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Banana Kick: Response-Informed Skill Evolution for Humanoid Soccer
Humanoid kicking requires coordinated whole-body motion and precise contact, while a banana kick demands contact mechanics that generate ball spin and aerodynamic curvature.BranchDrive: A Branch-Structured Dataset for Action-Conditioned Driving Prediction
Most autonomous-driving datasets record only the action executed by a behavior policy and the single future that followed, providing limited supervision for comparing alternative ego decisions.EmbodiedSWE: Coding Agents for Long Horizon Dexterous Robotics
We study coding agents for long-horizon, dexterous robotics and ask whether their solutions can provide scalable supervision for learning general robot policies.Turning Safety into Competence: Minimally Exploitable Robot Policies via Safety-Filtered Reinforcement Learning
Robots deployed for competitive tasks must outmaneuver their opponents without sacrificing safety.CoRe-WAM: Correspondence-Aligned Temporal Residuals for World Action Models
Comparing current and past observations helps robots understand scene changes and select subsequent actions during manipulation.A Sample-Based Approach for Hierarchical Information-Theoretic Compression of Probabilistic Occupancy Grids
We develop a sample-based framework for constructing information-driven hierarchical multi-resolution representations of probabilistic occupancy grids.DUGM-R: Uncertainty-Aware Dynamic Grid Mapping and Risk-Triggered Recovery for Learned Local Navigation
Learned local navigation in crowded indoor environments is sensitive to how dynamic obstacle motion is represented, while collision-prone behaviour may persist after nominal policy training.Spatial and Semantic Reasoning for LLM-Driven Robot Navigation via MCP
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as natural-language interfaces for robotic systems, yet their integration with Robot Operating System (ROS)-based navigation remains limited by two…BladeMaster: Real-Time Robotic Cutting Simulation with Online-Generated Persistent Discontinuities
Cutting changes both the shape and topology of deformable objects, making accurate simulation challenging for robotic manipulation.Reflection-Aware Reasoning for Non-Line-of-Sight Pedestrian Localization
Reliable localization of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) pedestrians is critical for safe urban autonomous driving, yet it remains highly challenging in ego-dynamic outdoor environments, where ego-vehicle…Omnidirectional Amphibious Locomotion via Internal Mass Actuation
Field robots must traverse varied terrain and obstacles while remaining robust to water, debris, vegetation, and physical contact.From LiDAR Maps to Visual Localization: Unified Visual Association for Robust Point-Line-Plane Pose Estimation
Camera localization in a prior LiDAR map provides a persistent geometric reference for long-term robotic navigation, yet remains challenging because of the substantial modality gap between camera…Geometry-Conditioned Visual Place Recognition in Natural Environments
Visual Place Recognition (VPR) in natural environments remains challenging due to repetitive vegetation, sparse distinctive landmarks, and substantial appearance and viewpoint variation across…CoPRE: Improving Sensitivity in Proprioceptive Contact Detection for Low-Cost Robot Arms
Contact detection during robotic manipulation allows robots to recognize unexpected contact and adapt their motion accordingly.Automotive mmWave Spinning Radar Place Recognition with Spatially Gated Feature-Correlation Representation
Automotive spinning FMCW radar provides dense, $360^\circ$ sensing and remains reliable under poor illumination and adverse weather, making it well-suited to autonomous navigation.Compressed delayed-information projection for six-degree-of-freedom underwater vehicle navigation under delayed acoustic positioning
Delayed acoustic positioning packets constrain historical navigation states, but a current-time update evaluates them against a mismatched state, whereas exact rewind/replay re-executes the…X2Real: an eXtensive simulation benchmark for real-world generalist policies
Generalist robot manipulation policies have developed rapidly, yet their reliable evaluation remains challenging due to fundamental flaws in existing simulation benchmarks: prominent sim-to-real…BEE: Intervention-Adaptive Real-World Reinforcement Learning with Vision-Language-Action Models
Vision-language-action (VLA) models handle long-horizon manipulation, yet success hinges on a few precision-critical phases where millimeter-scale errors undo all prior progress.Latent evolving World Action Model
World Action Models (WAMs) jointly model action generation and environment dynamics and are mostly built on pretrained Video Diffusion Models (VDMs).Safety-Filtered Distributed Koopman-MPC
Distributed model predictive control (DMPC) often constructs both predictions and collision constraints from neighbor trajectories, so packet loss can remove both.