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VAMPO: Policy Optimization for Improving Visual Dynamics in Video Action Models
Zirui Ge, Pengxiang Ding, Baohua Yin +16 more
2026
Safety-Aware Performance Boosting for Constrained Nonlinear Systems
Danilo Saccani, Haoming Shen, Luca Furieri +1 more
2026
Generation Models Know Space: Unleashing Implicit 3D Priors for Scene Understanding
Xianjin Wu, Dingkang Liang, Tianrui Feng +5 more
2026
Not All Features Are Created Equal: A Mechanistic Study of Vision-Language-Action Models
Bryce Grant, Xijia Zhao, Peng Wang
2026
MonoArt: Progressive Structural Reasoning for Monocular Articulated 3D Reconstruction
Haitian Li, Haozhe Xie, Junxiang Xu +3 more
2026
NavTrust: Benchmarking Trustworthiness for Embodied Navigation
Huaide Jiang, Yash Chaudhary, Yuping Wang +8 more
2026
OmniVTA: Visuo-Tactile World Modeling for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation
Yuhang Zheng, Songen Gu, Weize Li +11 more
2026
FASTER: Rethinking Real-Time Flow VLAs
Yuxiang Lu, Zhe Liu, Xianzhe Fan +5 more
2026
Markov Potential Game and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving
Huiwen Yan, Mushuang Liu
2026
Sparse Autoencoders Reveal Interpretable and Steerable Features in VLA Models
Aiden Swann, Lachlain McGranahan, Hugo Buurmeijer +2 more
2026
ADMM-Based Distributed MPC with Control Barrier Functions for Safe Multi-Robot Quadrupedal Locomotion
Yicheng Zeng, Ruturaj S. Sambhus, Basit Muhammad Imran +3 more
2026
Meanings and Measurements: Multi-Agent Probabilistic Grounding for Vision-Language Navigation
Swagat Padhan, Lakshya Jain, Bhavya Minesh Shah +3 more
2026
GSMem: 3D Gaussian Splatting as Persistent Spatial Memory for Zero-Shot Embodied Exploration and Reasoning
Yiren Lu, Yi Du, Disheng Liu +3 more
2026
Introducing M: A Modular, Modifiable Social Robot
Victor Nikhil Antony, Zhili Gong, Yoonjae Kim +1 more
2026
Tutorial: Grid-Following Inverter for Electrical Power Grid
Muhammad Hamza Ali, Amritanshu Pandey
2026
From Inference Efficiency to Embodied Efficiency: Revisiting Efficiency Metrics for Vision-Language-Action Models
Zhuofan Li, Hongkun Yang, Zhenyang Chen +4 more
2026
Tendon-Actuated Robots with a Tapered, Flexible Polymer Backbone: Design, Fabrication, and Modeling
Harald Minde Hansen, Nandita Gallacher, Nicholas B. Andrews +3 more
2026
Exact-Time Safety Recovery using Time-Varying Control Barrier Functions with Optimal Barrier Tracking
Yingqing Chen, Christos G. Cassandras, Wei Xiao +1 more
2026
Assessment of Analog Time Multiplexing in SDM Digital to Analog Converters
Alfredo P. Vega-Leal, Jose L. Mora
2026
Articulated-Body Dynamics Network: Dynamics-Grounded Prior for Robot Learning
Sangwoo Shin, Kunzhao Ren, Xiaobin Xiong +1 more
2026
DROID-SLAM in the Wild
Moyang Li, Zihan Zhu, Marc Pollefeys +1 more
2026
CAMO: A Conditional Neural Solver for the Multi-objective Multiple Traveling Salesman Problem
Fengxiaoxiao Li, Xiao Mao, Mingfeng Fan +4 more
2026
Fire as a Service: Augmenting Robot Simulators with Thermally and Visually Accurate Fire Dynamics
Anton R. Wagner, Madhan Balaji Rao, Helge Wrede +2 more
2026
ATG-MoE: Autoregressive trajectory generation with mixture-of-experts for assembly skill learning
Weihang Huang, Chaoran Zhang, Xiaoxin Deng +4 more
2026