Robotics and embodied AI

Manipulation, locomotion, sim-to-real transfer and autonomous driving: learning systems that have to survive physics.

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arXiv AI
Jun 15

Schr\"odinger's Navigator: Imagining an Ensemble of Futures for Zero-Shot Object Navigation

arXiv:2512. 21201v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Zero-shot object navigation (ZSON) requires robots to find target objects in unseen environments without task-specific fine-tuning or pre-built maps, a key capability for general-purpose service robots.

By Yu He, Da Huang, Zhenyang Liu, Zixiao Gu, Qiang Sun, Guangnan Ye, Yanwei Fu, Yu-Gang Jiang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 15

NEST3D: A High-Resolution Multimodal Dataset of Sociable Weaver Tree Nests

arXiv:2606. 14562v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sociable weaver nests function as complex ecological structures offering thermoregulatory microhabitats and sustaining diverse species; however, datasets used in prior studies lack fine-grained 3D structural detail.

By Constanza A. Molina Catricheo, Simon Boeder, Ting-Jia Guo, Giacomo May, Cl\'ement Berthelot, Devis Tuia, Friedrich Fedor Reinhard, Fabio Remondino, Benjamin Risse
arXiv AI
Jun 15

Hy-Embodied-0.5-VLA: From Vision-Language-Action Models to a Real-World Robot Learning Stack

arXiv:2606. 14409v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this report, we present Hy-Embodied-0.

By He Zhang, Lingzhu Xiang, Haitao Lin, Zeyu Huang, Minghui Wang, Dingyan Zhong, Yubo Dong, Yihao Wu, Yongming Rao, Dongsheng Zhang, Wanjia He, Ling Chen, Kai Huang, Jiahao Chen, Sichang Su, Xumin Yu, Ziyi Wang, Chengwei Zhu, Xiao Teng, Yuchun Guo, Yufeng Zhang, Yuandong Liu, Rui Wang, Zisheng Lu, Han Hu, Zhengyou Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 12

ERTS: Adversarial Robustness Testing of Ethical AI via Semantic Perturbation in a Bounded Consequence Space

arXiv:2606. 13282v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI systems are deployed in high-stakes ethical contexts such as healthcare triage, autonomous vehicle control, and employment screening, formal methods for evaluating their robustness against adversarial manipulation of ethical reasoning remain underdeveloped.

By Pratyush Chaudhari
arXiv AI
Jun 12

From Digital to Physical: Digital Agents as Autonomous Coaches for Physical Intelligence

arXiv:2601. 21570v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The field of Embodied AI is witnessing a rapid evolution toward general-purpose robotic systems, fueled by high-fidelity simulation and large-scale data collection.

By Zixing Lei, Genjia Liu, Yuanshuo Zhang, Qipeng Liu, Yuzhu Cai, Sixiang Chen, Jixian Wu, Yunhong Wang, Weixin Li, Chuan Wen, Bo Zhao, Shanghang Zhang, Wenzhao Lian, Siheng Chen