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 Computer Vision
Sep 23

ToW3D: Consistency-aware Interactive Point-based Mesh Editing on GANs

The paper introduces ToW3D, a method for precise and consistent control over 3D generative adversarial networks (GANs) using a Tug-of-War approach between shape deformation and appearance consistency. It addresses the challenge that 3D generators often lack generalization, leading to drastic global appearance changes when editing local mesh areas. ToW3D employs a two-step optimization—drag locally and shove globally—along with a structure adaptation module and a semantic preservation module, achieving superior appearance consistency and fidelity compared to prior methods, especially under large deformations.

By Haixu Song, Fangfu Liu, Chenyu Zhang, Yueqi Duan
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 23

NPLSD: Accelerating Line-Segment Detection on NPU Microcontrollers

The paper introduces NPLSD, a pair of line‑segment detectors optimized for the Neural‑ART NPU on STM32N6 microcontrollers. NPLSD‑H retains a convolutional backbone and replaces transformer components with a fully‑convolutional head, while NPLSD‑M adapts a lightweight trunk to the NPU’s supported operators. Trained on ImageNet and ShanghaiTech Wireframe, the models achieve competitive accuracy with 2.63 M and 0.62 M parameters, respectively, and ablation studies show initialization contributes significantly to performance.

By Parsa Hassani Shariat Panahi, Amir Hossein Jalilvand, M. Hassan Najafi
arXiv AI
Sep 23

Heterogeneous Robot Collaboration in Unstructured Environments with Grounded Generative Intelligence

arXiv:2510.26915v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While heterogeneous teams have typically been designed for well-specified missions with known semantics, generative intelligence, i.e., large...

By Zachary Ravichandran, Fernando Cladera, Ankit Prabhu, Jason Hughes, Carlos Nieto-Granda, Varun Murali, Camillo Taylor, George J. Pappas, Vijay Kumar