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 6

Retrieval-Augmented Generation Must Move Beyond Factual Grounding to Represent Diverse Opinions

arXiv:2604. 12138v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This position paper argues that Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems exhibit a systematic factual bias-optimizing for epistemic uncertainty reduction while ignoring the aleatoric uncertainty inherent in opinion-rich content - and that this misalignment demands a paradigm shift in retrieval system design.

By Aditya Agrawal, Alwarappan Nakkiran, Darshan Fofadiya, Alex Karlsson, Harsha Aduri
arXiv AI
Jun 6

Output Type Before Quality: A Standards-Derived XAI Admissibility Rubric for Autonomous-Driving Safety

arXiv:2606. 05461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety standards for ML-based autonomous driving specify the kind of evidence an assurance case must contain (directed cause-and-effect chains, quantified interventional effects, named root-cause variables), yet the XAI literature is organised by output type and technique family (saliency maps, feature attribution, counterfactuals, causal graphs, language traces).

By Abhinaw Priyadershi, Mandar Pitale, Jelena Frtunikj, Maria Spence
arXiv AI
Jun 6

Open-H-Embodiment: A Large-Scale Dataset for Enabling Foundation Models in Medical Robotics

arXiv:2604. 21017v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous medical robots hold promise to improve patient outcomes, reduce provider workload, democratize access to care, and enable superhuman precision.

By Open-H-Embodiment Consortium, :, Nigel Nelson, Juo-Tung Chen, Jesse Haworth, Xinhao Chen, Lukas Zbinden, Dianye Huang, Alaa Eldin Abdelaal, Alberto Arezzo, Ayberk Acar, Farshid Alambeigi, Carlo Alberto Ammirati, Yunke Ao, Pablo David Aranda Rodriguez, Soofiyan Atar, Mattia Ballo, Noah Barnes, Federica Barontini, Filip Binkiewicz, Peter Black, Sebastian Bodenstedt, Leonardo Borgioli, Nikola Budjak, Benjamin Calm\'e, Fabio Carrillo, Nicola Cavalcanti, Changwei Chen, Haoxin Chen, Sihang Chen, Qihan Chen, Zhongyu Chen, Ziyang Chen, Shing Shin Cheng, Meiqing Cheng, Min Cheng, Zih-Yun Sarah Chiu, Xiangyu Chu, Camilo Correa-Gallego, Giulio Dagnino, Anton Deguet, Jacob Delgado, Jonathan C. DeLong, Kaizhong Deng, Alexander Dimitrakakis, Qingpeng Ding, Hao Ding, Giovanni Distefano, Daniel Donoho, Anqing Duan, Marco Esposito, Shane Farritor, Jad Fayad, Zahi Fayad, Mario Ferradosa, Filippo Filicori, Chelsea Finn, Philipp F\"urnstahl, Jiawei Ge, Stamatia Giannarou, Xavier Giralt Ludevid, Frederic Giraud, Aditya Amit Godbole, Ken Goldberg, Antony Goldenberg, Diego Granero Marana, Xiaoqing Guo, Tam\'as Haidegger, Evan Hailey, Pascal Hansen, Ziyi Hao, Kush Hari, Kengo Hayashi, Jonathon Hawkins, Shelby Haworth, Ortrun Hellig, S. Duke Herrell, Zhouyang Hong, Andrew Howe, Junlei Hu, Zhaoyang Jacopo Hu, Ria Jain, Mohammad Rafiee Javazm, Howard Ji, Rui Ji, Jianmin Ji, Zhongliang Jiang, Dominic Jones, Jeffrey Jopling, Britton Jordan, Ran Ju, Michael Kam, Luoyao Kang, Fausto Kang, Siddhartha Kapuria, Peter Kazanzides, Sonika Kiehler, Ethan Kilmer, Ji Woong Kim, Przemys{\l}aw Korzeniowski, Chandra Kuchi, Nithesh Kumar, Alan Kuntz, Federico Lavagno, Yu Chung Lee, Hao-Chih Lee, Hang Li, Zhen Li, Xiao Liang, Xinxin Lin, Jinsong Lin, Chang Liu, Fei Liu, Pei Liu, Yun-hui Liu, Wanli Liuchen, Eszter Luk\'acs, Sareena Mann, Miles Mannas, Brett Marinelli, Sabina Martyniak, Francesco Marzola, Lorenzo Mazza, Xueyan Mei, Maria Clara Morais, Luigi Muratore, Chetan Reddy Narayanaswamy, Micha{\l} Naskr\k{e}t, David Navarro-Alarcon, Cyrus Neary, Chi Kit Ng, Christopher Nguan, David Noonan, Ki Hwan Oh, Tom Christian Olesch, Allison M. Okamura, Justin Opfermann, Matteo Pescio, Doan Xuan Viet Pham, Tito Porras, Hongliang Ren, Ariel Rodriguez Jimenez, Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena, Septimiu E. Salcudean, Asmitha Sathya, Preethi Satish, Lalithkumar Seenivasan, Jiaqi Shao, Yiqing Shen, Yu Sheng, Lucy XiaoYang Shi, Zoe Soul\'e, Stefanie Speidel, Mingwu Su, Jianhao Su, Idris Sunmola, Krist\'of Tak\'acs, Yunxi Tang, Patrick Thornycroft, Yu Tian, Jordan Thompson, Mehmet K. Turkcan, Mathias Unberath, Pietro Valdastri, Carlos Vives, Quan Vuong, Martin Wagner, Farong Wang, Wei Wang, Lidian Wang, Chung-Pang Wang, Guankun Wang, Junyi Wang, Erqi Wang, Ziyi Wang, Tanner Watts, Wolfgang Wein, Yimeng Wu, Zijian Wu, Hongjun Wu, Luohong Wu, Jie Ying Wu, Junlin Wu, Victoria Wu, Kaixuan Wu, Mateusz W\'ojcikowski, Yunye Xiao, Nan Xiao, Wenxuan Xie, Hao Yang, Tianqi Yang, Yinuo Yang, Menglong Ye, Ryan S. Yeung, Nural Yilmaz, Chim Ho Yin, Michael Yip, Rayan Younis, Chenhao Yu, Sayem Nazmuz Zaman, Milos Zefran, Han Zhang, Yuelin Zhang, Yidong Zhang, Yanyong Zhang, Xuyang Zhang, Yameng Zhang, Joyce Zhang, Ning Zhong, Peng Zhou, Haoying Zhou, Xiuli Zuo, Nassir Navab, Mahdi Azizian, Sean D. Huver, Axel Krieger
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

Merging model-based control with multi-agent reinforcement learning for multi-agent cooperative teaming strategies

arXiv:2606. 06011v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this work, we propose a framework that combines multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) with model-based control to achieve safe, dynamically feasible actions in cooperative multi-agent tasks.

By Christian Llanes, Spencer W. Jensen, Samuel Coogan
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

Learning Manifold and It\^o Dynamics with Branched Neural Rough Differential Equations

arXiv:2606. 05272v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural rough differential equations (NRDEs) stay accurate under irregular sampling while taking far fewer integration steps than standard neural differential equations, summarising a finely sampled driver by its log-signature and advancing the hidden state over coarse intervals using the log-ODE method.

By Luke Thompson, Dai Shi, Lequan Lin, Junbin Gao, Andi Han