Vertex: A New Distributed Underwater Robotic Platform for Environmental Monitoring

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Vertex: A New Distributed Underwater Robotic Platform for Environmental Monitoring

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Piecewise Affine Curvature model: a reduced-order model for soft robot-environment interaction beyond PCC

Liquid Metal-Based Sensor Skin Enabling Haptic Perception of Softness

Inferring individual evaluation criteria for reaching trajectories with obstacle avoidance from EEG signals

Towards Efficient Gas Leak Detection in Built Environments: Data-Driven Plume Modeling for Gas Sensing Robots

Reinforcement learning for scaffold-free construction of spanning-structures

Avian-Inspired Claws Enable Robot Perching or Walking

A Stable Adaptive Extended Kalman Filter for Estimating Robot Manipulators Link Velocity and Acceleration

A biohybrid interaction framework for the integration of robots in animal societies

Haptics based collaborative steering control in automated driving environments

Training Efficient Controllers via Analytic Policy Gradient

Probabilistic Data Association for Semantic SLAM at Scale