arXiv AI By Nayesha Gandotra, Itamar Mishani, Lai Yuan, Oren Salzman, Maxim Likhachev

Constant-Time Planning for Chaining Collision-free Motion to Manipulation Behaviors

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arXiv AI
Sep 18

Coding Agents with an Obstacle-Aware Harness for Safe Robot Manipulation

The paper introduces SafeHarness, an obstacle‑aware framework that improves the safety of coding agents for robot manipulation. By decomposing tasks into route planning and contact execution, the harness enables the agent to prioritize collision avoidance, achieving 71.9% task success and 87.5% collision avoidance—significantly better than prior methods. The study demonstrates that safety constraints can be effectively integrated into language‑model‑driven robot controllers.

By Bingxin Xu, Yuzhang Shang, Zhen Dong, Emilio Ferrara
arXiv AI
Jul 14

TACTIC: Tactile and Vision Conditioned Contact-Centric Control for Whole-Arm Manipulation

arXiv:2607. 09218v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Whole-arm manipulation involves direct contact with the environment while the robot completes a task by distributing contact across multiple links as contacts form, slide, and break.

By Rishabh Madan, Angchen Xie, Samantha Saak, Andres Blanco, Dohyeok Lee, Sarah Grace Brown, Yunting Yan, Mark Zolotas, Jose Barreiros, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee