction (HRI) technology advances, dexterous robotic hands are playing a dual role—serving both as tools for manipulation and as channels for non-verbal communication. While much...
Towards Industry 5.0: Emerging trends in dual-arm human–robot collaboration
June 2026
As industry transitions from the Industry 4.0 paradigm to the human-centered vision of Industry 5.0, robots are evolving from mere automation tools into intelligent partners capable of close collaboration...
A survey of the development of quadruped robots: Joint configuration, dynamic locomotion control method and mobile manipulation approach
March 2022
Some quadruped robots developed recently show better dynamic performance and environmental adaptability than ever, and have been preliminarily applied in the field of emergency disposal, military reconnaissance...
Human–robot object handover: Recent progress and future direction
March 2024
Human–robot object handover is one of the most primitive and crucial capabilities in human–robot collaboration. It is of great significance to promote robots to truly enter human production and life...
EMG-Based prosthetics control using NeuroAttend-EMG: A Deep Learning Approach with Explainable AI (XAI) on Edge Devices
Available online 26 February 2026
With an increased frequency of accidents and birth defects issues, such as congenital amputation, the need for improved prosthetic devices increases. In this work, we present a rigid prosthetic system...
Design and validation of a quasi-passive knee exoskeleton with clutched elastic actuators for human walking assistance
June 2026
Human legs exhibit spring-like behavior during the walking stance phase, motivating the development of lightweight passive lower extremity exoskeletons with elastic energy storage. While such designs...
Wheeled-legged robots for multi-terrain locomotion in plateau environments
September 2025
Wheeled-legged robots integrate the mobility efficiency of wheeled platforms with the terrain adaptability of legged robots, making them ideal for complex, unstructured environments. However, balancing...
Robotic fish with tunable stiffness soft tail based on bionic spinal muscle system
June 2026
Changes in muscle state in vertebrates directly influence their movement properties, offering inspiration for research on bionic robotic fish. This paper presents an untethered robotic fish equipped...
SMART-PIPEBOT: A soft pipe-climbing robot with woodpecker tail-inspired support mechanism for single-sidewall adhesion
Available online 6 March 2026
Soft crawling robots have attracted substantial attention for their environmental adaptability and compliant locomotion. However, the scalability of many soft in-pipe robots to large diameters remains...
Optimization-based shape design of soft-rigid hybrid fingers for adaptive parallel robotic gripper
September 2026
Parallel robotic gripper is an efficient tool for grasping and manipulating objects in industrial applications. In recent years, to enable adaptive grasping of objects with complex shapes, many parallel...
Variable stiffness methods of flexible robots for minimally invasive surgery: A review
September 2024
With high flexibility and slim body, flexible robots have been widely used in minimally invasive surgery because they can safely reach the lesion deep inside the human body through small incisions or...
Bathing assistive devices and robots for the elderly
June 2025
The issue of aging population has become a severe problem that restricts global development. Thus, the development of bathing robots for the elderly is of great significance for the national strategy...
Enhancing stability and reliability in LLM-driven robotic manipulation through human skill demonstration and visual tracking
Available online 26 February 2026
Large Language Models (LLMs) have not only propelled advancements in natural language processing but also found increasingly extensive applications in robotics. However, due to insufficient integration...
SoftGrasp: Adaptive grasping for dexterous hand based on multimodal imitation learning
June 2025
Biomimetic grasping is crucial for robots to interact with the environment and perform complex tasks, making it a key focus in robotics and embodied intelligence. However, achieving human-level finger...
A bio-inspired intestine robot utilizing soft origami Kresling structures to imitate peristaltic wave motion and transport
March 2026
This paper presents a single-drive bio-inspired intestine robot that leverages the coupled rotational-contraction dynamics of Kresling origami structures and unidirectional valves to replicate intestinal...
