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4146 storiesSCRAMPPI: Contingency-Constrained Planning using Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability
arXiv:2603.26995v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous robots commonly aim to achieve a nominal objective while minimizing a cost. Without contingency p…
3PoinTr: From Human Videos to Robot Policies with 3D Point-Track Plans
arXiv:2603.08485v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human videos could reduce the reliance on expensive robot demonstrations, but extracting task-relevant featu…
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…
Stability-Aligned Residual Adaptation for Rapid Recovery from Dynamics Shifts
arXiv:2603.07775v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic systems deployed beyond controlled environments encounter abrupt and unobserved dynamics shifts that…
Robot Programming with Augmented Reality: The Role of Spatial Ability
arXiv:2602.03544v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Programming a robot arm requires users to interpret coordinate frames, joint rotations, and trajectories tha…
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…
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…
Sim2Real Diffusion: Leveraging Foundation Vision Language Models for Adaptive Automated Driving
arXiv:2507.00236v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Simulation-based design, optimization, and validation of autonomous vehicles have proven to be crucial for t…
Toward a foundation model for forest point clouds
arXiv:2609.24787v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Forest inventories increasingly rely on artificial intelligence (AI) models to derive forest attributes from l…
Relationally Grounded Latent World Models for Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2609.24626v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Latent world models learn predictive representations for autonomous driving, but the relational semantics thes…
Colon3R: Cross-Domain 3D Reconstruction from Monocular Colonoscopic Video
arXiv:2609.23961v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Monocular colonoscopic 3D reconstruction is important for surgical robotic colonoscopy, but remains challengin…
MaskVLA: Visual Masking Against Trajectory Overfitting of Vision-Language-Action Model
arXiv:2609.23565v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models integrate vision-language understanding with executable robot actions, ena…
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…
Visuomotor Robotic Pruning in Planar Orchards Using Hybrid Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2609.24906v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dormant tree pruning is labor-intensive yet essential for maintaining modern high-productivity fruit orchards. I…
LLM-based Conversational AI Knowledge Assistant for MyBuddy Humanoid Robot
arXiv:2609.24742v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots are increasingly being popular and developed for human-centered applications, yet their ability …
Touch2Robot: Robot Touch in the Human Demonstration Loop
arXiv:2609.24660v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human demonstrations offer a scalable way to collect manipulation data, but their contacts may be unstable or in…
From Semantic Decisions to Feasible Trajectories: Self-Evolving LLM-Guided Optimal Control for Narrow-Space Parking
arXiv:2609.24631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous parking in nonconvex and narrow environments remains challenging. Although optimal-control methods ca…
Smoothness as a Constraint for Stable Humanoid Locomotion
arXiv:2609.24552v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied AI systems, particularly humanoid robots deployed in real world scenarios require whole-body control po…
FoldQuantVLA: Native Low-Bit Quantization of Vision-Language-Action Models via Consistent Folding
arXiv:2609.24433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-bit vision-language-action inference must reduce observation-to-action latency while preserving robot behavi…
Robotic Valve Turning: Axial Misalignment Correction Using Reaction Torque Feedback
arXiv:2609.24413v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this work, we propose a haptic update control law that uses reaction torques to correct axial misalignment du…
StenoVLA-3D: 3D-Aware Reasoning VLA for Navigation Through Gastrointestinal Stenoses
arXiv:2609.24187v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous endoscopic navigation requires the policy model to predict actions from texture-poor monocular observ…
Object-Centric Conditioning for Visuomotor Flow Matching
arXiv:2609.24155v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot visuomotor policies are commonly formulated as autoregressive, diffusion-based, or more recently, flow mat…
Ask Before It Tells: Benchmark-to-Robot Body-Cue Transfer for a Question-First Bedside Robot
arXiv:2609.24099v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Body-cue recognition can support assistive robots, but benchmark accuracy does not guarantee reliable behavior u…
Safety Control of a Hyper-redundant Robot via Adaptive Weighted Control Barrier Functions
arXiv:2609.24062v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hyper-redundant robots are well suited for confined-space manipulation due to their high dexterity, but safe ope…
Toward Human-in-the-Loop Robot Failure Recovery: Bridging Communication Gaps in Human-Robot Collaboration
arXiv:2609.24055v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots can recover from failures by asking bystanders for help, but effective human-in-the-loop recovery require…
What Matters in Designing World Action Models: An Empirical Study
arXiv:2609.24048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for generalizable robot control. Despite the gro…
Anticipatory Robot Goalkeeping via Monotone Optimal Stopping
arXiv:2609.23976v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots engaged in fast physical interactions often need to act before the intent of another agent is fully known…
Structured World-State Reasoning for Agentic Robotic Search
arXiv:2609.23841v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon robotic search must resolve natural language against heterogeneous, incomplete, and often ambiguous…
Risk-Aware Motion Planning and Control under Unknown Dynamics with Hybrid Observations
arXiv:2609.23792v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We consider robotic motion planning and control under unknown dynamics with hybrid state observations, where sta…
PackLab: A Comprehensive Framework for Developing, Training, and Evaluating MLLMs in Robotic Bin Packing
arXiv:2609.23784v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic bin packing requires long-horizon sequential decision-making, as each object placement affects the avail…