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4147 storiesGrasp-Oriented Non-Prehensile Manipulation via Learning a Graspability Field
arXiv:2606.30474v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Non-prehensile manipulation is often used as a preparatory step for robotic grasping, yet existing approaches ty…
Sequential Planning via Anchored Robotic Keypoints
arXiv:2606.30613v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Sequential Planning via Anchored Robotic Keypoints, SPARK, a training-free neurosymbolic manipulation…
Tactile Gesture Recognition with Built-in Joint Sensors for Industrial Robots
arXiv:2508.12435v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While gesture recognition using vision or robot skins is an active research area in Human-Robot Collaboratio…
SPACE: Swarm Pheromone Fields for Adaptive Collision-Aware Exploration
arXiv:2606.29372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Massive robot swarms can explore unknown environments quickly, but adding robots eventually stops helping. Doorw…
Improvement of Robot's Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Using an Effective Transformation to Achieve Linear Model
arXiv:2606.28475v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Nowadays mobile robots have wide engineering applications. Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is an im…
AnyBody: Free-Form Whole-Body Humanoid Control from Arbitrary Keypoint Guidance
arXiv:2606.29209v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present AnyBody, a unified whole-body humanoid controller driven by an arbitrary subset of body keypoints cho…
A Physics-Grounded Benchmark for Multi-Agent Dynamics in World Models
arXiv:2606.28757v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative world models hold immense promise as scalable simulators for autonomous systems, particularly for s…
Critical Interval MSE: Toward Reliable Offline Validation for Robot Manipulation Policies
arXiv:2606.29898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world evaluation is the gold standard for robot policies because it tests them against the physical conditi…
RoboGaze: Evaluating Robot World Models via Structured Vision-Language Analysis
arXiv:2606.28385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in robot world models enable synthetic video generation for embodied prediction and planning. Ho…
Auditing LLM-Governed Social Robots with Culture-Specific Moral Gradients
arXiv:2606.28345v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-governed social robots increasingly decide who receives real-world assistance first. As prioritization norms…
Trajectory Optimization for Collision-Aware Redundant Robotic Multi-Axis Additive Manufacturing by Constrained Gradient Projection
arXiv:2606.29766v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Redundant robotic multi-axis additive manufacturing (MAAM) enables support-free and conformal fabrication, but t…
Flying to Image-Specified Objects: 3D Quadrotor Navigation via Cross-Graph Memory and Viewpoint Planning
arXiv:2606.29917v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Instance-Specific Image-Goal Navigation (InstanceImageNav) requires a robot to navigate toward the exact object …
Event-VLA: Action-Conditioned Event Fusion for Robust Vision-Language-Action Model
arXiv:2606.29384v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become an important paradigm of embodied AI. However, existing VLA mo…
Robotic Arm-Based Spectral Sensing for Strawberry Positioning and Non-Destructive Sweetness Measurement
arXiv:2606.28555v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate assessment of sweetness is essential for quality control in agriculture, yet conventional methods rely …
BioProVLA-Agent: An Affordable, Protocol-Driven, Vision-Enhanced VLA-Enabled Embodied Multi-Agent System with Closed-Loop-Capable Reasoning for Biological Laboratory Manipulation
arXiv:2605.07306v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Biological laboratory automation can reduce repetitive manual work and improve reproducibility, but reliable…
SA-VLA: State-aware tokenizer for improving Vision-Language-Action Models' performance
arXiv:2606.30113v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discrete action tokenization provides a compact interface for autoregressive VLA policies, but accurately recove…
Demonstration-Free Robotic Control via LLM Agents
arXiv:2601.20334v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic manipulation has increasingly adopted vision-language-action (VLA) models, which achieve strong perf…
SCREP: Scene Coordinate Regression and Evidential Learning-based Perception-Aware Trajectory Generation
arXiv:2507.07467v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous flight in GPS-denied indoor spaces requires trajectories that keep visual-localization error tigh…
Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Cooperative Localization with Range-Only Measurements: A Convex Optimization Based Approach
arXiv:2606.29673v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cooperative localization using range-based measurements is critical for multi-robot systems operating in GPS-den…
HJ-SafeDMP: Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability-Guided Dynamic Movement Primitives for Provably Safe Robot Motion
arXiv:2606.28995v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots deployed in safety-critical environments must execute motions that are simultaneously robust to disturban…
AERIS: Aerial-Edge Role-Driven Intelligence at Runtime via Orchestrated Language-Model Swarm
arXiv:2606.30151v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Integrating large language models into robotic systems holds promise for enhancing autonomy, yet practical deplo…
CSAR: Containerized System Architecture for Robotics
arXiv:2606.30293v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic applications increasingly rely on distributed computational infrastructures that combine embedded device…
Vision-Language-Action Models: Experimental Insights from a Real-World UR5 Platform
arXiv:2606.30456v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This project investigates whether recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models can be transferred from controlled …
REPAIR-Bench: A Benchmark for Robot Error Perception And Interaction Recovery
arXiv:2606.29937v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding how users perceive and respond to robot failures is essential for building robust and trustworthy …
TUGS: Physics-based Compact Representation of Underwater Scenes by Tensorized Gaussian
arXiv:2505.08811v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Underwater 3D scene reconstruction is crucial for multimedia applications in adverse environments, suc…
An Optimal Algorithm for Changing from Latitudinal to Longitudinal Formation of Autonomous Aircraft Squadrons
arXiv:1712.00513v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This work presents an algorithm for changing from latitudinal to longitudinal formation of autonomous aircra…
When Stopping Fails: Rethinking Minimal Risk Conditions through Human-Interactive Autonomous Driving for Safe Transportation Systems
arXiv:2606.29115v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are increasingly deployed in urban environments, yet their safety frameworks remain pr…
Multi-Class Human/Object Detection on Robot Manipulators using Proprioceptive Sensing
arXiv:2508.02425v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In physical human-robot collaboration (pHRC) settings, humans and robots collaborate directly in shared envi…
Learning from Mistakes: Rollout-Retrieval Lifelong Policy Learning for Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2606.30537v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving policies should be able to improve continually as deployment exposes them to increasingly div…
FADA: Few-Shot Domain Adaptation via Dynamics Alignment for Humanoid Control
arXiv:2606.28476v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-precision humanoid control is limited by target-domain dynamics mismatch, where the same control objective …