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Local Solution Repair for Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery
Multi-robot systems in automated warehouses must efficiently attend to a constant stream of pickup-and-delivery tasks while avoiding collisions.When Delay Meets Drift: Physical Safety of Robot Foundation Models Is a Cross-Layer Problem
Robot foundation models now act in a closed loop, yet their safety is evaluated one variation at a time: robustness benchmarks perturb the scene while assuming instantaneous inference, and real-time…History-Aware Force Sensing and Tunable Stiffness in a Pneumatic Kresling Origami Cell
Mechanical hysteresis and pneumatic loading complicate contact force estimation from deformation measurements in soft robots.GoalDex: Learning Image-Goal-Conditioned Policies for Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation
Dexterous in-hand manipulation is commonly formulated around explicit object pose estimation, yet reliable pose tracking is challenging under severe hand-object occlusions and often requires…Directional Bounded-Confidence Cucker-Smale Flocking
This paper introduces a directional bounded-confidence extension of the Cucker--Smale (CS) flocking model that decomposes pairwise relative velocities into independent radial and tangential channels…Human Sensorimotor Model Adaptation to Account for Robot Accuracy and Speed Augmentation in Human-Robot Co-Manipulation
In human-robot co-manipulation, the robot's trajectory should accommodate the human's, where human sensorimotor behavior is affected by the task's spatial and temporal constraints, as well as…Directional Bounded-Confidence Matrix Alignment in Vicsek Flocking
This paper proposes a directional bounded-confidence variant of the discrete-time Vicsek multiagent model, in which pairwise heading alignment is modulated by a state-dependent, positive…Beyond Ensemble Disagreement: Predictive STL Monitoring of RL Locomotion under Distribution Shift
RL locomotion policies trained under nominal simulation conditions may encounter distribution shifts that compromise safety.When to Probe and When to Act: Clarity-Aware Risk-Adaptive Control for Interactive Driving
Safe navigation in interactive traffic requires autonomous vehicles to reason about unobservable human characteristics and the reciprocal nature of multi-agent interactions.A Straight Line Is Not a Camera Pose: Auditing Short-Clip Pose Benchmarks
The absolute trajectory error (ATE) is the standard measure of camera-motion accuracy, from SLAM to feed-forward 3D reconstruction.Knowing Where to Look: Interactive Object Search via Spatial-Semantic Fusion
When searching for an object, humans naturally combine semantic intuition - reasoning about where the object is likely to be stored - with geometric awareness of what parts of the space are visible…MESSPa: A Multi-modal Embodiment Stimulation Shoulder Pad for Preserving the Sense of Agency in a Detachable Robotic Arm
Wearable robots such as supernumerary robotic limbs (SRLs) can augment human capability, but their effectiveness depends strongly on the operator's sense of embodiment, comprising the sense of…WorldSketch: Sketching World Models for Zero-Shot Mobile Manipulation
Most agentic robotic systems use vision-language models (VLMs) either to orchestrate predefined skills or to directly generate actions, constraints, and control programs.Behavioral Steering of Vision-Language-Action Models in the Low-Parameter Regime
Reinforcement learning (RL) is increasingly used to adapt pretrained vision-language-action models (VLAs).Reflex: Fast Robot Policy Serving by Reusing and Correcting Past Actions
Modern robot policies often perform expensive inference to generate action chunks, making serving a latency bottleneck for real-time control and a throughput bottleneck for multi-robot serving.3D Neural Rendering for Automated Ultrasonic Laser Scans
Laser doppler vibrometer (LDV) scans can be used to detect defects and cracks in manufactured parts before they are deployed.Faster Imitation by Re-timing Demonstrations Within the Controller Limit
Imitation policies inherit the operator's pace, and re-timing the demonstrations to run faster works only until success collapses at two to three times demonstration speed.SaddleSense: Saddle-Shaped Modules for 3D Shape Sensing with Single-Axis Off-the-Shelf Bend Sensors
Accurate posture feedback is essential for precise control of continuum robots.Roz: A Taste Test for World Model Latents
State of the art latent dynamics world models achieve impressive performance for robot planning.Learning from an Imitable Teacher: Competition Solution for the MetaFine Challenge
The MetaFine Open Competition (RoboFineMani workshop, CoRL 2026) evaluates fine-grained manipulation beyond binary success.