Manipulation, locomotion, sim-to-real transfer and autonomous driving: learning systems that have to survive physics.
arXiv:2608.29967v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models demonstrate strong semantic understanding yet exhibit systematic failures during deployment. The conditions under...
arXiv:2608.29537v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Frozen vision-language-action (VLA) policies offer broad manipulation skills but execute open-loop action chunks without tracking task progress, so t...
arXiv:2608.29114v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to reason over accumulated observations while continuously exploring unseen regions. However, ex...
arXiv:2608.29937v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent world-action models avoid rendering future pixels by predicting an action-relevant visual subgoal in feature space. LaWAM established this formu...
arXiv:2608.29315v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work introduces Semantically-Guided Exploration (SGE), a modular exploration framework for ground vehicles that integrates pixel-level semantic...
arXiv:2608.30821v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Composable scene modeling aims to recover a real indoor scene as complete, editable object assets arranged as observed, giving robot simulation and e...
arXiv:2608.28733v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Indoor 3D Scene Graphs (3DSGs) represent environments as multi-layer hierarchies that connect observed geometric primitives (e.g., planes) to higher-...
arXiv:2608.28948v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Over the course of the last decade, neural networks have grown from an academic curiosity to moving the markets of nations. Despite this explosion in...
arXiv:2608.30897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models are becoming core infrastructure for embodied intelligence, with action-conditioned video generation providing controllable predictions of...
arXiv:2608.29426v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable semantic representations derived from city-scale 3D models are increasingly important for urban analysis, infrastructure monitoring, autonom...
arXiv:2608.29475v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surface material recognition from incomplete visual observations remains a challenging problem in robotic perception and environmental understanding. T...
arXiv:2608.29601v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present $\mathcal{N}_0$-Foundation, a paradigm for tactile-enabled embodied manipulation, which integrates tactile sensing hardware, large-scale m...
arXiv:2608.29208v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, built upon Vision-Language Models (VLMs), have significantly enhanced robotic capabilities by leveraging interne...
arXiv:2608.29459v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Skills, as a useful abstraction for the procedural capabilities of large language models (LLMs), capture how models perform structured, multi-step reas...
arXiv:2608.29596v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous large language model (LLM) agents increasingly face reliability, context consumption, and execution stability bottlenecks when deployed on c...
arXiv:2607.15542v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: On-the-fly reconstruction is a key requirement for many applications in robotics and autonomous navigation. Variational Bayes Gaussian Splatting (V...
arXiv:2608.31029v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving models plan future trajectories from raw sensor input. While earlier driving benchmarks often measured deviation from t...
arXiv:2608.30804v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Monitoring the health of heterogeneous industrial robot fleets is severely challenged by the multi-modal nature of their operational cycles and a persi...
arXiv:2608.28778v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous vehicles (AVs) rely on accurate camera-LiDAR calibration for multimodal sensor fusion. In practice, calibration can drift due to vibration...
arXiv:2608.29923v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) relies on vision-language alignment to recognize arbitrary text-defined categories, yet this alignment i...