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SCDP: Learning Humanoid Locomotion from Partial Observations via Mixed-Observation Distillation

Milo Carroll, Tianhu Peng, Lingfan Bao, Chengxu Zhou, Zhibin Li ยท 2026

Distilling humanoid locomotion control from offline datasets into deployable policies remains a challenge, as existing methods rely on privileged full-body states that require complex and often unreliโ€ฆ

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ReTac-ACT: A State-Gated Vision-Tactile Fusion Transformer for Precision Assembly

Minchi Ruan, LiangQing Zhou, Hongtong Li, Zongtao Wang, ZhaoMing Lu, Jianwei Zhang, Bin Fang ยท 2026

Precision assembly requires sub-millimeter corrections in contact-rich "last-millimeter" regions where visual feedback fails due to occlusion from the end-effector and workpiece. We present ReTac-ACT โ€ฆ

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Trajectory Optimization for Self-Wrap-Aware Cable-Towed Planar Object Manipulation under Implicit Tension Constraints

Yu Li, Amin Fakhari, Hamid Sadeghian ยท 2026

Cable/rope elements are pervasive in deformable-object manipulation, often serving as a deformable force-transmission medium whose routing and contact determine how wrenches are delivered. In cable-toโ€ฆ

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NS-VLA: Towards Neuro-Symbolic Vision-Language-Action Models

Ziyue Zhu, Shangyang Wu, Shuai Zhao, Zhiqiu Zhao, Shengjie Li, Yi Wang, Fang Li, Haoran Luo ยท 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are formulated to ground instructions in visual context and generate action sequences for robotic manipulation. Despite recent progress, VLA models still face challโ€ฆ

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StyleVLA: Driving Style-Aware Vision Language Action Model for Autonomous Driving

Yuan Gao, Dengyuan Hua, Mattia Piccinini, Finn Rasmus Schafer, Korbinian Moller, Lin Li, Johannes Betz ยท 2026

Vision Language Models (VLMs) bridge visual perception and linguistic reasoning. In Autonomous Driving (AD), this synergy has enabled Vision Language Action (VLA) models, which translate high-level muโ€ฆ

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SEA-Nav: Efficient Policy Learning for Safe and Agile Quadruped Navigation in Cluttered Environments

Shiyi Chen, Mingye Yang, Haiyan Mao, Jiaqi Zhang, Haiyi Liu, Shuheng He, Debing Zhang, Zihao Qiu, Chun Zhang ยท 2026

Efficiently training quadruped robot navigation in densely cluttered environments remains a significant challenge. Existing methods are either limited by a lack of safety and agility in simple obstaclโ€ฆ

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CORAL: Scalable Multi-Task Robot Learning via LoRA Experts

Yuankai Luo, Woping Chen, Tong Liang, Zhenguo Li ยท 2026

Deploying Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models in real-world robotics exposes a core multi-task learning challenge: reconciling task interference in multi-task robotic learning. When multiple tasks areโ€ฆ

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MO-Playground: Massively Parallelized Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning for Robotics

Neil Janwani, Ellen Novoseller, Vernon J. Lawhern, Maegan Tucker ยท 2026

Multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) is a powerful tool to learn Pareto-optimal policy families across conflicting objectives. However, unlike traditional RL algorithms, existing MORL algoritโ€ฆ

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TRIP-Bag: A Portable Teleoperation System for Plug-and-Play Robotic Arms and Leaders

Noboru Myers, Sankalp Yamsani, Obin Kwon, Joohyung Kim ยท 2026

Large scale, diverse demonstration data for manipulation tasks remains a major challenge in learning-based robot policies. Existing in-the-wild data collection approaches often rely on vision-based poโ€ฆ

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Embodied Human Simulation for Quantitative Design and Analysis of Interactive Robotics

Chenhui Zuo, Jinhao Xu, Michael Qian Vergnolle, Yanan Sui ยท 2026

Physical interactive robotics, ranging from wearable devices to collaborative humanoid robots, require close coordination between mechanical design and control. However, evaluating interactive dynamicโ€ฆ

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Acoustic and Semantic Modeling of Emotion in Spoken Language

Soumya Dutta ยท 2026

Emotions play a central role in human communication, shaping trust, engagement, and social interaction. As artificial intelligence systems powered by large language models become increasingly integratโ€ฆ

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WESPR: Wind-adaptive Energy-Efficient Safe Perception & Planning for Robust Flight with Quadrotors

Khuzema Habib, Pranav Deshakulkarni Manjunath, Kasra Torshizi, Troi Williams, Pratap Tokekar ยท 2026

Local wind conditions strongly influence drone performance: headwinds increase flight time, crosswinds and wind shear hinder agility in cluttered spaces, while tailwinds reduce travel time. Although aโ€ฆ

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Differentiable Stochastic Traffic Dynamics: Physics-Informed Generative Modelling in Transportation

Wuping Xin ยท 2026

Macroscopic traffic flow is stochastic, but the physics-informed deep learning methods currently used in transportation literature embed deterministic PDEs and produce point-valued outputs; the stochaโ€ฆ

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ZeroWBC: Learning Natural Visuomotor Humanoid Control Directly from Human Egocentric Video

Haoran Yang, Jiacheng Bao, Yucheng Xin, Haoming Song, Yuyang Tian, Bin Zhao, Dong Wang, Xuelong Li ยท 2026

Achieving versatile and naturalistic whole-body control for humanoid robot scene-interaction remains a significant challenge. While some recent works have demonstrated autonomous humanoid interactive โ€ฆ

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SPAN-Nav: Generalized Spatial Awareness for Versatile Vision-Language Navigation

Jiahang Liu, Tianyu Xu, Jiawei Chen, Lu Yue, Jiazhao Zhang, Zhiyong Wang, Minghan Li, Qisheng Zhao, Anqi Li, Qi Su, Zhizheng Zhang, He Wang ยท 2026

Recent embodied navigation approaches leveraging Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate strong generalization in versatile Vision-Language Navigation (VLN). However, reliable path planning in complโ€ฆ

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Walking on Rough Terrain with Any Number of Legs

Zhuoyang Chen, Xinyuan Wang, Shai Revzen ยท 2026

Robotics would gain by replicating the remarkable agility of arthropods in navigating complex environments. Here we consider the control of multi-legged systems which have 6 or more legs. Current multโ€ฆ

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DexHiL: A Human-in-the-Loop Framework for Vision-Language-Action Model Post-Training in Dexterous Manipulation

Yifan Han, Zhongxi Chen, Yuxuan Zhao, Congsheng Xu, Yanming Shao, Yichuan Peng, Yao Mu, Wenzhao Lian ยท 2026

While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated promising generalization capabilities in robotic manipulation, deploying them on specific and complex downstream tasks still demands effectiโ€ฆ

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M2Diff: Multi-Modality Multi-Task Enhanced Diffusion Model for MRI-Guided Low-Dose PET Enhancement

Ghulam Nabi Ahmad Hassan Yar, Himashi Peiris, Victoria Mar, Cameron Dennis Pain, Zhaolin Chen ยท 2026

Positron emission tomography (PET) scans expose patients to radiation, which can be mitigated by reducing the dose, albeit at the cost of diminished quality. This makes low-dose (LD) PET recovery an aโ€ฆ

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High-Slip-Ratio Control for Peak Tire-Road Friction Estimation Using Automated Vehicles

Zhaohui Liang, Hang Zhou, Heye Huanh, Xiaopeng Li ยท 2026

Accurate estimation of the tire-road friction coefficient (TRFC) is critical for ensuring safe vehicle control, especially under adverse road conditions. However, most existing methods rely on naturalโ€ฆ

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Quality over Quantity: Demonstration Curation via Influence Functions for Data-Centric Robot Learning

Haeone Lee, Taywon Min, Junsu Kim, Sinjae Kang, Fangchen Liu, Lerrel Pinto, Kimin Lee ยท 2026

Learning from demonstrations has emerged as a promising paradigm for end-to-end robot control, particularly when scaled to diverse and large datasets. However, the quality of demonstration data, oftenโ€ฆ

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