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Pyroki: A modular toolkit for robot kinematic optimization

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Robot motion can have many goals. Depending on the task, we might optimize for pose error, speed, collision, or similarity to a human demonstration. Motivated by this, we present PyRoki: a modular, extensible, and cross-platform toolkit for solving kinematic optimization problems. PyRoki couples an interface for specifying kinematic variables and costs with an efficient nonlinear least squares optimizer. Unlike existing tools, it is also cross-platform: optimization runs natively on CPU, GPU, and TPU. In this paper, we present (i) the design and implementation of PyRoki, (ii) motion retargeting and planning case studies that highlight the advantages of PyRoki's modularity, and (iii) optimization benchmarking, where PyRoki can be 1.4-1.7x faster and converges to lower errors than cuRobo, an existing GPU-accelerated inverse kinematics library.

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Sequential Planning via Anchored Robotic Keypoints

cs.RO · 2026-06-29 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

SPARK reaches 43.7% success on six LIBERO-PRO cells by LLM-generated typed behavior trees plus multi-prompt perception and recovery, more than doubling CaP-Agent0 and VLA baselines.

Do as I Do: Dexterous Manipulation Data from Everyday Human Videos

cs.RO · 2026-06-17 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

DO AS I DO reconstructs and retargets hand-object interactions from in-the-wild monocular RGB videos to produce dexterous robot manipulation trajectories, outperforming prior methods on ground-truth and online video datasets.

frax: Fast Robot Kinematics and Dynamics in JAX

cs.RO · 2026-04-05 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

frax is a new open-source JAX library delivering low-microsecond CPU dynamics and over 100 million GPU evaluations per second for robot kinematics and dynamics with autodiff support.

Constrained Whole-Body Tracking for Humanoid Robots

cs.RO · 2026-05-29 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

ConstrainedMimic integrates operational space control and control barrier functions into RL tracking policies to enforce arbitrary runtime constraints on humanoid kinematics and dynamics while preserving contact modes and tracking goals.

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