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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...
VTLA: Vision-Tactile-Language-Action model with preference learning for insertion manipulation
Available online 17 April 2026
While vision-language models have advanced significantly, their application in language-conditioned robotic manipulation is still underexplored, especially for contact-rich tasks that extend beyond...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Inverse kinematics and redundancy resolution in manipulators: Methods, optimization objectives, and future trends
June 2026
Redundant manipulators possess additional degrees of freedom that enable superior dexterity, adaptability, and fault tolerance in complex environments. However, this redundancy also introduces challenges...
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,...
A comprehensive review of performance evaluation metrics and state-of-the-art advances in lower-limb exoskeletons
June 2026
Lower limb exoskeleton technology has emerged as pivotal equipment in three key domains: medical rehabilitation, industrial assistance, and human performance augmentation. The systematization and standardization...
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....
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...
Impact of the pectoral fin geometry on the gliding performance of flying fish robot
September 2026
Flying fish, as a quintessential cross-medium species, are well known for their exceptional underwater swimming and water–air transition capabilities. However, their aerial gliding kinematics — particularly...
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...
A comprehensive review of multi-dimensional connection interfaces for the on-orbit assembly of space architectures
September 2026
The demand for large-scale space infrastructures, such as solar power stations and ultra-large telescopes, is growing rapidly. Consequently, on-orbit assembly has emerged as a critical pathway to overcome...
Super minimally invasive surgical robot (SMIS-Robot): Interdisciplinary integration paves the way for a new era of scarless surgery
September 2026
As super minimally invasive surgery (SMIS) evolves in clinical practice, interdisciplinary integration has emerged as the driving force behind its advancement. The natural orifice flexible endoscopic...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Underwater ecological assessment via intelligent monitoring robot based on semi-supervised semantic segmentation
September 2026
Efficient and accurate underwater target recognition is crucial for assessing the stability of marine ecosystems. However, traditional manual diving surveys are costly, time-consuming and limited in...
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...
