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ICRA 2026: 1– 5 June 2026, VIENNA

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Unlike existing crossbreed styles, Duawlfin removes the demand for extra actuators or propeller-driven ground propulsion by leveraging just its basic quadrotor electric motors and presenting a differential drivetrain with one-way bearings. The smooth shifts in between airborne and ground settings additionally emphasize the functionality and performance of our strategy for applications like city logistics and interior navigating.

[ HiPeR Lab ]

I value the soft qualities of NEO’s style, however those fingers look terribly delicate.

[ 1X ]

Envision getting to right into your knapsack to discover your secrets. Your eyes direct your hand to the opening, once within, you count practically totally on touch to identify your secrets from your pocketbook, phone, and various other things. This smooth change in between sensory methods (recognizing when to count on vision versus touch) is something human beings do easily however robotics deal with. The difficulty isn’t practically having numerous sensing units. Modern robotics are outfitted with cams, responsive sensing units, deepness sensing units, and extra. The actual issue is ** exactly how to incorporate these various sensory streams **, particularly when some sensing units offer sporadic however vital details at vital minutes. Our option originates from reconsidering exactly how we integrate methods. As opposed to compeling all sensing units with a solitary network, we educate different professional plans for every technique and discover exactly how to integrate their activity forecasts at the plan degree.

Multi-university Partnership provided using [ GitHub ]

Many Thanks, Haonan!

Satisfied (rather late) Halloween from Plant Pollen Robotics!

[ Pollen Robotics ]

In cooperation with our associates from Iowa State and College of Georgia, we have actually placed our pipe-crawling worm robot to examine in the area. See it creeps with corrugated water drainage pipelines in a stream, and a smooth area of a subsurface water drainage system.

[ Paper ] from [ Smart Microsystems Laboratory, Michigan State University ]

Heterogeneous robotic groups running in practical setups typically should complete complicated objectives needing cooperation and adjustment to details got online. Due to the fact that robotic groups often run in disorganized settings– unsure, open-world setups without previous maps– subtasks should be based in robotic abilities and the real world. We offer SPINE-HT, a structure that deals with these restrictions by basing the thinking capacities of LLMs in the context of a heterogeneous robot team with a three-stage procedure. In real-world trying outs a Clearpath Jackal, a Clearpath Husky, a Boston Characteristics Area, and a high-altitude UAV, our technique attains an 87% success price in objectives needing thinking concerning robotic abilities and refining subtasks with on-line responses.

[ SPINE-HT ] from [ GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania ]

Astribot maintaining itself active at IROS 2025.

[ Astribot ]

In 2 documents released in Issue and Advanced Scientific research, a group of researchers from the Physical Knowledge Division at limit Planck Institute for Intelligent Equipments in Stuttgart, Germany, established control approaches for affecting the movement of self-propelling oil beads. These oil beads simulate single-celled bacteria and can autonomously resolve an intricate labyrinth by complying with chemical slopes. Nevertheless, it is extremely tough to incorporate exterior perturbation and make use of these beads in robotics. To resolve these difficulties, the group established magnetic beads that still have life-like buildings and can be regulated by exterior electromagnetic fields. In their job, the scientists revealed that they have the ability to direct the bead’s movement and utilize them in microrobotic applications such as freight transport.

[ Max Planck Institute ]

Everybody has actually daydreamed concerning having actually a symbolized character! Full-body teleoperation and full-body information procurement system is awaiting you to attempt it out!

[ Unitree ]

It’s not a humanoid, however it now securely does beneficial points and most likely does not set you back all that much to acquire or run.

[ Naver Labs ]

This paper offers a curriculum-based support finding out structure for training exact and high-performance leaping plans for the robotic’ Olympus’. Different plans are established for upright and straight dives, leveraging an easy yet efficient technique. Speculative recognition shows straight lifts to 1.25 m with centimeter precision and upright lifts to 1.0 m. In addition, we reveal that with only small alterations, the recommended technique can be made use of to discover omnidirectional leaping.

[ Paper ] from [ Autonomous Robots Lab, Norwegian University of Science and Technology ]

Hefty hauls are no worry for it: The brand-new KR TITAN ultra relocates hauls of approximately 1500 kg, making the hefty training extreme in the KUKA profile.

[ Kuka ]

Best of luck obtaining every one of the sand out of that robotic. Maybe a good oil bathroom remains in order?

[ DEEP Robotics ]

This CMU RI Workshop is from Yuke Zhu at College of Texas at Austin, on “Towards Generalist Humanoid Robots: Current Developments, Opportunities, and Obstacles.”

In an age of quick AI development, leveraging sped up computer and large information has actually opened brand-new opportunities to establish generalist AI designs. As AI systems like ChatGPT display exceptional efficiency in the electronic world, we are forced to ask: Can we attain comparable developments in the real world– to develop generalist humanoid robotics with the ability of doing daily jobs? In this talk, I will certainly describe our data-centric study concepts and strategies for constructing general-purpose robotic freedom outdoors globe. I will certainly offer our current job leveraging real-world, artificial, and internet information to educate structure designs for humanoid robotics. In addition, I will certainly talk about the chances and difficulties of constructing the future generation of smart robotics.

[ Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute ]