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Shape-Aware Neural Time Fields for Rigid-Body Motion and Manipulation Planning
Rigid-body motion planning is fundamental to robotic transport and manipulation, where both object position and orientation determine whether a body can move through cluttered environments.Pedicel-Targeted Strawberry Harvesting via Imitation Learning on a Low-Cost Teleoperated Robotic Arm
Precise pedicel-targeted grasping in strawberry harvesting remains a critical bottleneck due to the pedicel's small diameter (1.3-3 mm), color similarity with surrounding foliage, and precise force…PASS-VLN: Passability-Aware Local-Command Vision-and-Language Navigation
Reliable vision-and-language navigation (VLN) requires not only understanding instructions but also determining whether and how a robot can physically execute them.Simultaneous Force and Motion Control in Generalised Coordinates
Robot manipulators often come into contact with rigid objects when performing work.DefFlow: Goal-Conditioned Deformable Object Manipulation using 3D Point Flows
Manipulating deformable objects toward desired 3D configurations is a fundamental capability for robots operating in unstructured physical environments.Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Policy Improvement via Flow-Reversed Action Anchors
Generalist robot policies offer strong behavioral priors, but achieving deployment-level reliability and throughput remains difficult.Structured Perception Representations for Off-road Dynamics Learning
Autonomously navigating off-road terrain at high speed demands accurate control, which often relies on dynamics models that capture complex interactions between the robot and terrain.SenseSwarm: Swarm Exploration via Neural Structure Estimation with Shared World-Anticipation for Rapid Mapping
A robot swarm covers a building faster with more robots, but the map is only as complete as the space the robots have physically visited.Ego2Contact: Predicting Touch from Egocentric Human Video for Contact-Rich Robot Manipulation
Contact locations and interaction forces are critical for contact-rich robot manipulation but are often ambiguous from vision alone.MambaAct: Efficient Mamba Action Experts for Flow-Matching Vision-Language-Action Models
Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown strong promise for generalist robotic manipulation, but their inference cost remains a major bottleneck for real-time control.Hardware-as-Regularization: Enhancing Data Consistency in Imitation Learning via an Adjustable Passive Compliant Leader Arm
Low-cost passive leader arms enable scalable data collection for imitation learning, but their lack of restoring forces leaves redundant joints unconstrained, yielding highly inconsistent…GR-VIP: Geometric representation conditioning for precise visuomotor policy
Achieving precise terminal position and heading alignment remains a significant challenge for learning-based mobile robot control.Robotic Spatiotemporal Editing: A Unified Interface for Controllable Action Generation via Masked Action Reconstruction
Generative policies can synthesize robot behaviors, yet controlling and editing them through diverse spatiotemporal references remains challenging.What Makes a Good Symbol for Hybrid Discrete-Continuous Planning?
The physical world has continuous state and action spaces, yet robot planning often benefits from hybrid discrete-continuous formulations that explicitly expose combinatorial structure, such as…VLA-Fabric: Learning Interaction for Composable Multi-Arm VLA Agents
Vision-language-action (VLA) models are rapidly expanding what individual robots can accomplish, yet many real-world manipulation settings require multiple arms to operate as a coordinated system.PASS: A Trustworthy Precision Approach Simulation System for CAT III Integrity Algorithm Development
For fixed-wing aircraft, reliable localization during approach and landing is critical to flight safety.Unifying Embodied Foundation Models via a Model-to-Policy Formulation
Vision-language-action (VLA) models and world-action models (WAMs) have emerged as promising approaches to robot learning and control.Foundation Models for Autonomous Space Robotics: Architectures, Physical Adaptation, and Validation
Space robots must interpret tasks and act despite unfamiliar dynamics, difficult sensing conditions, and limited opportunities for human intervention.Bio-Inspired Magnetic Navigation Using Gradient Descent With Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filtering
Navigation in GPS-denied environments is commonly based on magnetic maps, which are used to correct trajectory drift and enable relocalization.InstAgent: A Recursively Self-Improving Agent Operating System for Heterogeneous Robot Collaboration
Heterogeneous robot teams enable complex, long-horizon tasks by combining complementary sensing, mobility, and manipulation capabilities across multiple embodiments.