Manipulation, locomotion, sim-to-real transfer and autonomous driving: learning systems that have to survive physics.
arXiv:2607. 11063v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite progress in Embodied AI, Vision-and-Language Navigation systems remain vulnerable to adversarial visual disturbances.
arXiv:2607. 09825v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic manipulation policies rely on pre-trained vision models that give either a global scene embedding or a dense patch grid.
arXiv:2607. 09792v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Navigation is a fundamental capability of autonomous systems, yet most existing approaches rely on highly structured models and strong prior assumptions, limiting their robustness in open and uncertain real-world environments.
arXiv:2607. 10110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work on looped language models suggests that many reasoning problems benefit from greater computational depth rather than from additional independent parameters.
arXiv:2607. 10991v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As mobile robots become more integrated into everyday human environments, social robot navigation is becoming essential for ensuring human comfort, safety, and trust.
arXiv:2607. 11004v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a manipulation planning system based on affordance recognition and action effect prediction.
arXiv:2607. 09833v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have achieved high accuracy with transformer-based models, enabling deployment in critical applications.
arXiv:2607. 10172v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying billion-parameter Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models on industrial hardware requires fine-tuning to bridge the embodiment gap.
arXiv:2607. 10309v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) is commonly employed to enhance the performance of autonomous systems, including the Autonomous Internet of Things (AIoT).
arXiv:2603. 04277v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous aerial robots operating in GPS-denied or communication-degraded environments frequently lose access to camera metadata and telemetry, leaving onboard perception systems unable to recover the absolute metric scale of the scene.
arXiv:2607. 09787v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LiDAR semantic segmentation is a key perception task in autonomous driving, where false predictions can affect downstream planning and safety-critical decision-making.
arXiv:2601. 15995v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Parkour tasks for quadrupeds have emerged as a promising benchmark for agile locomotion.
arXiv:2603. 03953v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Safe visual navigation is critical for indoor mobile robots operating in cluttered environments.
arXiv:2603. 04419v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We characterize the phenomenon of context-dependent affordance computation in vision-language models (VLMs).
arXiv:2607. 09218v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Whole-arm manipulation involves direct contact with the environment while the robot completes a task by distributing contact across multiple links as contacts form, slide, and break.
arXiv:2506. 14411v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In standard reinforcement learning (RL) settings, the interaction between the agent and the environment is typically modeled as a Markov decision process (MDP), which assumes that the agent observes the system state instantaneously, selects an action without delay, and executes it immediately.
arXiv:2601. 15353v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved remarkable success in real-world decision-making across diverse domains, including gaming, robotics, online advertising, public health, and natural language processing.
arXiv:2607. 10383v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual Language Navigation foundation models aim to unify deep reasoning for grounded spatial decisions with broad versatility for diverse embodied tasks.
arXiv:2607. 09795v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recently, large language models (LLMs) have been successfully adopted in various fields, including wireless communications, robotics, and autonomous vehicles, owing to their outstanding adaptability and reasoning abilities.
arXiv:2607. 10206v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flow-matching policies are promising for imitation learning because they model complex multimodal action distributions.