Best Conference Paper

Finalist

  • Optimal Motion Prediction for Human-to-Robot Handovers

    Maxime Sabbah, Krzysztof Wojciechowski, Harold Soh, David Hsu, Ludovic Righetti, Nicolas Mansard, Bruno Watier, and Vincent Bonnet

  • Sensorless Force Admittance Control Considering Robot Actuator Deadzone

    Bingjie Xu, Peng Xu, and Bing Li

  • RIG-SLAM: Robust IMU-Assisted Tracking in Gaussian Splatting SLAM for Indoor Environments

    Mingzhe Lyu and Hong Zhang

  • Admittance Control of Flexible Joints Based on a Novel Prescribed Performance Function with Gaussian Kernels

    Hongyu Wan, Silu Chen, Chi Zhang, Hui Zhang, Shupei Li, Jiaheng Xiang, Chin-Yin Chen, and Guilin Yang

  • A Neural Field Approach to Robot Navigation with Brain-Inspired Goal-Directed Cognitive Maps

    Matthew Hicks, Tingjun Lei, Timothy Sellers, Chaomin Luo, and Erfu Yang

  • Collaborative Assembly Policy Learning of a Sightless Robot

    Zeqing Zhang, Weifeng Lu, Lei Yang, Wei Jing, Bowei Tang, and Jia Pan

Winner

  • RIG-SLAM: Robust IMU-Assisted Tracking in Gaussian Splatting SLAM for Indoor Environments

    Mingzhe Lyu and Hong Zhang

T.J. Tarn Best Paper in Robotics

Finalist

  • Contact-Aided Navigation of Flexible Robotic Endoscope Using Deep Reinforcement Learning in Dynamic Stomach

    Chi Kit Ng, Huxin Gao, Tian-Ao Ren, Jiewen Lai, and Hongliang Ren

  • UniBiDex: A Unified Teleoperation Framework for Robotic Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation

    Zhongxuan Li, Zeliang Guo, Jun Hu, David Navarro-Alarcon, Jia Pan, Hongmin Wu, and Peng Zhou

  • A Sensor-free Self-calibration Method Utilizing both Relative Information and Absolute Information for Collaborative Robots

    Jianhui He, Guilin Yang, Yiyang Feng, Jingbo Luo, and Silu Chen

  • Trajectory Error Prediction of Manipulator Using Seq2Seq Gated and Adaptive Continuous-Time Recurrent Neural Network (S2S-GACTRNN)

    Ke Ma, Wenjie Chen, Liheng Tuo, Xingyu Hu, Haoyang Wu, Yixin Shao, Di Shi, Kunyang Wang, Chengcai Wang, Tao Zhang, Yanggang Feng, Wuxiang Zhang, and Xilun Ding

  • Adaptive Grasp Control Framework: Integrating Slip Detection Network with Constrained Force Optimization for Dexterous Manipulation

    Hongjun Ma, Weichang Li, Zhihua Yang, and Che Hou

Winner

  • Contact-Aided Navigation of Flexible Robotic Endoscope Using Deep Reinforcement Learning in Dynamic Stomach

    Chi Kit Ng, Huxin Gao, Tian-Ao Ren, Jiewen Lai, and Hongliang Ren

Best Paper in Biomimetics

Finalist

  • A Simulation-based Lower-limb Exoskeleton Control Method

    Yizhe Zhou, Chunjie Chen, Jiale Zhang, Yao Liu, Rong Zhang, Zhi Zhang, and Xinyu Wu

  • Design and Modeling of the Biomimetic Feather Tail for a Pigeon-Scale Flapping Wing Robot

    Tianyi Chen, Yishi Shen, Yi Xu, Jin Yu, Zhiyuan Wu, and Qing Shi

  • Hybrid Robotic Hand for Fabric Manipulation with a Single-Finger

    Xinhao Chen, Alberto Elıas Petrilli Barcelo, Dayuan Chen, Jose Victorio Salazar Luces, and Yasuhisa Hirata

  • A Strategy-Based Approach for Bipedal Locomotion Without Prescribed Contact Sequences

    Yansong Bai, Junlei Zhu, Jingwei Peng, Shengzhen Huang, and Jiahao Chen

  • A Thrust-assisted Jumping Method for Bipedal Robots with Non-lightweight Legs

    Lei Nie, Fulin Chen, Yan Zhang, Kaiquan Lin, Xiaoting Huang, Fucheng Guo, Hanzhen Xiao, and Zhifeng Huang

Winner

  • Design and Modeling of the Biomimetic Feather Tail for a Pigeon-Scale Flapping Wing Robot

    Tianyi Chen, Yishi Shen, Yi Xu, Jin Yu, Zhiyuan Wu, and Qing Shi

  • Hybrid Robotic Hand for Fabric Manipulation with a Single-Finger

    Xinhao Chen, Alberto Elıas Petrilli Barcelo, Dayuan Chen, Jose Victorio Salazar Luces, and Yasuhisa Hirata

Best Paper in AI in Robotics

Finalist

  • Refractive Scene Camera Pose Estimation via Inverting Underwater Neural Radiance Fields

    Zhixin Zhang, Xiaoqiang Zhang, Xiaoxia Li, Zhiyuan Chang, and Li He

  • WavUIRDM: Wavelet-based Conditional Residual Denoising Diffusion Model for Universal Image Restoration

    Tao Qin and Yimin Zhou

  • From Intention to Formation: Gesture-Based Interaction with Miniature Autonomous Blimps

    Tianfu Wu, Yuanlin Yang, Minen Lyu, Yuxuan Zhao, and Fumin Zhang

  • Why not DeepSeek for Any-Scale Thermal Super-Resolution?

    Changhong Fu, Mengyuan Li, Haobo Zuo, Liangliang Yao, Guangze Zheng, Ran Duan, and Bo Wu

  • Contact-Aware Region Network for Safe Human-to-Robot Handover

    Xiaoge Cao, Tao Lu, Jiaming Jiang, Chaofan Zhang, Yinghao Cai, Shaowei Cui, and Shuo Wang

Winner

  • Why not DeepSeek for Any-Scale Thermal Super-Resolution?

    Changhong Fu, Mengyuan Li, Haobo Zuo, Liangliang Yao, Guangze Zheng, Ran Duan, and Bo Wu

Best Student Paper

Finalist

  • Design and Analysis of a Novel Adsorption Chamber for Climbing Machining Robot on Large and Complex Components

    Yang Zhang, Yan Li, Ying Shi, Junhui Huang, Zexu Zhang, Yangxin Jiang, Fan Zhang, and Zeyu Gong

  • A Novel Lightweight State Space Network for Efficient Biological Image Segmentation

    Feng Xiao, Peihua Han, Yanran Cao, Hans Petter Hildre, and Houxiang Zhang

  • Adaptive Command Filtered-nonsingular Terminal Sliding Mode Control Applied in Airship with Manifold Disturbances and Actuator Failure

    Hongming Li, Yongchun Fang, Jinyang Dong, Hai Yu, and Jiaxin Zhang

  • Design, Dynamic Modeling and Experimental Validation of an Aerial–Wall Multimodal Robot

    Haochen Li, Lide Dun, Jingyi Mo, Haoran Li, Yongtao Deng, and Haifei Zhu

  • Learning-Guided Risk-Adaptive MPC with Control Barrier Functions for Safe Navigation in Uncertain Dynamic Environments

    Zhirui Sun, Siyuan Wang, Yuhan Pang, Bi-Ke Zhu, and Jiankun Wang

Winner

  • Learning-Guided Risk-Adaptive MPC with Control Barrier Functions for Safe Navigation in Uncertain Dynamic Environments

    Zhirui Sun, Siyuan Wang, Yuhan Pang, Bi-Ke Zhu, and Jiankun Wang