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cs.RO2026

DexDirect: Direct Kinesthetic Arm Guidance for Efficient Dexterous Demonstration Collection

Beom Jun Kim, Shiu-Jen Wang, Jonathan Liu +7

DexDirect lets a user guide a gravity‑compensated robot arm by hand while a webcam maps the user’s other hand onto a dexterous robot hand, enabling fast, low‑setup collection of ma…

cs.RO2026

RAVEN: Reinforcement-Adaptive Visibility-Graph Planning for Robust Humanoid Navigation with Collision-Free MPC

Ruochen Hou, Shiqi Wang, Beom Jun Kim +3

Humanoid navigation in dynamic environments requires long-horizon planning while respecting short-horizon dynamic and safety constraints. Classical visibility-graph planners combin…

cs.RO2026

MIDAS Hand: Modular low-Impedance Direct-drive Anthropomorphic Sensing Hand

Alvin Zhu, Mingzhang Zhu, Beom Jun Kim +3

The paper presents MIDAS Hand, an open‑source, low‑cost, human‑scale robotic hand with 16 DoF and integrated three‑axis tactile sensing, designed for easy 3D‑printed assembly and e…

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DexEXO: A Wearability-First Dexterous Exoskeleton for Operator-Agnostic Demonstration and Learning

Alvin Zhu, Mingzhang Zhu, Beom Jun Kim +10

Scaling dexterous robot learning is constrained by the difficulty of collecting high-quality demonstrations across diverse operators. Existing wearable interfaces often trade comfo…