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The Open Ant: A Robot Platform for Reinforcement Learning Research
Elena Sorina Lupu, Patrick Spieler, Khurram Javed +4 more
2026
Governing Well in the Algorithmic Age: The Foundations of Digital Statecraft
Zeynep Engin, Tim Gordon, Viviana Bastidas +13 more
2026
Quantum-Enabled Spintronic "Small" Antennas
Supriyo Bandyopadhyay
2026
Learnable Sequential Memory in Coupled Oscillator Networks
Taosha Guo, Fabio Pasqualetti
2026
$\texttt{codesign-mcdp}$: A Python Library for Monotone Co-Design Problems
Corentin Briat
2026
Patch Policy: Efficient Embodied Control via Dense Visual Representations
Gaoyue Zhou, Zichen Jeff Cui, Ada Langford +3 more
2026
FM-VLA: Force-based Memory for Vision-Language-Action Models in Contact-Rich Manipulation
Ruicheng Li, Qixiu Li, Ruichun Ma +8 more
2026
Optimization of sim-to-real transfer in the humanoid robot NICO
Juraj Gavura, Igor Farkaš
2026
Learning Adaptive Safety Margins for Visual Navigation
Junyi Hu, Shuaihang Yuan, Geeta Chandra Raju Bethala +2 more
2026
Imitation of Arm Gestures by the Semi-Humanoid Robot NICO
Anastasiya Ihnatovich, Igor Farkaš
2026
World Translation: Minimizing Sim-to-Real Gap with Backward Dynamics Extraction and Unpaired Domain Translation
Xinchen Yao, Leixin Chang, Hua Chen
2026
LLMs and Agentic AI Systems for Smart Grids: A Tutorial on Architectures and Applications
Daniela Rojas, Abdulwahab Albassam, Aidan G. Leung +11 more
2026
Towards Torque-Driven Reinforcement Learning for Quadruped Locomotion
Jordan Dowdy, Jean Chagas Vaz
2026
Isaac Sim-to-Real: Reinforcement Learning based Locomotion for Quadrupeds
Jordan Dowdy, Jean Chagas Vaz
2026
Importance Sampling and PCA for Finding Failures in Commercial Autonomous Vehicles
Hailey Warner, Duncan Eddy, Shreya Parjan +6 more
2026
Real-Time Flight Test Maneuver Selection with Monte Carlo Tree Search
Nicholas E. Bostock, Helen Pruitt-Kennett, Marc R. Schlichting +1 more
2026
Technical Design Review of Duke Robotics Club's Oogway & Crush: AUVs for RoboSub 2026
Patrick Zheng, Saagar Arya, Hung Le +16 more
2026
UniETP: Unifying Environments for Generalizable Embodied Task Planning
Peiran Xu, Jiaqi Zheng, Ziyou Wang +1 more
2026
RoboHarness: Memory-Driven Orchestration of Heterogeneous Robot Policies for Long-Horizon Planning
Jinbang Huang, Yuanzhao Hu, Zhiyuan Li +6 more
2026
Closing the Loop in Humanoid VLA: Persistent 3D Object Tokens for Verifiable Loco-Manipulation
Peng Ren, Haoyang Ge, Jiang Zhao +4 more
2026
Remote Awareness of Seafloor Images Collected by AUVs over Low-Bandwidth Communication Links
Adrian Bodenmann, Cailei Liang, Miquel Massot-Campos +8 more
2026
FARO: Feasibility-Aware Robot Motion Optimization
Michal Ciebielski, Shafeef Omar, Aaron Johnson +1 more
2026
Distilling Global Traversability Priors for Image-based Affordance Prediction in Off-road Environments
Matthew Sivaprakasam, Samuel Triest, Micah Nye +5 more
2026
RynnBrain 1.1: Towards More Capable and Generalizable Embodied Foundation Model
Kehan Li, Bohan Hou, Minghao Zhu +17 more
2026