arXiv Robotics research summaries for January 22, 2024.

Today's Research Themes (AI-Generated):

• Collaborative robotic system with haptic feedback potentially enhances surgical safety and efficiency in skull base surgery.

• Integration of open-source platforms and physics-based dynamics improves situational awareness in image-guided robotic interventions.

• A new force control technique for robot-assisted skullbase surgery offers improved safety and precision by regulating interaction forces.

• Multimodal visual-tactile representation learning through contrastive pre-training enhances object interaction capabilities in robotics.

• The OK-Robot framework showcases a new state-of-the-art in Open Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation with robust real-world applications.