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Robotic Valve Turning: Axial Misalignment Correction Using Reaction Torque Feedback
In this work, we propose a haptic update control law that uses reaction torques to correct axial misalignment during robotic valve manipulation.FoldQuantVLA: Native Low-Bit Quantization of Vision-Language-Action Models via Consistent Folding
Low-bit vision-language-action inference must reduce observation-to-action latency while preserving robot behavior.Do LiDAR Language Models Really Understand Spatio-temporal Relationships?
Recent 4D LiDAR language models aim to reason about objects and their evolving spatial relationships.ScaleMPA: Rethinking Scalable RRT* Acceleration With a Grid-Native Representation
Real-time motion planning remains challenging in large and high-dimensional environments.A Monolithic Force-Proprioception Soft Acutuator Enabled by Single-Material 3D printing
Pneumatic proprioceptive actuators integrate actuation and sensing for soft robots that attract interest due to functional potential.TACIT: Tactile Contact Supervision for Spatial Attention in Dexterous Manipulation
Visuomotor policies trained from a few demonstrations may reproduce demonstrated trajectories without reliably following changes in object position.InsertAnything: Generalizable Contact-Rich Precision Insertion from Simulation to Reality
Contact-rich precision insertion is a key manipulation skill in robotic assembly.Bridge3D: Enabling Vision-Language-Action Models to See and Act in 3D
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated remarkable generalization in robotic manipulation via large-scale multimodal pretraining.Estimation and Control of Tensegrity Manipulator Kinematics based on Strut Inclination Angles
Unlike conventional rigid-link robots defined by discrete joints, continuum robots pose a fundamental challenge for expressing their complex continuous bending configurations for closed-loop control.MIRA: Real-Time Full-Duplex Human-Robot Interaction for Embodied Companions
% !TEX root = ../main.tex Real-time embodied companion interaction requires a robot to infer user intent from streaming speech, generate timely responses, and execute expressive, interruptible…Smoothness as a Constraint for Stable Humanoid Locomotion
Embodied AI systems, particularly humanoid robots deployed in real world scenarios require whole-body control policies that are both task-responsive and physically smooth.ARSTAG: An Agentic Real2Sim2Real System for Task-Specific Robot Data Generation
Adapting visuomotor policies to new manipulation tasks often requires substantial manual engineering or teleoperated data collection.What do VLM-Based Vision-Language Navigation Models Rely on: Interpreting and Steering Policy Behavior
Modern Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) models rely mostly on pre-trained large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to predict navigation actions.Learning tactile perception from high-bandwidth single-point sensing
Tactile sensing is increasingly being incorporated into learning-based robotic manipulation, yet many existing approaches rely on spatially distributed sensors.Relationally Grounded Latent World Models for Autonomous Driving
Latent world models learn predictive representations for autonomous driving, but the relational semantics these states preserve often remain implicit.From Semantic Decisions to Feasible Trajectories: Self-Evolving LLM-Guided Optimal Control for Narrow-Space Parking
Autonomous parking in nonconvex and narrow environments remains challenging.Feasibility Distance Fields for Heterogeneous Constraints in Robot Configuration Space
Robot manipulators are monitored by constraint-specific indicators whose units and gradient scales are not comparable, so they do not provide a common measure of the configuration-space motion…Touch2Robot: Robot Touch in the Human Demonstration Loop
Human demonstrations offer a scalable way to collect manipulation data, but their contacts may be unstable or infeasible when transferred to a robot hand.Think Like a World Model, Act Like a VLA: Distilling World-Model Representations into Compact Robot Policies
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models map observations to actions with no objective that accounts for how the world responds, so their robustness is bounded primarily by data coverage.AC-DC: Adaptive Communication for Scalable Dynamic Average Consensus in Multi-Robot Ergodic Search
We study scalable peer-to-peer dynamic average consensus (DC) for multi-robot systems under finite-range, finite-rate, and interference-constrained communication.