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RopeDreamer: A Kinematic Recurrent State Space Model for Dynamics of Flexible Deformable Linear Objects

Tim Missal, Lucas Domingues, Berk Guler, Simon Manschitz, Jan Peters, Paula Dornhofer Paro Costa ยท 2026

The robotic manipulation of Deformable Linear Objects (DLOs) is a fundamental challenge due to the high-dimensional, non-linear dynamics of flexible structures and the complexity of maintaining topoloโ€ฆ

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Function-based Parametric Co-Design Optimization of Dexterous Hands

Mohammad Amin Mirzaee, Harsh Gupta, Wenzhen Yuan ยท 2026

Despite advances in dexterous hand manipulation, robotic hand design is still largely decoupled from task-driven evaluation and control, limiting systematic optimization. Existing robotic hand co-desiโ€ฆ

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A Real-time Scale-robust Network for Glottis Segmentation in Nasal Transnasal Intubation

Yang Zhou, Chaoyong Zhang, Ruoyi Hao, Huilin Pan, Yang Zhang, Hongliang Ren ยท 2026

Nasotracheal intubation (NTI) is a critical clinical procedure for establishing and maintaining patient airway patency. Machine-assisted NTI has emerged as a pivotal approach for optimizing proceduralโ€ฆ

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Spectral Dynamic Attention Network for Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution

Tengya Zhang, Feng Gao, Lin Qi, Junyu Dong, Qian Du ยท 2026

Hyperspectral image super-resolution is essential for enhancing the spatial fidelity of HSI data, yet existing deep learning methods often struggle with substantial spectral redundancy and the limitedโ€ฆ

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Atomic-Probe Governance for Skill Updates in Compositional Robot Policies

Xue Qin, Simin Luan, John See, Cong Yang, Zhijun Li ยท 2026

Skill libraries in deployed robotic systems are continually updated through fine-tuning, fresh demonstrations, or domain adaptation, yet existing typed-composition methods (BLADE, SymSkill, Generativeโ€ฆ

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Accelerating Sparse Linear Solvers with an Optical Laser Processing Unit

Dan Gluck, Yotam Mimran, Andrey Karenskih, Talya Vaknin, Omri Wolf, Ruti Ben-Shlomi, Johannes Gebert ยท 2026

Solving large, sparse linear systems is a fundamental workload in scientific computing and engineering simulations, often dominating runtime and energy consumption in high-performance computing (HPC) โ€ฆ

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Sparse Graph Learning from Sparse Data via Fiedler Number Maximization

Bahar Oveisgharan, Gene Cheung, Andrew Eckford ยท 2026

We aim to learn a sparse and connected graph from sparse data, where the number of observations K can be substantially smaller than the signal dimension N for signals x in R^N, and the underlying distโ€ฆ

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FlowS: One-Step Motion Prediction via Local Transport Conditioning

Leandro Di Bella, Adrian Munteanu, Bruno Cornelis ยท 2026

Generative motion prediction must satisfy three simultaneous requirements for real-world autonomy: high accuracy, diverse multimodal futures, and strictly bounded latency. Diffusion models meet the fiโ€ฆ

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Enabling High Error Tolerance in Satellite Video Transmissions by Generative Semantic Communication

Zixin Zhao, Jingzhi Hu, Geoffrey Ye Li ยท 2026

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite relays will significantly extend the coverage of mobile networks, enabling users in remote areas to transmit data of real-time events. Nevertheless, the limited power oโ€ฆ

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DiscreteRTC: Discrete Diffusion Policies are Natural Asynchronous Executors

Pengcheng Wang, Kaiwen Hong, Chensheng Peng, Katherine Driggs-Campbell, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Chenfeng Xu, Chen Tang ยท 2026

Unlike chatbots, physical AI must act while the world keeps evolving. Therefore, the inter-chunk pause of synchronous executors are fatal for dynamic tasks regardless of how fast the inference is. Asyโ€ฆ

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EVT-Based Generative AI for Tail-Aware Channel Estimation

Parmida Valiahdi, Niloofar Mehrnia, Walid Saad, Sinem Coleri ยท 2026

Ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) will play a key role in fifth-generation (5G) and beyond networks, enabling mission-critical applications. Meeting the stringent URLLC requirementsโ€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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Quantization-Aware EE Optimization and SE-EE Tradeoff for MiLAC-Aided MU-MISO Beamforming

Yuchen Zhang, Pinjun Zheng, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri ยท 2026

In large antenna arrays, hardware power consumption becomes a dominant design constraint, making energy efficiency (EE) a first-class objective alongside spectral efficiency (SE). Microwave linear anaโ€ฆ

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Semantic Segmentation for Histopathology using Learned Regularization based on Global Proportions

Yangping Li, Thomas Pinetz, Michael Holzel, Marieta Toma, Alexander Effland ยท 2026

In pathology, the spatial distribution and proportions of tissue types are key indicators of disease progression, and are more readily available than fine-grained annotations. However, these assessmenโ€ฆ

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OpenPodcar2: a robust, ROS2 vehicle for self-driving research

Rakshit Soni, Chris Waltham, Md Umar Ibrahim, Mark Crampton, Charles Fox ยท 2026

OpenPodcar2 is a robust, ROS2-interfaced, low-cost, open source hardware and software, autonomous vehicle platform based on an off-the-shelf, hard-canopy, mobility scooter donor vehicle. It is a modifโ€ฆ

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Graph Signal Separation with Learnable Spectral Filters

Keivan Faghih Niresi, Dorina Thanou, Olga Fink ยท 2026

Separating multiple graph signals from a single observed mixture is an inherently ill-posed problem that traditionally relies on restrictive and handcrafted priors. This letter addresses this challengโ€ฆ

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$M^2$-VLA: Boosting Vision-Language Models for Generalizable Manipulation via Layer Mixture and Meta-Skills

Siyao Xiao, Yuhong Zhang, Zhifang Liu, Zihan Gao, Jingye Zhang, Sinwai Choo, Dake Zhong, Mengzhe Wang, Xiao Lin, Xianfeng Zhou, Jia Jia, Haoqian Wang ยท 2026

Current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models predominantly rely on end-to-end fine-tuning. While effective, this paradigm compromises the inherent generalization capabilities of Vision-Language Models โ€ฆ

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Trajectory Planning for an Articulated Commercial Vehicle using Model Predictive Contouring Control

A.J. Aertssen, R.G.M. Huisman, I.J.M. Besselink, J. Elfring, M.J.G. van de Molengraft ยท 2026

This paper presents a trajectory planning method for articulated commercial vehicles, specifically tractor-semitrailers, based on Model Predictive Contouring Control (MPCC). Although MPCC has proven eโ€ฆ

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Betting for Sim-to-Real Performance Evaluation

Zaid Mahboob, Yujia Chen, Bowen Weng ยท 2026

This paper studies the problem of robot performance evaluation, focusing on how to obtain accurate and efficient estimates of real-world behavior under severe constraints on physical experimentation. โ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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 thaโ€ฆ

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