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Control Barrier Functions with Audio Risk Awareness for Robot Safe Navigation on Construction Sites
Johannes Mootz, Reza Akhavian
2026
MiDAS: A Multimodal Data Acquisition System and Dataset for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery
Keshara Weerasinghe, Seyed Hamid Reza Roodabeh, Andrew Hawkins +3 more
2026
Self-Refining Vision Language Model for Robotic Failure Detection and Reasoning
Carl Qi, Xiaojie Wang, Silong Yong +6 more
2026
Zero-Shot Adaptation to Robot Structural Damage via Natural Language-Informed Kinodynamics Modeling
Anuj Pokhrel, Aniket Datar, Mohammad Nazeri +2 more
2026
Thermal Imaging for Contactless Cardiorespiratory and Sudomotor Response Monitoring
Constantino Álvarez Casado, Mohammad Rahman, Sasan Sharifipour +4 more
2026
Predicting Dynamic Map States from Limited Field-of-View Sensor Data
Knut Peterson, David Han
2026
LongNav-R1: Horizon-Adaptive Multi-Turn RL for Long-Horizon VLA Navigation
Yue Hu, Avery Xi, Qixin Xiao +4 more
2026
Schur-MI: Fast Mutual Information for Robotic Information Gathering
Kalvik Jakkala, Jason O'Kane, Srinivas Akella
2026
Scaling Verification Can Be More Effective than Scaling Policy Learning for Vision-Language-Action Alignment
Jacky Kwok, Xilun Zhang, Mengdi Xu +4 more
2026
ForeAct: Steering Your VLA with Efficient Visual Foresight Planning
Zhuoyang Zhang, Shang Yang, Qinghao Hu +5 more
2026
6G Empowering Future Robotics: A Vision for Next-Generation Autonomous Systems
Mona Ghassemian, Andrés Meseguer Valenzuela, Ana Garcia Armada +4 more
2026
Any House Any Task: Scalable Long-Horizon Planning for Abstract Human Tasks
Zhihong Liu, Yang Li, Rengming Huang +2 more
2026
LDA-1B: Scaling Latent Dynamics Action Model via Universal Embodied Data Ingestion
Jiangran Lyu, Kai Liu, Xuheng Zhang +17 more
2026
Equivalent Circuit Modeling of Grid-Forming Inverters in (Sub)-Transient Time-Frame
Ambuj Gupta, Balarko Chaudhuri, Mark O'Malley
2026
Sub--Riemannian boundary value problems for Optimal Geometric Locomotion
Oliver Gross, Florine Hartwig, Martin Rumpf +1 more
2026
LatentAM: Real-Time, Large-Scale Latent Gaussian Attention Mapping via Online Dictionary Learning
Junwoon Lee, Yulun Tian
2026
3DGSNav: Enhancing Vision-Language Model Reasoning for Object Navigation via Active 3D Gaussian Splatting
Wancai Zheng, Hao Chen, Xianlong Lu +2 more
2026
Few-Shot Design Optimization by Exploiting Auxiliary Information
Arjun Mani, Carl Vondrick, Richard Zemel
2026
GigaBrain-0.5M*: a VLA That Learns From World Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
GigaBrain Team, Boyuan Wang, Bohan Li +17 more
2026
Multi Graph Search for High-Dimensional Robot Motion Planning
Itamar Mishani, Maxim Likhachev
2026
Pack it in: Packing into Partially Filled Containers Through Contact
David Russell, Zisong Xu, Maximo A. Roa +1 more
2026
RF-Modulated Adaptive Communication Improves Multi-Agent Robotic Exploration
Lorin Achey, Breanne Crockett, Christoffer Heckman +1 more
2026
Affordance-Graphed Task Worlds: Self-Evolving Task Generation for Scalable Embodied Learning
Xiang Liu, Sen Cui, Guocai Yao +4 more
2026
VLAW: Iterative Co-Improvement of Vision-Language-Action Policy and World Model
Yanjiang Guo, Tony Lee, Lucy Xiaoyang Shi +3 more
2026