Semantic scene understanding - Research demonstration - 2022-09-03 - Kinova Gemini combines conversational dialogue and visual reasoning on a Kinova Gen3 lite robot for object retrieval and perception-based pick-and-place tasks. - source: arxiv.org
Object manipulation - Research demonstration - 2026-07-16 - The authors present NeuroCommitSSM, a decision-centric framework that models when to execute, not just what to do, for safe commit-to-execute control in assistive robotic manipulation. - source: arxiv.org
Bimanual manipulation - Research demonstration - 2026-07-01 - The authors introduce FurnitureVLA, the first systematic study of real-scale bimanual furniture assembly using Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs). - source: arxiv.org
Trajectory tracking - Research demonstration - 2026-03-04 - Validation on a Kinova Gen3 and Unitree Go2 demonstrates trajectory tracking and obstacle avoidance. - source: arxiv.org
Whole-body loco-manipulation - Research demonstration - 2025-07-25 - This approach enables rapid convergence of gradient-based motion planning -- commonly tailored for continuous systems -- while adapting it effectively to legged manipulators, successfully executing loco-manipulation tasks. - source: arxiv.org
Pick and place - Research demonstration - 2025-07-25 - The authors benchmark RAKOMO against a baseline KOMO approach through a set of simulations for pick-and-place tasks with the HyQReal quadruped robot equipped with a Kinova Gen3 robotic arm. - source: arxiv.org
Human-robot handover - Research demonstration - 2022-09-20 - The controller adapts human-robot handover behavior across lighting conditions, individual human behavior and robot platforms with different control interfaces. - source: arxiv.org
Object retrieval - Research demonstration - 2022-09-03 - Kinova Gemini combines conversational dialogue and visual reasoning on a Kinova Gen3 lite robot for object retrieval and perception-based pick-and-place tasks. - source: arxiv.org
Remote and shared control - Research demonstration - 2026-07-01 - Collected real-world bimanual furniture-assembly demonstrations through VR teleoperation on Kinova Gen3 hardware. - environment: real-scale furniture-assembly research setup - source: arxiv.org
Inspection - Research demonstration - 2025-10-27 - Their results show that integrating policy execution with anomaly detection and recovery increases the execution success rate in environments with various anomalies, such as trajectory deviations and adversarial human… - source: arxiv.org