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When the Past Shapes Action: Understanding Embodied Memory
Recent advances in generative foundation models have expanded the capabilities of embodied AI, enabling increasingly general navigation, manipulation, and long-horizon task execution.Flexibility-Aware Robotic Manipulation: Deformation Estimation, Kinematics, and Control via Distributed Inertial Measurement
Flexible robot links challenge the rigid-body assumption, making joint measurements alone insufficient for accurate manipulation.When Architectural Spaces Start to Act
Architectural spaces are increasingly gaining robotic capabilities.Higher-Order Kinematic Derivatives for Aspect-Preserving Real-Time Numerical Inverse Kinematics
This paper leverages the higher-order kinematic derivatives of serial robots to achieve efficient, aspect-preserving real-time inverse kinematics.Visual-Inertial RGB-D SLAM with Encoders for a Differential Wheeled Robot
Recent years have seen multiple impressive results in visual-inertial odometry (VIO) techniques, by which accurate state estimation can be achieved via the extended Kalman filter (EKF) or nonlinear…PGGT-Loc: Primitive-Grounded Geometry Transformer for Feed-Forward Camera Localization
Camera localization methods are mostly multi-stage pipelines relying on dedicated and complex maps that are costly to construct, store, and maintain over time.Integrating Low-Thrust Transfer Dynamics into POMDP Planning for On-Orbit Servicing
Recent developments in both high-thrust (HT) and low-thrust (LT) propulsion technologies broaden design options for on-orbit servicing (OOS) missions.SketchMate: Agentic Geometric Reasoning for Zero-Shot Precision Insertion
Inserting an unseen part requires sub-millimetre precision and the correct orientation of keyed features.When the Simulator Fails, Not the Policy: Auditing Contact Artifacts in Simulated Robot Benchmarks
Simulation benchmarks score robot policies by success rate, and every failed episode counts against the policy.META-Robot: Self-Cognition and Capability Scaling in Agentic Robots
LLM-based robotic agent systems can generate programs for robot control, yet their generalization to new tasks often depends on elaborate scaffolding.Movens-Zero: Scaling Humanoid Motion Foundation Models with Large-Scale Human Videos
Scaling humanoid motion foundation models is constrained by the scarcity of diverse, robot-executable data and by the difficulty of jointly learning from heterogeneous multimodal inputs while…Online Learning of Heterogeneous Locomotion Dynamics under Reinforcement Learning Policies for Precise Loco-Manipulation
How to reuse a pretrained locomotion policy for precise loco-manipulation is still an open problem.Adaptive Coverage Algorithms for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks in Dynamic Worlds
This paper extends an existing framework for the coordination of mobile agents in unknown worlds, by considering the possibility of dynamic instability.Sensorium: An Open-Source Multimodal Data Collection and Curation Library for Embodied Surgical AI
Embodied surgical AI requires reliable multimodal data, yet surgical data collection remains costly, difficult to repeat, and strongly dependent on the hardware setup.When Does Test-Time Search Help World Action Models? An Empirical Audit of Candidate Selection and Simulator Integrity
World-action models increasingly apply test-time scaling, spending extra inference computation on candidate selection and adaptive allocation to improve control.Language-Conditioned Behavioral Cloning for Autonomous Endoscope Guidance
Automated endoscope guidance reduces the need for continuous manual camera control during minimally invasive surgery.Design and Validation of a Robotic Knee Exoskeleton with Musculoskeletal Simulation-Derived Biological Torque Control
Data-driven controllers have enabled lower-limb robotic exoskeletons to adapt assistance to the user across many tasks.Suspended-Fabric Robotic Manipulation Surfaces: Modelling, Design Space, and Multimodular Extensio
Robotic Manipulation Surfaces (RMS) reposition objects by deforming the surface on which they rest.Nexus-VLA: Bridging Human and Robot Experiences via a Shared Hierarchical Semantic Latent Space
Large-scale egocentric human videos provide rich and scalable manipulation experience for robot policy learning, yet substantial embodiment gaps in visual appearance, kinematic structure, and action…Proof-Carrying Evolution: Black-Box Search, White-Box Flight
We study whether a language model can help design controllers whose behavior can be formally checked.