🔬 University#55 Singapore, Singapore· Est. 1905
National University of Singapore — Robotics
Asia's leading soft robotics research center. NUS developed first fully soft robot gripper that matches human hand dexterity, and leads in underwater and medical soft robot research.
soft robotsmedical robotsunderwater robotsmanipulationwearable robots
Notable achievements
Soft robot gripper matching human dexterity, underwater soft robots, medical micro-robots, soft wearable for rehabilitation, $50M+ robotics funding.
Notable work
Soft grippersUnderwater soft robotsMedical micro-robots
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
MANIPULATION
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A hierarchical approach to imitation learning for manipulation tasks requiring time varying forces
Rishabh Shukla, Adithya Santhosh, Shaili Gandhi +2 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
HRI
Nurses' awareness of ethical issues relating to medical and caregiving robots.
Ito C, Tamenaga Y, Hara Y +2 more
Nursing ethics · 2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
How VLAs Fail Differently: Black-Box Action Monitoring Reveals Architecture-Specific Failure Signatures
Krishnam Gupta
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
What Frozen VLAs Already Know About Success: A Probing Study of Value-Like Structure in Foundation Robot Policies
Jiachen Zhang, Junnan Nie, Junyi Lao +4 more
2026
PERCEPTION
Open access
OSMa-Bench++: Toward Open-Ended Benchmarking of Semantic Mapping for Manipulation with Prompt-Generated Synthetic Scenes
Regina Kurkova, Maxim Popov, Sergey Kolyubin
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
EXPO-FT: Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning Finetuning for Vision-Language-Action Models
Perry Dong, Kuo-Han Hung, Tian Gao +2 more
2026