Robotics PapersA programme for reading clubs

Topic 13 of 17

Data collection & teleoperation in robotics

Data collection and teleoperation is the unglamorous bottleneck of robot learning: the rigs, interfaces and pipelines that turn human effort into robot demonstrations. Handheld grippers, VR teleoperation and exoskeleton capture all compete on one number, demonstrations per hour.

79papers in 2026-07
6.76%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.

2026-02-06
Shenyuan Gao, William Liang, Kaiyuan Zheng +27 · 96 citations
2025-09-04
Lawrence Y. Zhu, Pranav Kuppili, Ryan Punamiya +5 · 35 citations
2025-08-13
Oriane Siméoni, Huy V. Vo, Maximilian Seitzer +23 · 1,312 citations
2025-05-26
Vincent Liu, Ademi Adeniji, Haotian Zhan +4 · 41 citations
2025-05-16
Ryan Hoque, Peide Huang, David J. Yoon +2 · 193 citations

Recent work

2026-09-04
Yusuke Oumi, Yuto Shibata, Go Irie +3

447 papers in this corpus carry the data collection & teleoperation tag. How tagging works.