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PhysiCalWorld: In-Context Physics Calibration for World Models
Existing world models typically perceive a scene through current visual frame or a narrow history window.Agentic World Action Models
Recent world action models provide visual foresight and future prediction for robot manipulation, but lack explicit mechanisms for compositional skill reuse.Alpha: Systematic Fault Injection and Robustness Evaluation for LLM-Driven Embodied Manipulation
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into embodied robotic planning, yet standard benchmarks primarily evaluate end-to-end task completion in nominal environments, obscuring…TerraTransfer++: Demonstration-Free End-to-End Planner
End-to-end autonomous driving has achieved state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks and real-world deployments.Self-Distilling Future Video Representations for World Action Models
World Action Models (WAMs) have emerged as a promising approach to learning generalist robot policies using rich spatiotemporal priors from pre-trained video diffusion models.MPBRS: Multi-Potential-Based Reward Shaping for Unified Reward Configuration in Humanoid Locomotion
Designing and tuning reward functions remains one of the main challenges in building effective reinforcement learning (RL) pipelines for humanoid locomotion.Integrated Longitudinal and Lateral Control for High-Speed Platooning of Articulated Vehicles
This paper presents an integrated control framework for high-speed platooning of articulated vehicles, combining advanced longitudinal and lateral control strategies to address the challenges of…Tactile-Based Robotic Manipulation: From Mechanics-Driven to Data-Driven Perspectives
Tactile sensing provides robots with direct access to physical interactions at the contact interface, making it a critical modality for robust and dexterous manipulation.Integrated Respiratory Sensing and Gated Control for Autonomous Needle Insertion Via CT Bore Robotic Arm
Currently, CT-guided lung biopsy is a highly manual procedure requiring patient breath-holding, iterative manual needle insertions, and repeated CT confirmation scans to accurately target a tumor.Externalise the Memory: A Pre-Registered Study of Where an Embodied Agent's Experience Should Live
Should an embodied agent's experience be baked into its policy weights, or kept external and retrieved at inference?PhysibleMDM: Enforcing Inference-Time Physical Feasibility Constraints on Motion Diffusion Models via Noise Optimization
Motion Diffusion Models (MDMs) can generate diverse and visually appealing human motion; yet, the resulting trajectories frequently violate physical constraints, limiting their downstream use in…Decision Making and Ride Comfort Evaluation Based on Lane-Change Prediction for Autonomous Vehicles
Predicting surrounding vehicles' lane-change intentions enables autonomous vehicles to anticipate potential hazards and respond proactively rather than relying solely on reactive maneuvers.Motion Retargeting with Spatiotemporal Preferences for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Human motion retargeting bridges the embodiment gap between humans and humanoid robots by converting human demonstrations into reference trajectories for whole-body control and loco-manipulation.Real-Time Disturbance-Aware Koopman Model Predictive Control for Quadrotors in Spatially Varying Winds
Reliable quadrotor flight in disturbed environments requires predictive models that remain accurate as unmodeled aerodynamic effects change during deployment.Towards Autonomous Bricklaying Using Boston Dynamics Spot
Mobile legged robots offer unique advantages for on-site construction, including the ability to traverse unstructured terrain, climb stairs, and operate independently between spatially separated…HATCH: Hardware-Attested Task Chains for Verifiable Manipulation
Capability claims in robot manipulation are unverifiable, and existing leaderboards are each closed, simulated, or gameable.Evaluating Social Reasoning in Embodied Vision-Language Models
Foundation models now serve as reasoning layers for robot teams, but it remains unclear whether embodiment-specialized vision-language models (VLMs) preserve the social-reasoning capabilities of…Robot-Task Suitability in Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Task Allocation
Heterogeneous multi-robot task allocation depends on estimates of how suitable individual robots are for candidate tasks, yet suitability can be defined in substantially different ways.OmniVLoc: Topo-metric Visual Localization for Omnidirectional Cameras
Omnidirectional cameras provide surround-view information, significantly overcoming the field-of-view constraints for traditional visual localization systems.SynCalib: Breaking Dataset Shortcuts in LiDAR-Camera Calibration via Extrinsic-Controllable Synthesis
Online LiDAR-camera calibration remains a fundamental yet challenging task in the field of robotics.