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VLA Foundry: A Unified Framework for Training Vision-Language-Action Models

Jean Mercat, Sedrick Keh, Kushal Arora, Isabella Huang, Paarth Shah, Haruki Nishimura, Shun Iwase, Katherine Liu · 2026

We present VLA Foundry, an open-source framework that unifies LLM, VLM, and VLA training in a single codebase. Most open-source VLA efforts specialize on the action training stage, often stitching tog…

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Mask World Model: Predicting What Matters for Robust Robot Policy Learning

Yunfan Lou, Xiaowei Chi, Xiaojie Zhang, Zezhong Qian, Chengxuan Li, Rongyu Zhang, Yaoxu Lyu, Guoyu Song, Chuyao Fu, Haoxuan Xu, Pengwei Wang, Shanghang Zhang · 2026

World models derived from large-scale video generative pre-training have emerged as a promising paradigm for generalist robot policy learning. However, standard approaches often focus on high-fidelity…

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A Gesture-Based Visual Learning Model for Acoustophoretic Interactions using a Swarm of AcoustoBots

Alex Lin, Lei Gao, Narsimlu Kemsaram, Sriram Subramanian · 2026

AcoustoBots are mobile acoustophoretic robots capable of delivering mid-air haptics, directional audio, and acoustic levitation, but existing implementations rely on scripted commands and lack an intu…

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Odour sensing in turbulent plumes with high-speed electronic nose and non-invasive ground truth

Nik Dennler, Elle Stark, Saimon Collaku, Lars Larson, Andre van Schaik, Michael Schmuker, John Crimaldi, Andreas T. Guntner, Aaron True · 2026

Chemical sensing in real-world environments requires resolving rapidly fluctuating and spatially heterogeneous concentration fields. However, these dynamics are strongly distorted by widely used, low-…

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Defining Robust Ultrasound Quality Metrics via an Ultrasound Foundation Model

Ziyang Huang, Bingyan Li, Chen Ma, Tianyi Liu, Yihui Zhai, Hong Xu, Yi Guo, Zeju Li, Yuanyuan Wang · 2026

Clinicians lack a principled framework to quantify diagnostic utility in ultrasound reconstructions. Existing standards like PSNR and VGG-LPIPS are inadequate, failing to account for modality-specific…

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A Tendon-Driven Wrist Abduction-Adduction Joint Improves Performance of a 5 DoF Upper Limb Exoskeleton -- Implementation and Experimental Evaluation

Juwairiya S. Khan, Mostafa Mohammadi, Alexander L. Ammitzb{o}ll, Ellen-Merete Hagen, Jakob Blicher, Izabella Obal, Ana S. S. Cardoso, Oguzhan Kirtas, Rasmus L. K{ae}seler, John Rasmussen, Lotte N.S. Andreasen Struijk · 2026

Wrist function is essential in performing activities of daily living (ADLs). However, there is limited experimental evidence on the functional impact of wrist Abduction-Adduction (Ab-Ad) joint assista…

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Optimal Multispectral Imaging using RGB Cameras

Tomislav Matulic, Ivan Skrabo, Dubravko Babic, Damir Sersic · 2026

We present a physics-driven framework for accurate evaluation of discrete spectral bands using a low-cost multispectral setup built from off-the-shelf RGB cameras and narrow multi-band optical filters…

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Design, Modelling and Experimental Evaluation of a Tendon-driven Wrist Abduction-Adduction Mechanism for an upper limb exoskeleton

Juwairiya S. Khan, Mostafa Mohammadi, John Rasmussen, Lotte N.S. Andreasen Struijk · 2026

Wrist exoskeletons play a vital role in rehabilitation and assistive applications, yet conventional actuation mechanisms such as electric motors or pneumatics often introduce undesirable weight, frict…

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RoboWM-Bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating World Models in Robotic Manipulation

Feng Jiang, Yang Chen, Kyle Xu, Yuchen Liu, Haifeng Wang, Zhenhao Shen, Jasper Lu, Shengze Huang, Yuanfei Wang, Chen Xie, Ruihai Wu · 2026

Recent advances in large-scale video world models have enabled increasingly realistic future prediction, raising the prospect of leveraging imagined videos for robot learning. However, visual realism …

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PROMETHEE-based Modeling of Endogenous Behavioral Uncertainty of EV Owners

Dipayan Sarkar, Qifeng Li · 2026

The electric vehicle (EV) charging demands (CD) are jointly determined by the EV owners' behavior (i.e., human factor) and the electricity prices (i.e., decisions of distribution system operators (DSO…

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Differentiable Satellite Constellation Configuration via Relaxed Coverage and Revisit Objectives

Shreeyam Kacker, Kerri Cahoy · 2026

Satellite constellation design requires optimizing orbital parameters across multiple satellites to maximize mission specific metrics. For many types of mission, it is desirable to maximize coverage a…

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AI-Enabled Image-Based Hybrid Vision/Force Control of Tendon-Driven Aerial Continuum Manipulators

Shayan Sepahvand, Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi, Farhad Aghili · 2026

This paper presents an AI-enabled cascaded hybrid vision/force control framework for tendon-driven aerial continuum manipulators based on constant-strain modeling in $SE(3)$ as a coupled system. The p…

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Multiscale Structural Reliability Analysis in high dimensions with Tensor Trains and Physics-Augmented Neural Networks

Aryan Tyagi, Alex de Beer, Tiangang Cui, Jan N. Fuhg · 2026

Structural reliability evaluation for composites constitutes a fundamentally high-dimensional multiscale problem, as microscale material uncertainties must propagate to the macroscale and can be quant…

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A Controlled Benchmark of Visual State-Space Backbones with Domain-Shift and Boundary Analysis for Remote-Sensing Segmentation

Nichula Wasalathilaka, Dineth Perera, Oshadha Samarakoon, Buddhi Wijenayake, Roshan Godaliyadda, Vijitha Herath, Parakrama Ekanayake · 2026

Visual state-space models (SSMs) are increasingly promoted as efficient alternatives to Vision Transformers, yet their practical advantages remain unclear under fair comparison because existing studie…

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Far-Field Absolute Gain Antenna Measurements at Sub-THz Frequencies: A New Interpretation

Asad Husein, Kimmo Rasilainen, Juha-Pekka Makela, Veikko Hovinen, Klaus Nevala, Aarno Parssinen, Marko E. Leinonen · 2026

The evolution of large aperture antennas and arrays at the sub-THz band (100-300 GHz) results in traditional far-field (FF) gain measurements to require large distances due to the high frequency natur…

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RSMA-Aided Full-Duplex Networks Under Imperfect CSI and SIC: Performance Evaluation

Farjam Karim, Nurul Huda Mahmood, Deepak Kumar, Arthur Sousa de Sena, Matti-Latva-aho · 2026

This work investigates a full-duplex (FD)-enhanced Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) system under practical constraints, including imperfect channel state information (CSI) and successive interfer…

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MFMDQwen: Multilingual Financial Misinformation Detection Based on Large Language Model

Zhiwei Liu, Yuyan Wang, Yuechen Jiang, Yupeng Cao, Tianlei Zhu, Xiaorui Guo, Zhiyang Deng, Zhiyuan Yao, Xiao-Yang Liu, Jimin Huang, Sophia Ananiadou · 2026

Financial misinformation poses significant threats to financial market stability and individuals' investment decisions. The multilingual environment and the inherent complexity of financial informatio…

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Passive RIS Is Not Silent: Revisiting Performance Limits Under Thermal Noise

Farjam Karim, Deepak Kumar, Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa, Nurul Huda Mahmood, Arthur Sousa de Sena, Matti-Latva-aho · 2026

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have emerged as a promising solution for enabling energy-efficient and flexible spectrum usage in wireless communication, particularly in the context of sixt…

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Muscle-inspired magnetic actuators that push, pull, crawl, and grasp

Muhammad Bilal Khan, Florian Hofmann, Kilian Schafer, Matthias Lutzi, Oliver Gutfleisch · 2026

Functional magnetic composites capable of large deformation, load bearing, and multifunctional motion are essential for next-generation adaptive soft robots. Here, we present muscle-inspired magnetic …

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EvoMarket: A High-Fidelity and Scalable Financial Market Simulator

Muyao Zhong, Zhenhua Yang, Yuxiang Liu, Ke Tang, Peng Yang · 2026

High-fidelity, scalable market simulation is a key instrument for mechanism evaluation, stress testing, and counterfactual policy analysis. Yet existing simulators rarely achieve \emph{mechanism fidel…

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