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Underwater Navigation in Unsteady Flows Using Measurement Histories from a Single Sensing Unit
Spatial flow measurements support underwater navigation, but distributed sensing is constrained by robot size and sensor layout.TM-APR: Thermal Temporal-Memory Localization via Analytic Online Adaptation
Thermal Visual Place Recognition (Thermal VPR) maps camera observations to metric poses within a mapped environment, serving as a prerequisite for autonomous navigation.DreamStream: Towards Policy-Oriented Generative Simulation for End-to-End Driving
Faithfully evaluating end-to-end driving policies in simulation requires observations that are not merely photo-realistic, but preserve the scene features a policy relies on to make decisions.φ-RIE: From Photorealistic Reconstruction to Interactive Environments
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) can reconstruct a captured scene photorealistically, but the resulting representation does not by itself support physical interaction.FLINT: Fast Lightweight Inference for Traversability
Navigation in off-road conditions is challenging due to the lack of structure.Backdoors in Learning-Based Industrial Robotic Arm Manipulation: An Empirical Security Study
Learning-based models (e.g., visuomotor and Vision-Language-Action (VLA)) are increasingly explored for industrial robotic manipulation, where model predictions are directly translated into physical…MSK-Bench: Benchmarking Full-Body Musculoskeletal Motor Control Across Tasks, Control Paradigms, and Physiological Metrics
Musculoskeletal (MSK) humanoids provide a physiologically grounded embodiment for studying full-body motor control, but their high-dimensional muscle actuation, delayed activation dynamics, and…Impact-Time Guidance via Normal Contraction to a Time-to-Go Isochron
We develop a contraction-based perspective on impact-time guidance that augments a baseline homing command with a timing bias.Bend the Clock: Predicting Ahead to Beat Latency in Event-Based Object Detection
Event cameras promise low-latency perception for high-speed robotic systems, where even short delays can render detections stale by the time they inform downstream robotic decisions.Spiderbot: An Open-Source Energy-Efficient Hexapod with Passive Gravity Compensation
Hexapod robots can achieve static stability with fewer actuated joints than bipeds or quadrupeds, yet many platforms still use 3-DOF legs, increasing weight and continuous torque requirement with…Humanoid Locomotion with a Fly-Inspired Recurrent Controller
We investigate humanoid locomotion with a fly-inspired recurrent controller and identify the pathways supporting its deployed behavior.Learning Expressive Humanoid Locomotion from Monocular Runway Videos for Robot Fashion Shows
Runway walking requires coordinated control of posture, stride, foot placement, and whole-body motion to effectively present clothing and convey a distinctive style.MultiPush: Learning to Rearrange with Teams of Car-Like Pushers
We focus on the problem of rearranging multiple objects within a constrained workspace via pushing using a team of car-like robots.Laser-Tracker-Assisted Camera-to-Robot Calibration for Mobile Robots
We present a laser-tracker-assisted hand-eye calibration method for camera-equipped mobile robots.HiRE: Hindsight Reward Editing for Policy Finetuning
Pre-trained robot policies always require finetuning to adapt to specific environments.The Gaussian Is Enough: Flow-Matching Priors Do Not Help When Fine-Tuning Large Behavior Models
Modern robot imitation learning increasingly relies on generative policies based on diffusion or flow-matching models, which generate actions by transforming samples from a prior distribution.Pro-Bench: Prompt-Robust Open-Vocabulary Visual Grounding Across Real-World Heterogeneous Environments
Open-vocabulary visual grounding enables robots to localise task-relevant entities from natural-language queries without dependence on predefined perceptual taxonomies.Fast Direction-Conditioned Reachability for Motion Prediction Under Model Uncertainty
To avoid collisions, a robot must repeatedly predict where nearby agents may move, usually with an imperfect model of their dynamics.Water Surface Swimming in a Centipede and its Robophysical ModeL
Elongate multi-legged robots use coordinated body waves and distributed legs to move through cluttered terrestrial environments.Intelligence Across Embodiments
Robotic embodiment encompasses the sensing, kinematics, dynamics, geometry, actuation, and control through which an agent physically interacts with the world.