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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 · 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 a…

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RAY-TOLD: Ray-Based Latent Dynamics for Dense Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance with TDMPC

Seungho Han, Seokju Lee, Jeonguk Kang · 2026

Dense, dynamic crowds pose a persistent challenge for autonomous mobile robots. Purely reactive planning methods, such as Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) control, often fail to escape local mini…

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Walk With Me: Long-Horizon Social Navigation for Human-Centric Outdoor Assistance

Lingfeng Zhang, Xiaoshuai Hao, Xizhou Bu, Yingbo Tang, Hongsheng Li, Jinghui Lu, Xiu-shen Wei, Jiayi Ma, Yu Liu, Jing Zhang, Hangjun Ye, Xiaojun Liang, Long Chen, Wenbo Ding · 2026

Assisting humans in open-world outdoor environments requires robots to translate high-level natural-language intentions into safe, long-horizon, and socially compliant navigation behavior. Existing ma…

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Libra-VLA: Achieving Learning Equilibrium via Asynchronous Coarse-to-Fine Dual-System

Yifei Wei, Linqing Zhong, Yi Liu, Yuxiang Lu, Xindong He, Maoqing Yao, Guanghui Ren · 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are a promising paradigm for generalist robotic manipulation by grounding high-level semantic instructions into executable physical actions. However, prevailing app…

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AsyncShield: A Plug-and-Play Edge Adapter for Asynchronous Cloud-based VLA Navigation

Kai Yang, Zedong Chu, Yingnan Guo, Zhengbo Wang, Shichao Xie, Yanfen Shen, Xiaolong Wu, Xing Li, Mu Xu · 2026

While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have been demonstrated possessing strong zero-shot generalization for robot control, their massive parameter sizes typically necessitate cloud-based deploymen…

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VLM-VPI: A Vision-Language Reasoning Framework for Improving Automated Vehicle-Pedestrian Interactions

Qingwen Pu, Kun Xie, Yuxiang Liu · 2026

Autonomous driving systems often infer pedestrian yielding behavior from geometric and kinematic cues alone, limiting their ability to reason about visual scene context and age-dependent behavioral va…

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Large Language Model based Interactive Decision-Making for Autonomous Driving

Xinwei Dong, Jiyang Li, Jiabin Xie, Yang Yi, Tianshang Jia, Shiyu Fang, Ye Tian, Peng Hang · 2026

In high-conflict mixed-traffic scenarios involving human-driven and autonomous vehicles, most existing autonomous driving systems default to overly conservative behaviors, lack proactive interaction, …

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GazeVLA: Learning Human Intention for Robotic Manipulation

Chengyang Li, Kaiyi Xiong, Yuan Xu, Lei Qian, Yizhou Wang, Wentao Zhu · 2026

Embodied foundation models have achieved significant breakthroughs in robotic manipulation, yet they still depend heavily on large-scale robot demonstrations. Although recent works have explored lever…

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From Noise to Intent: Anchoring Generative VLA Policies with Residual Bridges

Yiming Zhong, Yaoyu He, Zemin Yang, Pengfei Tian, Yifan Huang, Qingqiu Huang, Xinge Zhu, Yuexin Ma · 2026

Bridging high-level semantic understanding with low-level physical control remains a persistent challenge in embodied intelligence, stemming from the fundamental spatiotemporal scale mismatch between …

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SwarmDrive: Semantic V2V Coordination for Latency-Constrained Cooperative Autonomous Driving

Anjie Qiu, Donglin Wang, Zexin Fang, Sanket Partani, Hans D. Schotten · 2026

Cloud-hosted LLM inference for autonomous driving adds round-trip delay and depends on stable connectivity, while purely local edge models struggle under occlusion. We present SwarmDrive, a semantic V…

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SpaceDex: Generalizable Dexterous Grasping in Tiered Workspaces

Wensheng Wang, Chuanjun Guo, Wei Wei, Tong Wu, Ning Tan · 2026

Generalizable grasping with high-degree-of-freedom (DoF) dexterous hands remains challenging in tiered workspaces, where occlusion, narrow clearances, and height-dependent constraints are substantiall…

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Intent-aligned Autonomous Spacecraft Guidance via Reasoning Models

Yuji Takubo, Simone D'Amico · 2026

Future spacecraft operations require autonomy that can interpret high-level mission intent while preserving safety. However, existing trajectory optimization still relies heavily on expert-crafted for…

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Semantic Area Graph Reasoning for Multi-Robot Language-Guided Search

Ruiyang Wang, Hao-Lun Hsu, Jiwoo Kim, Miroslav Pajic · 2026

Coordinating multi-robot systems (MRS) to search in unknown environments is particularly challenging for tasks that require semantic reasoning beyond geometric exploration. Classical coordination stra…

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Capability-Aware Heterogeneous Control Barrier Functions for Decentralized Multi-Robot Safe Navigation

Joonkyung Kim, Yanze Zhang, Wenhao Luo, Yiwei Lyu · 2026

Safe navigation for multi-robot systems requires enforcing safety without sacrificing task efficiency under decentralized decision-making. Existing decentralized methods often assume robot homogeneity…

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PAINT: Partner-Agnostic Intent-Aware Cooperative Transport with Legged Robots

Zhihao Cao, Tianxu An, Chenhao Li, Stelian Coros, Marco Hutter · 2026

Collaborative transport requires robots to infer partner intent through physical interaction while maintaining stable loco-manipulation. This becomes particularly challenging in complex environments, …

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Dyadic Partnership(DP): A Missing Link Towards Full Autonomy in Medical Robotics

Nassir Navab, Zhongliang Jiang · 2026

For the past decades medical robotic solutions were mostly based on the concept of tele-manipulation. While their design was extremely intelligent, allowing for better access, improved dexterity, redu…

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Using Unwrapped Full Color Space Recording to Measure the Exposedness of Vehicle Exterior Parts for External Human Machine Interfaces

Jose Gonzalez-Belmonte, Jaerock Kwon · 2026

One of the concerns with autonomous vehicles is their ability to communicate their intent to other road users, specially pedestrians, in order to prevent accidents. External Human-Machine Interfaces (…

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CLASP: Closed-loop Asynchronous Spatial Perception for Open-vocabulary Desktop Object Grasping

Yiran Ling, Wenxuan Li, Siying Dong, Yize Zhang, Xiaoyao Huang, Jing Jiang, Ruonan Li, Jie Liu · 2026

Robot grasping of desktop object is widely used in intelligent manufacturing, logistics, and agriculture.Although vision-language models (VLMs) show strong potential for robotic manipulation, their de…

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AIM: Intent-Aware Unified world action Modeling with Spatial Value Maps

Liaoyuan Fan, Zetian Xu, Chen Cao, Wenyao Zhang, Mingqi Yuan, Jiayu Chen · 2026

Pretrained video generation models provide strong priors for robot control, but existing unified world action models still struggle to decode reliable actions without substantial robot-specific traini…

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PFAgent: A Tractable and Self-Evolving Power-Flow Agent for Interactive Grid Analysis

Buxin She, Brian Chen, Luanzheng Guo, Fangxing Li · 2026

Power system simulation workflows remain expert-intensive. Engineers must translate study intents into code or API calls, execute analyses, and interpret outputs. To automate this workflow, this paper…

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