3 papers
cs.RO2026
Embodiment Meets Environment: Toward Context-Aware, Safe Physical Caregiving Robots
Zhanxin Wu, Ruofei Tong, Jiaying Fang +1
Physical caregiving robots need to assist different users with different tasks in diverse environments, and they come in many embodiments. While substantial progress has been made…
cs.RO2026
A Human-in-the-Loop Confidence-Aware Failure Recovery Framework for Modular Robot Policies
Rohan Banerjee, Krishna Palempalli, Bohan Yang +5
Robots operating in unstructured human environments inevitably encounter failures, especially in robot caregiving scenarios. While humans can often help robots recover, excessive o…
cs.RO2025
Force-Aware Autonomous Robotic Surgery
Alaa Eldin Abdelaal, Jiaying Fang, Tim N. Reinhart +4
This work demonstrates the benefits of using tool-tissue interaction forces in the design of autonomous systems in robot-assisted surgery (RAS). Autonomous systems in surgery must…