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Task-dependent stiffness selection for compliant whole-body control

Determine principled strategies for selecting and dynamically adapting robot stiffness for specific tasks and interaction scenarios to balance safety, generalization, and performance during compliant whole-body control.

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Looking forward, a key area for future work is determining how to best select stiffness for a given task.

SoftMimic: Learning Compliant Whole-body Control from Examples (Margolis et al., 20 Oct 2025) in Conclusion