Robotic Foundation Models for Industrial Control: A Comprehensive Survey and Readiness Assessment Framework

This paper surveys the landscape of robotic foundation models, identifies eleven key industrial implications to establish a 149-criteria assessment framework, and evaluates 324 models to reveal that current industrial readiness is limited and uneven, necessitating a shift from isolated benchmark successes to systematic integration of safety, real-time performance, and robust system deployment.

David Kube, Simon Hadwiger, Tobias Meisen2026-03-10💻 cs

Gradient-based Nested Co-Design of Aerodynamic Shape and Control for Winged Robots

This paper introduces a general-purpose, gradient-based nested co-design framework that jointly optimizes the aerodynamic shape and motion planner of winged robots using neural surrogate models for complex flow conditions, demonstrating superior performance and efficiency over evolutionary baselines in tasks like perching and short landing.

Daniele Affinita, Mingda Xu, Benoît Valentin Gherardi, Pascal Fua2026-03-10💻 cs

HiDE: Hierarchical Dictionary-Based Entropy Modeling for Learned Image Compression

The paper proposes HiDE, a hierarchical dictionary-based entropy modeling framework for learned image compression that enhances coding efficiency by decomposing external priors into global and local dictionaries with cascaded retrieval and employing a context-aware parameter estimator to achieve significant BD-rate savings over state-of-the-art methods.

Haoxuan Xiong, Yuanyuan Xu, Kun Zhu, Yiming Wang, Baoliu Ye2026-03-10💻 cs

Efficient Neighbourhood Search in 3D Point Clouds Through Space-Filling Curves and Linear Octrees

This paper presents a highly efficient method for 3D point cloud neighbourhood searching that combines Space-Filling Curves with a linear Octree structure and specialized algorithms, achieving up to 10×\times faster performance and significant cache miss reductions compared to existing solutions while demonstrating strong parallel scalability.

Pablo D. Viñambres, Miguel Yermo, Silvia R. Alcaraz, Oscar G. Lorenzo, Francisco F. Rivera, José C. Cabaleiro2026-03-10💻 cs

Breaking the Martingale Curse: Multi-Agent Debate via Asymmetric Cognitive Potential Energy

This paper introduces AceMAD, a multi-agent debate framework that overcomes the "Martingale Curse" of standard methods by leveraging asymmetric cognitive potential energy—where truth-holders anticipate collective misconceptions—to transform agent convergence from a random walk into a directed drift toward the correct answer.

Yuhan Liu, Juntian Zhang, Yichen Wu, Martin Takac, Salem Lahlou, Xiuying Chen, Nils Lukas2026-03-10💻 cs

AI-Assisted Curation of Conference Scholarship: Compiling, Structuring, and Analyzing Two Decades of Presentations at the Society for Social Work and Research

This study utilizes AI-assisted curation to compile and analyze a comprehensive database of 23,793 presentations from the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference (2005–2026), revealing significant growth in participation, collaboration, and international engagement alongside a continued predominance of quantitative research methods.

Brian Perron, Bryan Victor, Zia Qi2026-03-10💻 cs

A Comprehensive Analysis of the Effects of Network Quality of Service on Robotic Telesurgery

This paper introduces NetFI, a novel fault injection tool, to comprehensively analyze how packet loss, delay, and communication loss impact telesurgical task performance and motion primitives across different proficiency levels, providing quantitative insights and open-source resources to define operational boundaries and guide the development of robust network-aware control strategies.

Zhaomeng Zhang, Seyed Hamid Reza Roodabeh, Homa Alemzadeh2026-03-10💻 cs

Step-Level Visual Grounding Faithfulness Predicts Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Long-Horizon Vision-Language Models

This paper establishes that the quality of a model's step-level visual grounding, quantified by the Step Grounding Rate (SGR), serves as a robust and independent predictor of out-of-distribution generalization in long-horizon vision-language models, outperforming traditional final-answer accuracy metrics.

Md Ashikur Rahman, Md Arifur Rahman, Niamul Hassan Samin, Abdullah Ibne Hanif Arean, Juena Ahmed Noshin2026-03-10💻 cs

Receding-Horizon Nullspace Optimization for Actuation-Aware Control Allocation in Omnidirectional UAVs

This paper proposes a receding-horizon, actuation-aware control allocation strategy for fully actuated omnidirectional UAVs that utilizes nullspace optimization and Constrained iterative LQR to anticipate and suppress asymmetric motor-induced oscillations, thereby significantly improving trajectory tracking performance compared to conventional methods.

Riccardo Pretto, Mahmoud Hamandi, Abdullah Mohamed Ali, Gokhan Alcan, Anthony Tzes, Fares Abu-Dakka2026-03-10💻 cs