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MC-EvoBench: Auditing Experience-Driven Self-Improvement in Minecraft Agents
A central challenge in embodied recursive self-improvement is enabling agents to convert interaction history into capabilities that persist beyond one world and transfer to later tasks.Mapless, Stabilizing, and Anti-Stuck Flipper Control for Articulated Tracked Robots
Nearly every autonomous or semi-autonomous flipper controller assumes access to an elevation map of the terrain under and in front of the robot.HorizonNav: Geometry-Guided Video Diffusion for Anticipatory 3D Robot Navigation
We present HorizonNav, a video diffusion-based framework for anticipatory robot navigation that transforms a single RGB image and a text prompt into a geometrically aligned representation of…BT-Agent: Deploying Onboard Robot Agents with Behavior Trees and Multi-Fidelity Evaluation
Deploying language-model agents onboard mobile robots requires task reasoning and responsive execution within limited compute and memory.Tracking the Invisible: Self-Supervised Wheel Track Detection with Thermal-RGB Fusion
Accurate detection of drivable area is essential for autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems.Beyond the Snowflakes: Disentangling Weather Effects from Confounding Meta-Factors in LiDAR Object Detection
Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is critical for autonomous perception, yet its performance is known to degrade in adverse weather.Chronos Policy: Learning Robot Policies on Physical Time
Robot policies often convert sensing and control into fixed-rate observation-action sequences, leaving physical time implicit in sequence position.Noise Space Learning for VLA Adaptation
Pretrained vision-language-action (VLA) models encode broad manipulation priors, yet adapting them to specific tasks requires balancing limited robot interaction, computational resources, and safety…Splat2Act: From Captured Scenes to Personalized VLA Manipulation
A user who brings a generalist manipulation policy into their home or office wants it to pick up their objects from their shelves, counters, and tables.Make π0.5 Learn to Call Astra for Reliable Robot Manipulation
GPT-6 Astra provides robust embodied reasoning, but frequent external queries increase inference time and token costs.Refine Where It Matters: Contact-Adaptive Meshing for Deformable Object Manipulation
Deformable-object manipulation requires accurate modeling of highly localized contact while maintaining simulation speeds suitable for interactive use.Axiom-0: Hierarchical Self-Refinement for Vision-Language-Action Policies
Reliable manipulation requires policies that generalize across tasks, layouts, and object interactions.Disentangling Task-Relevant Latent Dynamics for Reward Modeling
Reward design remains a major bottleneck for reinforcement learning in robotic manipulation.Observation-Referenced Tissue Deformation Forecasting with Tool-Driven and Residual Dynamics
Forecasting tissue deformation from future instrument motion could support predictive planning and increasingly autonomous surgical systems.ClothCode: Generative Modeling for Garment State Estimation and Dynamics Prediction
We introduce ClothCode, a unified generative framework for garment state estimation and action-conditioned dynamics prediction in a shared discrete configuration space.Mapping Tire-Road Friction Coefficients Along Driven Trajectories
Information of the tire-road friction coefficient is critical for intelligent vehicle systems, as friction establishes the limits at which the vehicle can be manoeuvred without loss of control.Composable Dynamics for Cooperative Humanoids: A RoboCompiler Extension
Physically connected humanoids need consistent dynamics for internal actuator loops, inter-robot forces, and changing ground supports.From LLM Plans to Authorized Motion: Execution-Bound Authorization for Excavators
An LLM-directed excavator can execute mechanically feasible motion whose destination or authority no longer matches the operator's approval.Akule: Fast and Scalable Multi-Robot Motion Planning via Sparse Interaction Diffusion
Diffusion models provide expressive trajectory priors for multi-robot motion planning (MRMP), but scaling them to large teams requires coordinating individual motions without expensive joint…RoboFake: Are Deepfake Detectors Ready for Humanoid Face Robots?
Humanoid face robots can now move their lips in sync with speech and show detailed facial expressions.