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 17

RxBrain: Embodied Cognition Foundation Model with Joint Language-Visual Reasoning and Imagination

arXiv:2607. 14187v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied cognition requires agents to connect high-level task reasoning with the physical states to be achieved.

By Haotian Liang, Mingkang Chen, Yufei Huang, Yuchun Guo, Xiaomeng Zhu, Xiangli Shi, Kaixuan Wang, Yunxuan Mao, Weijie Zhou, Ling Chen, Shirong Zeng, Yueyu Long, Yuchen Si, Yajuan Zhu, Xingyu Zhou, Minghui Wang, Wanjia He, Xin Yang, Lingzhu Xiang, Zhiqing Liu, Bohan Ma, Xiran Huang, Tianshuo Yang, Zhiheng Liu, Xuantang Xiong, Zisheng Lu, Ping Luo, Yao Mu, Han Hu, Zhengyou Zhang
arXiv AI
Jul 17

Scaling Behavior Foundation Model for Humanoid Robots

arXiv:2607. 15163v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humanoid control requires natural whole-body coordination, precise real-time responses to control signals, and robust generalization across diverse environmental contexts, making it a cornerstone for generalist embodied agents.

By Weishuai Zeng, Kangning Yin, Xiaojie Niu, Shunlin Lu, Weixiang Zhong, Jiahe Chen, Feiyu Jia, Xiao Chen, Zirui Wang, Furui Xu, Ming Zhou, Kailin Li, Weinan Zhang, He Wang, Li Yi, Dahua Lin, Jiangmiao Pang, Jingbo Wang
arXiv AI
Jul 17

Instant NuRec: Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Reconstruction for Driving Scene Simulation

arXiv:2607. 14203v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 3D simulation platforms are critical for autonomous driving because they enable end-to-end policy evaluation, thereby reducing development costs and improving safety.

By NVIDIA, :, Jiahui Huang, Jiawei Ren, Michal Tyszkiewicz, Bjoern Haefner, Michael Shelley, Xin Kang, Seung Wook Kim, Ning Xu, Qi Wu, Janick Martinez Esturo, Shengyu Huang, Nick Schneider, Laura Leal-Taixe, Zan Gojcic, Sanja Fidler
arXiv AI
Jul 16

SPINE: Bridging the Cyber-Physical Gap with Agentic AI

arXiv:2607. 13049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models have given robots a sophisticated brain for complex decision-making, yet deploying that intelligence into a physical platform still demands tedious, expert-driven calibration.

By Minkyu Ham, Dongho Kim, Chan Lee, Jiayi Wang, Min Jun Kim, Yixi Zhang, Guo Ye, Jihai Zhao, Soyeon Park, Han Liu
arXiv AI
Jul 16

RADAR: Closed-Loop Robotic Data Generation via Semantic Planning and Autonomous Causal Environment Reset

arXiv:2603. 11811v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The acquisition of large-scale physical interaction data, a critical prerequisite for modern robot learning, is severely bottlenecked by the prohibitive cost and scalability limits of human-in-the-loop collection paradigms.

By Yongzhong Wang, Keyu Zhu, Yong Zhong, Liqiong Wang, Jinyu Yang, Feng Zheng
arXiv AI
Jul 16

Earthquaker-AI: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework with Rubric-Based Assessment for Primary School Earthquake Education

arXiv:2607. 14046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents Earthquaker-AI, a hybrid educational framework building upon a previously implemented educational robotics project by integrating a conversational AI assistant based on Retrieval-Augmented Generation.

By Xanthi Kokkinou, Chaido Mizeli, Nafsika Koulaxidou, Marina Delianidi, Konstantinos Diamantaras