PanoVine: autonomous vine robot with 19 cameras along a 6m soft body
SongShuran · x · 2026-11-10
Presented at CoRL, PanoVine is billed as the first autonomous vine robot system. The researchers distributed 19 cameras along a 6-meter, 7-DoF soft growing vine robot, giving it whole-body visual feedback of both itself and its surroundings. From these observations they train an end-to-end visuomotor policy that autonomously navigates branches, slopes, gaps, turns and obstacles. The author is also presenting newer loco-manipulation work at workshops and exhibiting a HoMMI device, and is on the faculty job market.
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