2 papers
cs.RO2026
Whole-Body Semantic-to-Actuation Grounding of Elephant-Inspired Soft-Trunk Motion via Lightweight Flow Matching
Tingcong Liu, Tongshun Chen, Siyi Ma +6
For close-contact human-robot interaction (HRI), trunk-like continuum manipulators provide a physical channel for diverse whole-body expression, but grounding open-vocabulary respo…
cs.HC2026
PuppetAI: A Customizable Platform for Designing Tactile-Rich Affective Robot Interaction
Jiaye Li, Tongshun Chen, Siyi Ma +2
We introduce PuppetAI, a modular soft robot interaction platform. This platform offers a scalable cable-driven actuation system and a customizable, puppet-inspired robot gesture fr…