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4146 storiesEgoWild2Dex: Learning Dexterous Robotic Manipulation from In-the-Wild Human Experience
arXiv:2609.23755v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Egocentric human data provide a principled source of supervision for learning dexterous robot manipulation. Unli…
Marginal Calibration Does Not Compose: Hidden Dependence in Modular Robot Navigation
arXiv:2609.23731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic systems are typically composed of multiple independently developed modules that work together to perceiv…
PINGU: Extending Air-Bearing Spacecraft Emulators with Open-Source Actuators and Learned Control for Contact-Rich Proximity Operations
arXiv:2609.23554v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-cost planar air-bearing testbeds have matured into a standard proxy for free-flying spacecraft GNC, but they…
Elevator-VIGS: Separating Elevator Motion from Robot Motion in Visual-Inertial Gaussian Splatting SLAM
arXiv:2609.23491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Elevator-VIGS, a visual-inertial 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM system that keeps tracking and mapping th…
FeasibleFlow: One-Step Joint Transport of Configuration Feasibility and Trajectories for End-to-End Driving
arXiv:2609.23488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving maps current observations directly to future trajectories, yet those trajectories …
Latent Telepathy: Multi-Robot Communication with Self-Supervised Perceptual Latents
arXiv:2609.23269v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In a decentralized multi-robot team under partial observability, the fact that decides a robot's next action is …
Scenario MPC with STL Specifications and Pareto-Based Feasibility Repair
arXiv:2609.23263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Temporal logic is a formal language for reasoning about system behaviors over time. Signal temporal logic (STL),…
AquaCap: A Training-Free Underwater Embodied Agent with Code-as-Policy
arXiv:2609.23133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in vision-language-action models have stimulated growing interest in underwater embodied intelli…
Transferring the Intelligence of VLMs to Robotic Control
arXiv:2609.22966v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans can seamlessly adapt to both physical and digital worlds, suggesting that while a digital-to-real gap exi…
H-VLA: Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Model with Key-Action Reasoning and Motion Planning in a Unified Action Space
arXiv:2609.22895v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong potential for robotic manipulation, but many existing meth…
Distributed Infrastructure Sensors and Cues for Robotic Fire-Fighting and Safety System on a Lunar Base
arXiv:2609.22786v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: There are renewed efforts to build a lunar base and house a team of astronauts on the Moon for extended periods.…
AquaWorld: Structure-Consistent Underwater World Generation for Robot Simulation
arXiv:2609.22670v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Underwater robot simulation requires diverse environments in which terrain, scene composition, tasks, and curren…
FRAMES: Failure Recovery And Monitoring of Embodied Skills for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
arXiv:2609.22538v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) planners can decompose natural-language instructions and select reusable robot skills…
Latent Policy Steering: An Efficient and Flexible Framework for Cross-Embodiment Transfer
arXiv:2609.22521v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The performance of learned robot visuomotor policies depends heavily on the size and quality of their training d…
Layered e-skin for Shear Sensing
arXiv:2609.22493v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a stacked two-layer force-sensing resistor (FSR) array designed for robotic fingertips that …
VLPSA: Vision-Language-Poisson-Safe Actions for Full-Body Safety of Learned Policies
arXiv:2609.22462v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models enable increasingly general-purpose robotic manipulation, but such learned p…
Behavior Trees for Robotic Systems: An Empirical Study on Practices and Experiences
arXiv:2609.22404v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Over the last decade, behavior trees (BT) have become one of the dominant behavior models for coordinating missi…
EditWM: Event-Decomposed World Modeling with Incremental Correction for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2609.22317v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models support autonomous driving by predicting the scene evolution associated with candidate trajectories…
When Does Test-Time Physical Diagnosis Pay? A Frozen Policy Buys Evidence It Never Reads
arXiv:2609.22299v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a robot faces unfamiliar physical conditions, a common approach is to collect evidence about what changed a…
ORDER: A Fictitious-World Benchmark for Domain-Adaptive Embodied AI
arXiv:2609.22285v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adapting language models to new domains via continual pre-training raises a basic evaluation problem: if the tra…
CHOREO: Every Humanoid Skill as a Trajectory
arXiv:2609.22274v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in humanoid robotics have produced diverse skills through reinforcement learning, motion imitati…
REBOOT: From Failure to Recovery - A Dataset and Benchmark for Precision Assembly
arXiv:2609.22591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot learning policies fail in characteristic ways: they stall in uncertain states, drift during contact-rich a…
Whole-Body UMI: Transferring UMI Manipulation Skills to Humanoid Whole-Body Manipulation via Real-Time Motion Generation
arXiv:2609.22829v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collecting whole-body demonstrations for humanoid manipulation mostly relies on teleoperation, which is costly a…
Splat-CBF: Safe Next-Best-View Control in 3D Gaussian-Splat Maps
arXiv:2609.23100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Where to look and how to move? A robot navigating an unmapped environment must do both at once, and the two goal…
AR-WAM: A Visual-Conditioned Agent-Ready World Action Model for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2609.23578v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI agents become increasingly capable, agent-driven robotic control is emerging as a compelling paradigm. How…
PRIMO: Prior-Informed Odometry from Human-Motion Tracking for Humanoid Robots
arXiv:2609.23610v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulation-trained humanoid proprioceptive odometry faces two transfer challenges: training trajectories generat…
Grounded Action Model: 3D Grounding as a Foundation for Robotics
arXiv:2609.23863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Manipulation policies must know which objects matter and where they are, yet the pretrained backbones that curre…
Dexterous Robot Manipulation from Human Demonstrations via Contact-Anchored Retargeting and Residual Policy Learning
arXiv:2609.24093v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning dexterous manipulation from demonstrations is bottlenecked by data: the contact forces that determine w…
KerColle: Unlocking Fine-Grained GPU Concurrency in Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2609.22335v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as foundational models for next-generation robotics. High VLA…
G6D: Geometric Learning-Free RGB-D 6D Pose Solver for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2609.23566v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 6D object pose estimation is fundamental to robotic manipulation and automation. Recent zero-shot methods have…