arXiv:2607. 06740v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Soft robots have attracted significant attention in applications such as medical intervention, rehabilitation, and robotic manipulation due to their inherent compliance, flexibility, and high degrees of freedom.
By Nilay Kushawaha, Muhammad Sunny Nazeer, Baljinder Singh Bal, Cecilia Laschi, Egidio Falotico
arXiv:2511. 06667v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: With the explosive growth of rigid-body simulators, policy learning in simulation has become the de facto standard for most rigid morphologies.
By Andrew Choi, Dezhong Tong, Xiaonan Huang
arXiv:2608.23100v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Robot co-design via bi-level optimization couples within-lifetime controller learning for fitness evaluation with cross-generational morphological ev...
By Junru Song, Yang Yang, Yaqing Xu, Ying Wen, Wei Peng, Guozhen Li, Wei'en Zhou, Wen Yao
arXiv:2606. 00313v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust deployment of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) policies on real robots remains challenging due to discrepancies between simulation and real-world dynamics.
By Oussama Zaim, M\'elodie Daniel, Aly Magassouba, Miguel Aranda, Olivier Ly
arXiv:2410. 24035v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generating robust and reactive manipulation strategies that can adapt to changing context information is a challenging task in robotics.
By Tim R. Winter, Leonard Kl\"upfel, Ashok M. Sundaram, Werner Friedl, Maximo A. Roa, Freek Stulp, Jo\~ao Silv\'erio
arXiv:2608. 12063v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Integrating locomotion and manipulation is essential for robot autonomy, but scaling standard Reinforcement Learning (RL) to complex tasks is severely bottlenecked by the slow, manual process of dense reward shaping.
By Martin Schuck, Maks Sorokin, Simone Manni, Duy Ta, Angela P. Schoellig, Marco Hutter, Simon Le Cleac'H, Jan Br\"udigam
arXiv:2510. 00358v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Soft snake robots offer remarkable flexibility and adaptability in complex environments, yet their control remains challenging due to highly nonlinear dynamics.
By Linjin He, Xinda Qi, Dong Chen, Zhaojian Li, Xiaobo Tan
Integrating locomotion and manipulation is essential for robot autonomy, but scaling standard Reinforcement Learning (RL) to complex tasks is severely bottlenecked by the slow, manual process of dense reward shaping. To bypass this limitation, we leverage Sample-based Model Predictive Control (SMPC) entirely in simulation as an automated, rapidly tunable expert to generate massive offline datasets.
arXiv:2608. 01506v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans readily adapt their movements as their bodies change through aging, injury, or load carrying, but learning-based robot policies often break when hardware properties shift.
By Dichen Li, Bo Ai, Nico Bohlinger, Jan Peters, Hao Su, Henrik I. Christensen
arXiv:2603. 13707v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Humanoid loco-manipulation requires coordinated task-space motion planning with stable loco-manipulation command tracking under complex robot-environment dynamics and long-horizon tasks.
By Zhaoyuan Gu, Yipu Chen, Zimeng Chai, Alfred Cueva, Thong Nguyen, Yifan Wu, Huishu Xue, Minji Kim, Isaac Legene, Fukang Liu, KyoungMok Kim, Ayan Barula, Yongxin Chen, Ye Zhao
arXiv:2606. 01151v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Behavior cloning with high-capacity generative policies achieves strong imitation performance, but is often limited by demonstration coverage and distribution shift.
By Hikmet Simsir, Ozgur S. Oguz
Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms classically suffer from poor sample efficiency. In robotics, a recent line of work has emerged addressing this problem by encoding physics priors in the learning process.