Manipulation, locomotion, sim-to-real transfer and autonomous driving: learning systems that have to survive physics.
arXiv:2608. 15869v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models increasingly use visual chain-of-thought (Visual CoT) to reason about spatial, temporal, and embodied environments.
arXiv:2608. 15636v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in the field of embodied AI, but their high computational cost and limited predicted action length hinder real-time deployment.
arXiv:2608. 14986v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon robotic manipulation fundamentally relies on persistent spatial memory.
arXiv:2608. 14586v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are becoming a promising paradigm for autonomous driving, but their deployment on existing vehicle platforms remains difficult because they introduce both high inference latency and strong GPU-side resource pressure.
arXiv:2608. 16666v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents Chronocooked, a reinforcement learning (RL) benchmark suite for studying implicit interval timing in RL agents.
arXiv:2608. 15888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based agents can act on behalf of a user to access cloud services, call tools, or invoke agents.
arXiv:2604. 08780v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: World models promise a paradigm shift in robotics, where an agent learns the physics of its environment once and then acquires behaviors efficiently.
arXiv:2608. 16222v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humanoid intelligence requires learning over an extremely diverse space of whole-body motions and physically grounded interactions.
arXiv:2608. 15549v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Programming small social robots from natural-language instructions requires more than invoking isolated APIs.
arXiv:2608. 15410v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning segmentation enables vision-language models (VLMs) to translate mission-relevant language requests into pixel-level visual grounding, offering a natural perception interface for embodied agents.
arXiv:2510. 12453v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion models excel in noise-to-data generation tasks, providing a mapping from a Gaussian distribution to a more complex data distribution.
arXiv:2608. 14944v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Natural-language interfaces can lower the barrier to programming robots, but existing systems struggle when users request complex tasks.
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.
arXiv:2506. 15700v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Control contraction metrics (CCMs)-defined by Riemannian metrics under which a closed-loop system is incrementally exponentially stable-offer a constructive framework for synthesizing contracting policies in nonlinear path-tracking problems.
arXiv:2608. 16889v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon robot manipulation chains many contact-rich skills into one multi-stage task.
arXiv:2608. 16806v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated capabilities in in-context learning, task decomposition, step-by-step reasoning, and code generation, driving their gradual evolution from text generation models into the core of agents capable of perceiving environments, invoking tools, and executing tasks.
arXiv:2608. 16503v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world deployment of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models is often bottlenecked by efficiency-performance trade-offs, cross-embodiment generalization, and execution smoothness.
arXiv:2608. 16159v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Digital Twins (DTs) are increasingly used to monitor and analyze Cyber Physical Systems (CPS).
arXiv:2608. 15088v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human-in-the-loop (HIL) online reinforcement learning for real robots must absorb human interventions quickly while continuing to improve beyond the human prior.
arXiv:2608. 14942v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents the first known empirical investigation of annotator and reviewer performance across multi-source remotely sensed imagery, evaluating human labeling across drone, crewed aviation, and satellite views.