3 papers
cs.RO2026
One from Infinity: Actualizing Futures from Pretrained World Models into Robot Actions
Bang Du, Yichen Xie, Shuqi Zhao +3
A pretrained video world model admits many plausible futures for a scene, but a robot must realize the exact task-conditioned one. To turn world models into executable robot polici…
cs.RO2026
RopeFormer: Cross-Trial Adaptation from Interaction History for Dynamic Rope Manipulation
Menglin Wu, Kaixiang Yao, Shangbo Luan +2
Dynamic rope manipulation is highly sensitive to unknown object dynamics: the same robot motion can produce substantially different responses across ropes, while explicitly identif…
cs.RO2026
CLIFT: Turning Gemini Robotics On-Device into Humanoid Specialists via Non-Invasive Closed-Loop Iterative Fine-Tuning
Yuxin Chen, Hari Srikanth, Nathan Jew +7
While robot foundation models are growing increasingly capable, the strongest models are typically trained on proprietary data and remain closed-source, limiting downstream users'…