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903 storiesContact-Stable Deformable Tissue Simulation Using Implicit Integration and Live-Pose Grasp Constraints for Laparoscopic Surgery Robot Policy Evaluation
arXiv:2609.25642v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Closed-loop evaluation of surgical robots requires tissue that deforms, can be grasped and lifted, and reproduce…
Skill Sequence Planning for Collaborative Multi-Robot Construction
arXiv:2609.25649v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots have significant potential to automate construction processes. However, their industry adoption remains l…
TM-APR: Thermal Temporal-Memory Localization via Analytic Online Adaptation
arXiv:2609.26766v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Thermal Visual Place Recognition (Thermal VPR) maps camera observations to metric poses within a mapped environm…
Shaft-Configuration-Adaptive Catheter Tip Position Estimation via Motor-History Conditioned Residual Learning
arXiv:2609.26304v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tendon-driven continuum manipulators are widely used in medical applications, where accurate tip-position estima…
Sample, Simulate, Select: Physics-in-the-Loop Text-to-Motion for Humanoids Without Training
arXiv:2609.26420v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-motion models generate plausible human motion but do not model a robot's dynamics; whole-body tracking c…
NeMo-map: Neural Implicit Flow Fields for Spatio-Temporal Motion Mapping
arXiv:2510.14827v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Safe and efficient robot operation in complex human environments can benefit from good models of site-specif…
Skytopia: Monocular Drone Navigation with Action-Conditioned Latent World Models
arXiv:2609.26007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Monocular drone navigation requires reaching a goal in an unseen environment from a single forward-facing camera…
REDACT: Robust Perceptive Locomotion under Unseen Visual Corruption
arXiv:2609.25450v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Depth-conditioned locomotion policies have demonstrated impressive agile maneuvers, but can be steered to unpred…
A Deployment Study of Identity-Gated Drone Gesture Control
arXiv:2609.25511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-based gesture control accepts commands from any hand in the camera field of view, which is unsafe in shar…
Digital Twin-Driven VR Teleoperation with Multi-View Spatial Perception for Surgical Robots
arXiv:2609.25527v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current robot-assisted minimally-invasive surgery (RMIS) platforms provide a fixed console for the surgeon to vi…
From Instrument-Mounted Demonstrations to In-Vivo Execution: Learning Bimanual Laparoscopic Appendectomy Without Robot-Collected Demonstrations
arXiv:2609.25625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most minimally invasive surgery is still performed with hand-held laparoscopic instruments, and the surgeon's in…
Teaching Reinforcement Learning and Humanoid Robotics to High-School Students: An Expert-Validated Curriculum Design on a Low-Cost Open Platform
arXiv:2609.25674v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Lower cost open source robots and reinforcement learning (RL) simulation tools create new opportunities for prec…
MatcherCompass: A Deployment-Aware Benchmark to Guide Image Matcher Selection in the Wild
arXiv:2609.25688v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Field robots operating across time of day and sensing modalities require accurate image correspondences within o…
The Cartesian Hand: In-Hand Manipulation with All-Linear Fingers
arXiv:2609.25696v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic manipulation has increasingly pursued human-like dexterous hands with many articulated degrees of freedo…
MedVLA: A Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Framework for Closed-Loop Precision Medical Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2609.25756v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Precision medical robotics demands adaptive decision-making under strict safety, interpretability, and execution…
OJOx: Specification-Conditioned Demonstrations for Embodied AI in Construction
arXiv:2609.22289v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale egocentric and whole-body human demonstrations are becoming a primary source of data for embodied in…
From Documented Strengths to Force Limits: Material-Informed Robotic Insertion for Construction Assembly
arXiv:2609.22609v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Insertion is a fundamental operation in robotic construction assembly, where variations in material properties a…
ForceRFT: Refining VLA Actions through Force-Guided Residual Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2609.22840v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Force-conditioned vision-language-action (VLA) policies can respond to contact, but when trained solely on demon…
A Reconfigurable Dual-Opposition Architecture for Single-Hand Assembly and Manipulation
arXiv:2609.22871v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In-hand assembly is constrained by the need to maintain grasps on two separate parts while controlling their rel…
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…
Spiking Neural Network Actor-Critic Proximal Policy Optimization Control for Autonomous UAV Navigation Through Constrained Openings in Civil Infrastructure and Buildings
arXiv:2609.23643v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles in constrained three-dimensional environments has been a chall…
Object-Centered Reconstruction for Vision-Based 3D Force Estimation
arXiv:2609.23856v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Excessive force may damage tissue and increase the risk of anastomotic leakage in robotic colorectal surgery. Al…
Performance-Preserving Online Adaptation in Social Navigation via Diffusion Steering
arXiv:2609.24317v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In social navigation, modeling the complex interactions between humans and robots is difficult, and deep reinfor…
InsertAnything: Generalizable Contact-Rich Precision Insertion from Simulation to Reality
arXiv:2609.24511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact-rich precision insertion is a key manipulation skill in robotic assembly. Tight clearances make insertio…
CAST: Collision-Aware Assembly with Construction Robots using Simultaneous Trajectory Estimation and Planning
arXiv:2609.24841v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot systems have shown increasing viability in construction due to their ability to execute high-precisi…
SmallSatSim: A GPU-Accelerated Microgravity Robotics Toolkit for Planning, Control, and Policy Learning
arXiv:2603.14598v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Microgravity rendezvous and close proximity operations (RPO) is a growing area of interest for applications …
Correct-by-Construction Vision-based Pose Estimation using Geometric Generative Models
arXiv:2601.17556v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We consider the problem of vision-based pose estimation for autonomous systems. While deep neural networks h…
Task aware Dynamic Movement Primitives for failure detection and recovery in contact rich manipulation
arXiv:2609.23151v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Assembly remains a challenging robotic manipulation task in presence of tight tolerances and complex contact i…
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…
MIRA-PRM: Mission-Informed Reusable Roadmap Planning for Mobile Gas-Sensing Inspection
arXiv:2609.22954v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile gas-sensing inspection requires a mobile platform to reliably reach ordered sampling poses. We present MI…