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Flying by Inference: Active Inference World Models for Adaptive UAV Swarms

Kaleem Arshid, Ali Krayani, Lucio Marcenaro, David Martin Gomez, Carlo Regazzoni · 2026

This paper presents an expert-guided active-inference-inspired framework for adaptive UAV swarm trajectory planning. The proposed method converts multi-UAV trajectory design from a repeated combinator…

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Robot Learning from Human Videos: A Survey

Junyi Ma, Erhang Zhang, Haoran Yang, Ditao Li, Chenyang Xu, Guangming Wang, Hesheng Wang · 2026

A critical bottleneck hindering further advancement in embodied AI and robotics is the challenge of scaling robot data. To address this, the field of learning robot manipulation skills from human vide…

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RAY-TOLD: Ray-Based Latent Dynamics for Dense Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance with TDMPC

Seungho Han, Seokju Lee, Jeonguk Kang · 2026

Dense, dynamic crowds pose a persistent challenge for autonomous mobile robots. Purely reactive planning methods, such as Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) control, often fail to escape local mini…

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PALCAS: A Priority-Aware Intelligent Lane Change Advisory System for Autonomous Vehicles using Federated Reinforcement Learning

Yassine Ibork, Nhat Ha Nguyen, Myounggyu Won, Lokesh Das · 2026

We present a priority-aware intelligent lane change advisory system based on multi-agent federated reinforcement learning, namely PALCAS, for autonomous vehicles (AVs). While existing lane-change appr…

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MappingEvolve: LLM-Driven Code Evolution for Technology Mapping

Rongliang Fu, Yi Liu, Qiang Xu, Tsung-Yi Ho · 2026

Technology mapping is a critical yet challenging stage in logic synthesis. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have been applied to generate optimization scripts, their potential for core algorithm enh…

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LLM-Flax : Generalizable Robotic Task Planning via Neuro-Symbolic Approaches with Large Language Models

Seongmin Kim, Daegyu Lee · 2026

Deploying a neuro-symbolic task planner on a new domain today requires significant manual effort: a domain expert must author relaxation and complementary rules, and hundreds of training problems must…

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HiPAN: Hierarchical Posture-Adaptive Navigation for Quadruped Robots in Unstructured 3D Environments

Jeil Jeong, Minsung Yoon, Seokryun Choi, Heechan Shin, Taegeun Yang, Sung-eui Yoon · 2026

Navigating quadruped robots in unstructured 3D environments poses significant challenges, requiring goal-directed motion, effective exploration to escape from local minima, and posture adaptation to t…

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Alter-Art: Exploring Embodied Artistic Creation through a Robot Avatar

Do Won Park, Samuele Bordini, Giorgio Grioli, Manuel G. Catalano, Antonio Bicchi · 2026

As with every emerging technology, new tools in the hands of artists reshape the nature of artwork creation. Current frameworks for robotics in arts deploy the robot as an autonomous creator or a coll…

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2D and 3D Grasp Planners for the GET Asymmetrical Gripper

Andrew Goldberg, Ethan Ransing, Anton Kourakin, Cael Magner, Edward H. Adelson, Ken Goldberg · 2026

In this paper, we introduce GET-2D-1.0, a fast grasp planner for the GET asymmetrical gripper that operates from a single-view RGB-D image, using the Ferrari-Canny metric and a novel sampling strategy…

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Variational Neural Belief Parameterizations for Robust Dexterous Grasping under Multimodal Uncertainty

Clinton Enwerem, Shreya Kalyanaraman, John S. Baras, Calin Belta · 2026

Contact variability, sensing uncertainty, and external disturbances make grasp execution stochastic. Expected-quality objectives ignore tail outcomes and often select grasps that fail under adverse co…

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ProDrive: Proactive Planning for Autonomous Driving via Ego-Environment Co-Evolution

Chuyao Fu, Shengzhe Gan, Zhuoli Ouyang, Yuhan Rui, Xiaowei Chi, Sirui Han, Jiankun Wang, Hong Zhang · 2026

End-to-end autonomous driving planners typically generate trajectories from current observations alone. However, real-world driving is highly dynamic, and such reactive planning cannot anticipate futu…

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Libra-VLA: Achieving Learning Equilibrium via Asynchronous Coarse-to-Fine Dual-System

Yifei Wei, Linqing Zhong, Yi Liu, Yuxiang Lu, Xindong He, Maoqing Yao, Guanghui Ren · 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are a promising paradigm for generalist robotic manipulation by grounding high-level semantic instructions into executable physical actions. However, prevailing app…

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Vision-Language-Action Safety: Threats, Challenges, Evaluations, and Mechanisms

Qi Li, Bo Yin, Weiqi Huang, Ruhao Liu, Bojun Zou, Runpeng Yu, Jingwen Ye, Weihao Yu, Xinchao Wang · 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are emerging as a unified substrate for embodied intelligence. This shift raises a new class of safety challenges, stemming from the embodied nature of VLA systems,…

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EgoLive: A Large-Scale Egocentric Dataset from Real-World Human Tasks

Yihang Li, Xuelong Wei, Jingzhou Luo, Yingjing Xiao, Yibo Bai, Guangyuan Zhou, Teng Zou, Chenguang Gui, Jiajun Wen, He Zhang, Kangliang Chen, Xing Pan, Shuaiyan Liu, Daming Wang, Tao An, Jiayi Li, Shibo Jin, Wanwan Zhang, Tianyu Wang, Boren Wei, Zhixuan Huang, Fangsheng Liu, Ruodai Li, Hui Zhang, Anson Li, Yicheng Gong, Peng Cao, Jiaming Liang, Liang Lin · 2026

The advancement of robot learning is currently hindered by the scarcity of large-scale, high-quality datasets. While established data collection methods such as teleoperation and universal manipulatio…

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An Efficient Beam Search Algorithm for Active Perception in Mobile Robotics

Kaixian Qu, Han Wang, Victor Klemm, Cesar Cadena, Marco Hutter · 2026

Active perception is a fundamental problem in autonomous robotics in which the robot must decide where to move and what to sense in order to obtain the most informative observations for accomplishing …

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CodeGraphVLP: Code-as-Planner Meets Semantic-Graph State for Non-Markovian Vision-Language-Action Models

Khoa Vo, Sieu Tran, Taisei Hanyu, Yuki Ikebe, Duy Nguyen, Bui Duy Quoc Nghi, Minh Vu, Anthony Gunderman, Chase Rainwater, Anh Nguyen, Ngan Le · 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models promise generalist robot manipulation, but are typically trained and deployed as short-horizon policies that assume the latest observation is sufficient for action …

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Energy-Efficient Multi-Robot Coverage Path Planning of Non-Convex Regions of Interests

Sourav Raxit, Jose Fuentes, Paulo Padrao, Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz, Md Tamjidul Hoque, Mark Kulp, Leonardo Bobadilla · 2026

This letter presents an energy-efficient multi-robot coverage path planning (MRCPP) framework for large, nonconvex Regions of Interest (ROI) containing obstacles and no-fly zones (NFZ). Existing minim…

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VistaBot: View-Robust Robot Manipulation via Spatiotemporal-Aware View Synthesis

Songen Gu, Yuhang Zheng, Weize Li, Yupeng Zheng, Yating Feng, Xiang Li, Yilun Chen, Pengfei Li, Wenchao Ding · 2026

Recently, end-to-end robotic manipulation models have gained significant attention for their generalizability and scalability. However, they often suffer from limited robustness to camera viewpoint ch…

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Task-Driven Co-Design of Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems

Maximilian Stralz, Meshal Alharbi, Yujun Huang, Gioele Zardini · 2026

Designing multi-agent robotic systems requires reasoning across tightly coupled decisions spanning heterogeneous domains, including robot design, fleet composition, and planning. Much effort has been …

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MISTY: High-Throughput Motion Planning via Mixer-based Single-step Drifting

Yining Xing, Zehong Ke, Yiqian Tu, Zhiyuan Liu, Wenhao Yu, Jianqiang Wang · 2026

Multi-modal trajectory generation is essential for safe autonomous driving, yet existing diffusion-based planners suffer from high inference latency due to iterative neural function evaluations. This …

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