Topic

Data collection & teleoperation

The unglamorous bottleneck: rigs, interfaces, and pipelines that produce robot demonstrations.

79papers in 2026-07

6.78%of all cs.RO that month

+0.91ppshare change, last 6 vs prior 12 months

24-month volume

arXiv query: cat:cs.RO AND (abs:"teleoperation" OR abs:"data collection")

Presented at reading clubs

These already have a slide kit, so they are the fastest ones to pick up and present.

2026-05-24

HumanEgo: Zero-Shot Robot Learning from Minutes of Human Egocentric Videos

Zhi Wang, Botao He, Kelin Yu +4 · 9 citations

clubEgocentric & human data Imitation & diffusion policies

2026-04-08

EgoVerse: An Egocentric Human Dataset for Robot Learning from Around the World

Ryan Punamiya, Simar Kareer, Zeyi Liu +37 · 34 citations

clubEgocentric & human data Data collection & teleoperation

2026-02-06

DreamDojo: A Generalist Robot World Model from Large-Scale Human Videos

Shenyuan Gao, William Liang, Kaiyuan Zheng +27 · 96 citations

clubWorld models Dexterous manipulation

2025-11-20

Dexterity from Smart Lenses: Multi-Fingered Robot Manipulation with In-the-Wild Human Demonstrations

Irmak Guzey, Haozhi Qi, Julen Urain +10 · 16 citations

clubDexterous manipulation Egocentric & human data

2025-09-04

EMMA: Scaling Mobile Manipulation via Egocentric Human Data

Lawrence Y. Zhu, Pranav Kuppili, Ryan Punamiya +5 · 35 citations

clubRA-LEgocentric & human data Imitation & diffusion policies

2025-08-13

DINOv3

Oriane Siméoni, Huy V. Vo, Maximilian Seitzer +23 · 1,312 citations

clubFoundation models & pretraining Data collection & teleoperation

2025-07-16

EgoVLA: Learning Vision-Language-Action Models from Egocentric Human Videos

Ruihan Yang, Qinxi Yu, Yecheng Wu +12 · 131 citations

clubVision-language-action Humanoids & locomotion

2025-05-28

DexUMI: Using Human Hand as the Universal Manipulation Interface for Dexterous Manipulation

Mengda Xu, Han Zhang, Yifan Hou +4 · 111 citations

clubDexterous manipulation Data collection & teleoperation

2025-05-26

EgoZero: Robot Learning from Smart Glasses

Vincent Liu, Ademi Adeniji, Haotian Zhan +4 · 41 citations

clubEgocentric & human data Data collection & teleoperation

2025-05-16

EgoDex: Learning Dexterous Manipulation from Large-Scale Egocentric Video

Ryan Hoque, Peide Huang, David J. Yoon +2 · 193 citations

clubICLR 2026Dexterous manipulation Egocentric & human data

Recent work

2026-08-26

Saliency-Depth Conditioning for Zero-Shot Segmentation of Communication-Tower Components in Cluttered UAV Imagery

Ali Lesani, Chul Min Yeum, Su-Min Kang

Navigation & mobility Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-26

A Taxonomy of Construction Task Activities for Robot Workers

Sadman Sakib, Zhangyi None Peng, Yujie Pang +2

Vision-language-action Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-25

CRESSim-Neo: A Batched GPU Simulation Engine for Surgical Robotics and Robot Learning

Yafei Ou, Ahnaf Naheen, Tleukhan Mussin +3

Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-25

SkyDrive: Learning to Drive in a New City from Aerial Traffic Monitoring

Weijiang Xiong, Lan Feng, Alexandre Alahi +1

Egocentric & human data Imitation & diffusion policies

2026-08-25

ROS2 Connect: A new ROS2 over WAN Solution

Daniel Schott, Lakshminarasimhan Srinivasan, Christian Herrmann +1

Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-25

Fiber Optic Sensing Glove for High Performance Dexterous Manipulation Capture

J. D. Peiffer, Taylor Niehues, Li Guan +2

Dexterous manipulation Egocentric & human data

2026-08-25

Variance-Guided Spatial Attention Fusion for Robust End-to-End Driving under Asymmetric Sensor Degradation

Weizhi Tao, Zengwang Jin, Xiao Wang +1

Data collection & teleoperation Safety & evaluation

2026-08-25

NVIDIA Cosmos-H-Dreams: Real-Time Generative Physics Simulation for Surgical Robotics

Javier Gamazo Tejero, Lukas Zbinden, Keyur Sheth +7

World models Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks

2026-08-25

Robust Slip Detection and Material Classification via Spatiotemporal Transformers on a Uniformly-Illuminated Visuo-Tactile Sensor

Ziyang Ma, Yuhao Sun, Zichen Ai +2

IROS 2026Tactile & force sensing Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-25

SIREN-Bench: Behavior-Driven Generation and Evaluation of Emergency-Vehicle Interactions

Yicheng Zhu, Tianmu Zhao, Haoxin Leng +3

Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-24

GeoWAM: Visual Geometry World Action Models for Autonomous Driving

Yiren Lu, Xin Ye, Jiaming Liu +10

World models 3D & spatial reasoning

2026-08-24

MIVIFI: Bridging Perspective and Fisheye Domains for Training Multi-View Fisheye Image Generation Models

Matthias Neuwirth-Trapp, Begüm Altunbas, Jiayi Wang +4

3D & spatial reasoning Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-24

VikPath: A Vision Kansformer Framework for Effective Obstacle Avoidance in Self-Supervised Pathfinding

Junyao Wang, Yulin Xu, Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

Navigation & mobility Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-23

A Unified Neural-Aided Alignment and Calibration Method for AUVs

Guy Damari, Zeev Yampolsky, Itzik Klein

Navigation & mobility Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-23

TONAV: Task-Oriented Navigation and Action-Velocity Chunk Learning for Articulated Object Quadrupedal Mobile Manipulation

Haoran Lin, Mingyu Yang, Pengfei Qi +6

Humanoids & locomotion Navigation & mobility

2026-08-22

Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation in Construction via Zero-Shot Learning: A Diffusion Policy-Guided Adaptive Control

Roman Ibrahimov, Salma Mozaffari, Arash Adel

Tactile & force sensing Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks

2026-08-22

CounterAlign: Counterfactual Supervision for Vision-Language-Action Models

Haru Kondoh, Kei Ota, Asako Kanezaki +1

Vision-language-action Imitation & diffusion policies

2026-08-22

Safety-Critical Bilateral Teleoperation for Omnidirectional Aerial Manipulation Using Force-Sensorless Haptic Feedback

Yubin Kim, Jinwoo Lee, Yongjun You +2

IROS 2026Reinforcement learning & control Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-21

ExploreAI: Agentic Exploration Knowledge Bases for Reproducible Observable-Regression Testing of Black-Box VR and 3D Applications

Jiajie Wang, Kebin Peng, Wei Wang +3

Navigation & mobility Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-21

Why Personalization Matters: Cross-Subject Challenges in EMG-IMU-based HRI Activity Recognition

Ruan Rithelle Chagas de Faria Carminati, Giovanni Braglia, Luigi Biagiotti +4

Data collection & teleoperation Human-robot interaction

2026-08-21

ViTacPhys: Physical Property-Aware Grasping from Human Visual-Tactile Demonstrations

Yiwen Liu, Yujun Zhu, Kui Jia +3

Dexterous manipulation Egocentric & human data

2026-08-21

Anatomy-Informed Neural Networks: Encoding Anatomic Priors in Loss and Architecture, with an SE(3) Formulation of Guidewire-Induced Aortoiliac Deformation

David P. Stonko

Navigation & mobility Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-20

Koala Gripper: Co-designing Robotic Grippers and Data-Capture Devices for Scaling Dexterous Manipulation Learning

Amar Hajj-Ahmad, Zubin Kremer Guha, Tim Fofonoff +8

Dexterous manipulation Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-20

Wave-Based Bilateral Teleoperation between Nonlinear Manipulators with Direct Contact Force Feedback

G. Q. Bao Tran, Takanori Miyoshi, Ho Duc Tho

Tactile & force sensing Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-20

CoToGrasp: Contact-Topology-Conditioned Dexterous Grasp Synthesis via Canonical Workspace Learning

Julien Merand, Boris Meden, Liming Chen +1 · 1 citation

Dexterous manipulation Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-20

Keeping the Franka Emika Panda alive: a ROS 2 stack with a reliable position interface

Antonio Langella, Davide Risi, Vincenzo Petrone +2

Data collection & teleoperation Human-robot interaction

2026-08-19

The Missing Touch: Spatially Distributed Tactile Feedback Brings Teleoperation Closer to Human Dexterity

Rohan Kota, Gregory Reardon, J. Edward Colgate

Dexterous manipulation Tactile & force sensing

2026-08-19

LT-Mem: Volatility-Aware Spatio-Temporal Memory for Lifelong Scene Understanding

Yumin Lee, Hyoseok Ju, Giseop Kim

IROS 20263D & spatial reasoning Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-19

Beyond Placement and Articulation: Usage-Driven Code Scenes for Embodied Interaction

Zijian Xiao, Zipeng Ye, Jinkun Hao +3

Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-19

Dream2Reward: Transition-Alignment Reward Models from Positive Demonstrations for Robotic Manipulation

Haoyu Zhang, Zecui Zeng, Bin Wang +3

Reinforcement learning & control Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-18

Reproducible Multimodal Affordance Prediction

Tommaso Apicella, Alessio Xompero, Andrea Cavallaro

ECCV 2026Data collection & teleoperation Safety & evaluation

2026-08-18

Zero-Shot Transfer of Force Map Estimation Across GelSight Mini Sensors

Julio Castaño Amoros, Pablo Gil

IEEE Sensors LettersTactile & force sensing Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-18

GigaBrain-WBC-0.5: A Behavior World Model for Robust Whole-Body Control with Environment Interaction

Ziyang Cheng, Tianshu Tang, Jinxin Lan +17

World models Humanoids & locomotion

2026-08-18

MANIGUARD: A Benchmark and Data Suite for Specification-Grounded Safety Evaluation and Improvement of Robotic Manipulation

Yiyan Peng, Philip Wang, Simon Sinong Zhan +11

Tactile & force sensing Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-18

Repetition as Reinforcement: Enhancing Sample Efficiency via Instant Episode Repetition in Reinforcement Learning

Hoda Yamani, Yuning Xing, Koen van Rijnsoever +2

Imitation & diffusion policies Reinforcement learning & control

2026-08-17

DPNet: Efficient Dead-End Prediction and Avoidance for Vision-Based UAV Navigation

Ruibin Zhang, Lun Pan, Zelong Xia +2

Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks Navigation & mobility

2026-08-17

ViHaTeleop: A Low-Cost, Lightweight Visual-Haptic Teleoperation System for Dexterous Manipulation Learning

Fucai Zhu, Yanhou Lai, Paul Maestre +1

IROS 2026Dexterous manipulation Tactile & force sensing

2026-08-17

Exposing the Long-tail in Embodied Urban Navigation via Scalable Learning from In-the-Wild Videos

Bingyi Xia, Han Bao, Zhewei Chen +5

Vision-language-action Egocentric & human data

2026-08-17

Arm-Aware Guided Dexterous Grasp Generation with Arm-Agnostic Grasp Models

Yongyi Jia, Yongpeng Jiang, Kangchen Lv +3 · 1 citation

RA-LDexterous manipulation Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-17

Cyclops: LiDAR as a Camera That Dreams in Color

Wei Gao, Jian Shu, Mingle Zhao +4

3D & spatial reasoning Data collection & teleoperation

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