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Cutting the Cord: System Architecture for Low-Cost, GPU-Accelerated Bimanual Mobile Manipulation

Artemis Shaw, Chen Liu, Justin Costa, Rane Gray, Alina Skowronek, Kevin Diaz, Nam Bui, Nikolaus Correll ยท 2026

We present a bimanual mobile manipulator built on the open-source XLeRobot with integrated onboard compute for less than \$1300. Key contributions include: (1) optimized mechanical design maximizing sโ€ฆ

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Beyond Amplitude: Channel State Information Phase-Aware Deep Fusion for Robotic Activity Recognition

Rojin Zandi, Hojjat Salehinejad, Milad Siami ยท 2026

Wi-Fi Channel State Information (CSI) has emerged as a promising non-line-of-sight sensing modality for human and robotic activity recognition. However, prior work has predominantly relied on CSI amplโ€ฆ

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Robust Wildfire Forecasting under Partial Observability: From Reconstruction to Prediction

Chen Yang, Mehdi Zafari, Ziheng Duan, A. Lee Swindlehurst ยท 2026

Satellite-derived fire observations are the primary input for learning-based wildfire spread prediction, yet they are inherently incomplete due to cloud cover, smoke obscuration, and sensor artifacts.โ€ฆ

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ImpedanceDiffusion: Diffusion-Based Global Path Planning for UAV Swarm Navigation with Generative Impedance Control

Faryal Batool, Yasheerah Yaqoot, Muhammad Ahsan Mustafa, Roohan Ahmed Khan, Aleksey Fedoseev, Dzmitry Tsetserukou ยท 2026

Safe swarm navigation in cluttered indoor environment requires long-horizon planning, reactive obstacle avoidance, and adaptive compliance. We propose ImpedanceDiffusion, a hierarchical framework thatโ€ฆ

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PlayWorld: Learning Robot World Models from Autonomous Play

Tenny Yin, Zhiting Mei, Zhonghe Zheng, Miyu Yamane, David Wang, Jade Sceats, Samuel M. Bateman, Lihan Zha, Apurva Badithela, Ola Shorinwa, Anirudha Majumdar ยท 2026

Action-conditioned video models offer a promising path to building general-purpose robot simulators that can improve directly from data. Yet, despite training on large-scale robot datasets, current stโ€ฆ

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Improving through Interaction: Searching Behavioral Representation Spaces with CMA-ES-IG

Nathaniel Dennler, Zhonghao Shi, Yiran Tao, Andreea Bobu, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Maja Mataric ยท 2026

Robots that interact with humans must adapt to individual users' preferences to operate effectively in human-centered environments. An intuitive and effective technique to learn non-expert users' prefโ€ฆ

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Universal Speech Content Factorization

Henry Li Xinyuan, Zexin Cai, Lin Zhang, Leibny Paola Garcia-Perera, Berrak Sisman, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Nicholas Andrews, Matthew Wiesner ยท 2026

We propose Universal Speech Content Factorization (USCF), a simple and invertible linear method for extracting a low-rank speech representation in which speaker timbre is suppressed while phonetic conโ€ฆ

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FAME: Force-Adaptive RL for Expanding the Manipulation Envelope of a Full-Scale Humanoid

Niraj Pudasaini, Yutong Zhang, Jensen Lavering, Alessandro Roncone, Nikolaus Correll ยท 2026

Maintaining balance under external hand forces is critical for humanoid bimanual manipulation, where interaction forces propagate through the kinematic chain and constrain the feasible manipulation enโ€ฆ

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Model-Free Co-Optimization of Manufacturable Sensor Layouts and Deformation Proprioception

Yingjun Tian, Guoxin Fang, Aoran Lyu, Xilong Wang, Zikang Shi, Yuhu Guo, Weiming Wang, Charlie C.L. Wang ยท 2026

Flexible sensors are increasingly employed in soft robotics and wearable devices to provide proprioception of freeform deformations.Although supervised learning can train shape predictors from sensor โ€ฆ

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Adaptive SINDy: Residual Force System Identification Based UAV Disturbance Rejection

Fawad Mehboob, Amir Atef Habel, Roohan Ahmed Khan, Mikhail Derevianchenko, Clement Fortin, Dzmitry Tsetserukou ยท 2026

The stability and control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in a turbulent environment is a matter of great concern. Devising a robust control algorithm to reject disturbances is challenging due to tโ€ฆ

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APPLV: Adaptive Planner Parameter Learning from Vision-Language-Action Model

Yuanjie Lu, Beichen Wang, Zhengqi Wu, Yang Li, Xiaomin Lin, Chengzhi Mao, Xuesu Xiao ยท 2026

Autonomous navigation in highly constrained environments remains challenging for mobile robots. Classical navigation approaches offer safety assurances but require environment-specific parameter tuninโ€ฆ

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Embedding Classical Balance Control Principles in Reinforcement Learning for Humanoid Recovery

Nehar Poddar, Stephen McCrory, Luigi Penco, Geoffrey Clark, Hakki Erhan Svil, Robert Griffin ยท 2026

Humanoid robots remain vulnerable to falls and unrecoverable failure states, limiting their practical utility in unstructured environments. While reinforcement learning has demonstrated stand-up behavโ€ฆ

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Diff-Muscle: Efficient Learning for Musculoskeletal Robotic Table Tennis

Wentao Zhao, Jun Guo, Kangyao Huang, Xin Liu, Huaping Liu ยท 2026

Musculoskeletal robots provide superior advantages in flexibility and dexterity, positioning them as a promising frontier towards embodied intelligence. However, current research is largely confined tโ€ฆ

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MetaWorld-X: Hierarchical World Modeling via VLM-Orchestrated Experts for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

Yutong Shen, Hangxu Liu, Penghui Liu, Jiashuo Luo, Yongkang Zhang, Rex Morvley, Chen Jiang, Jianwei Zhang, Lei Zhang ยท 2026

Learning natural, stable, and compositionally generalizable whole-body control policies for humanoid robots performing simultaneous locomotion and manipulation (loco-manipulation) remains a fundamentaโ€ฆ

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CONTACT: CONtact-aware TACTile Learning for Robotic Disassembly

Yosuke Saka, Jyun-Chi Hu, Adeesh Desai, Zhiyuan Zhang, Bihao Zhang, Quan Khanh Luu, Md Rakibul Islam Prince, Minghui Zheng, Yu She ยท 2026

Robotic disassembly involves contact-rich interactions in which successful manipulation depends not only on geometric alignment but also on force-dependent state transitions. While vision-based policiโ€ฆ

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The Neural Compass: Probabilistic Relative Feature Fields for Robotic Search

Gabriele Somaschini, Adrian Rofer, Abhinav Valada ยท 2026

Object co-occurrences provide a key cue for finding objects successfully and efficiently in unfamiliar environments. Typically, one looks for cups in kitchens and views fridges as evidence of being inโ€ฆ

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EquiBim: Learning Symmetry-Equivariant Policy for Bimanual Manipulation

Zhiyuan Zhang, Aditya Mohan, Seungho Han, Wan Shou, Dongyi Wang, Yu She ยท 2026

Robotic imitation learning has achieved impressive success in learning complex manipulation behaviors from demonstrations. However, many existing robot learning methods do not explicitly account for tโ€ฆ

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CRED: Counterfactual Reasoning and Environment Design for Active Preference Learning

Yi-Shiuan Tung, Gyanig Kumar, Wei Jiang, Bradley Hayes, Alessandro Roncone ยท 2026

As a robot's operational environment and tasks to perform within it grow in complexity, the explicit specification and balancing of optimization objectives to achieve a preferred behavior profile moveโ€ฆ

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3PoinTr: 3D Point Tracks for Robot Manipulation Pretraining from Casual Videos

Adam Hung, Bardienus Pieter Duisterhof, Jeffrey Ichnowski ยท 2026

Data-efficient training of robust robot policies is the key to unlocking automation in a wide array of novel tasks. Current systems require large volumes of demonstrations to achieve robustness, whichโ€ฆ

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STRIDE: Structured Lagrangian and Stochastic Residual Dynamics via Flow Matching

Prakrut Kotecha, Ganga Nair B, Shishir Kolathaya ยท 2026

Robotic systems operating in unstructured environments must operate under significant uncertainty arising from intermittent contacts, frictional variability, and unmodeled compliance. While recent modโ€ฆ

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