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cs.RO2026

LENS: LLM-guided Environment Simplification for Planning and Control in Clutter

Aileen Liao, Rachel Holladay, Dinesh Jayaraman +1

Despite recent advances in general-purpose robotic manipulation, real-world multi-object clutter remains challenging to handle for today's prevalent approaches. The problem scales…

cs.RO2026

Where to Touch, How to Contact: A Hierarchical RL-MPC Framework for Geometry-Aware Sim-to-Real Manipulation

Zhixian Xie, Yu Xiang, Michael Posa +1

The paper introduces a hierarchical framework that uses a high‑level reinforcement learning policy to choose where a robot should touch an object and a low‑level contact‑implicit m…

cs.RO2026

Push Anything: Single- and Multi-Object Pushing From First Sight with Contact-Implicit MPC

Hien Bui, Yufeiyang Gao, Haoran Yang +6

Non-prehensile manipulation of diverse objects remains a core challenge in robotics, driven by unknown physical properties and the complexity of contact-rich interactions. Recent a…

cs.CV2025

Object Reconstruction under Occlusion with Generative Priors and Contact-induced Constraints

Minghan Zhu, Zhiyi Wang, Qihang Sun +2

Object geometry is key information for robot manipulation. Yet, object reconstruction is a challenging task because cameras only capture partial observations of objects, especially…

cs.RO2025

Vysics: Object Reconstruction Under Occlusion by Fusing Vision and Contact-Rich Physics

Bibit Bianchini, Minghan Zhu, Mengti Sun +3

We introduce Vysics, a vision-and-physics framework for a robot to build an expressive geometry and dynamics model of a single rigid body, using a seconds-long RGBD video and the r…