D-RMGPT: Robot-assisted collaborative tasks driven by large multimodal models
December 2026
Collaborative robots are increasingly popular for assisting humans at work and daily tasks. However, designing and setting up interfaces for human–robot collaboration is challenging, requiring the integration...
Towards human-like tactile perception in humanoid robot forearms
December 2026
Physical awareness is essential for enabling humanoid robots to achieve safe and seamless interaction with human partners. This study details the development of a biomimetic forearm featuring a distributed,...
Integrated tip tracking and whole-body collision avoidance for multi-segment continuum robots based on real-time shape reconstruction
December 2026
Continuum robots have found widespread applications in clinical surgery, benefiting from their high flexibility and compliance. However, their inherent compact design and passive compliance present...
Autonomous tracking control of eagle-scale flapping wing flying robots in confined space based on periodic motion equivalence
December 2026
Eagle-scale flapping-wing flying robots (FWFRs) hold significant application value in fields such as resource exploration and counter-terrorism operations. However, when performing low-altitude detection...
Anti-disturbance control for longitudinal motion of distributed electric drive unmanned ground vehicle
December 2026
To address the issue that multi-source disturbances such as model mismatch and external environmental changes affect the speed tracking accuracy of longitudinal motion control for distributed electric...
Human gait-inspired knee exoskeleton for adaptive passive weight-support: Design and preliminary experimental evaluation
December 2026
Reducing knee joint load is a well-established approach in the conservative management of knee osteoarthritis (KOA), and the use of joint-unloading exoskeletons offers a promising means to achieve this...
A hip exoskeleton applied to lateral resistance walk exercise for hip adductor and abductor strengthening
December 2026
Lateral resistance walk exercise (LRWE) has been widely used in fitness and rehabilitation training. Current popular method for LRWE is lateral band walks (LBW) which the training intensity cannot be...
SMART-PIPEBOT: A soft pipe-climbing robot with woodpecker tail-inspired support mechanism for single-sidewall adhesion
December 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...
EMG-based prosthetics control using NeuroAttend-EMG: A deep learning approach with explainable AI (XAI) on edge devices
December 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...
Fast deployable robust control for structured offshore aquaculture platforms inspection with adaptive disturbance compensator
December 2026
Autonomous remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) have recently emerged as a promising solution for inspecting offshore aquaculture platforms (OAPs), including truss-structured net cages and aquaculture...
High-fidelity marker-level 3D deformation simulation of visuotactile sensors
December 2026
The visuotactile simulation is significant for robot learning towards contact-rich manipulation tasks. However, tactile simulation is still a challenging problem in most robot simulators. In this paper,...
Enhancing stability and reliability in LLM-driven robotic manipulation through human skill demonstration and visual tracking
December 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
GraspLite-Net: A lightweight deep learning method for real-time robotic grasp stability prediction
September 2026
With the rapid advancement of tactile sensing technologies, real-time prediction of robotic grasp stability has become increasingly critical for ensuring safe and reliable operation in automated industrial...
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...
HAPNet: Toward superior RGB-thermal scene parsing via hybrid, asymmetric, and progressive heterogeneous feature fusion
September 2026
Data-fusion networks have shown significant promise for RGB-thermal scene parsing. However, the majority of existing studies have relied on symmetric duplex encoders for heterogeneous feature extraction...
Human–robot collaborative navigation: An interactive information entropy minimization framework for mobile social robots
September 2026
The seamless integration of mobile robots into daily life hinges on addressing the challenge of human–robot interaction within dynamic environments. Existing research has extensively explored the harmonious...
Quad-wing FWMAV with thrust vector yaw steering
September 2026
Flapping-wing micro aerial vehicles (FWMAVs) offer compelling advantages for navigating confined and cluttered environments due to their low weight, agility, and bioinspired locomotion. This study introduces...
Learning from Yangtze alligators: A framework for agile and ecologically interactive spine-legged robots
September 2026
A central challenge in bio-robotics is to create machines that can integrate into and illuminate natural ecosystems. The Chinese Yangtze Alligator – a critically endangered species exhibiting exceptionally...
FineSegNeRF: Semantic NeRF for fine semantic segmentation
September 2026
Semantic segmentation is a crucial technology for intelligent vehicles, enabling robust scene understanding in complex driving environments. However, existing methods often struggle with small, distant,...
Safe expeditious whole-body control of mobile manipulators for collision avoidance
September 2026
Whole-body reactive obstacle avoidance for mobile manipulators (MM) remains an open research problem. Control Barrier Functions (CBF), combined with Quadratic Programming (QP), have become a popular...
LDS-Net: A DINOv2–SAM2 framework with LoRA adaptation for surgical instrument segmentation
Available online 18 September 2026
Surgical instrument segmentation is a critical perception task in robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery. However, endoscopic surgical scenes often exhibit complex appearance variations and thin...
