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Vision-Language-Delta-Action: Learning Compact Deltas as Actionable Transition Interfaces for Robotic Manipulation
Robotic manipulation is not merely observation-to-action generation, but the realization of task-specified state changes in the physical world.CondenseVLA: Learnable History Condensation for Efficient Multi-Frame VLA
Robot manipulation often depends on short-term cues - such as brief contacts, temporary occlusions, and intermediate object states - that are ambiguous in a single frame and can only be resolved by…Policy Search in Code Space for Multi-Agent Pathfinding
Developing coordination policies for complex multi-agent systems relies on either labor-intensive algorithm design or opaque task-specific reinforcement learning.PaceVLA: Adaptive Temporal Action Quantization in Vision-Language-Action Models
Fast and reliable manipulation is crucial for practical robot deployment.SkateNav: Learning Energy-Efficient Navigation through Adaptive Skating on Passive-Wheel Quadrupedal Robots
Passive-wheel quadrupedal robots offer energy-efficient locomotion through leg-driven propulsion and momentum-driven gliding.Reconstruction and Discrete-Event Simulation Assessment of an Analytical
This article presents an analytical-DES benchmark for intra-aisle robotic picking in automated warehousing.FR-VLA: Implicit Force Reasoning VLA for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Integrating force awareness into Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models involves not merely encoding wrench measurements as an additional modality, but determining when and how strongly physical…SSIO: Self-Supervised Inertial Odometry
Learning inertial odometry for a new platform usually requires ground-truth trajectories.Curvature as a Baseline: Monocular Pose Measurement of Cylindrical Objects with Dual Colour Stripe Markers
Thin cylindrical objects offer little space for planar markers.A Spiking Ring-Attractor Architecture for Representation and Control of Revolute Robot Joints
Robotic systems with revolute joints evolve on circular state spaces, yet most control architectures represent these states using Euclidean variables that ignore this underlying geometry.OmniInteract: Towards Unified Whole-Body Interaction Control for Dual Humanoids
Physical interaction is a key capability for humanoid collaboration, requiring coordinated whole-body motion and precise contact.A GPU-Resident Pipeline for Multi-Robot 3D Inspection with Limited Perception
We present a complete, GPU-resident pipeline for multi-robot 3D inspection of underwater structures.Compositional Humanoid Manipulation through Isomorphic Teleoperation and Independent Skill Routing
Humanoid manipulation requires reusable arm skills, yet demonstrating every possible skill combination is impractical.Data-Efficient Learning from Demonstration for Humanoid Robots via Feature-Level Perception and Prompt-Based Object Detection
Learning from Demonstration (LfD) allows robots to learn new skills from human examples; however, many vision-based methods require large datasets and resource-intensive end-to-end training.PhantomTac: Hijacking Robotic Tactile Systems with Deploy-and-forget Tags
Tactile perception is crucial for precise robotic manipulation, providing an important foundation for dexterous, closed-loop force control.K-AoI: A Spatio-Temporal Synchronization Metric for Digital Twin-based Teleoperation in Dynamic Network Environments
Synchronization between a digital twin (DT) and its physical robot is critical for effective teleoperation, as mismatches directly degrade operator awareness and task performance.AnchorFlow-VIO: Fixed-Template Monocular Visual-Inertial Odometry on LaMAria
We present AnchorFlow-VIO, an open-source Basalt-derived monocular visual-inertial odometry system, and evaluate a uniform configuration on LaMAria.Robotic Photography System based on Vision-Language-Action Model
Modern robotic photography requires understanding photographic intent, planning camera motions, and producing aesthetically pleasing images in complex environments.Cartender: Verifiable Language-Conditioned Driving by Learning the Drives Not Taken
Every driving scene is logged once, but driving is one-to-many: the scene determines which behaviors are feasible, while an instruction selects among them.ForagerSim: Evaluating Embodied Map-Based Reasoning in Large-Scale Dynamic Worlds
Animals build cognitive maps of vast environments, use them to perform map-based navigation, and might even be reusing the same circuitry used in spatial reasoning for creating and using maps of…