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Co-VLA: Consensus-based Federated Training for Vision-Language-Action Models
Vision-language-action models (VLAs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for general-purpose robot learning, with performance improving as models and datasets scale.Execution-Aware Pre-Execution Ranking for Grasp-Conditioned Robotic Placement
A geometrically valid placement can still be difficult to execute because the selected grasp changes the required end-effector pose, collision geometry, and transport motion.LapaTrack-3D: 6 DoF pre-operative shape tracking for laparoscopic surgery
This work proposes a real-time 6 Degree-of-Freedom (6 DoF) tracking algorithm for monocular laparoscopic surgery.Hybrid Residual Reinforcement Learning for Contact-Rich Robotic Book Insertion
Placing a grasped book into a tight shelf is a compact but difficult contact-rich control problem: millimetre-scale pose error can turn a geometrically valid approach into jamming, failed release…MaskHarness-WAM: Instance-Grounded Harnessing for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation
Long-horizon robot manipulation requires not only stable local visuomotor control, but also continuous target tracking and reliable task progress assessment throughout execution.Compliance for Free: Learning Identifiable Impedance via Bilateral Teleoperation
Vision-language-action models tell a robot where to move, but not how hard to push.Astronex-World 1.0: Real-Time Interactive World Model Foundation
We present Astronex-World 1.0, an open controllable video world-model foundation.DR-MPC: Fast and Feasible Dynamics-Relaxed Model-Predictive Control for Legged Locomotion
This paper presents dynamics-relaxed model predictive control (DR-MPC), a novel MPC formulation for legged locomotion, and a tailored interior-point method (IPM) solver.Mechanical Precision Weeding with a Quadruped Robot
Herbicide-based weed control is increasingly unsustainable due to rising weed resistance and the adverse environmental impacts of chemical use.FlipToSee: A Probabilistic Stable Placement Prior for Active Visual Exploration via Regrasping
Active visual exploration of tabletop objects often requires reorienting an unknown resting object onto a different stable support face to expose occluded surfaces.Graph-Based Design of Soft Grippers with Multi-Objective Quality-Diversity Optimisation
Effective manipulation across diverse objects is critical for applications ranging from agricultural harvesting to laboratory and domestic automation.Safety-Critical Scenarios Emerge from Initial Scenes
Safety-critical driving scenario generation has largely focused on manipulating the behavior of surrounding agents while starting from an initial scene from driving data.AnyviewMeter: Adapting Robotic Reward Models with Camera Geometry and Multi-View Attention
Robotic reward models evaluate task execution from visual observations, but their predictions can change with camera viewpoint and occlusion even when the underlying task state is unchanged.AnyViewDex: View-Invariant Dexterous Manipulation from RGB Observations
Visuomotor policies for multi-fingered dexterous manipulation are highly sensitive to camera viewpoint shifts.Universal Navigation Interface: Robot-Free Data for Wheeled Robot Navigation
Collecting real-world navigation data for mobile robots typically requires platform-specific teleoperation, making large-scale collection expensive and difficult to scale.How Far Can GPT-6-Astra Go? Evaluating Capabilities in Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation
We study GPT-6-Astra in a zero-shot Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE) system, where it interprets instructions, assesses its surroundings, and proposes actions.RoboFind: Multi-Agent Personalized Object Search for People Who Are Blind or Have Low Vision
Blind and low-vision users often need to locate a specific personal object rather than an arbitrary instance of the same category.EliGSiR: Continual RGB-D Mapping with Gaussian Splatting under Bounded Compute
Conventional 3D Gaussian Splatting assumes a closed set of observations and long optimization schedules.Navi-Agent: Unlocalized Monocular Navigation Agent
Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE) requires an embodied agent to execute long-horizon instructions in unknown environments.Imagine-TAMP: Imagination-Guided Task and Motion Planning in Partial Observability
Robots operating in cluttered environments must often manipulate objects whose locations are only partially observable.