3 papers
cs.RO2026
SAFECAST: Robust Failure Detection for VLA Policies with Contrast-Set Training and Calibration
Harshitha Rajaprakash, Aditeya Prajapati, Rong Xue +2
Vision-language-action policies often fail under deployment-time distribution shifts such as clutter, distractor objects, lighting changes, novel objects, altered initial states, a…
cs.RO2026
RoboDream: Compositional World Models for Scalable Robot Data Synthesis
Junjie Ye, Rong Xue, Basile Van Hoorick +6
Scaling robot learning requires large-scale, diverse demonstrations, yet real-world data collection via teleoperation remains prohibitively expensive and time-consuming. While vide…
cs.RO2025
HAND Me the Data: Fast Robot Adaptation via Hand Path Retrieval
Matthew Hong, Anthony Liang, Kevin Kim +4
We hand the community HAND, a simple and time-efficient method for teaching robots new manipulation tasks through human hand demonstrations. Instead of relying on task-specific rob…