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ThemaAlleManipulation 56VLA 33Navigation 24Robotics 20Learning 19Perception 17Humanoid 14Locomotion 8Safety 8Simulation 8World Action Models 4Aerial manipulation 2Dexterous manipulation 2Sim-to-Real Manipulation 2Social Navigation 2Vision-Language Navigation 2World models 2World-action model 23D Assembly 13DGS dataset 15G Simulation 1AMR Operations 1Active vision manipulation 1Adaptive MPC 1Adaptive action horizons 1Adaptive intervention 1Aerial 1Aerial Manipulation 1Aerial navigation 1Agricultural Robotics 1Articulation Estimation 1Autonomous Driving 1Autonomous Exploration 1Battery-aware RL 1Belief-space planning 1Bimanual Manipulation 1Byzantine localization 1Canal inspection 1Co-speech Humanoid 1Compositional Manipulation 1Construction navigation 1Contact-Rich Manipulation 1Contact-rich Manipulation 1Continuum sensing 1Curriculum RL 1Dexterous Manipulation 1Distributed Manipulation 1Distribution Shift 1Driving Simulation 1Efficient VIO 1Egocentric data 1Egocentric video 1Embodied Agents 1Embodied policy 1Empowerment MPC 1Endoscopic navigation 1Endovascular robotics 1Event-camera VO 1Exoskeletons 1Failure recovery 1Federated 3D Perception 1Fisheye detection 1Floorplan SLAM 1Geometry-aware manipulation 1Grasping 1Grounding 1Humanoid Control 1Humanoid RL 1Humanoid Tool Use 1Humanoid control 1Humanoid loco-manipulation 1Humanoid safety 1Imitation Learning 1JEPA World Models 1Lab automation 1Laboratory Manipulation 1Latent World Models 1Legged Manipulation 1LiDAR Security 1Lifelong RL 1MAPF 1MAV guidance 1Manipulation LfD 1Manipulation Safety 1Marine simulation 1Memory-centric VLA 1Miniature Locomotion 1Mining Perception 1Mobile manipulation 1Model-based RL 1Monocular SSC 1Motion Planning 1Multi-Agent RL 1Multi-Robot Exploration 1Multi-Robot Manipulation 1Multi-UAV Exploration 1Multi-UAV State Estimation 1Multi-agent RL 1Multi-agent motion planning 1Multi-camera odometry 1Multi-fidelity RL 1Multi-robot manipulation 1Multi-skill Manipulation 1Multi-view perception 1Multimodal simulation 1Navigation & Mapping 1Object Pose Estimation 1Object Search 1Panoramic 3D Detection 1Panoramic segmentation 1Pedestrian tracking 1PersonNav 1Planning 1Policy 1Policy Optimization 1Preference Learning 1Quadruped locomotion 1Real-time VLA 1Real-to-sim 1Representation alignment 1Robot-Use Agents 1Runtime Verification 1Safe Generative Planning 1Safe RL-MPC 1Safe VLA 1Safety monitoring 1Safety-critical control 1Sim-to-real Navigation 1Sim-to-real manipulation 1Simulation geometry 1Skill Discovery 1Social navigation 1Soft Pneumatic Actuators 1Soft manipulation 1Sonar SLAM 1Streaming 3D reconstruction 1Submovement decomposition 1Surgical 1Surgical robotics 1Tactile 1Tactile Exploration 1Tactile VLA 1Temporal manipulation 1Terrain traversability 1Text-to-3D Policy 1Tool Co-Design 1Trajectory Correction 1Traversability 1UAV Navigation 1UAV Swarms 1UAV traffic monitoring 1Underwater Robotics 1Underwater active mapping 1Underwater perception 1Unified world-action model 1VLA Conditioning 1VLA Defense 1VLA Robustness 1VLA evaluation 1VLA manipulation 1VLA robustness 1Video world models 1Visual Generalization 1Visual Grounding 1Visual Reward Models 1Visuomotor Fusion 1Visuotactile manipulation 1World Models 1World-Action Models 1
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arXiv
ManipulationExperten

Learning Robot Policies for Whole-Body Mobility Assistance via Dynamic Human Motion Generation

Shikun Ban, Shohei Nagai, Qingyang Song, Hanxi Wan, Eric Zhao, Thomas Wang, Zackory Erickson

Robotic assistance for human mobility could benefit care recipients and reduce caregiver burden during physically demanding tasks such as Sit-to-Stand (STS) and Lift-and-Transfer (L&T). Learning robot policies for these whole-body assistive tasks is challenging: real-world data collection for human-robot interaction is costly and safety-critical, making simulation an attractive alternative.

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arXiv
LearningExperten

Thinker-WM: A Unified World Model with Shared Multimodal Representations for Embodied Intelligence

Thinker Team, Peng Gao, Jichao Jiao, Chen Liao, Daqin Luo, Yiming Ma, Baiyu Pan, Hailin Shi, Jiyuan Wang, Xiangming Xu, Xiongwei Zhao

World models have emerged as a promising paradigm for embodied AI, yet existing systems often remain fragmented in the modalities they model and the functions they support. In particular, visual dynamics, geometric structure, and executable action are commonly coupled through separate interfaces or downstream modules rather than being jointly represented and evolved within a shared dynamics model.

Weltmodelle
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arXiv
RoboticsExperten

Data-Free Continual Learning for World Action Model with Rectified Generative Replay

Kaipeng Fang, Hangxu Liu, Chaojian Shi, Yunsong Zhou, Hongzi Zhu, Minyi Guo, Jingkuan Song, Lianli Gao

World action models (WAMs) built on pretrained video generation models adapt quickly to new robotic tasks, but they forget previously learned tasks under sequential fine-tuning. Experience replay (ER) mitigates such forgetting by rehearsing data of previous tasks, yet this data is often unavailable in robotics, where a policy is deployed as weights only and its training data is not shared along with it.

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arXiv
ManipulationExperten

ForeTac: Predictive Contact Guidance for Generative Robot Policies

Zhiyuan Chen, Shuai Chen, Haoran Zhou, Yizhe Zhao, Kaiyuan Yang, Zhixiang Duan, Shaoqing Xu, Ran Cao, Diyun Xiang, Yangwei You

Visually similar actions can produce contact loss, jamming, slippage, or irreversible damage, while tactile feedback may arrive after a critical transition. Contact-rich manipulation therefore requires generative policies to anticipate and evaluate whether candidate actions will produce desirable contact outcomes, then adjust action generation before execution.

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arXiv
VLAExperten

Breaking the Average: Overcoming Convergent Defaults in Robotic Manipulation via Diagnostic Chain-of-Thought and Structured Guidance

Mohammed Daba, Waleed Abdulrahman Saleh AlAkwa

Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, such as $π_{0.5}$, have demonstrated impressive generalization capabilities by scaling behavior cloning across massive datasets. However, these models frequently suffer from distributional convergence, a phenomenon where the policy regresses to "safe" but suboptimal mean behaviors due to mode averaging in the training data.

VLA
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arXiv
RoboticsExperten

Assessing the Quality of Concrete Scenarios Generated from Scenario Classes for Automated Driving

Lina Putze, Thies de Graaff, Jan Steffen Becker, Christian Neurohr

A scenario-based development approach has become state of the art for automated driving systems. Once a set of scenario classes covering the operational design domain is available, concrete scenarios are generated from these scenario classes, e.g., to be used for hazard analysis and risk assessment or for the system's verification and validation.

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arXiv
VLAExperten

The Human--VLA Communication Gap: What Humans Leave Implicit and What Policies Cannot Recover

Yiqing Xu, Jiajun Wu

A robot may know how to perform a task yet fail when a human asks for it naturally. We study this human--VLA communication gap by separating an \emph{information gap}, where task semantics, grounding, or event structure remain unresolved, from a residual \emph{execution gap}, where even a fully specified task depends on how it is organized and invoked.

VLA
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arXiv
RoboticsExperten

HelpMeOut: A Neuropsychology-Grounded Benchmark for Error-Aware Monitoring of Household Task Execution

Haoran Wang, Jingwei Huang, Anqing Duan, Ho Seok Ahn, Bruce Macdonald

We introduce HelpMeOut, an embodied AI benchmark for error-aware monitoring of household task execution. Existing embodied household benchmarks typically assume that humans execute tasks correctly, but this assumption does not hold for cognitively impaired persons or older adults whose everyday activities produce structured execution errors.

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arXiv
VLAExperten

FlowVLA: Enabling World Dynamics Understanding through Pluggable 3D Flow Learning

Junhyeong Go, Mingyu Jung, Woobin Im, Jongbin Ryu

Recent advances in 3D reconstruction enable the extraction of temporally consistent 3D motion from RGB observations; however, current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models still predominantly rely on 2D image-text priors. Therefore, they do not accurately represent the fundamental dynamics of the 3D world associated with physical actions.

VLA
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arXiv
ManipulationExperten

Extending Wire-Driven Parallel Robots to Multi-Floating-Link Systems with an Inter-Body Wire

Shintaro Inoue, Kento Kawaharazuka, Temma Suzuki, Sota Yuzaki, Keita Yoneda, Kei Okada

Parallel wire-driven systems are a framework in which multiple wires are connected to an end effector, and the end effector is driven by the tensions of those wires. Because they can transmit large forces, up to the breaking strength of the wires, over lengths on the order of several tens of meters, they can realize powerful actuation in large workspaces.

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arXiv
NavigationExperten

Constrained Differentiable Policy Learning for Safe Quadrotor Navigation

Yan Rui Tan, Praveen Krishnapur, Zeyu Feng, Han Bao, Yew-Soon Ong, Fan Shi

Differentiable simulation enables efficient policy optimization through analytic gradients, yet safety is commonly incorporated as a weighted penalty, requiring manual tuning of the trade-off between task performance and constraint satisfaction. We instead formulate obstacle avoidance as an explicit constraint and train quadrotor policies using primal--dual gradient descent--ascent through a differentiable simulator.

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arXiv
ManipulationExperten

One-Shot Learning for Double-Shot Latte Art: Adapting Cobot Pouring Skills with Dynamic Movement Primitives

Zain Khan, Victor Hernandez Moreno, Dinh Tung Le

Latte art is a complex task requiring dexterity and precision, making it a challenging and commercially relevant task. A one-shot learning system is employed in which a single barista demonstration is segmented into five functionally distinct phases, each encoded as an independent Cartesian Dynamic Movement Primitive (CDMP) with its own parameters.

Dexterity
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arXiv
LearningExperten

Directional Pullback Regularization for Long-Horizon Rollout of Latent World Models in Autonomous Driving

Shatadal Mishra, Ahmadreza Moradipari, Nejib Ammar

Learned world models for autonomous driving operate in unconstrained latent spaces, yet the physical systems they represent are governed by strict non-holonomic constraints: ground vehicles cannot realize instantaneous pure lateral motion. We study long-horizon latent rollout modeling for autonomous driving and ask whether rollout quality can be improved by assigning a motion-aware geometry to latent transitions, rather than by redesigning the predictor architecture.

Weltmodelle
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NavigationExperten

PathLift: Depth-Conditioned Metric Lifting for Visual-Navigation Priors

Gwanjun Shin, Hyeongseok Suh, Hongmo Jung, Jongwoo Lim

Generalist visual-navigation policies tell a robot which direction to go but not how far. A separate lifting step is needed at deployment to convert their unitless trajectory into a metric path that a controller can track; existing scalar lifters apply uniform scaling that misses per-waypoint corrections, while in-policy approaches that inject monocular depth into the policy inherit the prediction errors of the depth model near obstacles and at close range.

LiDAR
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LearningExperten

MSC: Multi-Stage Caster-aware Control Framework with Uncertainty-Aware NMPC and RL-based Execution Layer

Jinho Park, Jeongtae Lee, Jeonghyeok Lim, Keun Ha Choi, Kyung-Soo Kim

Freely swiveling casters are widely adopted in industrial AMRs/SDVs for their mechanical simplicity and load capacity. However, caster misalignment during low-speed or high-curvature maneuvers induces strong contact nonlinearities, widening the planning-execution gap between commanded $(v, ω)$ and realized motion.

RL
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PerceptionExperten

Multimodal Sensor-Gated Mid-Air Launch and Vision-Based Recovery of a Child UAV on a Hovering Mothership Drone

Aashish Sahu, R. Prasanth Kumar

Launching a micro unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from a hovering carrier and recovering it in flight requires reliable confirmation that the child is securely seated before the carrier is allowed to descend. This is challenging because vision provides relative guidance but does not directly indicate load transfer, and a downward-facing camera can lose its fiducial near touchdown.

LiDAR
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PerceptionExperten

Harnessing SPAD Noise: Test-Time Gated Attention for Indoor Depth Estimation

Yiquan Gao

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) has emerged as a cost-effective alternative to hardware-dependent 3D sensing modalities, yet predicting precise metric depth remains a persistent challenge due to intrinsic scale ambiguity, edge bleeding, and limited zero-shot generalization in unseen environments. Recent multi-modal approaches incorporate 1D/3D Single-Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) data to resolve these ambiguities, but they mainly treat SPAD noise as a harmful artifact required for denoising or leave the noise ignored.

Intrinsic
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Manipulation 6VLA 4World Action Models 5Aerial manipulation 3Dexterous manipulation 3Sim-to-Real Manipulation 3Social Navigation 3

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