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Affordance-based robot manipulation with flow matching
Fan Zhang · Michael Gienger
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
doi 10.3389/frobt.2026.1906861
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Deploying artificial intelligence for occupational and environmental health in waste management: a systematic review
Wei Li · Zhengyan Ge · Hui Wang · Mingzi Yuan · Zhican Yin
International Journal of Public Health
doi 10.3389/ijph.2026.1610020
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Obstacle avoidance for three-dimensional environmental robotic arms based on SGBM binocular stereo matching
Yuchen Wang
Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering
doi 10.3389/fmech.2026.1933515
Brief Research Report
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Bridging stakeholder needs and technological capabilities to identify humanoid robot applications in rehabilitation: a case study in an ALS multidisciplinary care unit
Rachele Piras · Samuele Bordini · Riccardo K. Simi · Ilaria Consolo · Valentina Esposito · Claudia Cavaggion · Maddalena Feder · Maria Fossati · Giorgio Grioli · Antonio Bicchi · Christian Lunetta · Manuel G. Catalano
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
doi 10.3389/frobt.2026.1944029
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Correction: Distributed environmental sensing and soil moisture gradient navigation in modular robots
Henry Alberto Hernandez Martinez · Holman Montiel Ariza · Luis Fernando Pedraza Martinez
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
doi 10.3389/frobt.2026.1987759
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LLM-Storyteller: child-guided narrative co-creation via real-time adaptive prompting and visualization with an embodied robot
Fatimah Alali · Saad Ezzini
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
doi 10.3389/frobt.2026.1882463
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Reliability-aware knowledge distillation with self-evolving supervision for robust robotic visual perception
Yanlong Li · Xiaonan Wei · Zhenjie Jiang · Yi Gao · Kaiqi Chen
Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering
doi 10.3389/fmech.2026.1948436
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Preliminary usability evaluation of a teleoperated humanoid robot for pediatric waiting-room observation: clinical and technical professionals’ perspectives
Antea Scrocco · Samuele Bordini · Riccardo Kristen Simi · Elisa Matteucci · Elena Beani · Giovanni Cioni · Eugenia Conti · Maria Chiara Di Lieto · Giorgio Grioli · Antonio Bicchi · Giuseppina Sgandurra · Manuel Giuseppe Catalano
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
doi 10.3389/frobt.2026.1943197
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WIS: world-guided instruction semantic diffusion policy for predictive bimanual manipulation
Xukun Liu · Liguo Hou · Pu Cheng · Xiaoping Luo · Fengjuan Xie · Jiqing Wei · Feng Wang · Aifeng Liu
Frontiers in Neurorobotics
doi 10.3389/fnbot.2026.1940438
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ISEED: an always-on cognitive architecture for experience-driven interaction-oriented humanoid robots
Dario Pasquali · Francesco Rea · Pietro Morasso · Giulio Sandini · Alessandra Sciutti
Frontiers in Neurorobotics
doi 10.3389/fnbot.2026.1920808
Opinion
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Healthy vaccinee effect by study design
Michael Günther · Harald Walach · Robert Rockenfeller · Matthias Reitzner · Christian Meyer
Frontiers in Epidemiology
doi 10.3389/fepid.2026.1837295
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From one tree to the canopy: an evolutionary design trajectory for tethered robotics in forest environments
Luca Romanello · Bahadir Basaran Kocer · Mirko Kovac
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
doi 10.3389/frobt.2026.1859773
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Hearing preservation in cochlear implantation: a comprehensive review with emphasis on atraumatic and robot-assisted electrode insertion
Guillaume Gersdorff · Severine Camby · Philippe Lefebvre
Frontiers in Audiology and Otology
doi 10.3389/fauot.2026.1939453
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Designing for gender, age & proficiency: an empirical study of the cognitive ergonomics of dual-task interference in industrial human-robot collaboration
Someshwar Roy · Igal Peretz · Lior Sayfeld · Yael Edan
Frontiers in Neurorobotics
doi 10.3389/fnbot.2026.1222566
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Emotion recognition and human-robot interaction: a systematic review of methods and applications
Iraide Seijo Barquin · Juan Alejandro Castano · Virginia Ruiz Garate · Antonio J. del-Ama
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
doi 10.3389/frobt.2026.1891746
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Smart biomaterials for precision drug delivery: emerging strategies for site-specific targeting and controlled therapeutic release
Sivakumar Singaravelu · Rajkamal Balu · Chinnaiyan Senthilkumar · Jayabalan Jayaprakash
Frontiers in Biomaterials Science
doi 10.3389/fbiom.2026.1912922
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Baseline PTSD and depressive symptoms predict multidimensional recovery after combat-related transtibial amputation: a prospective cohort study
Iryna Halabitska · Iryna Kamyshna · Mykhailo Buchynskyi · Pavlo Petakh · Oleksandr Kamyshnyi
Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences
doi 10.3389/fresc.2026.1891994
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Retired medical simulation manikins as a development platform for physically assistive robots: a staged roadmap
Nabil Zary · Jalal Alfroukh · Mohamed Alali
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
doi 10.3389/frobt.2026.1933962
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Robot-assisted spinal surgery: technological maturity, clinical evidence, and future directions
Xue Li · Shilong Li · Minfei Wu · Jianhang Jiao · Tong Yu
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
doi 10.3389/frobt.2026.1883508
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What ‘smart’ dairy farming technologies are Irish dairy farmers using and why? Exploring perceived benefits and barriers to technology adoption in a pasture-based system
Lisa Parce · Paula Palma-Molina · Jason Loughrey
Frontiers in Animal Science
doi 10.3389/fanim.2026.1896469
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NeglectARm3D: a robotic and virtual reality platform for the three-dimensional assessment of unilateral spatial neglect
Daniele Somma · Andrea Mannini · Chiara Pedrini · Francesca Cecchi · Egidio Falotico
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
doi 10.3389/frobt.2026.1944332
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LLM-powered socially assistive robot-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy exercises: an exploratory study with university students
Mina Kian · Mingyu Zong · Katrin Fischer · Abhyuday Singh · Anna-Maria Velentza · Amy O’Connell · Lydia Ignatova · Pau Sang · Shriya Upadhyay · Anika Gupta · Misha A. Faruki · Wallace Browning · Sébastien M. R. Arnold · Meng Chen · Bhaskar Krishnamachari · Maja J. Matarić
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
doi 10.3389/frobt.2026.1802622
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Force-differential steering of a track-based robotic colonoscope: experimental evaluation in single and multi-bend pipes
Jiayang Du · Lin Cao · Sanja Dogramazi
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
doi 10.3389/frobt.2026.1904532
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Personalized robotic interventions for apathy in dementia: the RAPHAel trial
Claudia Casadio · Vanessa Zanelli · Valentina Bettelli · Francesco Ricci · Lucrezia Grassi · Pietro Benvenuti · Erika Rovini · Giulia Smecca · Sara Isernia · Simone Salemme · Manuela Tondelli · Annalisa Chiari · Francesca Baglio · Filippo Cavallo · Fausta Lui · Francesca Benuzzi · Laura Fiorini · Antonio Sgorbissa · Giovanna Zamboni
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
doi 10.3389/frobt.2026.1913791
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Bridging to systemic therapy: PSMA-PET-based early and repetitive stereotactic body radiotherapy for nodal and bone oligo-recurrent prostate cancer
Arne Grün · Alexandra Partyka · Markus Galler · Torsten Schlomm · Dirk Böhmer · Kurt Miller · Daniel Zips · Goda Kalinauskaite
Frontiers in Urology
doi 10.3389/fruro.2026.1738508
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From biological surfaces to engineered systems: how synthetic and systems biology enable biomimetic design
Btisème Bendjebour · Clément Iriart · Mathumitha Jeevakumar · William Potié · Lison Salin · Sébastien Urien · Johan Habersetzer · Urielle M’Be · Sophie Mothré · Pierre-Antoine Vigneron · Julien Grimaud
Frontiers in Systems Biology
doi 10.3389/fsysb.2026.1860815
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Human-in-the-loop proof of concept for lunar teleoperation: performance, workload, and neuro-physiological insights from the LUNA Analog Facility
Elena Lopez-Contreras · Lua Delaunoit · Axel Coulon · Laure Boyer · Alexis Paillet · Raphaëlle N. Roy · Aidan Cowley · Vsevolod Peysakhovich
Frontiers in Space Technologies
doi 10.3389/frspt.2026.1920649
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Design space taxonomy and investigation of gesture-based transparency cues in human-robot interaction
Ilka Hein · Daniel Ullrich · Christina Brunner · Sarah Diefenbach
Frontiers in Computer Science
doi 10.3389/fcomp.2026.1869586
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Editorial: Robotic perception, multi-robot exploration, mapping, and autonomous computing
Faiza Gul · Laith Abualigah · Rafal Szczepanski · Imran Mir
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
doi 10.3389/frobt.2026.1974584
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Editorial: Robotics in the performance, safety and learning of surgery - what next?
Sanju Lama · Hani J. Marcus · Garnette R. Sutherland
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
doi 10.3389/frobt.2026.1927781
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Integration of an ontological model of CDIO competencies into the design of educational programs: transforming educational projects into knowledge content
Yenglik Kadyr · Bulat Kubekov · Aislu Kassekeyeva · Rakhila Turebayeva · Aizhan Nazyrova · Zhanar Lamasheva · Ainur Shekerbek
Frontiers in Computer Science
doi 10.3389/fcomp.2026.1914151
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Spatiotemporal vision transformers with Byzantine-robust federated prompt tuning for continuous urban perception
Rajesh Ankareddy · Radhakrishnan Delhibabu
Frontiers in Computer Science
doi 10.3389/fcomp.2026.1892207
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Ambiguous definitions of industrial mobile robots: a survey of German-speaking experts
Sven Franke · Jan-Bernd Igelmann · Jérôme Rutinowski · Markus Pauly
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
doi 10.3389/frobt.2026.1837981
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Robust trajectory tracking control of an underwater robotic manipulator using an IPSO-PID framework under hydrodynamic and ocean-current disturbances
Jinming Yao · Jiahang Yang · Chunxu Li
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
doi 10.3389/frobt.2026.1915434
Editorial
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Editorial: Post-fire impacts on watershed water quality and hydrology
Marcos D. Mateus · Zhuoran Duan
Frontiers in Water
doi 10.3389/frwa.2026.1934343
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Reflections on liver transplantation: emerging research and clinical perspectives in 2025
Alfred Wei-Chieh Kow
Frontiers in Transplantation
doi 10.3389/frtra.2026.1923144
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VLM-guided retrieval augmented generation (RAG) for robot action prediction
Boris Kuster · Nikola Marić · Fatima Aziz · Boshko Koloski · Andrej Gams · Aleš Ude
Frontiers in Neurorobotics
doi 10.3389/fnbot.2026.1894674
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Nanostructured electrocatalysts for zero-emission green hydrogen production: from atomic-level design to scalable water electrolysis
Syed Shaheen Shah · Tauqir Ahmad · Sidra Khalid · Sikandar Khan · Sami Ullah · Qaiser Khan · Md. Abdul Aziz
Frontiers in Catalysis
doi 10.3389/fctls.2026.1914047
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Integrating life support systems into 3D-printed extra-terrestrial habitat envelopes
A. J. Hidding · H. H. Bier · F. Alsaggaf
Frontiers in Space Technologies
doi 10.3389/frspt.2026.1798391
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning in neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction and spinal cord injury: current status, emerging technologies, and ethical perspectives
Patrick M. F. Levien · Jürgen Pannek
Frontiers in Urology
doi 10.3389/fruro.2026.1931923
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Testing of SLUSH ice penetrating probe in Europa, Enceladus, and Mars environments
Leo Stolov · Caleb Lang · Kris Zacny · Boleslaw Mellerowicz · Joseph Palmowski · Kathryn Bywaters · Frank Sheeran · Paul van Susante · Bethany L. Ehlmann
Frontiers in Space Technologies
doi 10.3389/frspt.2026.1887929
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A multi-level conceptual system dynamics architecture for examining sustainability and resilience in coupled earth–space systems
Annahita Nezami · Frank White · David Peterson · Greg Barr · Stanley Rosen · Ian A. Crawford · Kevin Russell · Elisa R. Ferre
Frontiers in Space Technologies
doi 10.3389/frspt.2026.1876220
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AI-driven quadruped robots: from fundamental locomotion to advanced biomimetic behaviors
Likai Wu · Chee-Onn Chow · Wei Ru Wong · Joon Huang Chuah · Jeevan Kanesan · Meina Zhang
Frontiers in Neurorobotics
doi 10.3389/fnbot.2026.1855550
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Multi-way radial consistency pre-training for event based optical flow
An Feng · Tao Wenyin
Frontiers in Neurorobotics
doi 10.3389/fnbot.2026.1884626
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Transspinal stimulation preceding step training reorganizes spinal locomotor circuits in human spinal cord injury: a randomized sham-controlled clinical trial
Timothy S. Pulverenti · Abdullah M. Sayed Ahmad · Noam Y. Harel · Maria Knikou
Frontiers in Neural Circuits
doi 10.3389/fncir.2026.1876368
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Inclusion through technology: findings from a public engagement approach
Barbara Catherine Wortmann · Iris de Boer · Vanessa Grand · Heiner Baur · Anja Maria Raab
International Journal of Public Health
doi 10.3389/ijph.2026.1608949
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Distributed multi-robot LiDAR SLAM with ground-optimized preprocessing and slope-adaptive segmentation
Yu Wang · Qiang Zou · Fei Wang
Frontiers in Neurorobotics
doi 10.3389/fnbot.2026.1839252
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Reported best practices for effective risk management of medical devices: a scoping review
Rosario Luxardo · Arkeliana Tase · Florence Leong · Massimo Micocci · Martina Tognini · Peter Buckle · Melody Ni
Frontiers in Medical Technology
doi 10.3389/fmedt.2026.1863808