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Image-Based Path-Planning for Navigation of Soft-Growing Robots in the Spinal Sub-Arachnoid Space
Recently, soft robotic procedures are being developed aiming at achieving targeted minimally invasive operations or drug administration in specific locations in the human body.Selectively Actuated Fiberbots for High-precision Minimally Invasive Surgery
Long, slender instruments are essential for minimally invasive surgery (MIS), but achieving precise distal manipulation becomes increasingly difficult when actuation extends along the entire…Distributed Harmonic-Covariance Feedback for Hole Closure in Planar Robot Swarms
We consider hole closure in a planar multi-agent system whose sensing disks form a time-varying Čech complex.PriMoRetarget: Humanoid Motion Transfer Through Prioritized Motion Retargeting
Motion retargeting is a critical preprocessing step for transferring human motion data to humanoid robots.Robust and Scalable UAV-UGV Planning for Aerial Monitoring under Energy and Precedence Constraints
We consider planning for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) teams in aerial monitoring missions with ordering requirements on the monitoring points to be visited by the…Non-Prehensile Multi-Object Placement with Mobile Robots via Diffusion-Based Trajectory Planning
Non-prehensile manipulation with mobile robots has primarily targeted placement in coarse goal regions.Spa-Bench: A Real-Robot Benchmark for Spatial Grounding in Vision-Language-Action Models
Vision-language-action models (VLAs) offer a promising route toward general-purpose robotics by transferring semantic knowledge from large-scale vision-language pretraining into language-conditioned…FallGown: A Soft Pneumatic Wearable Device for Fall Prevention
Concerns about falling and potential resulting injuries prevent many older adults from participating in forms of health-improving exercise such as walking, dance, and tai chi.REMM: Revisable Embodied Memory for Manipulation
Long-horizon manipulation requires robots to retain task-relevant history while revising conclusions no longer supported by physical evidence.Visual-Wi-Fi Navigation to Signal-Emitting Devices
Indoor navigation to task-relevant targets remains difficult when the target is small, occluded, or visually indistinct.StereoEngine: Scaling Stereo Bimanual Robot Data without Stereo Cameras
Stereo vision is increasingly used for robotic manipulation, with a growing body of work incorporating it into Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models.Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Driving in Road Construction Zones Using Human-in-the-Loop Driving Data
Ego-trajectory prediction in urban roadway work zones remains an underexplored topic in autonomous-driving research, with limited dedicated data and systematic evaluation.Verifier-Mediated Multi-LLM Coordination for Multi-Robot Path Planning
Foundation models are increasingly used for high-level multi-robot task planning, yet independently generated symbolic plans can become jointly infeasible after geometric grounding because of shared…Reflex: Visually Grounded Reactive Humanoid Control
Humans effortlessly react to the world; they adeptly return a tennis shot, catch a falling cup, step aside from a passing cart, or pass a box tossed during truck unloading.Distributionally Robust Adaptive Iterative Covariance Steering for Small-Body Proximity Operations
Autonomous small-body proximity operations require continuous-thrust guidance under uncertain gravity, solar-radiation pressure (SRP), and stochastic disturbances.Multimodal Image-based Robotic Assistance and Guidance Environment (MIRAGE): A Novel Unified Framework for Surgical Navigation and Visualization
This paper presents the computational architecture and quantitative preclinical evaluation of MIRAGE, a multimodal image-guided robotic surgery framework for real-time visualization and navigation.Tactile Sensing-based Secure and Gentle Grasping of Unknown Objects
Reliable robotic manipulation requires maintaining a firm grasp while strictly avoiding both contact slip and structural damage to the object.Gamma: Grounded Multi-Agent Memory with Mechanical Audit for Memory-Intensive Manipulation
Pretrained vision-language-action (VLA) policies fail on memory tasks, behaviour that depends on events observed long before the current frame, because their training data is overwhelmingly Markov…LeWAM: End-to-End World and Action Modeling with JEPAs
Joint-embedding predictive architectures (JEPAs) learn compact latent world models without pixel reconstruction.Two-Stage Multi-modal Learning for Dynamic Audio-Visual Navigation: From Physical Alignment to Scene Aggregation
Embodied Audio-Visual Navigation (AVN) requires an agent to locate sound targets by jointly leveraging visual and auditory cues.