arXiv:2607. 11734v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Differentiable simulators have advanced policy learning and model-based control, yet actuator dynamics remain an important source of sim-to-real error.
By Zhiyang Dou, John U. Onyemelukwe, Hangxing Zhang, Heng Zhang, Minghao Guo, Yunsheng Tian, Michal Piotr Lipiec, Joshua Jacob, Chao Liu, Peter Yichen Chen, Yuri Ivanov, Wojciech Matusik
arXiv:2602. 02402v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Simulating deformable objects under rich interactions remains a fundamental challenge for real-to-sim robot manipulation, with dynamics jointly driven by environmental effects and robot actions.
By Mu Huang, Hui Wang, Kerui Ren, Linning Xu, Yunsong Zhou, Mulin Yu, Bo Dai, Jiangmiao Pang
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: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:2608. 00484v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Soft robotic substrates are promising for Physical Reservoir Computing (PRC) because their compliant nonlinear dynamics can provide temporal memory, high-dimensional state transformations, and efficient inference.
By Nicola Visentin, Maximilian St\"olzle, Mariano Ram\'irez Montero, Francesco Braghin, Daniela Rus, Cosimo Della Santina
arXiv:2606. 06218v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A policy tuned for one robot often behaves differently on another, whether due to the sim-to-real gap, unknown payloads, or the differing dynamics of two instances of the same robot.
By Dongwon Son, Florian Shkurti, Jason Lee, Naman Shah, Beomjoon Kim, Dieter Fox