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      Robotics

      Design, Modeling, and Control of a Bio-Inspired Passive-Extensible McKibben Muscle System with Self-Sensing and Self-Locking Capabilities

      Shuai Mao*, Zhongchao Zhou*, Ziming Wang, Mauricio Villarroel, Liang He (*equal contribution)

      IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH), 2026

    • International Conferences
      computer-vision Robotics

      E3VS-Bench: A Benchmark for Viewpoint-Dependent Active Perception in 3D Gaussian Splatting Scenes

      [paper]

      Koya Sakamoto, Taiki Miyanishi, Daichi Azuma, Shuhei Kurita, Shu Morikuni, Naoya Chiba, Motoaki Kawanabe, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo

      Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2026), September 2026

    • International Conferences
      Robotics

      SAIL: Test-Time Scaling for In-Context Imitation Learning with VLM

      [paper]

      Makoto Sato, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yujin Tang, So Kuroki

      Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2026), September 2026

    • International Conferences
      Robotics

      PHASE: Compliance-Enabled Tactile Phase Retrieval for Few-Shot Insertion Learning

      Jeremy Siburian, Cristian Camilo Beltran-Hernandez, Tatsuya Matsushima, Yusuke Iwasawa, Masashi Hamaya, Mai Nishimura

      Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2026), September 2026

    • Journals
      LLM / NLP Robotics

      LLM-Guided Adaptive Compensator: Bringing Adaptivity to Robotic Feedback Control with Large Language Models

      [paper]

      Zhongchao Zhou, Yuxi Lu, Yaonan Zhu, Yifei Zhao, Qian Niu, Bin He, Liang He, Wenwei Yu, Yusuke Iwasawa

      IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), 2026

    • International Conferences
      Robotics

      M2oE: Modular Mixture of Experts for Multi-Morphology Reinforcement Learning of Modular Robots

      Chang Liu, Qinchao Xu, Satoshi Yagi, Satoshi Yamamori, Yaonan Zhu, Yusuke Iwasawa, Kazuya Yoshida, Jun Morimoto

      IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (IEEE ICRA 2026), June 2026

    • Journals
      Robotics

      Offline-Trained GAN-Augmented Highly Adaptive Control with Multi-DoF Fusion for Pneumatic Soft Surgical Robots

      Yuxi Lu, Zhongchao Zhou*, Yanmin Zhou, Zhipeng Wang, Shuo Jiang, Wenwei Yu, Bin He (*Corresponding author)

      IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), 2025

    • Awards
      Robotics

      Real-World Robot Applications of Foundation Models: A Review

      [paper]

      Kento Kawaharazuka, Tatsuya Matsushima, Andrew Gambardella, Jiaxian Guo, Chris Paxton, Andy Zeng

      Advanced Robotics Best Survey Paper Award

    • International Conferences
      Robotics

      A Comprehensive Survey on Physical Risk Control in the Era of Foundation Model-enabled Robotics

      [paper]

      Takeshi Kojima*, Yaonan Zhu*, Yusuke Iwasawa*, Toshinori Kitamura, Gang Yan, Shu Morikuni, Ryosuke Takanami, Alfredo Solano, Tatsuya Matsushima, Akiko Murakami, Yutaka Matsuo (*Equal Contribution)

      The 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence – Survey Track (IJCAI 2025 Survey Track)

    • Awards
      Robotics

      Advanced Robotics Best Survey Paper Award, 2024

      Tadahiro Taniguchi, Shingo Murata, Masahiro Suzuki, Dimitri Ognibene, Pablo Lanillos, Emre Ugur, Lorenzo Jamone, Tomoaki Nakamura, Alejandra Ciria, Bruno Lara, Giovanni Pezzulo,