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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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ExoActor: Exocentric Video Generation as Generalizable Interactive Humanoid Control

Yanghao Zhou, Jingyu Ma, Yibo Peng, Zhenguo Sun, Yu Bai, Borje F. Karlsson ยท 2026

Humanoid control systems have made significant progress in recent years, yet modeling fluent interaction-rich behavior between a robot, its surrounding environment, and task-relevant objects remains aโ€ฆ

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SASI: Leveraging Sub-Action Semantics for Robust Early Action Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction

Yongpeng Cao, Masahiro Hirano, Hyuno Kim, Yuji Yamakawa ยท 2026

Understanding human actions is critical for advancing behavior analysis in human-robot interaction. Particularly in tasks that demand quick and proactive feedback, robots must recognize human actions โ€ฆ

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DOT-Sim: Differentiable Optical Tactile Simulation with Precise Real-to-Sim Physical Calibration

Yang You, Won Kyung Do, Aiden Swann, Rika Antonova, Monroe Kennedy, Leonidas Guibas ยท 2026

Simulating optical tactile sensors presents significant challenges due to their high deformability and intricate optical properties. To address these issues and enable a physically accurate simulationโ€ฆ

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Learning Tactile-Aware Quadrupedal Loco-Manipulation Policies

Pokuang Zhou, Yuhao Zhou, Quan Luu, Seungho Han, Heng Zhang, Binghao Huang, Yunzhu Li, Arash Ajoudani, Zhengtong Xu, Yu She ยท 2026

Quadrupedal loco-manipulation is commonly built on visual perception and proprioception. Yet reliable contact-rich manipulation remains difficult: vision and proprioception alone cannot resolve uncertโ€ฆ

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Global Sampling-Based Trajectory Optimization for Contact-Rich Manipulation via KernelSOS

Zhongqi Wei, Frederike Dumbgen ยท 2026

Contact-rich manipulation is challenging due to its high dimensionality, the requirement for long time horizons, and the presence of hybrid contact dynamics. Sampling-based methods have become a populโ€ฆ

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Rule-based High-Level Coaching for Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning in Search-and-Rescue UAV Missions Under Limited-Simulation Training

Mahya Ramezani, Holger Voos ยท 2026

This paper presents a hierarchical decision-making framework for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) missions motivated by search-and-rescue (SAR) scenarios under limited simulation training. The framework โ€ฆ

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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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SPG-Codec: Exploring the Role and Boundaries of Semantic Priors in Ultra-Low-Bitrate Neural Speech Coding

Mingyu Zhao, Zijian Lin, Kun Wei, Zhiyong Wu ยท 2026

Conventional neural speech codecs suffer from severe intelligibility degradation at ultra-low bitrates, where the bottleneck transitions from acoustic distortion to semantic loss. To address this issuโ€ฆ

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Step-Audio-R1.5 Technical Report

Yuxin Zhang, Xiangyu Tony Zhang, Daijiao Liu, Fei Tian, Yayue Deng, Jun Chen, Qingjian Lin, Haoyang Zhang, Yuxin Li, Jinglan Gong, Yechang Huang, Liang Zhao, Chengyuan Yao, Hexin Liu, Eng Siong Chng, Xuerui Yang, Gang Yu, Xiangyu Zhang, Daxin Jiang ยท 2026

Recent advancements in large audio language models have extended Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning into the auditory domain, enabling models to tackle increasingly complex acoustic and spoken tasks. Toโ€ฆ

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GS-Playground: A High-Throughput Photorealistic Simulator for Vision-Informed Robot Learning

Yufei Jia, Heng Zhang, Ziheng Zhang, Junzhe Wu, Mingrui Yu, Zifan Wang, Dixuan Jiang, Zheng Li, Chenyu Cao, Zhuoyuan Yu, Xun Yang, Haizhou Ge, Yuchi Zhang, Jiayuan Zhang, Zhenbiao Huang, Tianle Liu, Shenyu Chen, Jiacheng Wang, Bin Xie, Xuran Yao, Xiwa Deng, Guangyu Wang, Jinzhi Zhang, Lei Hao, Zhixing Chen, Yuxiang Chen, Anqi Wang, Hongyun Tian, Yiyi Yan, Zhanxiang Cao, Yizhou Jiang, Hanyang Shao, Yue Li, Lu Shi, Bokui Chen, Wei Sui, Hanqing Cui, Yusen Qin, Ruqi Huang, Lei Han, Tiancai Wang, Guyue Zhou ยท 2026

Embodied AI research is undergoing a shift toward vision-centric perceptual paradigms. While massively parallel simulators have catalyzed breakthroughs in proprioception-based locomotion, their potentโ€ฆ

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HANDFUL: Sequential Grasp-Conditioned Dexterous Manipulation with Resource Awareness

Ethan Foong, Yunshuang Li, Hao Jiang, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Daniel Seita ยท 2026

Dexterous robot hands offer rich opportunities for multifunctional manipulation, where a robot must execute multiple skills in sequence while maintaining control over previously grasped objects. Most โ€ฆ

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Learning Human-Intention Priors from Large-Scale Human Demonstrations for Robotic Manipulation

Yifan Xie, YuAn Wang, Guangyu Chen, Jinkun Liu, Yu Sun, Wenbo Ding ยท 2026

Human videos contain rich manipulation priors, but using them for robot learning remains difficult because raw observations entangle scene understanding, human motion, and embodiment-specific action. โ€ฆ

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Safe Reconnection Time for Large-Scale Data Center Loads: An Analytical Framework for Transient Stability Assessment

Ahmed Mesfer Alkhudaydi, Bai Cui ยท 2026

The rapid growth of large, power-electronics-rich data center (DC) loads is creating new operational challenges for bulk power systems. A key risk arises when a DC uninterruptible power supply (UPS) dโ€ฆ

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Tube Diffusion Policy: Reactive Visual-Tactile Policy Learning for Contact-rich Manipulation

Teng Xue, Alberto Rigo, Bingjian Huang, Jiayi Shen, Zhengtong Xu, Nick Colonnese, Amirhossein H. Memar ยท 2026

Contact-rich manipulation is central to many everyday human activities, requiring continuous adaptation to contact uncertainty and external disturbances through multi-modal perception, particularly viโ€ฆ

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Multi-robot obstacle-aware shepherding of non-cohesive target agents

Cinzia Tomaselli, Stefano Covone, Andreagiovanni Reina, Mario di Bernardo ยท 2026

This paper presents a novel control strategy for multi-agent shepherding of non-cohesive targets in obstacle-rich environments. Unlike previous approaches that assume cohesive flocking behavior, our mโ€ฆ

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Monolithically Integrated VO$_2$ Mott Oscillators for Energy-Efficient Spiking Neurons

Fabio Bersano, Cyrille Masserey, Vanessa Conti, Andrea Iaconeta, Niccolo' Martinolli, Ehsan Ansari, Anna Varini, Igor Stolichnov, Adrian Mihai Ionescu ยท 2026

Brain-inspired non-Boolean computing offers intrinsic error tolerance and parallelism, but its practical deployment is limited by the lack of compact, energy-efficient spiking hardware compatible withโ€ฆ

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Learn Weightlessness: Imitate Non-Self-Stabilizing Motions on Humanoid Robot

Yucheng Xin, Jiacheng Bao, Haoran Yang, Wenqiang Que, Dong Wang, Junbo Tan, Xueqian Wang, Bin Zhao, Xuelong Li ยท 2026

The integration of imitation and reinforcement learning has enabled remarkable advances in humanoid whole-body control, facilitating diverse human-like behaviors. However, research on environment-depeโ€ฆ

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VTouch++: A Multimodal Dataset with Vision-Based Tactile Enhancement for Bimanual Manipulation

Qianxi Hua, Xinyue Li, Zheng Yan, Yang Li, Chi Zhang, Yongyao Li, Yufei Liu ยท 2026

Embodied intelligence has advanced rapidly in recent years; however, bimanual manipulation-especially in contact-rich tasks remains challenging. This is largely due to the lack of datasets with rich pโ€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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