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 Computer Vision
Sep 1

AnnotateAnything: Automatic Annotation of 3D Assets for Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2606.17446v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Simulation enables scalable robot data collection, but raw 3D assets provide only geometry, lacking the semantic, interactive, and physical k...

By Haoran Lu, Mutian Shen, Shuyang Yu, Yu Xiao, Songling Liu, Jianshu Zhang, Shang Wu, Yue Chen, Guo Ye, Jiayi Wang, Zhaoran Wang, Han Liu
arXiv AI
Sep 1

Making the Discrete Continuous: Synthetic RAW Augmentations for Fine-Grained Evaluation of Person Detection Performance in Low Light

arXiv:2605.22455v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-world deployment of AI vision models is both fueled and limited by the data available for training and testing. Real datasets are sparse...

By Valeria Pais, Malena Mendilaharzu, Daniele Faccio, Luis Oala, Christoph Clausen, Bruno Sanguinetti
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 1

ACE-Ego-Hand: Repurposing Video Diffusion Models for Occlusion-Robust Egocentric 3D Hand Motion Recovery

arXiv:2608.20308v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Egocentric video offers scalable manipulation data for embodied AI, yet recovering metric 3D hand trajectories remains challenging due to severe ob...

By Yufei Liu, Xixi Wang, Hao Li, Ganlong Zhao, Kaitong Cai, Chengkai Jin, Chunxiao Liu, Jianbo Liu, Siyuan Huang, Xingang Pan, Hongsheng Li
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 1

CL4D: Contrastive Language-4D Pretraining for Vision-Language Reasoning in Dynamic Scenes

arXiv:2608.18734v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 4D understanding and reasoning is a fundamental capability for embodied AI agents operating in dynamic physical environments. However, existing vis...

By Kumal Hewagamage, Isuranga Senavirathne, Sasika Amarasinghe, Hasitha Gallella, Dulanga Weerakoon, Vigneshwaran Subbaraju, Ranga Rodrigo
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 1

RoboMirror: Understand Before You Imitate for Video to Humanoid Locomotion

arXiv:2512.23649v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Humans learn locomotion through visual observation, interpreting visual content first before imitating actions. However, state-of-the-art hum...

By Zhe Li, Boan Zhu, Yangyang Wei, Shuanghao Bai, Yuheng Ji, Yibo Peng, Tao Huang, Pengwei Wang, Zhongyuan Wang, S. -H. Gary Chan, Chang Xu, Cheng Chi, Jianfei Yang, Shanghang Zhang
arXiv AI
Sep 1

Motus2: A Self-Evolving General World Model for Dexterous Manipulation

Motus2 is a self‑evolving general world model designed for dexterous manipulation. It integrates a shared‑weight model that offers three control interfaces—a policy, a simulator, and an evaluator—forming a closed decision‑and‑learning loop for policy improvement. The system scales both model size and data, progressing from large‑scale monocular egocentric data to synchronized stereo data and robot‑domain adaptation, while also incorporating tactile feedback and a biomimetic platform with dual arms and hands.

By Hongzhe Bi, Zihao Zhou, Yihang Tang, Jingrui Pang, Shuhe Huang, Haitian Liu, Runqing Wang, Shuai Huang, Yichen Wang, Yiming Cheng, Ruowen Zhao, Zhenghua Li, Hengkai Tan, Xiaolong Liu, Jinhui Wan, Jiabao Liu, Min Zhao, Fan Bao, Jun Zhu