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Vision-Language-Action in Robotics: A Survey of Datasets, Benchmarks, and Data Engines

Ziyao Wang, Bingying Wang, Hanrong Zhang, Tingting Du, Tianyang Chen, Guoheng Sun, Yexiao He, Zheyu Shen, Wanghao Ye, Ang Li · 2026

Despite remarkable progress in Vision--Language--Action (VLA) models, a central bottleneck remains underexamined: the data infrastructure that underlies embodied learning. In this survey, we argue tha…

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Designing Active Operation in Low-Voltage Distribution Grids: Requirements, Interfaces and Roadmap

Eric Tonges, Andrea Schoen, Frank Marten, Marco Pau, Denis Mende · 2026

This paper outlines a pathway towards active operation of lowvoltage distribution grids. In these grids, the growing deployment of distributed generation, controllable demand and storage, together wit…

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Predicting food taste with bound-driven optimization

Pagkratis Tagkopoulos, Dimitris Sfondilis, Ilias Tagkopoulos, Tarek Zohdi · 2026

The prediction of sensory attributes from ingredient-level formulations is an emerging challenge at the intersection of food science and artificial intelligence. We address the fundamental question of…

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Tensegrity Robot Endcap-Ground Contact Estimation with Symmetry-aware Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network

Wenzhe Tong, Yicheng Jiang, Chi Zhang, Maani Ghaffari, Xiaonan Huang · 2026

Tensegrity robots possess lightweight and resilient structures but present significant challenges for state estimation due to compliant and distributed ground contacts. This paper introduces a symmetr…

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Machine Learning Driven Prediction of the Behavior of Biohybrid Actuators

Michail-Antisthenis Tsompanas, Marco Perez Hernandez, Faisal Abdul-Fattah, Karim Elhakim, Mostafa Ibrahim, Judith Fuentes, Florencia Lezcano, Riccardo Collu, Massimo Barbaro, Stefano Lai, Samuel Sanchez, Andrew Adamatzky · 2026

Skeletal muscle-based biohybrid actuators have proved to be a promising component in soft robotics, offering efficient movement. However, their intrinsic biological variability and nonlinearity pose s…

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Humanoid Factors: Design Principles for AI Humanoids in Human Worlds

Xinyuan Liu, Eren Sadikoglu, Ransalu Senanayake, Lixiao Huang · 2026

Human factors research has long focused on optimizing environments, tools, and systems to account for human performance. Yet, as humanoid robots begin to share our workplaces, homes, and public spaces…

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$\chi_{0}$: Resource-Aware Robust Manipulation via Taming Distributional Inconsistencies

Checheng Yu, Chonghao Sima, Gangcheng Jiang, Hai Zhang, Haoguang Mai, Hongyang Li, Huijie Wang, Jin Chen, Kaiyang Wu, Li Chen, Lirui Zhao, Modi Shi, Ping Luo, Qingwen Bu, Shijia Peng, Tianyu Li, Yibo Yuan · 2026

High-reliability long-horizon robotic manipulation has traditionally relied on large-scale data and compute to understand complex real-world dynamics. However, we identify that the primary bottleneck …

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Formal Methods in Robot Policy Learning and Verification: A Survey on Current Techniques and Future Directions

Anastasios Manganaris, Vittorio Giammarino, Ahmed H. Qureshi, Suresh Jagannathan · 2026

As hardware and software systems have grown in complexity, formal methods have been indispensable tools for rigorously specifying acceptable behaviors, synthesizing programs to meet these specificatio…

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$\alpha^3$-Bench: A Unified Benchmark of Safety, Robustness, and Efficiency for LLM-Based UAV Agents over 6G Networks

Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Abderrahmane Lakas, Merouane Debbah · 2026

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as high level controllers for autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) missions. However, existing evaluations rarely assess whether such agents rema…

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Auditing Reproducibility in Non-Targeted Analysis: 103 LC/GC--HRMS Tools Reveal Temporal Divergence Between Openness and Operability

Sarah Alsubaie, Sakhaa Alsaedi, Xin Gao (King Abdullah University of Science, Technology) · 2025

In 2008, melamine in infant formula forced laboratories across three continents to verify a compound they had never monitored. Non-targeted analysis using LC/GC-HRMS handles these cases. But when find…

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Toward Seamless Physical Human-Humanoid Interaction: Insights from Control, Intent, and Modeling with a Vision for What Comes Next

Gustavo A. Cardona, Shubham S. Kumbhar, Panagiotis Artemiadis · 2025

Physical Human-Humanoid Interaction (pHHI) is a rapidly advancing field with significant implications for deploying robots in unstructured, human-centric environments. In this review, we examine the c…

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Feedback stabilization of some fourth-order nonlinear parabolic equations with saturated controls

Patricio Guzman, Felipe Labra, Hugo Parada (SPHINX, IECL) · 2025

In this work, we analyze the internal and boundary stabilization of the Cahn-Hilliard and Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equations under saturated feedback control. We conduct our study through the spectral ana…

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Generative AI Meets 6G and Beyond: Diffusion Models for Semantic Communications

Hai-Long Qin, Jincheng Dai, Guo Lu, Shuo Shao, Sixian Wang, Tongda Xu, Wenjun Zhang, Ping Zhang, Khaled B. Letaief · 2025

Semantic communications mark a paradigm shift from bit-accurate transmission toward meaning-centric communication, essential as wireless systems approach theoretical capacity limits. The emergence of …

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Translating Milli/Microrobots with A Value-Centered Readiness Framework

Hakan Ceylan, Edoardo Sinibaldi, Sanjay Misra, Pankaj J. Pasricha, Dietmar W. Hutmacher · 2025

Untethered mobile milli/microrobots hold transformative potential for interventional medicine by enabling more precise and entirely non-invasive diagnosis and therapy. Realizing this promise requires …

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Inspection Planning Primitives with Implicit Models

Jingyang You, Hanna Kurniawati, Lashika Medagoda · 2025

The aging and increasing complexity of infrastructures make efficient inspection planning more critical in ensuring safety. Thanks to sampling-based motion planning, many inspection planners are fast.…

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Fifty Years of Object Detection and Recognition from Synthetic Aperture Radar Remote Sensing Imagery: The Road Forward

Jie Zhou, Yongxiang Liu, Li Liu, Weijie Li, Bowen Peng, Yafei Song, Gangyao Kuang, Xiang Li · 2025

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging is capable of observing objects in nearly all weather and illumination conditions and has become an indispensable means of information acquisition for analysis a…

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EO-1: An Open Unified Embodied Foundation Model for General Robot Control

Delin Qu, Haoming Song, Qizhi Chen, Zhaoqing Chen, Xianqiang Gao, Dong Wang, Xinyi Ye, Qi Lv, Modi Shi, Guanghui Ren, Cheng Ruan, Maoqing Yao, Haoran Yang, Jiacheng Bao, Bin Zhao, Xuelong Li · 2025

The human ability to seamlessly perform multimodal reasoning and physical interaction in the open world is a core goal for general purpose embodied intelligent systems. Recent vision-language-action (…

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Toward an Interaction-Centered Approach to Robot Trustworthiness

Carlo Mazzola, Hassan Ali, Kristina Malinovska, Igor Farkas · 2025

As robots get more integrated into human environments, fostering trustworthiness in embodied robotic agents becomes paramount for an effective and safe human-robot interaction (HRI). To achieve that, …

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Human Centric General Physical Intelligence for Agile Manufacturing Automation

Sandeep Kanta, Mehrdad Tavassoli, Varun Teja Chirkuri, Venkata Akhil Kumar, Santhi Bharath Punati, Praveen Damacharla, Sunny Katyara · 2025

Agile human-centric manufacturing increasingly requires resilient robotic solutions that are capable of safe and productive interactions within unstructured environments of modern factories. While mul…

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Variational volume reconstruction with the Deep Ritz Method

Conor Rowan, Sumedh Soman, John A. Evans · 2025

We present a novel approach to variational volume reconstruction from sparse, noisy slice data using the Deep Ritz method. Motivated by biomedical imaging applications such as MRI-based slice-to-volum…

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