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Characterizing pitch and roll torque coupling in insect-sized flapping-wing robots using a microfabricated gimbal

Aaron Weber, Daksh Dhingra, Sawyer B. Fuller ยท 2026

Sub-gram flapping-wing flying insect robots (FIRs) are challenging to model because of mechanical complexity in their wings, unsteady aerodynamic flow, and the difficulty of making precise measurementโ€ฆ

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Wearable AI in the Era of Large Sensor Models

Yize Cai, Baoshen Guo, Guobin Shen, Zhiqing Hong ยท 2026

As an effective approach to understanding the human-centric physical world, Wearable Artificial Intelligence (AI), which leverages multimodal wearable sensors to understand human physiology and behaviโ€ฆ

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Vision-Language Navigation for Aerial Robots: Towards the Era of Large Language Models

Xingyu Xia, Lekai Zhou, Yujie Tang, Xiaozhou Zhu, Hai Zhu, Wen Yao ยท 2026

Aerial vision-and-language navigation (Aerial VLN) aims to enable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to interpret natural language instructions and autonomously navigate complex three-dimensional environโ€ฆ

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Foundation Models Defining A New Era In Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition: A Survey And Outlook

Sizhen Bian, Mengxi Liu, Lala Shakti Swarup Ray, Bo Zhou, Bin Guo, Zhiwen Yu, Thomas Ploetz, Paul Lukowicz, Siyu Yuan, Vitor Fortes Rey ยท 2026

Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) underpins many ubiquitous and wearable computing applications, yet current models remain limited by scarce labels, sensor heterogeneity, and weak generaliโ€ฆ

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Semantic MIMO: Revisiting Linear Precoding in the Generative AI Era

Chunmei Xu, Yi Ma, Rahim Tafazolli ยท 2026

This paper revisits linear precoding, namely match-filter (MF) and zero-forcing (ZF), in a semantic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system empowered by generative AI. The aim is to examine whethโ€ฆ

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Optimal GNSS Time Tracking for Long-term Stable Time Realisation in Synchronised Atomic Clocks

Maitreyee Dutta, Jiayu Chen, Masakazu Koike, Yuichiro Yano, Yuko Hanado, Takayuki Ishizaki ยท 2026

In this manuscript, we propose a novel optimal Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) time tracking algorithm to collectively steer an ensemble consisting of synchronising miniature atomic clocks tโ€ฆ

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Semi-Blind Channel Estimation and Hybrid Receiver Beamforming in the Tera-Hertz Multi-User Massive MIMO Uplink

Abhisha Garg, Suraj Srivastava, Varsha Dubey, Aditya Jagannatham, Lajos Hanzo ยท 2026

We develop a pragmatic multi-user (MU) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel model tailored to the THz band, encompassing factors such as molecular absorption, reflection losses and muโ€ฆ

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Rapid Worst-Case Gust Identification for Very Flexible Aircraft Using Reduced-Order Models

Nikolaos D. Tantaroudas, Ilias Karachalios ยท 2026

Identification of worst-case gust loads is a critical step in the certification of very flexible aircraft, yet the computational cost of nonlinear full-order simulations renders exhaustive parametric โ€ฆ

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The Era of End-to-End Autonomy: Transitioning from Rule-Based Driving to Large Driving Models

Eduardo Nebot, Julie Stephany Berrio Perez ยท 2026

Autonomous driving is undergoing a shift from modular rule based pipelines toward end to end (E2E) learning systems. This paper examines this transition by tracing the evolution from classical sense pโ€ฆ

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NLOS-Aided Joint OTA Synchronization and Off-Grid Imaging for Distributed MIMO Systems

Xin Tong, Lechen Zhang, Yu Ge, Dario Tagliaferri, Henk Wymeersch ยท 2026

Distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) architectures enable large-scale integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) by providing high spatial resolution and robustness through spatial diverโ€ฆ

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Autonomous Integration and Improvement of Robotic Assembly using Skill Graph Representations

Peiqi Yu, Philip Huang, Chaitanya Chawla, Guanya Shi, Jiaoyang Li, Changliu Liu ยท 2026

Robotic assembly systems traditionally require substantial manual engineering effort to integrate new tasks, adapt to new environments, and improve performance over time. This paper presents a framewoโ€ฆ

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Silent Speech Interfaces in the Era of Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Taxonomy and Systematic Review

Kele Xu, Yifan Wang, Ming Feng, Qisheng Xu, Wuyang Chen, Yutao Dou, Cheng Yang, Huaimin Wang ยท 2026

Human-computer interaction has traditionally relied on the acoustic channel, a dependency that introduces systemic vulnerabilities to environmental noise, privacy constraints, and physiological speechโ€ฆ

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Emergency Locator Transmitters in the Era of More Electric Aircraft: A Comprehensive Review of Energy, Integration and Safety Challenges

Juana M. Martinez-Heredia, Adrian Portos, Marcel Stepanek, Francisco Colodro ยท 2026

The progressive electrification of aircraft systems under the more electric aircraft (MEA) paradigm is reshaping the design and qualification constraints of safety-critical avionics. Emergency locatorโ€ฆ

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Computational Pathology in the Era of Emerging Foundation and Agentic AI -- International Expert Perspectives on Clinical Integration and Translational Readiness

Qian Da, Yijiang Chen, Min Ju, Zheyi Ji, Albert Zhou, Wenwen Wang, Matthew A Abikenari, Philip Chikontwe, Guillaume Larghero, Bowen Chen, Peter Neidlinger, Dingrong Zhong, Shuhao Wang, Wei Xu, Drew Williamson, German Corredor, Sen Yang, Le Lu, Xiao Han, Kun-Hsing Yu, Jun-zhou Huang, Laura Barisoni, Geert Litjens, Anant Madabhushi, Lifeng Zhu, Chaofu Wang, Junhan Zhao, Weiguo Hu ยท 2026

Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence through foundation models and agents have accelerated the evolution of computational pathology. Demonstrated performance gains reported across academia โ€ฆ

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Toward Wireless Human-Machine Collaboration in the 6G Era

Gaoyang Pang, Wanchun Liu, Chentao Yue, Daniel E. Quevedo, Karl H. Johansson, Branka Vucetic, Yonghui Li ยท 2026

The next industrial revolution, Industry 5.0, will be driven by advanced technologies that foster human-machine collaboration (HMC). It will leverage human creativity, judgment, and dexterity with theโ€ฆ

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Digital Twin--Driven Adaptive Wavelet Strategy for Efficient 6G Backbone Network Telemetry

Alexandre Barbosa de Lima, Xavier Hesselbach, Jose Roberto de Almeida Amazonas ยท 2026

Classical orthogonal wavelets guarantee perfect reconstruction but rely on fixed bases optimized for polynomial smoothness, achieving suboptimal compression on signals with fractal spectral signaturesโ€ฆ

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Optically Sensorized Electro-Ribbon Actuator (OS-ERA)

Carolina Gay, Petr Trunin, Diana Cafiso, Yuejun Xu, Majid Taghavi, Lucia Beccai ยท 2026

Electro-Ribbon Actuators (ERAs) are lightweight flexural actuators that exhibit ultrahigh displacement and fast movement. However, their embedded sensing relies on capacitive sensors with limited precโ€ฆ

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Designing Social Robots with Ethical, User-Adaptive Explainability in the Era of Foundation Models

Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Alva Markelius, Hatice Gunes ยท 2026

Foundation models are increasingly embedded in social robots, mediating not only what they say and do but also how they adapt to users over time. This shift renders traditional ``one-size-fits-all'' eโ€ฆ

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Beyond the Utterance: An Empirical Study of Very Long Context Speech Recognition

Robert Flynn, Anton Ragni ยท 2026

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) models are normally trained to operate over single utterances, with a short duration of less than 30 seconds. This choice has been made in part due to computational โ€ฆ

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When Attention Betrays: Erasing Backdoor Attacks in Robotic Policies by Reconstructing Visual Tokens

Xuetao Li, Pinhan Fu, Wenke Huang, Nengyuan Pan, Songhua Yang, Kaiyan Zhao, Guancheng Wan, Mengde Li, Jifeng Xuan, Miao Li ยท 2026

Downstream fine-tuning of vision-language-action (VLA) models enhances robotics, yet exposes the pipeline to backdoor risks. Attackers can pretrain VLAs on poisoned data to implant backdoors that remaโ€ฆ

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