arXiv Robotics research summaries for January 24, 2024.

Today's Research Themes (AI-Generated):

• Exploring reconfigurable soft robots that can change their shape to accomplish tasks with fine-grained control via RL.

• Improving visual reinforcement learning for cloth manipulation with a novel Transformer-based Knowledge Distillation method.

• Addressing perspective errors in voxel-based lidar scan matching with analytical models for urban landscape objects.

• Enhancing underwater soft robotic manipulators' performance in wave disturbances through Model Predictive Control.

• Enabling brain-controlled soft robot interaction using a simple EEG setup and a new Cartesian impedance controller.