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BestMan: a modular mobile manipulator platform for embodied AI with unified simulation-hardware APIs

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 62322601).

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  1. College of Computer Science, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China

    Kui Yang, Beichen Shao, Xingchen Wang & Chao Chen

  2. School of Intelligent Manufacturing Ecosystem, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, 215412, China

    Nieqing Cao

  3. Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Shanghai, 200030, China

    Yan Ding

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Yang, K., Cao, N., Shao, B. et al. BestMan: a modular mobile manipulator platform for embodied AI with unified simulation-hardware APIs. Front. Comput. Sci. 19, 199361 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-025-41109-6

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