Manipulation, locomotion, sim-to-real transfer and autonomous driving: learning systems that have to survive physics.
arXiv:2607. 16366v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic navigation in unstructured environments requires robust situational awareness to safely traverse hazards such as steep slopes and rocky terrain.
arXiv:2607. 17861v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Establishing interpretable decision-making processes in long-horizon robotic manipulation is critical for enabling reliable human oversight and intervention.
arXiv:2607. 17806v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an embodied agent to interpret a natural-language instruction and predict actions from temporally ordered visual observations.
arXiv:2607. 16455v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The increasing use of first-person-view drones in modern conflicts has created a demand for compact and reliable detection systems capable of operating in complex electromagnetic environments.
arXiv:2607. 18236v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pretrained dense visual features from Vision Transformers (ViTs) are powerful yet have been underutilized in robot learning.
arXiv:2607. 16506v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies offer strong general-purpose manipulation priors, but often fail on tight-tolerance, contact-rich assembly due to long-horizon credit assignment and subtask coupling: a state that is geometrically successful for the current skill can be brittle for downstream skills.
arXiv:2607. 17757v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current bin picking methods that rely heavily on end-to-end learning often falter when confronted with unfamiliar or complex objects in unstructured environments.
arXiv:2510. 01483v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) demonstrate strong image-level scene understanding, but reasoning over long egocentric video remains costly: because VLMs maintain no persistent memory or explicit spatial representation, all sampled frames must be re-processed for every new query.
arXiv:2510. 00037v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In Vision-Language-Actionf(VLA) models, robustness to real-world perturbations is critical for deployment.
arXiv:2607. 16247v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have empowered embodied agents to execute complex household tasks, they struggle to proactively handle dynamically emerging hazards during closed-loop interactions.
arXiv:2607. 16314v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models, especially based on JEPA architectures, have been shown to learn robust dynamics of various environments.
arXiv:2607. 16582v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In high-risk environments such as disaster response, situational awareness depends not only on detecting hazards but also on communicating them clearly to human operators.
arXiv:2105. 00990v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous control in high-dimensional, continuous state spaces is a persistent and important challenge in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence.
arXiv:2605. 31581v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The same arguments often need to be evaluated under different external regimes.
arXiv:2607. 16465v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Edmund C.
arXiv:2607. 18200v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robots in cluttered indoor spaces often fail not because they cannot generate collision-free paths, but because a fixed safety margin is mis-calibrated: conservative margins cause detours and timeouts, while permissive margins lead to near-boundary shortcuts under perception bias.
Pretrained dense visual features from Vision Transformers (ViTs) are powerful yet have been underutilized in robot learning. Modern robot policies either compress each observation into a single global token, or rely on visual backbones trained from scratch, sacrificing both fine-grained spatial detail and the benefits of large-scale visual pre-training.
Existing image manipulation localization (IML) methods rely heavily on 2D forensic cues, such as low-level artifacts, noise traces, and semantic inconsistencies in the manipulated image. While effective in many cases, these cues become much less discriminative when manipulated regions are well blended with their surrounding context in appearance.
Establishing interpretable decision-making processes in long-horizon robotic manipulation is critical for enabling reliable human oversight and intervention. However, existing approaches to robotic manipulation largely treat skill selection as opaque mappings from observations to actions, offering limited transparency into how decisions are formed.