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SCULPT-VLA: Learning Structured Control through Staged Action Grounding
Vision-language-action (VLA) policies increasingly incorporate structured intermediate supervision beyond action labels.Safety-Critical Control under Uncertainty via Adaptive Conformal Quantile Prediction Intervals
Safety-critical control under uncertainty requires uncertainty representations that are both statistically valid (for certifiable performance) and compatible with enforceable safety constraints.Shared Execution-Clock Drifting Policy for Dynamic Precision Manipulation
Manipulation under time constraints requires both accurate actions and an execution rhythm that matches the evolving scene.Manipulation Feasible Navigation Among Movable Obstacles with Discrete Contact Pushing
In environments with large movable obstacles, detour-only navigation can be inefficient or even infeasible, while obstacle interaction requires reasoning about navigation benefit, feasible…BiView-Touch: Learning Bimanual Tactile Representations by Cross-Hand Completion
Bimanual interaction produces complementary tactile views of the same physical process, yet existing tactile representation learning largely models the two hands independently or combines them only…Identity Continuity in Long-Term Embodied AI Relationships: From Agent-Specific Identity Representation to Identity-Continuity Appraisal
Long-term embodied AI will undergo learning, model updates, memory compression, hardware repair, and migration across embodiments.Towards Reliable Underwater Diver-Robot Interaction: Gesture Design, Interaction Logic, and Real-World Evaluation
Underwater human--robot interaction requires gesture commands that are both easy for divers to use and reliable for robots to recognize.EmoPose: Vision-Language Model Guided Emotion-Aware Gesture Generation for Humanoid Robots
Socially competent humanoid robots must communicate affect and intent through gesture as well as speech, yet open-ended interaction must become motion that is both expressive and executable on a…HEARTH: An Object-Centric RGB-Thermal-3D Dataset for Temperature-Aware Robot Manipulation
Language-guided manipulation can depend on physical properties that visible appearance does not reveal.RiverVLN: Phase-Grounded Temporal Vision--Language Navigation for Unmanned Surface Vehicles
Vision-language navigation (VLN) has largely been developed for indoor and terrestrial robots, where language can often be treated as a static goal and motion is approximated by discrete or…RopeFormer: Cross-Trial Adaptation from Interaction History for Dynamic Rope Manipulation
Dynamic rope manipulation is highly sensitive to unknown object dynamics: the same robot motion can produce substantially different responses across ropes, while explicitly identifying the relevant…Receding-Horizon Pushing with Composable Object-Centric Policies
Non-prehensile manipulation is practical for relocating large, heavy, or geometrically ungraspable objects.BiRoAD: Learning Shared and Role-Adaptive Representations for Bimanual Manipulation
Bimanual manipulation requires policies that coordinate two arms while adapting their functional roles to scene geometry, object configuration, and task context.Conflicting Pattern Formation by Teams of Anonymous, Fully Disoriented Robots
Two groups of autonomous, anonymous, and oblivious mobile robots are deployed in the two-dimensional Euclidean plane, each assigned a distinct task.Smartphone GNSS Booster: Centimeter-Level Pedestrian Positioning Using a Portable Signal Re-Radiator
High-precision positioning using the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) embedded in smartphones is demanded for sidewalk-level pedestrian navigation and pinpoint location-based applications.Algebraic Consistency Alone Does Not Certify Temporal Structure in Latent Action Models
Latent action models infer a code for the transition between two frames of action-free video.STRIDER: Stepping-Enabled Multi-Gait Hierarchical 3D Loco-Manipulation Framework for Humanoid Robots
Humanoid loco-manipulation faces two prominent limitations: controllers using continuous velocity commands cannot precisely regulate individual footholds, while specialized foothold-tracking modules…Cognitive Action Reasoning for Proactive Robots from Human-Centered Multimodal Observations
Robots operating in human-centered environments are typically designed to execute explicit instructions, and most robot-learning datasets likewise pair observations with task instructions or…Design and Control of a Cable-Driven Switchable Actuator with Torque/Tension Dual Modes for Exoskeletons
Existing wearable exoskeleton architectures are typically constrained by a single mechanical output modality, providing either joint torque around an anatomical joint or linear traction along a…FeasibleFlow: One-Step Joint Transport of Configuration Feasibility and Trajectories for End-to-End Driving
End-to-end autonomous driving maps current observations directly to future trajectories, yet those trajectories must remain valid as the scene evolves.