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KinDER: A Physical Reasoning Benchmark for Robot Learning and Planning

Yixuan Huang, Bowen Li, Vaibhav Saxena, Yichao Liang, Utkarsh Aashu Mishra, Liang Ji, Lihan Zha, Jimmy Wu, Nishanth Kumar, Sebastian Scherer, Danfei Xu, Tom Silver ยท 2026

Robotic systems that interact with the physical world must reason about kinematic and dynamic constraints imposed by their own embodiment, their environment, and the task at hand. We introduce KinDER,โ€ฆ

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An analysis of sensor selection for fruit picking with suction-based grippers

Eva Krueger, Marcus Rosette, Joseph R. Davidson ยท 2026

Robotic fruit harvesting often fails to reliably detect whether a fruit has been successfully picked, limiting efficiency and increasing crop damage. This problem is difficult due to compliant fruit aโ€ฆ

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Agent-Centric Visual Reinforcement Learning under Dynamic Perturbations

Zhengru Fang, Yu Guo, Fei Liu, Yuang Zhang, Yihang Tao, Senkang Hu, Wenbo Ding, Yuguang Fang ยท 2026

Visual reinforcement learning aims to empower an agent to learn policies from visual observations, yet it remains vulnerable to dynamic visual perturbations, such as unpredictable shifts in corruptionโ€ฆ

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Using Assembly Language for Creating Games

Haris Turkmanovic, David Vukoje, Aleksandra Lekic, Milan Prokin ยท 2026

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate some interesting and useful approaches for writing a program in the assembly language. In order to demonstrate the possibilities of the assembly language, a proโ€ฆ

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NIM4-ASR: Towards Efficient, Robust, and Customizable Real-Time LLM-Based ASR

Yuan Xie, Jiaqi Song, Guang Qiu, Xianliang Wang, Kai Qiao, Junfeng Yuan, Shengqing Liu, Yi Zhang, Bowen Chen, Ming Lei, Jie Gao, Jie Wu ยท 2026

Integrating large language models (LLMs) into automatic speech recognition (ASR) has become a mainstream paradigm in recent years. Although existing LLM-based ASR models demonstrate impressive performโ€ฆ

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ReFineVLA: Multimodal Reasoning-Aware Generalist Robotic Policies via Teacher-Guided Fine-Tuning

Tuan Van Vo, Tan Q. Nguyen, Khang Nguyen, Nhat Xuan Tran, Duy H. M. Nguyen, An T. Le, Ngo Anh Vien, Minh Nhat Vu ยท 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have gained much attention from the research community thanks to their strength in translating multimodal observations with linguistic instructions into desired robโ€ฆ

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An Innovation-Based Approach to Detect Stealthy Disturbance Attacks in Maritime Monitoring

Gabriele Oliva, Bianca Mazza, Roberto Setola ยท 2026

Modern maritime navigation and control systems rely on digital sensing, estimation, and communication pipelines that fuse GNSS, radar, inertial, and AIS data through approaches such as Kalman-filter-bโ€ฆ

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Leveraging VR Robot Games to Facilitate Data Collection for Embodied Intelligence Tasks

Yihan Zhang, Ziyun Huang, Linqi Ye ยท 2026

Collecting embodied interaction data at scale remains costly and difficult due to the limited accessibility of conventional interfaces. We present a gamified data collection framework based on Unity tโ€ฆ

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NEAT-NC: NEAT guided Navigation Cells for Robot Path Planning

Hibatallah Meliani, Khadija Slimani, Samira Khoulji ยท 2026

To navigate a space, the brain makes an internal representation of the environment using different cells such as place cells, grid cells, head direction cells, border cells, and speed cells. All theseโ€ฆ

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CAVERS: Multimodal SLAM Data from a Natural Karstic Cave with Ground Truth Motion Capture

Giacomo Franchini, David Rodriguez-Martinez, Alfonso Martinez-Petersen, C. J. Perez-del-Pulgar, Marcello Chiaberge ยท 2026

Autonomous robots operating in natural karstic caves face perception and navigation challenges that are qualitatively distinct from those encountered in mines or tunnels: irregular geometry, reflectivโ€ฆ

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High Order Tuners for Adaptive Safety of Robotic Systems

Mohammad Mirtaba, Max H. Cohen ยท 2026

The combination of control barrier functions (CBFs) and adaptive control -- a framework referred to as adaptive safety -- has proven to be a powerful paradigm for safety-critical control of nonlinear โ€ฆ

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Homotopy-Guided Potential Games for Congestion-Aware Navigation

Mohammed Irshadh Ismaaeel Sathyamangalam Imran, Lasse Peters, Michael Khayyat, Stefano Arrigoni, Francesco Braghin, Laura Ferranti ยท 2026

We address the multi-agent motion planning problem where interactions, collisions, and congestion co-exist. Conventional game-theoretic planners capture interactions among agents but often converge toโ€ฆ

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Complementarity by Construction: A Lie-Group Approach to Solving Quadratic Programs with Linear Complementarity Constraints

Arun L. Bishop, Micah I. Reich, Zachary Manchester ยท 2026

Many problems in robotics require reasoning over a mix of continuous dynamics and discrete events, such as making and breaking contact in manipulation and locomotion. These problems are locally well mโ€ฆ

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StreamMark: A Deep Learning-Based Semi-Fragile Audio Watermarking for Proactive Deepfake Detection

Zhentao Liu, Milos Cernak ยท 2026

The rapid advancement of generative AI has made it increasingly challenging to distinguish between deepfake audio and authentic human speech. To overcome the limitations of passive detection methods, โ€ฆ

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Disentangled Point Diffusion for Precise Object Placement

Lyuxing He, Eric Cai, Shobhit Aggarwal, Jianjun Wang, David Held ยท 2026

Recent advances in robotic manipulation have highlighted the effectiveness of learning from demonstration. However, while end-to-end policies excel in expressivity and flexibility, they struggle both โ€ฆ

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ReaLiTy and LADS: A Unified Framework and Dataset Suite for LiDAR Adaptation Across Sensors and Adverse Weather Conditions

Vivek Anand, Bharat Lohani, Rakesh Mishra, Gaurav Pandey ยท 2026

Reliable LiDAR perception requires robustness across sensors, environments, and adverse weather. However, existing datasets rarely provide physically consistent observations of the same scene under vaโ€ฆ

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One Interface, Many Robots: Unified Real-Time Low-Level Motion Planning for Collaborative Arms

Yue Feng, Weicheng Huang, I-Ming Chen ยท 2026

This paper proposes a common interface for real-time low-level motion planning of collaborative robotic arms, aimed at enabling broader applicability and improved portability across heterogeneous hardโ€ฆ

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Stability and Sensitivity Analysis for Objective Misspecifications Among Model Predictive Game Controllers

Ada Yildirim, Bryce L. Ferguson ยท 2026

Model-based multi-agent control requires agents to possess a model of the behavior of others to make strategic decisions. Solution concepts from game theory are often used to model the emergent collecโ€ฆ

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EvoGymCM: Harnessing Continuous Material Stiffness for Soft Robot Co-Design

Le Shen, Kangyao Huang, Wentao Zhao, Huaping Liu ยท 2026

In the automated co-design of soft robots, precisely adapting the material stiffness field to task environments is crucial for unlocking their full physical potential. However, mainstream platforms (eโ€ฆ

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Learning to Coordinate over Networks with Bounded Rationality

Zhewei Wang, Emrah Akyol, Marcos M. Vasconcelos ยท 2026

Network coordination games are widely used to model collaboration among interconnected agents, with applications across diverse domains including economics, robotics, and cyber-security. We consider nโ€ฆ

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