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2456 storiesFirst Deployable Dynamic-CoM: A Unified Policy and Method-Agnostic Benchmark for Humanoid Single-Leg Balance
arXiv:2608.00500v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unified humanoid policies handle agile whole-body motion, yet stumble on a simple demand: staying balanced on on…
RobotDancing: Residual-Action Reinforcement Learning Enables Robust Long-Horizon Humanoid Motion Tracking
arXiv:2509.20717v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-horizon, high-dynamic motion tracking on humanoids remains brittle: retargeted reference motions are ty…
Why Does Action Chunking Improve Behavioral Cloning Performance in Robotic Control?
arXiv:2608.02547v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action chunking---predicting and executing multiple actions instead of a single action---has proven to be a crit…
Ego2Robot: Scalable Robot Data Synthesis from Egocentric Human Data
arXiv:2608.02580v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning generalizable robot manipulation policies requires large-scale and diverse demonstration data. Egocentr…
Action Chunk Scheduling for Batched Robot Policy Serving
arXiv:2608.00337v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying robot foundation models at scale is the next step towards realizing the potential of general-purpose r…
Embodied Passive Aeroacoustic Perception Enables Relative Sensing and Pursuit Between Aerial Robots
arXiv:2608.00401v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aerial robots generate structured aeroacoustic fields during flight, yet these signals have been underexplored a…
Developing Combined Manipulation and Locomotion Skills with Interaction Representation and Skill Composition
arXiv:2608.00208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses how to enable a humanoid robot to learn motion policies based on developmental principles a…
Compliant Sphere Lattice Contact: Distributed Contact Modeling for Sphere-Based Robot Representations
arXiv:2608.00263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact planning in robotics requires models that are both computationally efficient and physically accurate. Sp…
OmniAI: A Surface-Adaptive Aerial Projection Interface for Human--Drone Interaction
arXiv:2608.00721v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Drones in human environments often lack spatially grounded in- terfaces for situated communication. We present O…
MoRAL: Sensor-Grounded BEV Reasoning for Compact VLMs toward Edge-Oriented Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2608.02449v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying vision-language models (VLMs) for safety-critical spatial reasoning on resource-constrained autonomo…
World Action Models in Real Time: An Empirical Study of Smooth Execution via Asynchronous Deployment
arXiv:2608.01880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models generate fixed-horizon action chunks through iterative denoising, creating substantial infer…
Look Where It Matters: Adaptive Visual Refinement for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2608.02197v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual representations of VLA models remain unreliable for spatially precise robotic manipulation. We uncover th…
Local-Canonicalization Equivariant Graph Neural Networks for Sample-Efficient and Generalizable Swarm Robot Control
arXiv:2509.14431v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) policies for swarm control often learn inefficiently and generaliz…
Spline Policy: A Structured Representation for Robot Policies
arXiv:2606.07386v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern imitation-learning policies for robot manipulation often represent actions as fixed-resolution action…
Latent-Centroid Steering: Single-Pass Classifier-Free Guidance for Command-Aligned Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2608.00237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving,…
AffordTrajDP: Dynamic Affordance-Guided Visuomotor Policy Learning for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2608.01603v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Affordance-guided imitation learning has shown impressive performance in robotic manipulation tasks by compressi…
PRISM: Privileged Probabilistic Latent Supervision for End-to-End Autonomous Driving Motion Planning
arXiv:2608.01201v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving (E2E AD) systems integrate perception, prediction, and planning into a single diff…
ORCESTRA: VLM-driven Visual Robot programming in Mixed Reality
arXiv:2608.00775v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: ORCESTRA is a mixed-reality system for programming robot digital twins through no-code waypoint teaching and lan…
HapticVLA: Contact-Rich Manipulation via Vision-Language-Action Model without Inference-Time Tactile Sensing
arXiv:2603.15257v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tactile sensing is a crucial capability for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) architectures, as it enables dexter…
Hybrid Attention Estimation Pipeline for Adaptive HRI Using an Expressive Robotic Head
arXiv:2608.00284v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an applied case study on hybrid visual attention estimation for human-robot interaction usin…
DriveCode: Domain Specific Numerical Encoding for LLM-Based Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2603.00919v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown great promise for autonomous driving. However, discretizing nu…
DiffPhysCam: Differentiable Physics-Based Camera Simulation for Inverse Rendering and Embodied AI
arXiv:2508.08831v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generating synthetic images that closely mimic those from real cameras is instrumental in training vis…
Faster-WAM: Do World Action Models Need Deep Action Modules?
arXiv:2608.02365v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) couple robot action prediction with video world models. Existing WAMs with shared-b…
CoWAM: Coordination Contracts for Selective Policy Intervention with WAMs
arXiv:2608.02578v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) augment robot policies with action-conditioned predicted futures, but a plausible fut…
Teleopit: A Full-Embodiment Humanoid Teleoperation System
arXiv:2608.01834v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid teleoperation for demonstration collection requires coordinated whole-body motion, continuous dexterous…
WAM-Diff2: Hierarchical AR-to-Diffusion Distillation for Highly Efficient Autonomous Driving VLA
arXiv:2608.01035v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a prominent paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving; howe…
When Prompts Control Robots: Prompt Injection Attacks in Multi-Agent Robotic Systems
arXiv:2608.00747v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly integrated into autonomous robotic systems for task planning and control,…
SelfWAM: A Self-Grounded Unified World Action Model for Fast Robot Control
arXiv:2608.00725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) improve robot policy learning by jointly modeling actions and future observations. Ho…
EndoWAM: A Grounded World-Action Model for Generalizable Endoscopic Navigation
arXiv:2608.01221v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous endoscopic navigation can reduce clinicians' operational burden, yet robust control remains challengi…
Adaptive Human-Robot Collaborative Painting Combining Preference-Based Optimization and Dynamic Motion Primitives
arXiv:2608.01981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work presents a human-centered collaborative framework that integrates Preference-Based Optimization (PBO) …