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4147 storiesReal-Time Visual Intelligence on Low-Cost UAVs: A Modular Approach for Tracking, Scanning, and Navigation
arXiv:2607.02298v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous drones are rapidly transforming modern warfare and civil applications alike. This paper presents the …
CaP-X: A Framework for Benchmarking and Improving Coding Agents for Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2603.22435v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: "Code-as-Policy" considers how executable code can complement data-intensive Vision-Language-Action (VLA) me…
LIME: Learning Intent-aware Camera Motion from Egocentric Video
arXiv:2607.02417v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous robots often need to move their camera before they can act: to inspect an object, reveal an occluded …
Controllable Sim Agents with Behavior Latents
arXiv:2607.02496v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Realistic traffic simulation requires agents that imitate logged behavior and can also be steered along interpre…
Bridge-WA: Predicting Where and How the World Changes for Robotic Action
arXiv:2607.02195v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose vision-language-action models benefit from large vision-language priors, but effective manipulat…
SPLC: Social Preference Learning for Crowd Robot Navigation
arXiv:2607.01925v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning (RL) holds significant potential for crowd robot navigation in human-robot coexis…
The Three Dimensions of ROS 2 Middleware
arXiv:2607.01304v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: ROS 2 (Robot Operating System 2) has emerged as the de facto standard for modern robot software development, wit…
WaveLander: A Generalizable Hierarchical Control Framework for UAV Landing on Wave-Disturbed Platforms via Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607.01281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous landing of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on wave-disturbed marine platforms remains challenging due…
VLA-Arena: An Open-Source Framework for Benchmarking Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2512.22539v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) are rapidly advancing towards generalist robot policies, it remai…
Actuator Reality Shaping for Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Robot Learning
arXiv:2607.02205v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sim-to-real transfer in robot learning is often limited by discrepancies between the ideal actuator dynamics ass…
Influence of Radial Basis Activation Functions on Intelligent Controller for Robotic Manipulators
arXiv:2607.02167v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents an intelligent control framework for trajectory tracking of robotic manipulators using rad…
BIFROST: Bridging Invariant Feature Representation for Observation-space Sim2Real Transfer
arXiv:2607.01410v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sim2real transfer for robot policy learning suffers due to mismatch between simulation and reality. Existing met…
DriveVLM-RL: Neuroscience-Inspired Reinforcement Learning with Vision-Language Models for Safe and Deployable Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2603.18315v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Traditional reinforcement learning (RL) methods rely on manually engineered rewards or sparse collision sign…
VLAFlow: A Unified Training Framework for Vision-Language-Action Models via Co-training and Future Latent Alignment
arXiv:2607.01586v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action models (VLAs) have recently advanced robotic manipulation, yet the effects of different…
ManipArena: Comprehensive Real-world Evaluation of Reasoning-Oriented Generalist Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2603.28545v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and world-action models have emerged as central paradigms for general-pu…
Learning Semantic Atomic Skills for Multi-Task Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2512.18368v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scaling imitation learning to diverse multi-task robot manipulation remains challenging due to suboptimal de…
CoFL-S: Spatially Queryable Sector Flow Fields for Local Language-Conditioned Navigation
arXiv:2607.02222v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation has increasingly emphasized high-level instruction reasoning, memory, global map cons…
From Actions to Understanding: Conformal Interpretability of Temporal Concepts in LLM Agents
arXiv:2604.19775v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents capable of reasoning, plan…
MetaTune: Adjoint-based Meta-tuning via Robotic Differentiable Dynamics
arXiv:2603.27313v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Disturbance observer-based control has shown promise in robustifying robotic systems against uncertainties. …
Guided Action Flow: Q-Guided Inference for Flow-Matching Vision-Language-Action Policies
arXiv:2607.02092v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow-matching vision-language-action policies generate robot action chunks through an iterative transport proces…
Physically Native World Models: A Hamiltonian Perspective on Generative World Modeling
arXiv:2605.00412v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: World models have recently re-emerged as a central paradigm for embodied intelligence, robotics, auton…
WorldSample: Closed-loop Real-robot RL with World Modelling
arXiv:2607.02431v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) can overcome the demonstration-coverage limitation of imitation learning (IL) by all…
A Reconfigurable Rocker-Bogie Robot for High Step Climbing and Turning
arXiv:2607.01554v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study proposes a reconfigurable rocker-bogie mechanism that achieves efficient turning motion with a small …
QuadRocket: An Aerial Robotic Testbed for Adaptive Thrust-Vector Control of Rocket-Like Vehicles
arXiv:2607.02474v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents QuadRocket, a quadrotor-based rocket prototype that provides a low-cost, low-risk platform f…
Overthink-Triggered Slowdown Attacks on LVLM-Based Robotic Systems
arXiv:2607.01518v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have been increasingly integrated into robotic systems. However, these mo…
Neuro-Symbolic Safety Guidance for Vision-Language-Action Models via Constrained Flow Matching
arXiv:2607.01378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated promising generalization capabilities across robotic manip…
The Moving Eye: Enhancing VLA Spatial Generalization via Hybrid Dynamic Data Collection
arXiv:2607.02322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown remarkable promise in generalized robotic manipulation. However, …
Lightweight Safe Reinforcement Learning for End-to-End UAV Navigation
arXiv:2607.01794v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the rapid development of autonomous aerial systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deploy…
HEFT: Heavy-Payload Full-size Humanoid Teleoperation with Privileged Motion Guidance and Windowed Payload Curriculum
arXiv:2607.02332v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General motion tracking and teleoperation offer a promising path to scalable humanoid skill acquisition, yet mos…
One Demonstration Is Enough for Real-World Robotic Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607.01651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning effective robot control policies on physical hardware is challenging due to costly data collection and …