Manipulation, locomotion, sim-to-real transfer and autonomous driving: learning systems that have to survive physics.
arXiv:2606. 07437v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The ISO 26262 standard defines functional safety for road vehicles through risk assessments based on Severity, Exposure, and Controllability, grounded in a human-driven vehicle paradigm.
arXiv:2606. 07211v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous robotic systems are being proposed for use in hazardous environments, often to reduce the risks to human workers.
arXiv:2606. 06627v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human video datasets used for cotraining robot manipulation policies largely consist of curated demonstrations where motions are orchestrated to resemble robot behavior and 3D hand poses are captured with specialized hardware.
arXiv:2606. 06872v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Estimating hand-surface contact pressure from an egocentric view is crucial for AR/VR devices, robotic imitation, and ergonomic analysis.
arXiv:2605. 08732v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern vision-based world models can represent observations as compact yet expressive latent manifolds, but fast goal-oriented planning in these spaces remains challenging.
arXiv:2603. 24576v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robots often observe information that determines a future action long before that action is executed.
arXiv:2605. 24011v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models exhibit remarkable action generation for embodied intelligence, but their heavy compute make deployment on edge platforms impractical.
arXiv:2606. 06761v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visuomotor manipulation policies trained via large-scale behavior cloning have achieved strong semantic scene understanding, yet often fail to reliably execute correct low-level actions under distribution shifts.
arXiv:2606. 06877v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Task planning often suffers from severe efficiency bottlenecks when robots must reason over long-horizon action sequences under complex logical constraints, including object affordances, spatial relationships, and sequential action dependencies.
arXiv:2606. 07383v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong potential for robotic manipulation, but real-time deployment on edge hardware remains challenging.
arXiv:2606. 06765v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Establishing quantitative relationships among mix design, raw material properties, curing conditions, and performance remains a long-standing challenge in cementitious materials, particularly for alkali-activated materials with variable precursor and activator chemistry.
arXiv:2601. 21288v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous driving is an important and safety-critical task, and recent advances in LLMs/VLMs have opened new possibilities for reasoning and planning in this domain.
arXiv:2606. 06041v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As robotic systems become more sophisticated, the growing complexity of their motion planning models and the longer training times pose substantial challenges.
arXiv:2606. 05395v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reusable robot skills are becoming the basic units through which embodied agents turn open-ended instructions into long-horizon physical behavior.
arXiv:2606. 05779v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous spacecraft require rapid, lightweight, and reliable onboard detection of cyber-RF threats.
arXiv:2606. 06147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown promise in UAV navigation.
arXiv:2606. 06322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: GUI agents - vision-based models that control desktops, web browsers, and mobile devices through graphical user interfaces - promise to automate a wide range of digital tasks.
arXiv:2604. 12474v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In many robotic tasks, agents must traverse a sequence of spatial regions to complete a mission.
arXiv:2606. 05979v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose world-language-action (WLA) models as a new class of embodied foundation models.
arXiv:2606. 06396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving technology has the potential to reduce the large number of road traffic accidents caused by human error each year, but it also brings new types of risks that need to be evaluated from the aspects of technology, ethics and regulations.