Manipulation, locomotion, sim-to-real transfer and autonomous driving: learning systems that have to survive physics.
Plant root phenotyping is fundamental to understanding below-ground structures, optimizing crop management, and improving agricultural sustainability. This paper presents a multimodal robotic AI framework that integrates 3D skeleton extraction with language-guided reasoning for interpretable and data-efficient root analysis.
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.
arXiv:2608. 02578v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) augment robot policies with action-conditioned predicted futures, but a plausible future alone does not justify changing the action that a bimanual policy would execute.
arXiv:2608. 02411v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Care robots are increasingly being introduced into healthcare settings, raising important questions about their acceptance and ethical implementation.
arXiv:2608. 00946v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing 6-DoF grasp detectors typically rank grasp candidates by detector confidence.
arXiv:2608. 01133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) policies in autonomous driving fundamentally relies on extrinsic statistical indicators (e.
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.
arXiv:2608. 01428v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied agents replan frequently to recover from execution drift, partial observability, and coordination hazards, but each LLM-based replanning call can consume an accumulated textual context that grows over time and across agents.
arXiv:2608. 02365v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) couple robot action prediction with video world models.
arXiv:2506. 22423v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) depend on onboard sensors for perception, navigation, and control.
arXiv:2602. 21429v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Flow-based generative models, such as diffusion models and flow matching models, have achieved remarkable success in learning complex data distributions.
arXiv:2608. 02069v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Developing deployable locomotion policies through conventional reinforcement learning often requires complex reward engineering and expensive training times.
arXiv:2608. 01899v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) perform well on commonsense reasoning tasks but struggle with visual spatial reasoning.
arXiv:2608. 01452v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dynamic manipulation is a critical capability for robots operating in complex and dynamic environments, where robots must interact with objects that are moving or require rapid adjustments.
arXiv:2608. 00568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fairness audits are increasingly mandated in high-stakes applications such as hiring, lending, and automated decision-making.
arXiv:2608. 01423v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reference-based text evaluation metrics, which are widely used to assess natural language generation systems, score a candidate response by comparing it with a reference response.
arXiv:2608. 02433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning and control theory are two adjacent scientific fields that focus on optimizing the controller of unknown dynamical systems using feedback.
arXiv:2608. 02034v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-step returns accelerate reward propagation in off-policy reinforcement learning, but couple the evaluation of each decision to the suboptimal logged actions that follow it, inducing a pessimistic bias that grows with the horizon.
arXiv:2608. 00406v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate indoor localization is essential for emerging applications in robotic navigation and search and rescue.
arXiv:2608. 00315v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot policies are becoming increasingly general, with vision-language-action (VLA) models enabling a single policy to execute diverse tasks specified in natural language.