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MoSoLoco: Monocular 3D Human Localization through Visual Latent Features and Social Context
Estimating the metric 3D position of people from a monocular camera is important for robot navigation and motion prediction.Towards end-to-end co-design for one-shot printable task-specific soft robots
Soft robot co-design methods can jointly optimise morphology and control, but the resulting designs are often difficult to manufacture, while manufacturable approaches typically restrict actuator…TRAILS: Trajectory Generation for Automated Indoor Locomotion Studies
Virtual reality experiments involving navigation and simulated robot motion often require large, realistic environments and numerous distinct trajectories to avoid repetitive navigation while…VerifLM: Physically Verified Image-Edit-Guided Goal Pose Generation for Robotic Manipulation
Many manipulation goals are easier to visualize than to specify numerically through explicit geometric constraints.ForceLDM: A Force-aware Latent Dynamics Model for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Contact-rich manipulation requires fine-grained control and complex physical interactions with the environment, posing significant challenges for robot policy learning.Safe-Ballbot: Tilt-Consistent MPC with Control Barrier Functions for Ballbot Navigation
Ball-balancing robots (ballbots) must lean to accelerate, and the lean is limited by the wheel torques and by safety.OpenZilo: An Open Smart-Ring Platform for Human-Centric Sensing and Interaction with Robots
Wearable robot interfaces must connect user input to timely physical action.Myoelectric Control for Upper-Limb Exoskeletons: A Decoder-Shaper-Controller Framework, Design Guidelines, and Future Directions
Myoelectric Control Systems (MCSs) enable voluntary control of wearable robots through muscle activity.Toward Uncertainty-Aware, Physics-Grounded Human World Models
A robot that acts around people needs a world model of the human: a belief over the person's body state and a dynamics model that predicts where that state goes next.Evaluating Depth-Augmented Visual Features for Cross-Dataset Lunar Traversability Estimation
Autonomous mobility is essential for sustained lunar surface operations, as communication delays and line-of-sight occlusions limit continuous teleoperation.Clinician-AI Collaboration in Endovascular Neurointerventions: In-Vitro User Study of Copilot Assistance Modes for Robotic Navigation Across the Autonomy Spectrum
Mechanical thrombectomy (MT) is an effective treatment for acute ischemic stroke, yet access remains limited by the availability of neurointerventional expertise.Exploring Proximity and Tactile Sensing for Robotic Manipulation
Pre-touch sensing, or sensing information about an object before contact, is an attractive modality for robot hands as it can allow a robot to anticipate and respond to a contact before it happens.Delay-Certified Readiness Barriers for Overactuated Multirotor Allocation Without Lipschitz Constants
Overactuated multirotors can produce the same wrench with many rotor-speed combinations, some of which leave the vehicle unable to change its wrench quickly, e.g., to reject a gust.SNAP: Semantic Navigation Among Pedestrians
Navigating crowded urban environments requires robots to avoid pedestrians while adhering to social norms such as remaining on sidewalks.When Robots Outweigh Objects: How Inertia Mismatch Shapes Robot Policy Learning
Conventional robot arms can be extremely heavy compared with the everyday objects they manipulate, creating a significant inertia mismatch at contact.PanoTac: A Dense Three-Axis Tactile Sensor for Robust Touch-Centric Manipulation
Contact-rich manipulation benefits from tactile feedback that captures both detailed contact geometry and interaction forces.Mediating Human-Swarm Interactions Through a Robot Helper: A Shepherding-Inspired Approach
This work investigates human-swarm interaction (HSI) for steering large collectives through an intermediary robot helper.TAMPAgent: Agentic Belief-Space Planning for Mobile Manipulation
Open-world robotic mobile manipulation requires acting in physical environments with only partial information.Seeing Through the Illusion: Test-Time Scaling for World Action Models
World action models (WAMs) jointly generate actions and imagined futures, but a plausible prediction need not be realized by its co-generated action.3D-BBDA: Backpropagation-Free Black-Box Domain Adaptation for Robust 3D Point Cloud Recognition
Robust 3D point-cloud recognition is critical for robotics, mapping, and urban sensing, yet point-cloud classifiers often suffer performance drops under domain shifts caused by sensor changes…