3 papers
cs.RO2026
Learning to Act While Waiting: RL Finetuning of Generalist Robot Policies Under Inference Latency
Brian Zhu, Momen Khalil, E Harrison +17
While reinforcement learning (RL) allows generalist robot policies to continually improve during deployment, the large model size of modern generalist policies, such as VLAs, poses…
cs.RO2026
A Deployment Case Study in Robotic Apparel Automation: Digital Twin Integration, Interoperability, and Workforce Enablement
Gokul Narayanan, Abhiroop Ajith, Jonathan Zornow +5
Despite steady advances in flexible automation in sectors such as electronics and automotive manufacturing, apparel automation remains challenging because fabrics are deformable an…
cs.RO2025
Robotic Automation in Apparel Manufacturing: A Novel Approach to Fabric Handling and Sewing
Abhiroop Ajith, Gokul Narayanan, Jonathan Zornow +5
Sewing garments using robots has consistently posed a research challenge due to the inherent complexities in fabric manipulation. In this paper, we introduce an intelligent robotic…