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ICLR: In-Context Imitation Learning with Visual Reasoning

Toan Nguyen, Weiduo Yuan, Songlin Wei, Hui Li, Daniel Seita, Yue Wang ยท 2026

In-context imitation learning enables robots to adapt to new tasks from a small number of demonstrations without additional training. However, existing approaches typically condition only on state-actโ€ฆ

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InterReal: A Unified Physics-Based Imitation Framework for Learning Human-Object Interaction Skills

Dayang Liang, Yuhang Lin, Xinzhe Liu, Jiyuan Shi, Yunlong Liu, Chenjia Bai ยท 2026

Interaction is one of the core abilities of humanoid robots. However, most existing frameworks focus on non-interactive whole-body control, which limits their practical applicability. In this work, weโ€ฆ

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HSC-VLA: Hierarchical Scene-Clearing for Robust Bimanual Manipulation in Dense Clutter

Zhen Liu, Xinyu Ning, Zhe Hu, XinXin Xie, Yitong Liu, Zhongzhu Pu ยท 2026

Modern Vision--Language--Action models often suffer from critical instruction-following failures in high-density manipulation environments, where task-irrelevant visual clutter dilutes attention, corrโ€ฆ

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GSAT: Geometric Traversability Estimation using Self-supervised Learning with Anomaly Detection for Diverse Terrains

Dongjin Cho, Miryeong Park, Juhui Lee, Geonmo Yang, Younggun Cho ยท 2026

Safe autonomous navigation requires reliable estimation of environmental traversability. Traditional methods have relied on semantic or geometry-based approaches with human-defined thresholds, but theโ€ฆ

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Machine Learning for the Internet of Underwater Things: From Fundamentals to Implementation

Kenechi Omeke, Attai Abubakar, Michael Mollel, Lei Zhang, Qammer H. Abbasi, Muhammad Ali Imran ยท 2026

The Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) is becoming a critical infrastructure for ocean observation, marine resource management, and climate science. Its development is hindered by severe acoustic atโ€ฆ

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Underwater Embodied Intelligence for Autonomous Robots: A Constraint-Coupled Perspective on Planning, Control, and Deployment

Jingzehua Xu, Guanwen Xie, Jiwei Tang, Shuai Zhang, Xiaofan Li ยท 2026

Autonomous underwater robots are increasingly deployed for environmental monitoring, infrastructure inspection, subsea resource exploration, and long-horizon exploration. Yet, despite rapid advances iโ€ฆ

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A Distributed Gaussian Process Model for Multi-Robot Mapping

Seth Nabarro, Mark van der Wilk, Andrew J. Davison ยท 2026

We propose DistGP: a multi-robot learning method for collaborative learning of a global function using only local experience and computation. We utilise a sparse Gaussian process (GP) model with a facโ€ฆ

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Kinematics-Aware Latent World Models for Data-Efficient Autonomous Driving

Jiazhuo Li, Linjiang Cao, Qi Liu, Xi Xiong ยท 2026

Data-efficient learning remains a central challenge in autonomous driving due to the high cost and safety risks of large-scale real-world interaction. Although world-model-based reinforcement learningโ€ฆ

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Reinforcement Learning for Vehicle-to-Grid Voltage Regulation: Single-Hub to Multi-Hub Coordination with Battery-Aware Constraints

Jingbo Wang, Roshni Anna Jacob, Harshal D. Kaushik, Jie Zhang ยท 2026

This paper presents a Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) coordination framework using reinforcement learning (RL). {An intelligent control strategy based on the soft actor-critic algorithm is developed for voltageโ€ฆ

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Vision-Guided MPPI for Agile Drone Racing: Navigating Arbitrary Gate Poses via Neural Signed Distance Fields

Fangguo Zhao, Hanbing Zhang, Zhouheng Li, Xin Guan, Shuo Li ยท 2026

Autonomous drone racing requires the tight coupling of perception, planning, and control under extreme agility. However, recent approaches typically rely on precomputed spatial reference trajectories โ€ฆ

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RoTri-Diff: A Spatial Robot-Object Triadic Interaction-Guided Diffusion Model for Bimanual Manipulation

Zixuan Chen, Nga Teng Chan, Yiwen Hou, Chenrui Tie, Zixuan Liu, Haonan Chen, Junting Chen, Jieqi Shi, Yang Gao, Jing Huo, Lin Shao ยท 2026

Bimanual manipulation is a fundamental robotic skill that requires continuous and precise coordination between two arms. While imitation learning (IL) is the dominant paradigm for acquiring this capabโ€ฆ

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DexKnot: Generalizable Visuomotor Policy Learning for Dexterous Bag-Knotting Manipulation

Jiayuan Zhang, Ruihai Wu, Haojun Chen, Yuran Wang, Yifan Zhong, Ceyao Zhang, Yaodong Yang, Yuanpei Chen ยท 2026

Knotting plastic bags is a common task in daily life, yet it is challenging for robots due to the bags' infinite degrees of freedom and complex physical dynamics. Existing methods often struggle in geโ€ฆ

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Efficient Trajectory Optimization for Autonomous Racing via Formula-1 Data-Driven Initialization

Samir Shehadeh, Lukas Kutsch, Nils Dengler, Sicong Pan, Maren Bennewitz ยท 2026

Trajectory optimization is a central component of fast and efficient autonomous racing. However practical optimization pipelines remain highly sensitive to initialization and may converge slowly or toโ€ฆ

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Learning From Failures: Efficient Reinforcement Learning Control with Episodic Memory

Chenyang Miao ยท 2026

Reinforcement learning has achieved remarkable success in robot learning. However, under challenging exploration and contact-rich dynamics, early-stage training is frequently dominated by premature teโ€ฆ

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Towards Scalable Probabilistic Human Motion Prediction with Gaussian Processes for Safe Human-Robot Collaboration

Jinger Chong, Xiaotong Zhang, Kamal Youcef-Toumi ยท 2026

Accurate human motion prediction with well-calibrated uncertainty is critical for safe human-robot collaboration (HRC), where robots must anticipate and react to human movements in real time. We propoโ€ฆ

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Statistical Contraction for Chance-Constrained Trajectory Optimization of Non-Gaussian Stochastic Systems

Rihan Aaron D'Silva, Hiroyasu Tsukamoto ยท 2026

This paper presents novel method for distribution-free robust trajectory optimization and control of discrete-time, nonlinear, and non-Gaussian stochastic systems, with closed-loop guarantees on chancโ€ฆ

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Morphology-Independent Facial Expression Imitation for Human-Face Robots

Xu Chen, Rui Gao, Che Sun, Zhehang Liu, Yuwei Wu, Shuo Yang, Yunde Jia ยท 2026

Accurate facial expression imitation on human-face robots is crucial for achieving natural human-robot interaction. Most existing methods have achieved photorealistic expression imitation through mappโ€ฆ

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Joint Inverse Learning of Cognitive Radar Perception and Perception-Action Policy

Anoop C V, Anup Aprem ยท 2026

Cognitive Radars (CRs) employ perception-action cycle to adapt their sensing and transmission strategies based on its' perception of the target kinematic states and mission objectives. This paper consโ€ฆ

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SSP: Safety-guaranteed Surgical Policy via Joint Optimization of Behavioral and Spatial Constraints

Jianshu Hu, ZhiYuan Guan, Lei Song, Kantaphat Leelakunwet, Hesheng Wang, Wei Xiao, Qi Dou, Yutong Ban ยท 2026

The paradigm of robot-assisted surgery is shifting toward data-driven autonomy, where policies learned via Reinforcement Learning (RL) or Imitation Learning (IL) enable the execution of complex tasks.โ€ฆ

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Foundational World Models Accurately Detect Bimanual Manipulator Failures

Isaac R. Ward, Michelle Ho, Houjun Liu, Aaron Feldman, Joseph Vincent, Liam Kruse, Sean Cheong, Duncan Eddy, Mykel J. Kochenderfer, Mac Schwager ยท 2026

Deploying visuomotor robots at scale is challenging due to the potential for anomalous failures to degrade performance, cause damage, or endanger human life. Bimanual manipulators are no exception; thโ€ฆ

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