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Legislating World-Model-Based Planning with Legal Reasoning
As robotic systems grow more general, legal norms are needed to integrate them into society.C$^2$Nav: Compare Before You Commit for Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation
Zero-shot vision-and-language navigation in continuous environments (VLN-CE) increasingly places foundation vision-language models (VLMs) inside the navigation loop.LieSpline-DP: Lie-Group B-Spline Diffusion Policy for Smooth Robot Manipulation
Diffusion Policy (DP) is a powerful Learning from Demonstration (LfD) method for robotic manipulation, yet it suffers from discontinuous and non-smooth trajectories.GRAVA: Grounded Reasoning-to-Action Representation and Learning for Autonomous Driving
Driving vision-language-action (VLA) models increasingly reason before acting, but their intermediate reasoning is often weakly grounded in physical scene evidence and loosely connected to…HarnessVLN: Unifying Training-Free Embodied Navigation through an Agent Harness
Embodied navigation requires agents to ground instructions or object goals in spatial observations and translate plans into successful execution.PredTac: Learning Contact-Rich Manipulation with Predicted Touch
Contact-rich manipulation benefits from tactile feedback, yet physical tactile sensors introduce hardware, calibration, synchronization, and maintenance costs that complicate policy learning and…X-WBC: A Cross-Embodiment Foundation Model for Humanoid Whole-Body Control
Scaling humanoid whole-body control toward general-purpose deployment requires large human motion corpora and training experience shared across robot bodies.A Vision Based Framework Integrating Attention and Action Cues for Interpretable Cognitive Workload Assessment in Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly
The introduction of human-robot collaboration (HRC) in industrial assembly operations is revolutionizing the manufacturing landscape.Distributed Safe Cooperative Vector Field for Trajectory Curvature Constrained Multi-Robot Systems
Trajectory curvature constraints are inherent in practical multi-robot systems due to the limited turning capabilities of the robots.Low Clearance Hinge Joint Mechanism Based on 3D Printing on Sheet Fabrication Methodology
This paper presents a low-clearance hinge joint mechanism based on the 3D printing on sheet fabrication method.Planning in the Backbone: DiffAdapterVLA for Native Continuous Trajectory Generation with Driving VLMs
Pretrained driving vision-language models (VLMs) integrate visual, route, language, and driving context into rich driving priors, yet their representation objectives remain separated from continuous…Assistance Torque Estimation via Dynamics-Aware Optimization for Lower-Limb Exoskeleton in Complex Environments
Ground-truth human joint torque estimation relies on motion capture systems, which suffer from limited outdoor usability and significant deployment expenses.Understanding User Preferences of a Slope-Aware Variable-Admittance Filter for a Robot Guide Dog
This letter investigates how the parameters of a slope-aware variable-admittance filter influence user preferences in force-based interaction with a robotic guide dog for visually impaired…From Prediction to Decision: World-Model-Guided Action Selection for Continuous Pile Excavation
Wheel-loader excavation is a sequential decision problem in which every scoop changes the terrain available to subsequent actions.Dynamics-Informed Reinforcement Learning for Agile and Energy-Efficient Locomotion of a Monopedal Hopping Quadcopter
Although aerial-legged robots offer combined agility and efficiency, controlling high-speed hopping under complex hybrid dynamics is challenging.Learning to Exploit Passive Dynamics for Energy-Efficient Target Hopping of a Spring-Legged Quadcopter
Combining aerial thrust with spring-loaded hopping makes monopedal quadcopters promising for locomotion over complex terrain, but heuristic proportional-integral-derivative (PID) tuning limits…InterSocialBench: Benchmarking Human and LLM Preferences for Companion-Robot Social Behavior
Companion robots face everyday situations in which several feasible behaviors may be appropriate, yet different people prefer different responses.P-POSEMEM: Projective Semantic Memory for Consistent Language Grounding under Pose-Graph Rewrites
A robot following language instructions needs its semantic memory to keep naming the same physical object while the SLAM pose graph underneath is optimized, loop-closed and compressed.StereoPatch: Patch-Aligned RGB-Depth Fusion for Spatial Perception in Robot Manipulation
Recent advances in robot imitation learning have produced visuomotor policies that predict actions directly from visual observations.DIDO: Distilling Interaction-Centric Dynamics into One-Step Denoising for World Action Models
World Action Models (WAMs) use video generation models to predict future visual dynamics for robotic manipulation, but iterative denoising introduces additional latency for closed-loop control.