What if a small-scale #robot could generate a large force? Yuxuan XIANG and ZHANG, Jiachen 张甲晨 from CityU Hong Kong design a triple-magnet system that enables reversible and repeatable magnetic collisions to generate large force outputs. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10549… #MedicalRobots

'A Compliant Robotic Leg Based on Fibre Jamming' accepted by IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)! We showcase how morphological properties of these tendons can be used to enhance stability in #leggedrobotics. David Howard Data61 Video: youtu.be/TMGk0ATA5Hk Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2308.01758

Big news! T-RO’s impact factor has jumped up to 9.4! Thank you to our hardworking authors and the diligent work of our editorial board. ieee-ras.org/publications/t… #robotics #roboticsjournal #IEEERAS

Novel probabilistic method for robotic skills learning in the 6D workspace with position and orientation from research NUS and Johns Hopkins University. The learned skills can be generalized to unseen objects, obstacles, and transfer among #robots. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10502…

Researchers at 한국과학기술연구원(KIST) and SejongUniversityKorea present a new type of audio-animatronic robot head in a recent T-RO paper. The 3D printed robot is actuated using a tendon-based system that allows for smooth, fast motions. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10551… #Animatronics #HumeralHead

📢Attention all authors! a new RA-M Call for Papers is available! Submit your papers for a Special Issue on Robot Ethics! ⏰Deadline: December 1, 2024 🔗More info: loom.ly/pzW8en4 #ieee_ram #RAS

Are you planning to attend IROS 2024 @ieeeIROS? Make sure to register before the early bird deadline. That way you can check out these T-RO papers that will be presented there: ieee-ras.org/publications/t… #IROS2024 #IROSAbuDhabi #IEEERAS #Robotics

If you are thinking of presenting your T-RO paper IEEE-RAS Int. Conf. on Humanoid Robots (HUMANOIDS), please make sure to transfer it before August 31st! ieee-ras.org/publications/t… #IEEERAS #IEEERobotics #Humanoids2024 #IEEEHumanoids

T-RO is accepting submissions for the new #VisualSLAM special collection until December 15. Thank you to Javier Civera, Giovanni Cioffi, Davide Scaramuzza, Stefan Leutenegger, Abhinav Valada, Teresa Vidal-Calleja, and Guoquan (Paul) Huang for handling this special collection. ieee-ras.org/publications/t…

A recent T-RO paper from researchers Harvard University and Princeton Engineering describes a framework for resilient hypothesis testing in the presence of malicious robots. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10559… #RobotKinematics #RobotSensingSystems #MaliciousRobots #MultiRobotSystems #NetworkedRobots

A recent T-RO paper by researchers @TUdelft and University of Oxford proposes an impact-aware motion planning and control approach with or without parallel compliance to accomplish robust 3D jumping with stable landing and recovery. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10552… #QuadrupedalRobots

The U.S. National Science Foundation announced the Human AugmentatioN via Dexterity (HAND) Engineering Research Center (ERC)! Our Center will revolutionize how #robots augment human labor using dexterous robot hands with AI-powered skills and intuitive interfaces. new.nsf.gov/news/nsf-annou…

Researchers ANPL present a novel approach to speeding up POMPD planning with information-theoretic rewards, by partitioning high-dimensional observation space while providing formal performance guarantees in a recent T-RO paper. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10587… #TimeMeasurement

A recent T-RO paper from researchers NUS, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, HIT, and the Ji Hua LAb describes the design and control of a novel cable–pneumatic hybrid-driven tapered soft manipulator for safe collaboration around humans. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10577… #Kinematics

Researchers from Fraunhofer IPA describe a human-inspired scene perception model that enhances robotic capabilities by leveraging neuroscience in a recent T-RO paper. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10577… #MobileRobots #BiologicallyInspiredRobots #ServiceRobots #RobotSensingSystems

Can robots achieve robust #dexterousmanipulation with extrinsic contacts? Researchers from MERL develop a contact-implicit bi-level optimization algorithm enabling #robots to reason about contact uncertainty to achieve robust extrinsic dexterity. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10582…

Our latest paper in T-RO IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO) 🤖 The inspired design now features distributed balloons for vertical pipe-climbing, plus a dynamic model for estimating contact forces during locomotion. Short video is really short, should you read the full paper here: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10637…

I am thrilled to share that our work "LeTac-MPC: Learning Model Predictive Control for Tactile-reactive Grasping", has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO). 👇

Researchers at Centrale Nantes, Sorbonne Université, and Inria addresses the local minima problem in image-based #visualservoing systems by describing a formal approach for the exhaustive computation of all minima and unstable equilibria. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10582… #RobotKinematics

A recent T-RO paper from researchers at UC San Diego describes a port-Hamiltonian neural ODE network for robot dynamics learning and control that guarantees Lie group constraints and energy conservation. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10598… #RobotKinematics #NeuralNetworks #RobotDynamics