arXiv AI
Jul 10
EgoWAM: World Action Models Beyond Pixels with In-the-Wild Egocentric Human Data
arXiv:2607. 08436v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Egocentric human data offers scalable supervision for robot manipulation.
Robotics and embodied AI
Manipulation, locomotion, sim-to-real transfer and autonomous driving: learning systems that have to survive physics.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 10
Securing Autonomous Vehicle Systems via Twin-Aware Federated Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607. 08137v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated reinforcement learning (FRL) is crucial for enabling collaborative learning across multiple agents without sharing raw data, thereby enhancing privacy and scalability in the decision-making process within dynamic vehicular environments.
arXiv AI
Jul 10
LEEVLA: Seeing What Matters in Latent Environment Evolution for Vision-Language-Action
arXiv:2607. 08182v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models aim to map multimodal inputs to robot actions.
arXiv AI
Jul 10
Idiobionics: The Unification of Privacy and Intelligent Robotic Prostheses
arXiv:2607. 07775v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The human body is at the center of a growing family of technologies designed to tightly and persistently couple biological and digital systems.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 10
Unlocking Temporal Generalization in Hamiltonian Video Dynamics Models
arXiv:2607. 07763v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models are typically trained to predict discrete-time physical dynamics with a fixed step size baked into the model weights, preventing prediction at variable temporal resolutions.
arXiv AI
Jul 10
Time-to-Collision Based Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance Using Pretrained Vision Models for Robots in Unstructured Environments
arXiv:2607. 07885v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dynamic obstacle avoidance in unstructured outdoor environments remains a critical challenge for autonomous mobile robots, particularly when large-scale robot-specific training data and simulation-based policies are impractical.
arXiv AI
Jul 10
WCog-VLA: A Dual-Level World-Cognitive Vision-Language-Action Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607. 08375v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have advanced end-to-end autonomous driving.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 10
On Exploring Input Resolution Scaling For Anytime LiDAR Object Detection
arXiv:2607. 08391v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Making tradeoffs between execution latency and result utility (i.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 10
Write-Protected Discrete Bottlenecks for Language-Grounded World Models: A Structural Limitation and Sufficient Fix
arXiv:2607. 08312v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How should language interface with a world model's discrete symbol system?
arXiv AI
Jul 10
V-VLAPS: Value-Guided Planning for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2601. 00969v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models provide strong action priors for robotic manipulation, but their reactive behavior can fail under distribution shift and long-horizon task structure.
arXiv AI
Jul 10
A Transdiagnostic Space of Disorder Like Phenotypes in Reinforcement Learning Agents
arXiv:2607. 07753v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modelling psychological disorders in artificial agents offers both a testbed for computational psychiatry and a lens on the failure modes of affective control.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 10
SeFA-Policy: Fast and Accurate Visuomotor Policy Learning with Selective Flow Alignment
arXiv:2511. 08583v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Developing efficient and accurate visuomotor policies poses a central challenge in robotic imitation learning.
arXiv AI
Jul 10
Track2Map: Online Deformable SLAM with Motion-Aware Pose Optimization in Robotic Surgery
arXiv:2607. 08408v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Gaussian splatting is the current state-of-the-art for dense, deformable 3D anatomy reconstruction in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RAMIS); however, most pipelines are offline and depend on accurate camera trajectory priors (often from robotic kinematics), limiting applicability when priors are missing or noisy.
arXiv AI
Jul 10
Beyond Thermal Imaging: Inferring Thermophysical Properties from Time-Resolved Thermal Observations
arXiv:2607. 07962v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inferring latent physical properties from sensory observations is a fundamental challenge in machine perception.
MIT News AI
Jul 9
Tiny robot boats build floating structures
MIT researchers developed FloatForm, a swarm of small aquatic robots that snap together like ants forming a raft, assembling into reconfigurable structures on the water.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 9
Do Egocentric Video-Language Models Capture Both Hand- and Object-Centric Cues?
Hand-object interaction (HOI) recognition requires capturing both hand manipulations and object transformations. However, existing video-language models often fall into shortcuts by relying on spurious correlations among hands, objects, or environmental context, rather than reasoning from the appearance and dynamics of hands and objects themselves.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 9
Track2Map: Online Deformable SLAM with Motion-Aware Pose Optimization in Robotic Surgery
Gaussian splatting is the current state-of-the-art for dense, deformable 3D anatomy reconstruction in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RAMIS); however, most pipelines are offline and depend on accurate camera trajectory priors (often from robotic kinematics), limiting applicability when priors are missing or noisy. To address these limitations, we propose Track2Map, an online 3D Gaussian Splatting pipeline that jointly optimizes camera trajectory and 3D deformable scene representation directly from surgical video.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 9
LEEVLA: Seeing What Matters in Latent Environment Evolution for Vision-Language-Action
Vision-language-action (VLA) models aim to map multimodal inputs to robot actions. However, most existing approaches struggle to cover complex dynamic scenarios due to treating all visual tokens uniformly and reasoning with human-selected factors, which lack mechanisms to emphasize task-critical evidence and ignore underlying factors.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 9
EVIS: A Physics-Grounded Event Camera Plugin for NVIDIA Isaac Sim
Event cameras offer microsecond temporal resolution, low latency, and high dynamic range, making them attractive for robotics. However, labeled event-camera data for a specific robot and scene is scarce and expensive to collect, which slows the development of event-based perception and control.
arXiv AI
Jul 9
HumAIN: Human-Aware Implicit Social Robot Navigation
arXiv:2607. 07357v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Effective social robot navigation requires sensitivity to human behavior, often revealed through subtle skeletal cues like gait and orientation.