Researchers built a compliant, tapered, continuum arm inspired by the elephant trunk using 3D printing and tendon-driven actuation, enabling whole-body grasping of various objects.

The paper introduces an automated design method for soft-rigid hybrid robots, optimizing the structure to achieve effective dynamic locomotion, demonstrated by successful walking experiments.

The paper introduces and demonstrates that leveraging dynamic symmetry—the uniformity of attainable center-of-mass accelerations—significantly enhances a robot's agility, robustness, and multifunction…

This paper presents a robot-agnostic compliant-control framework with standardized interfaces for ROS control ecosystem, enabling reusable infrastructure for various manipulators and diverse compliant…

This paper introduces NOTES, a method for efficient and transferable inverse design of physical systems using neural operators, dimensionality reduction, and evolutionary optimization.

This paper proposes a method for simultaneous power transmission and position estimation in sensorless water hydraulic robots using flexible tubes.

This paper presents Mana, a sim-to-real framework for dexterous articulated tool manipulation.

This paper proposes a data-driven framework for contact force estimation in Deformable Tool Manipulation using a compact LSTM and few-shot adaptation strategy.

A single robot platform, Handroid, is introduced that can function as both a dexterous hand and a humanoid robot, with interchangeable control and learning frameworks.

This paper proposes SonoRank, a method for calibration-free finger flexion detection from forearm ultrasound video using pairwise ranking and fine-tuning.

This paper presents a complete pipeline for artificial nociception in a robotic arm, converting skin pressure into bio-inspired withdrawal motions using a reflex controller.