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ATLAS: An Annotation Tool for Long-horizon Robotic Action Segmentation

Sergej Stanovcic, Daniel Sliwowski, Dongheui Lee ยท 2026

Annotating long-horizon robotic demonstrations with precise temporal action boundaries is crucial for training and evaluating action segmentation and manipulation policy learning methods. Existing annโ€ฆ

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Robot Planning and Situation Handling with Active Perception

Austine Oloo, Zainab Altaweel, Yohei Hayamizu, Peiqi Liu, Yan Ding, Saeid Amiri, Hao Yang, Andy Kaminski, Chad Esselink, Chris Paxton, Xiaohan Zhang, Shiqi Zhang ยท 2026

Current robots are capable of computing plans to accomplish complex tasks. However, real-world environments are inherently open and dynamic, and unforeseen situations frequently arise during plan execโ€ฆ

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Long-Horizon Manipulation via Trace-Conditioned VLA Planning

Isabella Liu, An-Chieh Cheng, Rui Yan, Geng Chen, Ri-Zhao Qiu, Xueyan Zou, Sha Yi, Hongxu Yin, Xiaolong Wang, Sifei Liu ยท 2026

Long-horizon manipulation remains challenging for vision-language-action (VLA) policies: real tasks are multi-step, progress-dependent, and brittle to compounding execution errors. We present LoHo-Manโ€ฆ

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Cortex 2.0: Grounding World Models in Real-World Industrial Deployment

Adriana Aida, Walid Amer, Katarina Bankovic, Dhruv Behl, Fabian Busch, Annie Bhalla, Minh Duong, Florian Gienger, Rohan Godse, Denis Grachev, Ralf Gulde, Elisa Hagensieker, Junpeng Hu, Shivam Joshi, Tobias Knobloch, Likith Kumar, Damien LaRocque, Keerthana Lokesh, Omar Moured, Khiem Nguyen, Christian Preyss, Ranjith Sriganesan, Vikram Singh, Carsten Sponner, Anh Tong, Dominik Tuscher, Marc Tuscher, Pavan Upputuri ยท 2026

Industrial robotic manipulation demands reliable long-horizon execution across embodiments, tasks, and changing object distributions. While Vision-Language-Action models have demonstrated strong generโ€ฆ

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Multi-Cycle Spatio-Temporal Adaptation in Human-Robot Teaming

Alex Cuellar, Michael Hagenow, Julie Shah ยท 2026

Effective human-robot teaming is crucial for the practical deployment of robots in human workspaces. However, optimizing joint human-robot plans remains a challenge due to the difficulty of modeling iโ€ฆ

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Think before Go: Hierarchical Reasoning for Image-goal Navigation

Pengna Li, Kangyi Wu, Shaoqing Xu, Fang Li, Lin Zhao, Long Chen, Zhi-Xin Yang, Nanning Zheng ยท 2026

Image-goal navigation steers an agent to a target location specified by an image in unseen environments. Existing methods primarily handle this task by learning an end-to-end navigation policy, which โ€ฆ

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Intent-aligned Autonomous Spacecraft Guidance via Reasoning Models

Yuji Takubo, Simone D'Amico ยท 2026

Future spacecraft operations require autonomy that can interpret high-level mission intent while preserving safety. However, existing trajectory optimization still relies heavily on expert-crafted forโ€ฆ

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NeuroMesh: A Unified Neural Inference Framework for Decentralized Multi-Robot Collaboration

Yang Zhou, Yash Shetye, Long Quang, Devon Super, Jesse Milzman, Manohari Goarin, Aditya Azad, Devang Sunil Dhake, Jeffery Mao, Carlos Nieto-Granda, Giuseppe Loianno ยท 2026

Deploying learned multi-robot models on heterogeneous robots remains challenging due to hardware heterogeneity, communication constraints, and the lack of a unified execution stack. This paper presentโ€ฆ

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Vectorizing Projection in Manifold-Constrained Motion Planning for Real-Time Whole-Body Control

Shrutheesh R Iyer, I-Chia Chang, Andrew Z. Liu, Yan Gu, Zachary Kingston ยท 2026

Many robot planning tasks require satisfaction of one or more constraints throughout the entire trajectory. For geometric constraints, manifold-constrained motion planning algorithms are capable of plโ€ฆ

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From Kinematics to Dynamics: Learning to Refine Hybrid Plans for Physically Feasible Execution

Lidor Erez, Shahaf S. Shperberg, Ayal Taitler ยท 2026

In many robotic tasks, agents must traverse a sequence of spatial regions to complete a mission. Such problems are inherently mixed discrete-continuous: a high-level action sequence and a physically fโ€ฆ

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PRoID: Predicted Rate of Information Delivery in Multi-Robot Exploration and Relaying

Seungchan Kim, Seungjae Baek, Micah Corah, Graeme Best, Brady Moon, Sebastian Scherer ยท 2026

We address Multi-Robot Exploration and Relaying (MRER): a team of robots must explore an unknown environment and deliver acquired information to a fixed base station within a mission time limit. The cโ€ฆ

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Semantic Feature Multiple Access Empowered Integrated Learning and Communication Networks

Jiaxiang Wang, Zhouxiang Zhao, Yahao Ding, Zhijin Qin, Zhaohui Yang, Mingzhe Chen, Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei ยท 2026

Integrated learning and communication (ILAC) unifies learned transceivers with radio resource management, where semantic feature multiple access (SFMA) enables paired users to superpose their learned โ€ฆ

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A Game-Theoretic Decentralized Real-Time Control of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations - Part I: Incentive Design

Riccardo Ramaschi, Mario Paolone, Sonia Leva ยท 2026

Large-scale Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Station (CS) may be too large to be dispatched in real-time via a centralized approach. While a decentralized approach may be a viable solution, the lack of โ€ฆ

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SANDO: Safe Autonomous Trajectory Planning for Dynamic Unknown Environments

Kota Kondo, Jesus Tordesillas, Jonathan P. How ยท 2026

SANDO is a safe trajectory planner for 3D dynamic unknown environments, where obstacle locations and motions are unknown a priori and a collision-free plan can become unsafe at any moment, requiring fโ€ฆ

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Flexible Electric Vehicle Charging with Karma

Ezzat Elokda, Ruiting Wang, Karl H. Johansson, Angela Fontan ยท 2026

Motivated by the need to develop fair and efficient schemes to facilitate the electrification of transport, this paper proposes a non-monetary karma economy for flexible Electric Vehicle (EV) chargingโ€ฆ

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AI-Driven Modular Services for Accessible Multilingual Education in Immersive Extended Reality Settings: Integrating Speech Processing, Translation, and Sign Language Rendering

N.D. Tantaroudas, A.J. McCracken, I. Karachalios, E. Papatheou ยท 2026

This work introduces a modular platform that brings together six AI services, automatic speech recognition via OpenAI Whisper, multilingual translation through Meta NLLB, speech synthesis using AWS Poโ€ฆ

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Assessing Maintenance of Medium Voltage Cable Networks Under Time-Varying Loading

Jochen Lorenz Cremer ยท 2026

The electrification and ongoing energy transition lead to systematic changes in electricity loading and variability in power systems. Distribution systems were designed for regular operating patterns,โ€ฆ

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ARES OS 2.0: An Orchestration Software Suite for Autonomous Experimentation Systems and Self-Driving Labs

Arthur W. N. Sloan, Robert W. Waelder, Morgen L. Smith, Nicholas Kleiner, Arnas Babeckis, Jason Wheeler, Daylond Hooper, Benji Maruyama ยท 2026

ARES OS 2.0 (hereinafter ARES OS) is an open-source software suite to enable laboratory automation and closed-loop autonomous experimentation. Its function is to orchestrate experimental actions and dโ€ฆ

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SoftHand Model-W: A 3D-Printed, Anthropomorphic, Underactuated Robot Hand with Integrated Wrist and Carpal Tunnel

Dhillon B. Merritt, Christopher J. Ford, Haoran Li, Malia Smith, Zhixing Chen, Efi Psomopoulou, Nathan F. Lepora ยท 2026

This paper presents the SoftHand Model-W: a 3D-printed, underactuated, anthropomorphic robot hand based on the Pisa/IIT SoftHand, with an integrated antagonistic tendon mechanism and 2 degree-of-freedโ€ฆ

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Certificate-Driven Closed-Loop Multi-Agent Path Finding with Inheritable Factorization

Jiarui Li, Runyu Zhang, Gioele Zardini ยท 2026

Multi-agent coordination in automated warehouses and logistics is commonly modeled as the Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem. Closed-loop MAPF algorithms improve scalability by planning only the โ€ฆ

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