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DexEXO: A Wearability-First Dexterous Exoskeleton for Operator-Agnostic Demonstration and Learning

Alvin Zhu, Mingzhang Zhu, Beom Jun Kim, Jose Victor S. H. Ramos, Yike Shi, Yufeng Wu, Raayan Dhar, Fuyi Yang, Ruochen Hou, Hanzhang Fang, Quanyou Wang, Yuchen Cui, Dennis W. Hong ยท 2026

Scaling dexterous robot learning is constrained by the difficulty of collecting high-quality demonstrations across diverse operators. Existing wearable interfaces often trade comfort and cross-user adโ€ฆ

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SLAM Adversarial Lab: An Extensible Framework for Visual SLAM Robustness Evaluation under Adverse Conditions

Mohamed Hefny, Karthik Dantu, Steven Y. Ko ยท 2026

We present SAL (SLAM Adversarial Lab), a modular framework for evaluating visual SLAM systems under adversarial conditions such as fog and rain. SAL represents each adversarial condition as a perturbaโ€ฆ

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Quality assessment of brain structural MR images: Comparing generalization of deep learning versus hand-crafted feature-based machine learning methods to new sites

Prabhjot Kaur, John S. Thornton, Frederik Barkhof, Tarek A. Yousry, Sjoerd B. Vos, Hui Zhang ยท 2026

Quality assessment of brain structural MR images is critical for large-scale neuroimaging studies, where motion artifacts can significantly bias clinical estimates. While visual rating remains the golโ€ฆ

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MolmoB0T: Large-Scale Simulation Enables Zero-Shot Manipulation

Abhay Deshpande, Maya Guru, Rose Hendrix, Snehal Jauhri, Ainaz Eftekhar, Rohun Tripathi, Max Argus, Jordi Salvador, Haoquan Fang, Matthew Wallingford, Wilbert Pumacay, Yejin Kim, Quinn Pfeifer, Ying-Chun Lee, Piper Wolters, Omar Rayyan, Mingtong Zhang, Jiafei Duan, Karen Farley, Winson Han, Eli Vanderbilt, Dieter Fox, Ali Farhadi, Georgia Chalvatzaki, Dhruv Shah, Ranjay Krishna ยท 2026

A prevailing view in robot learning is that simulation alone is not enough; effective sim-to-real transfer is widely believed to require at least some real-world data collection or task-specific fine-โ€ฆ

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DreamPlan: Efficient Reinforcement Fine-Tuning of Vision-Language Planners via Video World Models

Emily Yue-Ting Jia, Weiduo Yuan, Tianheng Shi, Vitor Guizilini, Jiageng Mao, Yue Wang ยท 2026

Robotic manipulation requires sophisticated commonsense reasoning, a capability naturally possessed by large-scale Vision-Language Models (VLMs). While VLMs show promise as zero-shot planners, their lโ€ฆ

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Real-Time Decoding of Movement Onset and Offset for Brain-Controlled Rehabilitation Exoskeleton

Kanishka Mitra, Satyam Kumar, Frigyes Samuel Racz, Deland Liu, Ashish D. Deshpande, Jose del R. Millan ยท 2026

Robot-assisted therapy can deliver high-dose, task-specific training after neurologic injury, but most systems act primarily at the limb level-engaging the impaired neural circuits only indirectly-whiโ€ฆ

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Deep Learning-Driven Black-Box Doherty Power Amplifier with Pixelated Output Combiner and Extended Efficiency Range

Han Zhou, Haojie Chang, David Widen ยท 2026

This article presents a deep learning-driven inverse design methodology for Doherty power amplifiers (PA) with multi-port pixelated output combiner networks. A deep convolutional neural network (CNN) โ€ฆ

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Rewarding DINO: Predicting Dense Rewards with Vision Foundation Models

Pierre Krack, Tobias Julg, Wolfram Burgard, Florian Walter ยท 2026

Well-designed dense reward functions in robot manipulation not only indicate whether a task is completed but also encode progress along the way. Generally, designing dense rewards is challenging and uโ€ฆ

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Agile Interception of a Flying Target using Competitive Reinforcement Learning

Timothee Gavin (ENAC-LAB, LAAS-RIS), Simon Lacroix (LAAS-RIS), Murat Bronz (ENAC) ยท 2026

This article presents a solution to intercept an agile drone by another agile drone carrying a catching net. We formulate the interception as a Competitive Reinforcement Learning problem, where the inโ€ฆ

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CorrectionPlanner: Self-Correction Planner with Reinforcement Learning in Autonomous Driving

Yihong Guo, Dongqiangzi Ye, Sijia Chen, Anqi Liu, Xianming Liu ยท 2026

Autonomous driving requires safe planning, but most learning-based planners lack explicit self-correction ability: once an unsafe action is proposed, there is no mechanism to correct it. Thus, we propโ€ฆ

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You've Got a Golden Ticket: Improving Generative Robot Policies With A Single Noise Vector

Omkar Patil, Ondrej Biza, Thomas Weng, Karl Schmeckpeper, Wil Thomason, Xiaohan Zhang, Robin Walters, Nakul Gopalan, Sebastian Castro, Eric Rosen ยท 2026

What happens when a pretrained generative robot policy is provided a constant initial noise as input, rather than repeatedly sampling it from a Gaussian? We demonstrate that the performance of a pretrโ€ฆ

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NavThinker: Action-Conditioned World Models for Coupled Prediction and Planning in Social Navigation

Tianshuai Hu, Zeying Gong, Lingdong Kong, XiaoDong Mei, Yiyi Ding, Qi Zeng, Ao Liang, Rong Li, Yangyi Zhong, Junwei Liang ยท 2026

Social navigation requires robots to act safely in dynamic human environments. Effective behavior demands thinking ahead: reasoning about how the scene and pedestrians evolve under different robot actโ€ฆ

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HapticVLA: Contact-Rich Manipulation via Vision-Language-Action Model without Inference-Time Tactile Sensing

Konstantin Gubernatorov, Mikhail Sannikov, Ilya Mikhalchuk, Egor Kuznetsov, Makar Artemov, Ogunwoye Faith Ouwatobi, Marcelino Fernando, Artem Asanov, Ziang Guo, Dzmitry Tsetserukou ยท 2026

Tactile sensing is a crucial capability for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) architectures, as it enables dexterous and safe manipulation in contact-rich tasks. However, reliance on dedicated tactile hardโ€ฆ

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NavGSim: High-Fidelity Gaussian Splatting Simulator for Large-Scale Navigation

Jiahang Liu, Yuanxing Duan, Jiazhao Zhang, Minghan Li, Shaoan Wang, Zhizheng Zhang, He Wang ยท 2026

Simulating realistic environments for robots is widely recognized as a critical challenge in robot learning, particularly in terms of rendering and physical simulation. This challenge becomes even morโ€ฆ

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Vision-Language Model Based Multi-Expert Fusion for CT Image Classification

Jianfa Bai, Kejin Lu, Runtian Yuan, Qingqiu Li, Jilan Xu, Junlin Hou, Yuejie Zhang, Rui Feng ยท 2026

Robust detection of COVID-19 from chest CT remains challenging in multi-institutional settings due to substantial source shift, source imbalance, and hidden test-source identities. In this work, we prโ€ฆ

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LLMs and Speech: Integration vs. Combination

Robin Schmitt, Albert Zeyer, Mohammad Zeineldeen, Ralf Schluter, Hermann Ney ยท 2026

In this work, we study how to best utilize pre-trained LLMs for automatic speech recognition. Specifically, we compare the tight integration of an acoustic model (AM) with the LLM ("speech LLM") to thโ€ฆ

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Transformers As Generalizable Optimal Controllers

Turki Bin Mohaya, Maitham F. AL-Sunni, John M. Dolan, Peter Seiler ยท 2026

We study whether optimal state-feedback laws for a family of heterogeneous Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output (MIMO) Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) systems can be captured by a single learned controller. Weโ€ฆ

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A Novel Framework using Intuitionistic Fuzzy Logic with U-Net and U-Net++ Architecture: A case Study of MRI Bain Image Segmentation

Hanuman Verma, Kiho Im, Akshansh Gupta, M. Tanveer ยท 2026

Accurate segmentation of brain images from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans plays a pivotal role in brain image analysis and the diagnosis of neurological disorders. Deep learning algorithms, paโ€ฆ

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Predicting power grid frequency dynamics with invertible Koopman-based architectures

Eric Lupascu, Xiao Li, Benjamin Schafer ยท 2026

The system frequency is a critical measure of power system stability and understanding, and modeling it are key to ensure reliable power system operations. Koopman-based autoencoders are effective at โ€ฆ

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Stiffness Copilot: An Impedance Policy for Contact-Rich Teleoperation

Yeping Wang, Zhengtong Xu, Pornthep Preechayasomboon, Ben Abbatematteo, Amirhossein H. Memar, Nick Colonnese, Sonny Chan ยท 2026

In teleoperation of contact-rich manipulation tasks, selecting robot impedance is critical but difficult. The robot must be compliant to avoid damaging the environment, but stiff to remain responsive โ€ฆ

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