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Real-Time Event-Based LED Tracking and Pose Estimation with PWM-Encoded Markers
Event cameras are neuromorphic vision sensors with pixels that independently and asynchronously respond to brightness changes at microsecond resolution, supporting state estimation under rapid…GraspBench: Execution-Aware Cross-Robot Evaluation of 6-DoF Grasp Generation in MuJoCo
Modern 6-DoF grasp generators are often evaluated using grasp scores, dataset-level metrics, or single-robot demonstrations, yet proposal quality alone does not determine whether a grasp is…Which Objects Stay? Learning Hierarchical Persistence Beliefs for Lifelong Open-Vocabulary Object Maps
Lifelong object maps must estimate whether an object remains at its previously observed location after it leaves view.Energy-Aware Open-Vocabulary Detection Scheduling for Low-Power Robotic Autonomy
Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) lets robots search for run-time object queries, but fixed-rate inference spends embedded compute on low-value frames during idle motion, map revisits, or…PhySA: Decoupling Aesthetic and Physical Rewards for Humanoid Locomotion
Humanoid locomotion policies trained without an explicit smoothness objective tend to produce jerky, high-energy gaits that stress actuators.Not Losing Your Way: Mitigating Visual-Inertial Odometry Drift through On-Demand Visual Feature Creation
Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) can degrade during aerial inspection in repetitive or poorly textured environments.Fast and Accurate Hand Estimation in Pixels, Interaction and World Space
Monocular hand mesh estimators commonly predict rig parameters and project the mesh to obtain 2D keypoints.AffectiveVLA: Safe and Intent-Aware VLA Control for Human-Humanoid Social Interaction
Social touch interactions, such as handshakes, fist bumps, and hugs, require humanoid robots to infer human intent, generate contact-rich motions, and maintain safe physical contact.Dual-Arm Tabletop Rearrangement with Movable Stacking and Gap-Aware Push Transfers
Object rearrangement in cluttered tabletop scenes is challenging, especially in wide workspaces where dual-arm systems improve coverage and efficiency.Seeing Beyond the Next Step: World-Model-Guided Human-Like Navigation in Multi-Agent Scenes
Selecting a next motion in a populated scene is not just a matter of avoiding what is currently in the way: an action can be locally feasible yet drift onto the road instead of the crosswalk, cut…Wedge-Jamming Mechanism for String Configuration
Variable stiffness mechanisms that achieve both flexibility and rigidity are important technologies for robotic systems.Flexible Piezoelectric Tactile Sensing System for Intelligent Object Recognition
Tactile sensing provides information about object properties that can improve robotic grasping and manipulation.A Sequential Framework for Urban Drone Delivery: Network Design, Vehicle Sizing, and Energy and Cost Assessment
A sequential engineering framework is presented for urban drone delivery, linking hub location, route planning, mission-specific vehicle sizing, and energy and operating cost assessment.Generate-then-Rank: Learning Symbolic Goal Interpretation for Embodied Agents
Goal interpretation is to translate a natural language instruction into a formal symbolic goal that a planner can execute.Learning Robotic World Models with Semantic and Visual Feedback
Robot world models predict action-conditioned future visual states to support robotic planning and decision making.TactileLab: Sim-to-Real Dexterous Robot Manipulation with Efficient Shear-Sensitive Tactile Simulation
Robotic simulators that represent shear within tactile sensing are becoming increasingly important for contact-rich manipulation.AffordJEV: Affordance Grounding by Confirming Candidate Regions
Affordance grounding asks which visible part of an object performs a requested operation, a basic capability for embodied manipulation and human--robot interaction.Structure from Collision via Hypothesis-Space Reasoning
Knowledge of the hidden interior structure of an object, including the presence and location of cavities, is essential for predictive simulation, robotic manipulation, and nondestructive inspection.XM4D: 4D Reconstruction through Certifiable Geometric Optimization
Accurate 4D reconstruction remains challenging: jointly estimating camera motion, scene geometry, and non-rigid deformation entails highly nonconvex optimization, making global optimality difficult…GuidedWAM: Training-Free Energy Guidance for World Action Models in Autonomous Driving
World action models (WAMs) for autonomous driving couple the driving policy and the visual world model in a single generative network whose objectives are fixed post-training.