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ConDR: Conservative Reachability through Neural Hamilton-Jacobi Subsolutions
Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) Reachability identifies the unsafe states of a dynamical system from which it can be forced into failure under worst-case disturbance.Rethinking Self-Repair in Code-as-Policy Agents: What Drives Retry Success?
Code-as-policy agents often use execution feedback to retry failed programs.VABAR: A Variational Automation Benchmark for Agentic Robotics
For robots to operate reliably in commercial and industrial applications, they must persistently perform specific tasks with known variations in object shape and pose.Reinforcement Learning Enables Scaling Generalist Robot Policy Improvement
The introduction of generalist robot policies has enabled a single, large model to learn to perform a variety of tasks from a vast pre-training corpus.Perceptive Humanoid Motion from Simulation
Humanoid robots have the potential to automate a wide range of physical tasks.cuRoboV2-Fast: Fast Torque-Limited Collision-Free Motion Planning
We present cuRoboV2-Fast, a GPU-accelerated planner that reduces both planning latency and execution time for collision-free, payload-aware, torque-limited motions.Curvature by Design: A Support Structure for Continuum Robots
Constant- and piecewise-constant-curvature models are widely used to simplify the kinematics of continuum robots, although the assumed curvature profiles are not necessarily inherent mechanical…Distributed Geometric Optimization and Control of Rigid Differential-Drive Formations from Relative-Position Measurements
Distance based formation control fixes the shape of a robot team but leaves its position and orientation unconstrained.Spatial-UMI-Dream: Scaling World Action Models with Metric Geometry for UMI Manipulation
The Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI) enables scalable demonstration collection independently of a specific robot.Adaptive Hybrid Force-Vision Control with EMG-Derived References for Deformable Bottle Manipulation
Robotic automation of laboratory tasks has become a growing interest to remove researchers from hazardous environments and repetitive procedures.VARP: A Visual Adaptive Rearrangement Planner for Non-Monotone Object Rearrangement Planning
Object rearrangement planning in cluttered environments is often non-monotone, requiring objects to be temporarily relocated before reaching their final destinations.Online Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability Onboard the Robot Control Loop: A Real-Time GPU Solver for Safety-Critical Autonomy
Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability provides certified backward reachable tubes (BRTs) for safety-critical robotic systems, but the level-set computation scales exponentially in the state dimension…Say the Same, Act Differently: Diagnosing and Steering Text-Action Divergence in Reasoning VLAs
Reasoning vision-language-action (VLA) models pair physical control with natural-language rationales that supervisors can read to monitor embodied safety.Grasping and Stabilizing Tumbling Objects with Rotating-Base Multi-Arm Space Manipulators
This paper presents an innovative guidance and control method for a space manipulator that actively maneuvers its base to hold a tumbling object stationary relative to the base during proximity…Online iLQR-MPC with Whole-Body Control for Robust Humanoid Locomotion
Humanoid locomotion requires deciding where to step and how to distribute contact forces.DiMuRe: Diagnosis-Guided Multilevel Recovery for Robotic Task Execution
Disturbances can invalidate the conditions required by a robot's next action even when much of its task program remains useful.ActOR: Ambient AI-Based Agentic Orchestration for Humanoid Autonomy in Operating Rooms
Operating rooms (ORs) increasingly contain ambient sensing infrastructure to enable AI-based optimization of workflows and utilization.Computing Invariant Reachable Sets through Sum-of-Squares Programming
Funnels, time-varying invariant sets around nominal trajectories, certify that a closed-loop system tracks its plan, and can be composed into verified motion plans.RAIPAL: A Powerful and Agile Humanoid Arm for Human Tasks
This paper presents humanoid manipulator hardware designed specifically for human-level performance throughout its broad domain of tasks, from heavy payloads to highly dynamic motions.ReSMap: Recasting Satellite Priors for Robust and Accurate Online HD Map Construction
Despite recent advances in camera-based online HD map construction, these systems remain susceptible to sensor failures due to their reliance on onboard cameras.