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Multimodal Interaction Estimation for Contact-Aware Adaptive Impedance Control
With advancements in learning-based policies, robots are increasingly being deployed in human-centric environments, such as manufacturing floors and homes, where safe and precise operation requires…Towards Reinforcement Learning for Space Robotics: Fast Training and Reliable Real-World Transfer
This work demonstrates the use of a fast simulation-based training framework to learn control policies using reinforcement learning.TrajEdit: Real-Time Flow-Matching Trajectory Adaptation via FlowEdit and CBF Safety Filter
Safe, real-time motion planning is especially difficult when a dynamic obstacle actively pursues the ego agent, requiring rapid adaptation as the environment changes.Evaluating Lightweight Contact Feedback in Dual-Operator Collaborative Humanoid Teleoperation
Dual-operator humanoid teleoperation enables collaborative manipulation through two separate robots, but operators lack direct awareness of robot-object contact that is normally available during…How exposed is work to robotics? Occupational, industry, and geographic measures
Exposure indices that map technical capabilities onto occupational abilities have become a standard tool for anticipating how AI may reshape work, but existing measures either cover software AI or…ACTS: Learning Visuo-Tactile World Models from Human Physical Interaction
Abstract Action-conditioned world models for contact-rich manipulation require data that captures how contact forms, slides, and releases under varying force.Beyond Human-Derived Motion: Exploring Robot-Specific Execution for Construction Humanoids
Construction productivity has remained a per- sistent challenge, motivating growing interest in humanoid robots that can operate in workspaces and with tools designed for human workers.RoPE-Flow: Monocular Vision-based Robot Pose Estimation via 2D Graph-Conditioned 3D Flow Matching
Camera-to-robot pose estimation from a monocular image is significant for vision-based robot navigation and control.Slip-Induced Fall Suppression During Cornering for a Remotely Operated Motorcycle with a Rear-Wheel-Swing Mechanism
Slip-induced falls when riding motorcycles are difficult to avoid even for expert riders and represent a major cause of single-vehicle accidents.Manifold Generative Annealing for Contact Constraint-aware Impedance Control with Reinforcement Learning Prior
Contact-rich robotic tasks require coordinated motion and impedance under uncertain interaction dynamics and physical constraints.KODA: Kinematics--Observation Data Alignment for Humanoid Learning from Human Egocentric Demonstration
Training humanoid whole-body vision-language-action (VLA) policies requires costly robot demonstrations with aligned robot-view observations and controller-compatible whole-body state-action labels.When to Ask for Help: A Decision-Theoretic Account and Measurement Standard for Slow-Module Scheduling in Dual-System Vision-Language-Action Models
Dual-system vision-language-action (VLA) models pair a high-frequency fast policy with a slow, expensive module, and published trigger mechanisms for invoking it lack a shared objective, measured…Evo-DexBench: Benchmarking Generalization across Related Tasks for Dexterous Manipulation
General-purpose dexterous manipulation requires policies to transfer knowledge from related tasks to new tasks with only a few target demonstrations.LIN-SLAM: Lightweight LiDAR--Inertial Neural SLAM for Real-Time Onboard Navigation
Geometric light detection and ranging (LiDAR)--inertial simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) provides efficient state estimation but lacks the continuous map representation and global…An Agentic Framework for Proactive Robots with Procedural Assistance Memory
Proactive robots should anticipate user needs and provide assistance before being explicitly asked.Vision-Guided Closed-Loop Autonomous Navigation of Light-Driven Janus Microbots
Artificial microbots capable of precise and autonomous navigation could provide versatile platforms for microscale transport, manipulation, and task execution in complex environments.CLIS-MPPI: Closed-Loop Model Predictive Path Integral Control With Initial-State Sampling Under Execution Delay
Sampling-based motion planning such as Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) control has become attractive for robotics due to its ability to handle nonlinear dynamics and non-smooth objectives…Do VLAs Really Follow Instructions? Diagnosing How-Level Instruction Following in Vision-Language-Action Models
Vision-language-action (VLA) models are expected to follow instructions like their language backbones, yet prior work has focused on What-level instructions that specify the task rather than…LICOA: Learning Instruction-Conditioned Optical Actions for Mobile Spatial Augmented Reality
Spatial augmented reality (SAR) augments physical environments with projected content, but most systems assume that the projector pose, target region, or motion path has been fixed or specified.MR-MPCC: Model Predictive Contouring Control for Robotic Manipulator Tracking under Moving Reference Frames
Maintaining small path-tracking errors under moving reference frames is essential for robotic manipulation tasks with tight execution tolerances, such as machining and surgical automation.