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A Robot Chose a Support Surface Three Times Faster

CTCS screened reach, mobility and residual-force tradeoffs across 392 task conditions.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-09-25-016
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Summary

CTCS screened reach, mobility and residual-force tradeoffs across 392 task conditions.

On a Unitree Go2 quadruped with an AgileX arm and nine support surfaces, selective exact evaluations closely matched the exhaustive objective while producing about a threefold speedup over checking every candidate contact.

Why it matters

CTCS screened reach, mobility and residual-force tradeoffs across 392 task conditions.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. CTCS screened reach, mobility and residual-force tradeoffs across 392 task conditions.

    Evidence: source-2026-09-25-018

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2609.30140arXiv · primary research

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