How Time-Aware Control Makes Robots Faster, Gentler, and Smarter

Treating time as an explicit dimension of control enables robots to dynamically balance speed, precision, and robustness. By modulating how quickly time "elapses" internally, a single learned policy adapts seamlessly from fast, aggressive actions to slow, careful manipulation—no retraining required. The result is more efficient motion, improved sim-to-real performance, resilient recovery from disturbances, and intuitive high-level control over robot behavior, pointing toward a new generation of time-aware motion control.