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335 storiesWRAP: Fixtureless Wrench-aware Multi-Robot Assembly Planning
arXiv:2609.29407v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Assembly using robots often requires specially designed fixtures, or relies on top-down only assembly strategies…
Synthetic Enclosed Echoes: A New Dataset to Mitigate the Gap Between Simulated and Real-World Sonar Data
arXiv:2505.15465v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper introduces Synthetic Enclosed Echoes (SEE), a novel dataset designed to enhance robot perception …
BeyondRetarget: Learning Executable Humanoid Motions Directly from Monocular Video
arXiv:2609.29850v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning executable motions from human videos offers a scalable solution for humanoid robots to acquire demonstr…
Res-HIL: Human-Guided Residual Reinforcement Learning for Sample-Efficient Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv:2609.30023v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitation learning enables robots to acquire manipulation skills from demonstrations, but the resulting policies…
Duet: Dual-Robot Understanding via Efficient Teaching
arXiv:2606.20990v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Dual-robot collaboration enables tasks that exceed the reach and payload of a single robot, such as collabor…
Contact-Implicit Stein Projected ADMM for Discovery of Diverse Contact-Rich Manipulation Strategies
arXiv:2609.28299v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact-implicit trajectory optimization formulates contact-rich manipulation as a single constrained program; h…
Less Language, More Latents: Annotation-Efficient VLAs for Driving
arXiv:2609.27747v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action models (VLA) promise human-steerable autonomous driving, but their training is bottleneck…
Qualcomm to acquire PickNik Robotics and keep MoveIt open-source
Qualcomm plans to integrate the Dragonwing and Arduino platforms with the MoveIt open-source manipulation framework. The post Qualcomm to acquire PickNik Roboti…
Helicon brings automation to high-volume composites manufacturing
Helicon has obtained seed funding to use automation to cut composite manufacturing lead times from months to weeks. The post Helicon brings automation to high-v…
MicroPush: A Lightweight Simulator for Sim-to-Real Microrobotic Pushing and Assembly
arXiv:2602.23607v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Developing learning-based autonomy for microrobotic manipulation is difficult because physical trials are sl…
Higher-Order Approximation of Exit Functionals in Sampling-Based Stochastic Model Predictive Control
arXiv:2609.25257v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety evaluation in sampling-based stochastic model predictive control often requires numerical estimation of…
Vision-based Underwater Formation Control With Input Saturations via Barrier Lyapunov Functions
arXiv:2609.25917v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this work, we propose a communication-free framework for vision-based formation control of fully actuated und…
An Action Is Worth One Patch: Unified World-Action Modeling with PatchWAM
arXiv:2609.25961v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative visual models offer a foundation for learning representations of physical dynamics, yet their extensi…
HazardArena: Evaluating Semantic Safety in Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2604.12447v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models inherit rich world knowledge from vision-language backbones and acquire …
MATES: Learning Multi-Agent Interactions by Transforming Observations for Frozen Single-Agent Policies
arXiv:2609.26010v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) commonly trains decentralized policies from scratch, requiring agent…
MATE: Multi-Agent Virtual Teleoperation Platform for Humanoid Collaboration Data Collection
arXiv:2609.26520v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots require diverse embodied experiences to acquire complex loco-manipulation and collaborative skil…
GINIO: A Geometric SO(3)-Equivariant Interface for Neural Inertial Odometry
arXiv:2609.25338v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural inertial odometry increasingly uses networks as learned measurements inside filtering pipelines. Such mea…
Zephyron: Integrated Design and Analytical Evaluation of a Solar-Assisted Mobile Manipulator for Multimodal Environmental Reconnaissance and Distributed Visual Inference
arXiv:2609.25709v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Environmental reconnaissance needs mobile platforms that carry sensors, preserve measurement context, and return…
AgriGen: Large-Scale Scene Generation Framework for Photorealistic Agricultural Robotics Simulation
arXiv:2609.25725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agricultural robotics is advancing rapidly, yet progress remains constrained by limited field access, lack of co…
On the Control of Mobile Ad-Hoc Agent Deployments in Partially Observed Space
arXiv:2609.23060v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the online deployment of mobile ad hoc networks in unknown orthogonal environments, formalized as the P…
Rough Stochastic Pontryagin Maximum Principle and an Indirect Shooting Method
arXiv:2502.06726v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We derive first-order Pontryagin optimality conditions for stochastic optimal control with determinist…
SAIL: Test-Time Scaling for In-Context Imitation Learning with VLM
arXiv:2603.08269v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In-context imitation learning allows robots to acquire skills from demonstrations, yet one-shot trajectory g…
Safe Learning for Contact-Rich Robot Tasks: A Survey from Classical Learning-Based Methods to Safe Foundation Models
arXiv:2512.11908v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Contact-rich tasks pose significant challenges for robotic systems due to inherent uncertainty, complex dyna…
ME-Brain-1.0: Memory, Cognition and Action for Evolving Embodied Intelligence
arXiv:2609.24271v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current embodied systems largely rely on pretrained capabilities that remain fixed after deployment, limiting th…
Transferring the Intelligence of VLMs to Robotic Control
arXiv:2609.22966v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans can seamlessly adapt to both physical and digital worlds, suggesting that while a digital-to-real gap exi…
ORDER: A Fictitious-World Benchmark for Domain-Adaptive Embodied AI
arXiv:2609.22285v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adapting language models to new domains via continual pre-training raises a basic evaluation problem: if the tra…
HapticWAM: Distilling Imagined Touch into a World-Action Model without Inference-Time Tactile Sensing
arXiv:2609.23888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact-rich manipulation requires estimating forces, slip and contact geometry that can remain ambiguous in sce…
Dexterous Robot Manipulation from Human Demonstrations via Contact-Anchored Retargeting and Residual Policy Learning
arXiv:2609.24093v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning dexterous manipulation from demonstrations is bottlenecked by data: the contact forces that determine w…
Riemannian Density-Driven Optimal Control: Tangent-Space LQR for Second-Order Multi-Agent Systems on Curved Manifolds
arXiv:2609.22678v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Density-Driven Optimal Control (D2OC) provides an effective framework for steering multi-agent systems toward …
Algebraic Consistency Alone Does Not Certify Temporal Structure in Latent Action Models
arXiv:2609.23478v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Latent action models infer a code for the transition between two frames of action-free video. Recent methods r…