USC · embodied AI & robot learning南加州大学 · 具身智能与机器人学习
4 curated papers, code, datasets and hardware from USC (2 with code), with one-line takeaways.4 个来自南加州大学的精选论文、代码、数据集与硬件（2 个附代码），均配一句话要点。
Labs are matched from each entry's affiliation field by simple name rules (data/labs.yaml); joint work appears under every lab named. Only curated entries are listed, because daily arXiv papers carry no affiliations.机构由每个条目的机构字段按名称规则匹配（data/labs.yaml），合作工作会出现在所有署名机构下。仅列出精选条目，因为每日 arXiv 论文不含机构信息。
WACL learns from human demos to push and hold with the whole arm, choosing where on the arm to make contact while keeping the gripper's constraints.WACL 从人类示范中学习用整条手臂推、抵物体，自主选择手臂上的接触位置，同时满足末端执行器的约束。
@misc{huang2026beyond,
title = {{Beyond the End-Effector: Learning Whole-Arm Contact Manipulation from Human Demonstrations}},
author = {Bo-Ruei Huang and Daniel Seita and Erdem Bıyık},
year = {2026},
eprint = {2610.17802},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
primaryClass = {cs.RO},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.17802},
}
A hierarchical VLA in which a fine-tuned VLM draws a coarse 2D path for the end effector on the image and a low-level 3D policy follows it, so the VLM can be trained on cheap off-domain data such as sim or videos.分层 VLA：微调后的 VLM 在图像上画出末端执行器的粗略二维路径，再由底层三维策略跟随执行；因此 VLM 可以用仿真、视频等低成本的非本域数据训练。
@misc{li2025hamster,
title = {{HAMSTER: Hierarchical Action Models for Open-World Robot Manipulation}},
author = {Yi Li and Yuquan Deng and Jesse Zhang and Joel Jang and Marius Memmel and Raymond Yu and Caelan Reed Garrett and Fabio Ramos and Dieter Fox and Anqi Li and Abhishek Gupta and Ankit Goyal},
year = {2025},
eprint = {2502.05485},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
primaryClass = {cs.RO},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05485},
}
A VLA outputs mid-level navigation commands in language that an RL locomotion policy executes, so legged robots follow natural-language routes; adds Isaac Lab VLN benchmarks.VLA 先用语言输出中层导航指令，再由强化学习运动策略执行，让腿式机器人按自然语言指令导航；并提供 Isaac Lab 上的 VLN 基准。
@misc{cheng2024navila,
title = {{NaVILA: Legged Robot Vision-Language-Action Model for Navigation}},
author = {An-Chieh Cheng and Yandong Ji and Zhaojing Yang and Zaitian Gongye and Xueyan Zou and Jan Kautz and Erdem Bıyık and Hongxu Yin and Sifei Liu and Xiaolong Wang},
year = {2024},
eprint = {2412.04453},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
primaryClass = {cs.RO},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04453},
}
@misc{pumacay2024colosseum,
title = {{THE COLOSSEUM: A Benchmark for Evaluating Generalization for Robotic Manipulation}},
author = {Wilbert Pumacay and Ishika Singh and Jiafei Duan and Ranjay Krishna and Jesse Thomason and Dieter Fox},
year = {2024},
eprint = {2402.08191},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
primaryClass = {cs.RO},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08191},
}