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
Jun 17

OmniRetarget: Interaction-Preserving Data Generation for Humanoid Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation and Scene Interaction

arXiv:2509. 26633v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A dominant paradigm for teaching humanoid robots complex skills is to retarget human motions as kinematic references to train reinforcement learning (RL) policies.

By Lujie Yang, Xiaoyu Huang, Zhen Wu, Angjoo Kanazawa, Pieter Abbeel, Carmelo Sferrazza, C. Karen Liu, Rocky Duan, Guanya Shi
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 17

Uncertainty Quantification for Flow-Based Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2606. 18043v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action models (VLAs) combine vision-language backbones with expressive generative action heads trained via flow matching on large-scale robotic datasets.

By Ralf R\"omer, Maximilian Seeliger, Saida Liu, Ben Sturgis, Marco Bagatella, Daniel Marta, Andreas Krause, Angela P. Schoellig
arXiv AI
Jun 17

MagicSim: A Unified Infrastructure for Executable Embodied Interaction

arXiv:2606. 17511v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot learning and embodied agents now require simulation to serve as a shared execution substrate linking control, skills, and planning, not only as a renderer, controller testbed, or fixed task environment.

By Haoran Lu, Songling Liu, Yue Chen, Guo Ye, Mutian Shen, Shuyang Yu, Yu Xiao, Jihai Zhao, Shang Wu, Jianshu Zhang, Xiangtian Gui, Chuye Hong, Yuran Wang, Maojiang Su, Jiayi Wang, Ruihai Wu, Zhaoran Wang, Han Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 17

Damage Adaptation in Seconds for Architected Materials

arXiv:2606. 17394v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adaptation to damages and in-situ physical repairs is essential for long-term robot autonomy, yet challenging outside of narrowly defined and well-anticipated bounds.

By James Avtges, Jake Ketchum, Helena Young, Taekyoung Kim, Ryan Truby, Todd Murphey
arXiv AI
Jun 17

OmniDrive: An LLM-Choreographed Multi-Agent World Model with Unified Latent Co-Compression for Multi-View Driving Video Generation

arXiv:2606. 17536v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative world models for autonomous driving face two unresolved tensions: heterogeneous control injection, where free-form language, HD-maps, trajectories, and camera poses reside in incompatible representational spaces, and post-hoc cross-view fusion, where per-camera latents fail to encode global 3-D geometry.

By Zijie Meng, Yufei Liu, Chengqian Ma, Zhiyu Li, Jiyuan Liu, Wenhua Nie, Bingcai Wei, Shuqin Chen, Weichen Xu, Jiquan Yuan, Miao Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 17

Transformer-Based Warm-Starting for Feasible and Optimal Terminal Approach to Tumbling Objects with Space Manipulators

arXiv:2606. 17317v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-time trajectory generation for on-orbit robotic servicing is challenging due to the nonlinear coupling between spacecraft bus motion, manipulator dynamics, visibility cone, and trajectory-level safety constraints.

By Yuji Takubo, Maximilian Adang, Mac Schwager, Simone D'Amico
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 17

Qwen-RobotManip Technical Report: Alignment Unlocks Scale for Robotic Manipulation Foundation Models

arXiv:2606. 17846v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models in language and multimodality achieve strong generalization by aligning heterogeneous data under a unified formulation and training at scale.

By Haoqi Yuan, Zhixuan Liang, Anzhe Chen, Ye Wang, Haoyang Li, Pei Lin, Yiyang Huang, Zixing Lei, Tong Zhang, Jiazhao Zhang, Jie Zhang, Jingyang Fan, Gengze Zhou, Qihang Peng, Chenxu Lv, Xiaoyue Chen, An Yang, Fei Huang, Junyang Lin, Dayiheng Liu, Jingren Zhou, Chenfei Wu, Xiong-Hui Chen