Manipulation, locomotion, sim-to-real transfer and autonomous driving: learning systems that have to survive physics.
arXiv:2603. 23405v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) algorithms must plan for hundreds to thousands of agents in congested environments within a second, requiring highly efficient algorithms.
arXiv:2607. 01225v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prior work on imitation learning from suboptimal demonstrations typically relies on compressed supervision signals such as confidence estimates, discriminator scores, or importance weights.
arXiv:2607. 00191v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Collaborative-perception enables multi-robot systems to enhance situational awareness by sharing perceptual information.
arXiv:2607. 00444v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatiotemporal motion planning, especially in multi-robot settings, requires robots to reason about collision-free regions that change over time, which is challenging in continuous spaces when feasible regions are transient and geometrically constrained.
arXiv:2607. 00174v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a black-box model-stealing attack that recovers private vision-tokenizer configurations of deployed vision-language models (VLMs), including the visual patch size and input preprocessing pipeline.
arXiv:2603. 10263v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce Distribution Contractive Reinforcement Learning (DICE-RL), a framework that uses reinforcement learning (RL) as a "distribution contraction" operator to refine pretrained generative robot policies.
arXiv:2607. 00666v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models often fail to perform the same learned tasks under environmental shifts, such as changes in camera pose and shifts to a different but similar robot (e.
arXiv:2607. 01212v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current work on robot furniture assembly mostly focuses on toy-scale settings or single-arm manipulation.
arXiv:2604. 01001v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce EgoSim, a closed-loop egocentric world simulator that generates spatially consistent interaction videos and persistently updates the underlying 3D scene state for continuous simulation.
arXiv:2506. 12851v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Humanoid robots are promising to acquire various skills by imitating human behaviors.
arXiv:2607. 00530v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Improvements in the technical performance of human--robot interaction (HRI) systems do not automatically translate into differences that human users can detect during live interaction.
arXiv:2607. 00457v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied agents operating in the real world require multi-scale reasoning and knowledge adaptation as conditions change.
Interactive segmentation of 3D Gaussians offers a compelling opportunity for real-time manipulation of 3D scenes, thanks to the real-time rendering capability of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). However, existing methods require a time-consuming per-scene setup - typically tens of seconds or even minutes - before interactive segmentation can begin on a raw 3DGS scene.
Current work on robot furniture assembly mostly focuses on toy-scale settings or single-arm manipulation. We introduce FurnitureVLA, the first systematic study of real-scale bimanual furniture assembly using Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs).
Skeleton-based action recognition has achieved remarkable success by exploiting joint coordinates and their topological connections, yet prevailing methods overwhelmingly assume complete and clean skeleton inputs. In real-world deployments, such as egocentric vision, crowded surveillance, wearable devices, or edge robotics, limited field-of-view (FoV) frequently causes substantial joint visibility dropout, leading to severe performance degradation that existing models are largely unprepared to handle.
Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This year, BAIR celebrates another remarkable group of Ph.
arXiv:2603. 16250v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LVLMs encounter significant challenges in image understanding and visual reasoning, leading to critical perception failures.
arXiv:2604. 04138v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Dexterous manipulation requires planning a grasp configuration suited to the object and task, which is then executed through coordinated multi-finger control.
arXiv:2606. 31329v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models decouple high-level planning from low-level control to improve generalization in robot manipulation.
arXiv:2510. 09204v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Centralized trajectory optimization in the joint space of multiple robots allows access to a larger feasible space that can result in smoother trajectories, especially while planning in tight spaces.