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2456 storiesRapid Embodiment Adaptation for Quadrupedal Locomotion
arXiv:2608.01506v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans readily adapt their movements as their bodies change through aging, injury, or load carrying, but learnin…
Situation Aware Frontier Prioritization for Quadruped Search and Rescue
arXiv:2608.02571v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quadruped robots are a promising platform for search and rescue missions because they can navigate cluttered ind…
Identifying and Exploiting Structure in Robot Co-Design
arXiv:2604.11768v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Co-design of a robot's morphology and control is a high-dimensional search problem. Efficient search depends…
QuASH: Using Natural-Language Heuristics to Query Visual-Language Robotic Maps
arXiv:2510.14546v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Embeddings from Visual-Language Models are increasingly utilized to represent semantics in robotic maps, off…
Weights or Skills? A Survey of Robot-Learning Techniques: from Action-Predicting Weights to Robots that Write their Own Skills
arXiv:2608.01851v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot learning is splitting into two bets: policies that bake competence into frozen weights (vision-language-ac…
A drone that learns to efficiently find non-uniformly distributed objects in agricultural fields: from simulation to the real world
arXiv:2505.09278v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Drones are promising for data collection in precision agriculture but are limited by battery capacity. Drone…
Learning-Based Motion Planning for Dynamic Environments: From Foundational Algorithms to Emerging Paradigms
arXiv:2608.00625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motion planning in dynamic environments is a fundamental problem in robotics, aiming to generate safe and effici…
TravKAN: Fast and Interpretable Nonlinear Traversability Analysis with Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
arXiv:2608.02320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traversability analysis is a fundamental capability for autonomous mobile robots operating in unstructured envir…
Who Is Responsible? Self-Adaptation Under Multiple Concurrent Uncertainties With Unknown Sources in Complex ROS-Based Systems
arXiv:2504.20477v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic systems increasingly operate in dynamic, unpredictable environments, where tightly coupled sensors a…
Bicycle Acrobatics with Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2608.00880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bicycle robots are fast and energy efficient, but their simple mechanical design and their underactuated and non…
GeminiPainter's sequence-formed pipeline comprised of perception, cognition, planning, and action stages
arXiv:2608.00829v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present an autonomous robotic portrait-generation system combining real-time face detection, AI-based sketch …
Learning Panorama-Aware VLA for Mobile Manipulation with Whole-Body Teleoperation
arXiv:2608.02257v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile manipulation is a key capability for embodied intelligence, enabling robots to accomplish complex multi-s…
DPL: Depth-only Perceptive Humanoid Locomotion via Realistic Depth Synthesis and Cross-Attention Terrain Reconstruction
arXiv:2510.07152v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advancements in legged robot perceptive locomotion have shown promising progress. However, terrain-aw…
ACDC: Adaptive Curriculum Planning with Dynamic Contrastive Control for Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning in Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2603.02104v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Goal-conditioned reinforcement learning has shown considerable potential in robotic manipulation; however, e…
Sampling-Based Visibility Task Planning
arXiv:2608.01027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) algorithms enable autonomous operation by incorporating the specific funct…
OC-VLA++: Monocular Geometry-Guided Cross-View Consistency for Viewpoint-Robust Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2608.01066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose OC-VLA++, an extension of OC-VLA for viewpoint generalization under limited camera coverage. While OC…
DexMani: Human-Derived Manipulability Guidance for Dexterous Rotation
arXiv:2608.00554v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous object rotation is a sequential contact problem: each support, release, and re-contact decision must b…
Towards General Language-Conditioned Latent Safety Filters
arXiv:2608.00315v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot policies are becoming increasingly general, with vision-language-action (VLA) models enabling a single pol…
FRA-NBV: A Fast and Reflectivity-Aware Next-Best-View Strategy
arXiv:2608.01950v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous 3D reconstruction with depth sensors is strongly affected by reflective surfaces, which cause missing…
Hybrid Impedance-Admittance Control with Multi-Link Aerial Robot for Contact-Rich Surface Sliding Task
arXiv:2608.01800v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-link aerial robots can actively deform their articulated structures during flight, giving them strong pote…
Minute-Scale Training for Microrobot Navigation
arXiv:2608.00854v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Microrobots hold significant potential for various applications, where targeted navigation is a basic requiremen…
RL Bootstrapping of OpenVLA-OFT for a Novel Robot Embodiment
arXiv:2608.01013v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adapting a pretrained vision-language-action (VLA) policy to a new robot usually assumes embodiment-specific dem…
From Digital to Physical Reservoir Computing: Co-Optimizing Soft Robotic Reservoirs via Dynamics Matching
arXiv:2608.00484v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft robotic substrates are promising for Physical Reservoir Computing (PRC) because their compliant nonlinear d…
SynAgent: Generalizable Cooperative Humanoid Manipulation via Solo-to-Cooperative Agent Synergy
arXiv:2604.18557v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Controllable cooperative humanoid manipulation is a fundamental yet challenging problem for embodied i…
RF-HOI: Recognize Human-Object Interaction with Radio Frequency Signals
arXiv:2608.00289v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recognizing Human-Object Interactions (HOI) is essential for intelligent systems, underpinning applications in…
LOCUS-DT: Localization via Observation-Conditioned Uncertainty Scoring with Digital Twins
arXiv:2608.00406v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate indoor localization is essential for emerging applications in robotic navigation and search and rescu…
Perception-and-action system for humanoid robot task execution in construction
arXiv:2608.01600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots, with their human-like shape and multi-tasking capabilities, are well-aligned with human-dominat…
Uncovering and Mitigating Positional Blind Spots in Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2608.01573v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve promising performance in robotic manipulation, typically meas…
TS-MAMP: A Remanufactured Agricultural Robot Powered by Second-Life EV Components and NMS-Free On-Device Weed Detection
arXiv:2608.02270v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agriculture 4.0 robotic systems improve field efficiency yet remain too capital-intensive for the fragmented sma…
Grounded Semantic Re-Binding for Robust Instruction Generalization in Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2608.02497v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models excel in robotic manipulation but suffer catastrophic performance drops when…