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HandsOn: A Large-Scale Simulation Benchmark for Generalizable Dexterous Manipulation
General-purpose manipulation requires reliable behavior across embodiments, objects, and task demands.Bio-inspired Thrust-Assisted Trotting on a legged-Aerial Robot via Real-Time QP-MPC
This paper presents the hardware implementation of a quadratic program-based controller on Harpy: thruster-assisted bipedal robot to perform thruster-assisted trotting.PICA-WAM: Visual Perturbation Invariance via Cross-Appearance Self-Alignment in World Action Models
World Action Models (WAMs) jointly predict future video and generate actions, yet remain sensitive to task-irrelevant visual perturbations, i.e., changes in visual appearance that should not affect…GPT-6 Astra Is a Native Visuo-Tactile Policy for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Recent advances in multimodal models have enabled GPT-6 Astra to perform robotic manipulation through in-context learning.Where is Physical RSI capability from? An Observational Scaling Law of LLM-as-policy
In this paper, we systematically investigate the mechanisms, scaling behavior, and generalization of physical Recursive self-improvement.CoopUQ: Robust Multi-Robot Social Navigation via Uncertainty-Aware Cooperative Forecasting
Reinforcement learning enables mobile robots to make fast and scalable navigation decisions in constrained human-shared environments.Physical Words: A Vocabulary for Structuring Latent Reasoning in Robot Manipulation
Multimodal reasoning provides robotic foundation models with predictive context needed for reliable action generation.Ropedia W0: Scaling Loco-Manipulation World Models across Embodiments with Human Experience
World models enable embodied agents to anticipate action consequences, yet jointly modeling locomotion and manipulation across diverse embodiments remains challenging due to heterogeneous action…Latent Projection for Latent Planning
Latent world models let an agent plan in latent space.Replan for Error Recovery: Training Embodied VLMs through Verifiable Interaction with Action-Grouped Turn-GSPO
Embodied VLMs can execute increasingly complex manipulation tasks, yet execution errors can leave the environment in states that require replanning for recovery.Embodied Playground: A Long-Horizon Agentic Robotics Benchmark for Physical, Strategic, and Spatial Reasoning
Foundation models offer a promising basis for robotic agents, but long-horizon tasks require them to sustain coherent reasoning and reliable physical execution across interdependent stages.ACE-Brain-0.6: Scaling Spatial Grounding for Physical Foundation Models
General-purpose multimodal models, including GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5, demonstrate broad capabilities in embodied manipulation.Physical AI: Concepts, Techniques, and Challenges
In recent years, physical artificial intelligence (physical AI) has experienced rapid development, capturing significant attention in academia and industry.Towards Interaction State Recognition in Sensorized Gecko-Inspired Adhesive Interfaces for Orbital Servicing
Reliable contact establishment remains a critical challenge for autonomous on-orbit servicing (OOS), particularly when interacting with non-cooperative targets.Visual Task Modeling and Automated Planning for Humanoid Robots in Education of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
In robot-assisted education, a robot must understand how to complete a task in order to effectively guide a student through it.Learning to Be Different: Component Specialization for Compositional Diffusion Policies
Diffusion policies with linearly composed scores have emerged as a promising approach to multitask robotic learning by combining separate factors to enable modular, task-wise adaptation…Which Depth Estimator for Jetson AGX Orin? A 2026 Benchmark of Monocular and Stereo Methods
The Jetson AGX Orin is a common computer for robots and vehicles, yet measured accuracy, speed and energy of current depth estimators on it are hard to find.EmbodyHOI: Embodiment-Aware Generation of Hand-Object Interactions for Humanoid Dexterous Manipulation
Humanoid dexterous manipulation needs reference motions that are both semantically rich and kinematically feasible for the target robot.XoNav: An Exoskeleton as a Personalized Haptic Interface for Assisted Navigation
Walking without vision requires timely, unambiguous guidance, yet many wearable aids encode directions as audio or vibrotactile signals that users must translate into movement.On Maximum Clique and Maximum Consensus Formulations in Point Cloud Registration
Maximum clique and maximum consensus are widely used formulations for robust point cloud registration in robotics.