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 Machine Learning
Jul 7

A Survey of Reinforcement Learning-Based Motion Planning for Autonomous Driving: Lessons Learned from a Driving Task Perspective

arXiv:2503. 23650v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL), with its ability to explore and optimize policies in complex, dynamic decision-making tasks, has emerged as a promising approach to addressing motion planning (MoP) challenges in autonomous driving (AD).

By Zhuoren Li, Guizhe Jin, Ran Yu, Weiqi Zhang, Zhiwen Chen, Nan Li, Lu Xiong, Ilya Kolmanovsky, Dimitar Filev, Bo Leng, Jia Hu
arXiv AI
Jul 7

Mask2Real-WM: Segmentation Masks as a Sim-to-Real Bridge for Controllable Dexterous World Models

arXiv:2607. 04546v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Action-conditioned world models allow robots to predict the future consequences of candidate actions without additional physical interaction, supporting policy evaluation, planning, and data augmentation.

By Riccardo O. Feingold, Davide Liconti, Chenyu Yang, Robert K. Katzschmann
arXiv AI
Jul 7

OmniTacTune: Policy-Agnostic Real-World RL for Tactile Residual Adaptation of Visual Policies

arXiv:2607. 03723v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual policies learned from human videos, teleoperation, and robot demonstrations offer scalable motion priors, but often fail in contact-rich manipulation, where success significantly depends on local force and contact geometry.

By Kelin Yu, Haode Zhang, Harish Ravichandar, Yunhai Han, Ruohan Gao
arXiv AI
Jul 7

iFLYTEK-Embodied-Omni Technical Report

arXiv:2607. 02542v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose embodied agents must understand multimodal instructions, anticipate how their environment will evolve, and produce precise control actions over extended horizons.

By Yuan Zhang, Jingfei Ni, Guanchen Lu, Shiqi Zhang, Qingshan Xu, Chi Liu, Xin Nie, Wenjie Xu, Lin Gao, Zhiyuan Cheng, Mingxin Zhou, Jiajia Wu, Diyuan Liu, Jia Pan, Chao Ji
arXiv AI
Jul 7

RoboDojo: A Unified Sim-and-Real Benchmark for Comprehensive Evaluation of Generalist Robot Manipulation Policies

arXiv:2607. 04434v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generalist robot manipulation policies have advanced rapidly, yet existing benchmarks remain limited in systematically evaluating their capabilities.

By Tianxing Chen, Yue Chen, Zixuan Li, Junyuan Tang, Kailun Su, Weijie Wan, Baijun Chen, Haoran Lu, Haowen Yan, Honghao Su, Zhiyang Dou, Kaixuan Wang, Dandan Zhang, Yunze Liu, Yan Qin, Qiwei Liang, Qiwei Wu, Zijian Lin, Wenwei Lin, Yuran Wang, Minghua He, Tianshu Wu, Ruihai Wu, Jingquan Zhou, Kai-Chong Lei, Haibao Yu, Yuanfeng Ji, Weiyang Jin, Guanyu Lin, Xiaofan Li, Qi Xiong, Renjing Xu, Zhongyu Li, Wenhao Chai, Enze Xie, Ziwei Wang, Yao Mu, Hao Dong, Wojciech Matusik, Mingyu Ding, Wenbo Ding, Ping Luo, Masayoshi Tomizuka
arXiv AI
Jul 7

Embodied Operators and Benchmarking: Toward Reusable and Deployable Embodied Intelligence Systems

arXiv:2607. 03283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied intelligence systems require not only end-to-end policy models, but also reusable functional modules that transform multimodal observations, robot states, human demonstrations, and task contexts into structured representations, decisions, trajectories, control references, and system services.

By Junwu Xiong, Jiaxuan Gao, Wei Chai, Renxing Chen, Yuzhen Li, Yu Guo, Yucheng Guo, Mingxi Luo, Wenyang Ma, Yiyun Mou, Yifei Zhang, Chen Zhou, Yongjian Guo