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
Jul 20

AEGIS: Assay-Aware Protocol Validation and Runtime Monitoring for Open-Source Liquid Handling Robots

arXiv:2607. 15620v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-driving laboratories increasingly rely on low-cost liquid handlers such as the Opentrons OT-2, which ship without the pressure-based aspiration monitoring of Hamilton or Tecan systems and are typically run open-loop.

By Priyanka V. Setty, Arvind Ramanathan, Ian Foster, Rick Stevens
arXiv AI
Jul 20

EgoExoMoCap: Distributed Ego-Exo Human Motion Capture

arXiv:2607. 15868v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human motion capture from head-mounted devices (HMDs) offers a scalable way to acquire real-world human motion and interaction data, which is crucial for applications in embodied AI and VR/AR.

By Jiaxi Jiang, Bharat Lal Bhatnagar, Nan Yang, Lingni Ma, Sebastian Starke, Robin Kips, Nadine Bertsch, Christian Holz, Federica Bogo
arXiv AI
Jul 20

JoyNexus: Service-Oriented Multi-Tenant Post-Training for VLA Models

arXiv:2607. 16074v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The post-training of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models is essential due to the diversity of simulators, robot embodiments, and task objectives.

By Haoran Sun, Wentao Zhang, Junyang Hua, Hedan Yang, Yongjian Guo, Yifei Zhang, Xiaolong Xiang, Mingxi Luo, Jing Long, Chen Zhao, Chen Zhou, Wanting Xu, Qiming Yang, Hui Zhang, Song Wang, Xiaodong Bai, Shuai Di, Xu Chu, Xiaotie Deng, Yicheng Gong, Junwu Xiong
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 20

Dichotomous Diffusion Policy Optimization

arXiv:2601. 00898v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion-based policies have gained growing popularity in solving a wide range of decision-making tasks due to their superior expressiveness and controllable generation during inference.

By Ruiming Liang, Yinan Zheng, Kexin Zheng, Tianyi Tan, Jianxiong Li, Liyuan Mao, Zhihao Wang, Guang Chen, Hangjun Ye, Jingjing Liu, Jinqiao Wang, Xianyuan Zhan
arXiv AI
Jul 20

Interaction-Aware Whole-Body Control for Compliant Object Transport

arXiv:2603. 03751v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Cooperative object transport in unstructured environments remains challenging for assistive humanoids because strong, time-varying interaction forces can make tracking-centric whole-body control unreliable, especially in close-contact support tasks.

By Hao Zhang, Yves Tseng, Ding Zhao, H. Eric Tseng
arXiv AI
Jul 20

Recursive Harness Self-Improvement

arXiv:2607. 15524v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Under model--harness co-evolution, harnesses are not merely inference-time scaffolds but data-generating components whose execution traces can shape future foundation models.

By Hyunin Lee, Jinglue Xu, Jeffrey Seely, Donghyun Lee, Matei Zaharia, Yujin Tang
arXiv AI
Jul 20

MemoGuard: An Adaptive Runtime for Guarding Against Memory Traps in Communication-Limited Robot Navigation

arXiv:2607. 15589v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Communication-limited robots in mission-critical scenarios such as disaster inspection and search-and-rescue must make reliable onboard decisions without access to remote operators or high-capacity reasoning services.

By Rajat Bhattacharjya, Hyeonjong Ju, Sing-Yao Wu, Eli Bozorgzadeh, Nikil Dutt
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 18

What Do They See? Interpreting Complex Road Scenarios Through the Eyes of Vision-Language-Action Models for Safe and Trustworthy Autonomous Vehicle Learning

End-to-end autonomous driving models are now able to navigate complex road scenarios, mapping raw sensor observations directly to observed paths for open-loop evaluation and often effective driving in closed-loop evaluation. Yet the internal logic of these safety-critical systems remains largely opaque, due to the complexity of traffic scenes.