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Identifiable Decomposition of Submovements in Human Hand Trajectories
Voluntary movements have long been hypothesised to be comprised of discrete primitives called submovements, as a descriptive model of human motor behaviour.BatSLAM 2.0: Sequence-Verified Sonar Place Recognition in a Robust Pose Graph
Echolocating bats can navigate dark and cluttered spaces using echolocation.Passive Stiffness Shaping in Cable-Suspended Aerial Manipulation via Movable Compliant Anchors
Cable-suspended aerial manipulation offers a lightweight architecture for cooperative transportation and physical interaction, yet the passive mechanical response perceived at the load remains…Tactile Curiosity Drives Robot Interaction
Mastering robot manipulation skills via reinforcement learning (RL) remains largely sample-inefficient.Game-Guided Skill Discovery through Self-Play for Playable Agent Control
We present Game-Guided Skill Discovery (GGSD), a framework that uses self-play in games to discover motor skills that are directly playable by humans.Dream4ACT: A Shared Visual Action Interface for Multi-Embodiment Video-Action Modeling
Video generation models (VGMs) offer strong spatiotemporal priors for embodied observation--action modeling.Rethinking Legibility in Social Robot Hallway Navigation: Impact of Intent Representation and Human Distraction
We focus on legible robot motion generation in social navigation settings.PrefPI: Preference-Guided Steering into Out-of-Distribution Behaviors
We present PrefPI (Preference-Guided Policy Iteration), an iterative framework for steering pretrained generative robot policies using only relative preferences over self-generated trajectories.Social-WM: Safety-Aware Latent World Models for Robot Social Navigation
Safe social navigation requires a robot to anticipate not only the future consequences of its actions, but also whether a nominal action can actually be executed under surrounding physical and…Non-Invasive Inspection of Water Canals Using Dronar
Open concrete canals play a vital role in water transportation, serving as primary water infrastructure for millions of people across the Phoenix, Arizona, metro area.Centralized Multi-UAV Exploration and 3D Reconstruction Using Single-UAV Planners
Extending single Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) exploration methods to multi-UAV teams can improve coverage speed and robustness, but introduces challenges such as consistent mapping, safe…StreamRig: Exploiting Intra-Rig Geometry for Streaming Multi-Camera Odometry
Mobile robots and vehicles carry synchronized multi-camera rigs, yet many streaming 3D foundation models are designed for monocular input, leaving efficient use of rig geometry a challenge.STARS: From Spatiotemporal Dynamics to Social Representations in Human-Robot Interaction
Robot navigation in dynamic, human-centered environments requires socially-compliant decisions grounded in robust scene understanding.Belief-Aware Multi-Agent Path Finding under Map Uncertainty
Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) aims to find collision-free paths for multiple agents in a shared environment.GPU-Accelerated Path-Dependent Marginal Information Gain for Autonomous Exploration
Autonomous exploration demands that robots continuously evaluate candidate viewpoints based on their expected information gain and execution cost.DynaHarness: A Dynamic Physical Harness for Self-Evolving Robot Agents
Pretrained robot policies provide useful action priors, but long-horizon manipulation still requires coordination between semantic reasoning and physical execution.Ego4WAM: What Matters When Scaling Egocentric Human Data for Robot Learning?
Egocentric human data provides a scalable source of experience for robot learning, but varies substantially in human-robot alignment, behavioral coverage, and available supervision.AssemblyWorld: Rethinking 3D Assembly with General-Purpose Agents
The task of 3D assembly requires translating an understanding of parts and their relationships into precise spatial arrangements.IndoorBEV: A Lightweight Real-Time LiDAR BEV Perception System for Indoor Mobile Robots
Efficient indoor LiDAR perception is challenging because mobile robots must understand cluttered three-dimensional environments under strict latency and memory constraints.DexPolicy: Scheduled Exploration for Trajectory-Guided Dexterous Manipulation
Reinforcement learning (RL) for dexterous manipulation must discover finger-object contacts and then control the object precisely; the action noise that serves the first goal can interfere with the…