Manipulation, locomotion, sim-to-real transfer and autonomous driving: learning systems that have to survive physics.
arXiv:2606. 03943v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video-Action Models (VAMs) leverage the broad visual dynamics captured by pre-trained video diffusion models, offering a promising path toward generalizable robot manipulation.
arXiv:2606. 04718v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans primarily rely on walking and running to traverse complex terrains, without resorting to unnecessarily complex motion patterns.
arXiv:2606. 04269v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deformable object manipulation (DOM) is challenging due to high-dimensional, partially observable states that evolve through long-horizon, topology-changing interactions with multiple valid manipulation modes.
arXiv:2605. 07032v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The evolution of generative models from next-token predictors to autonomous engines of complex systems necessitates rigorous safety hardening.
arXiv:2512. 16919v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Perceiving and reconstructing 3D scene geometry from visual inputs is crucial for autonomous driving.
arXiv:2605. 09081v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce the first universal pretraining corpus for industrial time-series data: FactoryNet.
arXiv:2605. 19294v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies increasingly rely on asynchronous inference to hide large-model latency behind ongoing robot motion.
arXiv:2603. 10971v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning has achieved remarkable success in domains such as Atari games, navigation, and locomotion, where exploration can often be guided by novelty over states or dynamics.
Reliable evaluation of human motion understanding is fundamental to advancing embodied AI, robotics, and animation. However, existing benchmarks suffer from coarse semantic granularity, undifferentiated difficulty, limited annotation quality, and pervasive answer ambiguity, leaving them unable to diagnose where current models fail.
Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI) enables scalable real-world robot data collection without hardware-specific teleoperation, yet leveraging UMI data to train large-scale Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models remains fundamentally challenging. We identify two critical mismatches: wrist-mounted fisheye views, with severe radial distortion and local gripper-centric perspectives, are out-of-distribution for pretrained VLMs; and human-collected trajectories frequently violate kinematic limits, incur collisions, or exceed controller bandwidth, teaching VLA policies physically infeasible actions.
arXiv:2606. 03134v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Imitation-learning policies for robot manipulation inherit the quality of the success labels attached to their training episodes, and those labels are usually produced by the robot's own success check.
arXiv:2606. 03385v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In robotic manipulation, the tight coupling between grasping and motion planning often obscures the true source of failure, leading to inefficient trial-and-error.
arXiv:2606. 03026v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spiking language models expose activation sparsity that dense Transformer runtimes do not directly exploit.
arXiv:2606. 02979v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a novel compact deep multi-task learning model to handle various autonomous driving perception tasks in one forward pass.
arXiv:2605. 08747v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Standard embodied evaluations do not independently score whether an agent correctly commits to task completion at episode closure, a capacity we call terminal commitment.
arXiv:2606. 03940v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In robotics systems, vast amounts of visual data are easily captured at high resolution using low-cost, low-power hardware.
arXiv:2603. 23117v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: By integrating Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated strong capabilities in robotic manipulation, particularly by improving generalization and interpretability.
arXiv:2606. 03686v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present DeepSpeak-Agentic, a dataset of videos comprising over 37 hours of semi-structured conversations between a human and an embodied AI agent.
arXiv:2505. 08222v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous vehicles (AVs) offer a cost-effective solution for scientific missions such as underwater tracking.
arXiv:2606. 02832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite a great deal of prior research into Procedural Content Generation (PCG), relatively little prior work has explored generating enemies for video games.