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4147 storiesAdapting Generalist Robot Policies with Semantic Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2606.31958v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalist robot policies learn a diverse repertoire of behaviors from large-scale pretraining. In principle, th…
A Scalable Whole-body Motion Transfer via Implicit Kinodynamic Motion Retargeting
arXiv:2509.15443v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human-to-humanoid imitation learning presents a promising pathway to address the severe data scarcity bottle…
Receptogenesis in a Vascularized Robotic Embodiment
arXiv:2603.09473v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Equipping robotic systems with the capacity to generate $\textit{ex novo}$ hardware during operation extends…
Scenario Generation for Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems Using Real-World Failure Records
arXiv:2606.31131v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: To ensure safe on-road behavior, pre-deployment testing and failure discovery of Autonomous Driving Systems (A…
E-VLA: Event-Augmented Vision-Language-Action Model for Dark and Blurred Scenes
arXiv:2604.04834v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robotic Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models generalize well for open-ended manipulation, but their per…
LaMP: Learning Vision-Language-Action Policy with 3D Scene Flow as Latent Motion Prior
arXiv:2603.25399v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce \textbf{LaMP}, a dual-expert Vision-Language-Action framework that embeds dense 3D scene …
Vision-Language Procedural Reasoning for Context-Aware Reward Modeling of Robotic Endovascular Guidewire Navigation
arXiv:2606.30698v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic-assisted endovascular interventions demand accurate, stable, and context-aware guidewire navigation in c…
What Probing Reveals about Autonomous Driving: Linking Internal Prediction Errors to Ego Planning
arXiv:2606.31106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale datasets and fast simulators have enabled improvements in driving policies that appear safe and robu…
UniTacVLA: Unified Tactile Understanding and Prediction in Vision Language Action Models
arXiv:2606.31723v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have achieved strong performance in many robotic manipulation tasks, yet rem…
Warp RL: Reshaping Base Policy Distributions for Dynamics Adaptation
arXiv:2606.31043v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Residual reinforcement learning adapts a pretrained robot policy by learning an additive correction to its act…
Information-Aided DVL Calibration
arXiv:2606.31216v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Doppler velocity log (DVL) velocity measurements are critical to the accuracy of autonomous underwater vehic…
RoboTacDex: A Dexterous Visual-Tactile-Action Dataset for Humanoid Manipulation
arXiv:2606.31836v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the field of robot learning, large-scale and diverse demonstration trajectories provide the fundamental basis…
Communication-Aware Robot Execution for Cloud Inference under Spatially Heterogeneous Connectivity
arXiv:2606.31497v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cloud-hosted foundation models enable robots to use semantic reasoning beyond onboard computational limits. In t…
Wavelet Policy: Imitation Learning in the Scale Domain with World Prior Memory
arXiv:2504.04991v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Conventional visuomotor imitation learning usually predicts future robot actions directly in the time domain…
A Modular Vision-Language-Action Robotics Framework for Indoor Environments
arXiv:2606.31144v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an integrated system for the CMU Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Challenge, designed to enable …
X Square Robot brings its valuation to $2.8B with four consecutive funding rounds
X Square Robots' system combines foundation models, robotics hardware, a data pipeline system, and real-world deployments. The post X Square Robot brings its va…
Soft, robotic cells from morph embed physical AI into hardware
morph launched a physically intelligent soft robotics platform that designs and manufactures what it calls “soft robotic cells.” The post Soft, robotic cells fr…
Queue raises funding to build fully autonomous pharmacy
Queue is developing automated pharmacies to expand access to prescriptions in hospitals, retail sites, and underserved communities. The post Queue raises fundin…
Sonair ADAR One 3D ultrasonic sensor is now safety-certified
Sonair says ADAR One was assessed as a human detection sensor according to the IEC 61496 standard for electrosensitive protection devices. The post Sonair ADAR …
ReactiveBFM: Reactive Closed-Loop Motion Planning Towards Universal Humanoid Whole-Body Control
arXiv:2606.30362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While current Behavior Foundation Models (BFMs) provide robust control priors for humanoids, they only execute p…
Learning to Feel the Future: DreamTacVLA for Contact-Rich Manipulation
arXiv:2512.23864v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown remarkable generalization by mapping web-scale knowledge to r…
A Unified Framework for Multi-Contact Path Planning in the Rolling Robot Systems
arXiv:2606.29065v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rolling motion planning is challenging because rolling contact imposes nonholonomic constraints and the configur…
LAMP: Long-Horizon Adaptive Manipulation Planning for Multi-Robot Collaboration in Cluttered Space
arXiv:2606.29358v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot manipulation requires jointly reasoning about contact formations, robot motions under coupled dynami…
Behavior Prompting Policy: Demonstrations as Prompts for Manipulation
arXiv:2606.30457v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study behavior prompting, a paradigm that enables robots to perform new tasks at inference time given a singl…
Real-Time Compliance and Position Control of a Hyper-redundant Soft Robotic Arm
arXiv:2606.29731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots working in unstructured or partially unobservable environments must combine accurate motion with physical…
Breaking the Epistemic Trap: Active Perception Under Compound Uncertainty
arXiv:2605.26627v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deploying reinforcement learning in safety critical domains, from autonomous vehicles to medical decis…
GROW$^2$: Grounding Which and Where for Robot Tool Use
arXiv:2606.30632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can the robot use a plate to cut a cake if no knife is available? Tool use greatly expands robot capabilities, b…
See and Switch: Vision-Based Branching for Interactive Robot-Skill Programming
arXiv:2603.08057v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Programming by demonstration (PbD) makes robot programming accessible to non-experts, but scaling it to real…
Eval-Actions: Fine-Grained Execution Quality Evaluation for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2601.18723v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Although Vision--Action (VA) and Vision--Language--Action (VLA) policies have advanced robotic manipulation,…
CAR: Cross-Vehicle Kinodynamics Adaptation via Mobility Representation
arXiv:2603.06866v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Developing autonomous mobile robot systems typically requires either extensive, platform-specific data colle…