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Robotics, Volume 15, Issue 1

2026 January - 29 articles

Cover Story: This paper introduces a vision-guided grasping pipeline designed to enhance the autonomy and dexterity of prosthetic hands. A camera captures the scene and an Axis-Aligned Boundary Box (AABB)-based segmentation method extracts a lightweight geometric model of the target object. Using this representation, the system generates grasp candidates through Rapidly-exploring Random Tree star (RRT*) trajectories and selects fingertip poses by evaluating their distance to the object’s point cloud. Each finger is planned independently, enabling adaptive, object-specific configurations. A Damped Least Square (DLS)-based inverse kinematics solver computes joint angles for real-time execution on the Linker Hand O7. The approach is demonstrated in simulation and integrated experimentally on the platform, highlighting its feasibility for efficient prosthetic manipulation. View this paper
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Articles (29)

  • Article
  • Open Access
107 Views
17 Pages

22 January 2026

Dynamic Movement Primitives (DMPs) provide a flexible framework for robotic trajectory generation, offering adaptability, robustness to disturbances, and modulation of predefined motions. Yet achieving reliable spatial coupling among multiple DMPs in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
150 Views
25 Pages

21 January 2026

Value factorization methods have become a standard tool for cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in the centralized-training, decentralized-execution (CTDE) setting. QMIX (a monotonic mixing network for value factorization), in parti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
136 Views
14 Pages

21 January 2026

Achieving reliable and real-time inverse kinematics (IK) for 6-degree-of-freedom (6-DoF) spherical-wrist manipulators remains a significant challenge. Analytical formulations often struggle with complex geometries and modeling errors, and standard nu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
222 Views
20 Pages

19 January 2026

The exoskeleton rehabilitation robot is a structural robot that uses the actuator to control, so as to construct a human–robot collaborative rehabilitation training system to realize the perception and decoding of patients and promotes the reco...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
391 Views
27 Pages

15 January 2026

Agricultural robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming essential to building more sustainable, efficient, and resilient food systems. As climate change, food security pressures, and labour shortages intensify, the integration of intellig...

  • Review
  • Open Access
414 Views
60 Pages

Autonomous Mobile Robot Path Planning Techniques—A Review: Metaheuristic and Cognitive Techniques

  • Mubarak Badamasi Aremu,
  • Gamil Ahmed,
  • Sami Elferik and
  • Abdul-Wahid A. Saif

14 January 2026

Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) require robust, efficient path planning to operate safely in complex, often dynamic environments (e.g., logistics, transportation, and healthcare). This systematic review focuses on advanced metaheuristic and learning-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
229 Views
25 Pages

14 January 2026

Recent advancements in prosthetic technology have increasingly focused on enhancing dexterity and autonomy through intelligent control systems. Vision-based approaches offer promising results for enabling prosthetic hands to interact more naturally w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
256 Views
23 Pages

A Synergistic Rehabilitation Approach for Post-Stroke Patients with a Hand Exoskeleton: A Feasibility Study with Healthy Subjects

  • Cristian Camardella,
  • Tommaso Bagneschi,
  • Federica Serra,
  • Claudio Loconsole and
  • Antonio Frisoli

14 January 2026

Hand exoskeletons are increasingly used to support post-stroke reach-to-grasp, yet most intention-detection strategies trigger assistance from local hand events without considering the synergy between proximal arm transport and distal hand shaping. W...

  • Review
  • Open Access
421 Views
44 Pages

13 January 2026

Experiencing weakness or paralysis on one side of the body is a common consequence of stroke, with approximately 8 out of 10 patients experiencing some degree of Hemiparesis. Rehabilitation through physiotherapy and occupational therapy is one of the...

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Robotics - ISSN 2218-6581