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2456 storiesForbidden Region Dynamic Active Constraints in Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery
arXiv:2608.03010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In robot-assisted surgery, Forbidden Region Active Constraints (FRAC) represent a control strategy that helps ma…
Lightweight 3D Object Detection via Mamba-Based Knowledge Distillation
arXiv:2608.03490v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D object detection using light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors requires a balance between accuracy and co…
Accelerating Human-Aware Robot Trajectory Generation via Diffusion and Consistency Distillation
arXiv:2608.03159v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This research proposes a constrained motion planning framework for robot manipulators in human-robot interaction…
Design and Evaluation of an AI-Enabled Cloud-Edge Architecture for Connected Precision Agriculture Farms
arXiv:2608.03816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Plant diseases cause significant yield losses worldwide, with tomato crops particularly susceptible to early bli…
Active Stiffness Control of a Supportive Continuum Robot
arXiv:2608.03677v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Supportive continuum robots (SCRs) enhance the load-bearing capability of an operative continuum robot by mechan…
Staying on Spec: Real-Time Monitoring under Uncertainty with a Maritime Case Study
arXiv:2608.02811v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic systems must operate under uncertainty while satisfying complex task and safety specifications. Monitori…
Track4Action: Distilling World-Centric 3D Tracker into Vision-Language-Action Policies
arXiv:2608.03727v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action labels tell a vision-language-action (VLA) policy which robot commands to imitate, but not how those comm…
FGGS-LiDAR: Ultra-Fast, GPU-Accelerated Simulation from General 3DGS Models to LiDAR
arXiv:2509.17390v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a strong representation for photorealistic rendering, its …
GEM-4D: Geometry-Enhanced Video World Models for Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2605.22882v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Video world models can generate realistic futures from a single instruction, but they often fail to tr…
Contact-Driven Localization in a Freeform Robotic Self-Assembled Structure
arXiv:2608.02895v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate localization remains a key challenge in swarm robotics, particularly for self-reconfigurable systems th…
Gated Memory Policy: In-Context Memorization and Adaptation
arXiv:2604.18933v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic manipulation tasks exhibit varying memory requirements, ranging from Markovian tasks that require no…
On-the-fly hand-eye calibration for the da Vinci surgical robot
arXiv:2601.14871v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (RMIS), accurate tool localization is crucial to ensure patient…
U.S. Navy picks Blue Water Autonomy to use autonomous vessels for deep ocean surveys
Blue Water Autonomy creates unmanned ships that can operate autonomously on the open ocean for months a time. The post U.S. Navy picks Blue Water Autonomy to us…
Zoox unveils production-ready robotaxi for U.S. expansion
Amazon subsidiary Zoox unveiled its final production-ready robotaxi design and expanded testing following a subtle redesign to improve rider comfort. The post Z…
Humanoids won’t scale on factory floors until costs drop
The race to commercialize humanoids is on. What’s left to prove is that humanoid robots can beat the economics of the automation manufacturers are already runni…
VertiAKD: Adaptive Off-Road Kinodynamics on Vertically Challenging Terrain
arXiv:2608.00945v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Off-road mobility requires autonomous mobile robots to generalize across heterogeneous vehicle fleets and contin…
3D-CovDiffusion: 3D-Aware Diffusion Policy for Coverage Path Planning
arXiv:2510.03011v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion models have shown strong potential for robot skill learning, yet their role in coverage path plann…
DreamTrajectory: Trajectory-Guided Action Generation with World Model Alignment for Mobile Manipulation
arXiv:2608.01381v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile manipulation requires a robot to coordinate base and arm motion under continuously changing viewpoints an…
Multi-View Unified Camera Fields: Geometry-Shaped Action-Facing Representations for RGB-Only Multi-Camera VLA Policies
arXiv:2608.01826v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong generalization in robotic manipulation, yet complex contac…
Track-Guided Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Vehicle Drifting with Minimum-Lap-Time Planning
arXiv:2608.00113v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Formula 1, drivers optimize racing lines within tire grip limits to minimize lap times; however, in rally rac…
Belief-Space Perception Routing under Coupled Sensor Faults and Compute Contention
arXiv:2608.00322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A robot that has to see and react on a fixed clock runs into two problems at once. Its cameras degrade in rain, …
Grounded Vision-Language Interpreter for Long-Horizon Bimanual Task and Motion Planning
arXiv:2506.03270v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While recent advances in vision-language models have accelerated language-guided robot planning, their black…
LooperMuscle: Fast and Stable Learning of Humanoid Whole-Body Tracking via Structured Mixture-of-Experts
arXiv:2608.00820v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: FastSAC-style methods significantly reduce humanoid motion training time but often suffer from notable performan…
SIPTraj: Map-Free End-to-End Trajectory Prediction via Physics-Guided Scene Interaction
arXiv:2608.00779v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trajectory prediction of surrounding agents is a prerequisite for safe planning and decision making in autonomou…
Toward Geometry-Scalable Whole-Body Touch for Humanoids: A 3D-Printed Conformal EIT Skin
arXiv:2608.02080v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Whole-body tactile sensing is a prerequisite for humanoids that operate in contact-rich human environments, but …
MANGO-Grasp: Mahalanobis Fields over Geometry-Oriented 3D Gaussians for Cross-Embodiment Dexterous Grasping
arXiv:2608.02014v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-embodiment dexterous grasping aims to synthesize stable grasps across heterogeneous multi-fingered hands w…
Sparse Meets Dense: Correspondence Guided Robotic Manipulation with Rigid-Deformable Interactions
arXiv:2608.01083v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Manipulation involving rigid-deformable interactions, such as hanging clothes or dressing humans, is common in d…
StableMimic: Smooth Human-Like Recovery for Humanoid Motion Tracking - Learning Beyond the Tracking Distribution for Structured Post-Fall Behavior
arXiv:2608.02385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid motion trackers perform reliably within learned tracking distributions, but falls can move the robot in…
Push-Wiper: Toward General-Purpose Robotic Cleaning across Varied Stains and Surfaces with Segmented Pushing Trajectories
arXiv:2608.00730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Viscous stains, characterized by high viscosity and complex rheological properties, remain a major challenge for…
TWINS: A Tactile Wearable Isomorphic Arm Networked System for Contact-Rich Manipulation Learning
arXiv:2608.01733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in robot learning for manipulation have increased the importance of collecting real-world demons…