Touch and Go
University of Michigan / CMU
Human-collected egocentric video and GelSight readings from touching objects in natural environments.
CC BY 4.0; download from the official page.
THE SOURCE INDEX / 03
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DATA / RESEARCH MATERIAL
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DATASET INDEX
Touch & multisensory
Vision, touch and contact measurements
DATASET INDEXRobot manipulation
Hardware demonstrations, actions and simulation
DATASET INDEXDefects & anomalies
Blade imagery, industrial surfaces and concrete cracks
Entries link to original access instructions. Collections can overlap with their constituent datasets; general anomaly benchmarks do not replace damage validation on actual equipment.
VisGel
MIT CSAIL
Synchronised visual and tactile sequences of robot contact with everyday objects, for cross-modal prediction.
See the author page and repository for access; verify terms in the original files.
ObjectFolder-Real
Stanford Vision and Learning Lab and collaborators
Meshes, videos, impact sounds and tactile measurements for 100 real objects.
Use the official ObjectFolder-Real download; follow the source terms.
ObjectFolder 2.0
Stanford Vision and Learning Lab and collaborators
Implicit representations of 1,000 objects queried by viewpoint, impact location and contact conditions.
Download and query the models following project instructions; distinguish them from measured touch.
Open X-Embodiment
Open X-Embodiment Collaboration
A collection of robot-manipulation datasets with a common format, dataset inventory and RT-X research.
Terms vary by constituent dataset. Separate BridgeData and RH20T entries provide details, not additional independent volume.
DROID
DROID Dataset Team
Multi-scene Franka manipulation trajectories, with language annotations, camera calibration and a data visualiser.
The official page supplies Colab and cloud-data paths; check terms for data, code and supplementary annotations.
BridgeData V2
UC Berkeley RAIL and collaborators
Teleoperated and scripted trajectories spanning pick-and-place, doors, cloth folding and sweeping.
Collection modes have separate downloads; portions also appear in Open X-Embodiment.
RH20T
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Contact-rich robot sequences paired with human demonstrations, multi-view vision, force, audio and actions.
RH20T-C and RH20T-NC have different licences; fingertip touch is limited to Cfg. 7. Google Drive and Baidu links are provided.
LIBERO
Lifelong Robot Learning collaborators
Teleoperated demonstrations in controlled simulated tasks for studying transfer of spatial, object and goal knowledge.
Download scripts are in the official repository; these are simulated data. See the repository licence.
robomimic · Demonstration datasets
Stanford / UT Austin and collaborators
An index of real and simulated manipulation demonstrations, with download, preprocessing and training interfaces.
This is a dataset index; download each subset and check its source, format and terms.
PhysicalAI · GR00T X-Embodiment Sim
NVIDIA
NVIDIA’s cross-embodiment simulated manipulation data for GR00T-related training and research.
The data card specifies CC BY 4.0. Use the official files and check embodiment and format for the version.
AeBAD · Aero-engine Blade Anomaly Detection
Zilong Zhang and collaborators
Single-blade images (AeBAD-S) and blade videos (AeBAD-V) for anomaly detection under changes in illumination, view and scale.
Data: CC BY 4.0. The source repository links Google Drive and Tianyi downloads. Distinguish engineered specimen defects from in-service damage.
BladeSynth
Mohammed Eltoum and collaborators
Synthetic turbine-blade renders covering normal, dent, nick, scratch and corrosion classes, with defect segmentation masks.
The original record is on Figshare; generation files and scripts are in the author repository. Check the dataset-record licence.
MVTec AD
MVTec Software
Normal and anomalous industrial object and texture images, with pixel-level defect annotations.
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; access through the official form. Non-commercial use.
MVTec AD 2
MVTec Software
More demanding backgrounds and illumination conditions, with public and hidden-annotation test splits.
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; the hidden-annotation split is evaluated by the official server.
MVTec 3D-AD
MVTec Software
Object-surface scans acquired with an industrial 3D sensor for anomaly detection and localisation.
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; data and evaluation code are linked from the official page.
VisA
Amazon Science
Visual anomaly data for PCBs and everyday objects, including scratches, dents and missing components.
Data: CC BY 4.0; code: Apache 2.0. Download and splits are in the official repository.
SDNET2018
Utah State University
Cracked and non-cracked concrete deck, wall and pavement images, including shadows and surface clutter.
CC BY 4.0; image-level classification labels, not pixel-level crack segmentation.
Harvard · HAMR-E · research paper
Wyss Institute at Harvard University
Wyss Institute, 2018 · Science Robotics
EELS (Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA/JPL · robotics project and field-test records
K-Track: A Kirigami-Inspired Tracked Robot With Negative Pressure Co-operative Adhesion for Wall-to-Wall Transition
Yu Sun, Heng Ren, Jiajia Ning, Qingkai Guo, Xuefeng Chen, Shaojiang Dong, Laihao Yang
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Unified active compliance enables miniature robots to traverse diverse surfaces
Qingkai Guo, Yu Sun, Yunbo Wang, Zipan Zhao, Changfeng Nan, Shaojiang Dong, Laihao Yang, Xuefeng Chen
International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
Stanford researchers develop a new type of soft, growing robot
Stanford University research team
Stanford Engineering · 2017 research report
Robotic thread is designed to slip through the brain’s blood vessels
MIT News · research by Yoonho Kim and collaborators
MIT · 2019 research report
Robotics & AI technology landscape
Rolls-Royce / University of Nottingham
Innovate UK Business Connect, 2020, pp. 142–143
ReachBot Field Tests in a Mojave Desert Lava Tube as a Martian Analog
Tony G. Chen, Julia Di, Stephanie Newdick, Mathieu Lapotre, Marco Pavone, Mark R. Cutkosky
IEEE ICRA Workshop on Field Robotics, 2024 · arXiv:2405.15005
Personalized magnetic tentacles for targeted photothermal cancer therapy in peripheral lungs
Giovanni Pittiglio, James H. Chandler, Tomas da Veiga et al.
Communications Engineering 2, 50
Cutting surgical robots down to size
Wyss Institute at Harvard University · research report
Wyss Institute · 2020
Snake Robot Urban Search After the 2017 Mexico City Earthquake
Julian Whitman, Nico Zevallos, Matt Travers, Howie Choset
Carnegie Mellon University · 2018 publication
Ingestible origami robot
MIT News · research by Shuhei Miyashita and collaborators
MIT / CSAIL · 2016 research report
Tiny robots bring health care closer to precision drug delivery
Renee Zhao and collaborators · Stanford University
Stanford Engineering · 2022 research report
A Novel Contact-Aided Continuum Robotic System: Design, Modeling, and Validation
Zheshuai Yang, Laihao Yang, Yu Sun, Xuefeng Chen
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Touching with torque enables human-level robotic dexterity
Ling Wang, Yu Sun, Laihao Yang, Yuxuan Sun, Qingkai Guo, Yixue Liu, Xuefeng Chen, Yajing Shen
Science Advances
Bistable insect-scale jumpers with tunable energy barriers for multimodal locomotion
Qingkai Guo, Yu Sun, Tianxiang Zhang, Shiyu Xie, Xuefeng Chen, Zhuang Zhang, Hanqing Jiang, Laihao Yang
Advanced Science
Spot Becomes Part of the Team at National Grid
Boston Dynamics / National Grid
Boston Dynamics · customer case
ANYmal X Tested for Autonomous Robot Inspections in Ex-zones at BASF
ANYbotics / BASF
ANYbotics · 2023 field tests
Berkeley Humanoid Lite: An Open-source, Accessible, and Customizable 3D-printed Humanoid Robot
Yufeng Chi et al. · UC Berkeley
RSS 2025
HOVER: Versatile Neural Whole-Body Controller for Humanoid Robots
Tairan He et al. · NVIDIA / CMU and collaborators
ICRA 2025
GR00T N1: An Open Foundation Model for Generalist Humanoid Robots
NVIDIA GR00T research team
NVIDIA · 2025 research release
Google DeepMind · Gemini Robotics
Google DeepMind
Vision-language-action and on-device models; access follows the official partner or testing programmes.
π₀: A Vision-Language-Action Flow Model for General Robot Control
Physical Intelligence
arXiv · 2024 / openpi
Mobile ALOHA: Learning Bimanual Mobile Manipulation with Low-Cost Whole-Body Teleoperation
Zipeng Fu, Tony Z. Zhao, Chelsea Finn · Stanford
CoRL 2024
Gewu Playground · robot-learning simulation
OpenLoong / Gewu Playground
Reinforcement learning, imitation learning and simulation examples; see repository licence
Unity RL Playground: A Versatile Reinforcement Learning Framework for Mobile Robots
Linqi Ye et al.
arXiv preprint · 2503.05146
NVIDIA Isaac GR00T
NVIDIA
Robot foundation models, training and inference code; check weight licences separately.
Isaac Lab
NVIDIA / Isaac Sim
A robotics-learning and simulation framework; dependencies and assets have separate licences.
openpi
Physical Intelligence
Robot policy models, checkpoints and fine-tuning examples; check code and model terms.
LeRobot
Hugging Face
Tools for robot data collection, training and deployment; hardware support is documented separately.
Berkeley Humanoid Lite
Hybrid Robotics · UC Berkeley
Humanoid hardware files, control software and assembly documentation; licences vary by file type.
Tesla · Optimus
Tesla
Official technical overview and demonstrations; a reusable full open-source system was not verified.
Boston Dynamics · Spot SDK
Boston Dynamics
Public SDK, APIs and examples; not the complete hardware design or low-level control stack.
Google DeepMind · Gemini Robotics ER
Google DeepMind
Spatial understanding and multi-step planning, available through the Gemini API or AI Studio; motor execution is handed to a lower-level model or control system.
Locating Contact on Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots From Tendon Measurements Alone via Constrained Moving Horizon Estimation
arXiv · Haitham El-Hussieny
Preprint · simulation · v1 · 2026-11-06
NEURA Robotics, E.ON and enviaM-Gruppe launch partnership to bring Physical AI to critical energy infrastructure
NEURA Robotics · 官方公告 / official announcement
Partnership · planned pilot · 2026-11-05
Riemannian Optimization-based Whole-body Obstacle Avoidance for Mobile Continuum Robots in Cluttered Environments
arXiv · Duo Tang 等 / et al.
Preprint · simulation and hardware · v1 · 2026-11-04
SCRUB: Contact-Based Surface-Frame Estimation for Force-Motion Control with an Armless Quadruped
arXiv · Sourav Selvaraj 等 / et al.
Preprint · hardware experiments · v1 · 2026-11-04
A Conveyor Belt Mechanism for Repositionable Magnetic Coupling Between Continuum Robots
arXiv · Ella Walsh、Eric Diller、Jessica Burgner-Kahrs
Preprint · proof of concept · v1 · 2026-10-29
Controlling Continuum Robot Shape in Enclosed Space with Embedded Sensing using IMU and Actuator Feedback
arXiv · Jiahe Wang 等 / et al.
Preprint · hardware closed-loop control · v1 · 2026-10-28
Vol.60 · Unit 2 robotic-arm access-route construction
TEPCO · 东京电力
Official update · field work · Vol.60 · 2026-10-25
基于多传感器融合的供水管道检测机器人—复杂受限空间移动技术研发结果公告
深圳环水集团 · 招标采购数字管理平台
Procurement result · R&D · 采购结果公告 · 2026-10-14
Design and Characterization of a Unified Continuum Robot Actuation Platform
arXiv · Yunti Xu 等 / et al.
Preprint · platform experiments · v1 · 2026-10-14
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