Operating environments: Physical arm-contact control tests
Control modes: Human Applied External Force
Force-controlled manipulation - Research demonstration - 2026-09-18 - Yield the arm under an applied external force and return toward its target pose after release. - environment: Physical arm-contact control tests - Hardware: DEUX robot arm with motor-current-based force estimation and local motor-side control - Software: Impedance controller with configurable joint stiffness, friction and gravity compensation - Control: human_applied_external_force - Conditions: Human-applied external arm force; adjustable joint stiffness - source: irobotnews.com