3 papers
cs.RO2026
VSL-Skin: Individually Addressable Phase-Change Voxel Skin for Variable-Stiffness and Virtual Joints Bridging Soft and Rigid Robots
Zihan Oliver Zeng, Jiajun An, Preston Luk +1
Soft robots are compliant but often cannot support loads or hold their shape, while rigid robots provide structural strength but are less adaptable. Existing variable-stiffness sys…
cs.RO2025
Everything-Grasping (EG) Gripper: A Universal Gripper with Synergistic Suction-Grasping Capabilities for Cross-Scale and Cross-State Manipulation
Jianshu Zhou, Jing Shu, Tianle Pan +7
Grasping objects across vastly different sizes and physical states-including both solids and liquids-with a single robotic gripper remains a fundamental challenge in soft robotics.…
cs.CV2025
MBE-ARI: A Multimodal Dataset Mapping Bi-directional Engagement in Animal-Robot Interaction
Ian Noronha, Advait Prasad Jawaji, Juan Camilo Soto +3
Animal-robot interaction (ARI) remains an unexplored challenge in robotics, as robots struggle to interpret the complex, multimodal communication cues of animals, such as body lang…