Robotics Research Papers — Page 13

Autonomous Tractor Uses LiDAR and Vision for Paddy Weed Control

Precision agriculture aims to optimize crop yields while minimizing resource waste through targeted interventions.

Benjamin Merryman-Smith, Tony Nguyen, Bilal Dogutas, Krish Shah +2

Planning-Oriented End-to-End Autonomous Driving: Architectures, Metrics, and Safety

We adopted a structured narrative review protocol to cover both established E2E-AD literature and rapidly emerging work.

Yanchen Guan, Xingcheng Liu, Bin Rao +7

RoboticsAug 21

Surgical Robot AI Forecasts Tool Motion and Future Tissue Scenes

A surgical robotics model jointly forecasts instrument trajectories and future scene changes, improving 15-step planning over one-shot prediction.

Weiliang Huang, Huanrong Liu, Bob Zhang +5

AIAug 20

Action-Specific Future Latents Improve Autonomous Driving Safety

Ruiguo Zhong, Benshan Ma, Xiaolong Chen +5

AIAug 20

ADEPT: Pretraining and Reinforcement Learning for Dexterous Robot Manipulation

Jayjun Lee, Jessica Yin, Asif Rana +7

RoboticsAug 20

Bimanual Robot Grasping from Partial Views with Hidden Geometry

Everyday tasks such as carrying boxes, lifting trays, and moving chairs naturally require coordinated interaction between two robotic arms.

Ayush Kaura, Vignesh Vembar, Md Faizal Karim +2

cobotsAug 19

Semantic Communication Lets Robots Exchange Meaning, Not Raw Data

A robot-edge 5G testbed compresses camera feeds into semantic tokens, letting robot teams share meaning instead of raw video.

Peizheng Li, Xinyi Lin, Sajida Gufran +1

AIAug 19

Scalable Parallel Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding With Group Planning

Alex DeWeese, Jiaoyang Li, Guannan Qu

IndustrialAug 19

PRISM Dataset for Precision Contact-Rich Industrial Robot Skills

Tengbo Yu, Jiahao Wu, Hanning Wang +4

AIAug 18

Efficient RGB-D Affordance Segmentation for Embedded Devices

Two design strategies — hardware-aware neural architecture search and fine-tuning — enable real-time RGB-D affordance segmentation on embedded devices like the Jetson Nano.

Edoardo Ragusa, Giovanni Paolo Canuti, Simone Lugani +2

RoboticsAug 18

Securing Foundation-Model-Powered Embodied Agents: Attacks, Defenses, Evaluation in Robotics

The same capabilities that make foundation models useful also expand the set of inputs that a robot may treat as decision-relevant.

Jiawei Liu, Jiacheng Guo, Tian Zhang +4

RoboticsAug 18

FlexWorm Helps Suction Robots Plan Contact on Complex 3D Surfaces

Zili Tang, Tiecheng Guo, Qinyue Zhang +1

RoboticsAug 17

Sparse World Models Help Surgical Robots Manage Long Tasks

Shuzhe Zhang, Xin Zhu, Yinling Qian +1

AIAug 17

Building Hazard-Informed Safety Envelopes for Safer Urban Mobility Robots

Safety is a cross-layer property whose representation changes with the level of abstraction while its underlying objective remains the same.

Alexei Odinokov, Rostislav Yavorskiy

RoboticsAug 17

Safety-Certified Navigation for Tractor-Trailers on Narrow Routes

A tube-based planner certifies safe tractor-trailer routes by accounting for trailer sway, linked-body kinematics, and permissible corrections.

Mohd. Faizuddin Faruqui, Ratnangshu Das, Ravi Kumar L +1

dronesAug 16

Dual Quadrotor Enables High Torque Fully Actuated Aerial Robot Industrial Manipulation

Xuwei Yang, Ruoyu Ren, Ziqian Guo

IndustrialAug 16

How to Manufacture Airtight Soft Pneumatic Actuators for Robots

Mohammed Abboodi

RoboticsAug 16

NestDex: Copilot-Assisted Nested Policies for Dexterous Robot Manipulation

Importantly, these inner policies assist data collection; they are not components of the final autonomous controller.

James Zhao, Jinhe Tang, Mingyuan Ba +1

RoboticsAug 15

A Haptic Robot Finger Helps Two Robot Arms Play Guqin Strings

A haptic robot finger senses force and vibration to coordinate two robot arms playing guqin open strings, harmonics, and stopped notes.

Tianwei Zhang, Hanming Yan, Yang Yang. Ziya Wang

AIAug 15

Pre-Contact Grasp Monitoring with Action-Conditioned Latent Models

Gehan Zheng, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Weiming Zhi