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4146 storiesHybrid Imitation Learning: Teleoperation Augmentation Primitives that Policies Learn to Trigger
arXiv:2512.04960v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: What an operator can demonstrate bounds what imitation learning can learn. Teleoperation interfaces map the …
3D-MoE: Towards Spatial Intelligence with Mixture-of-Experts for 3D Reasoning and Action Generation
arXiv:2501.16698v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Spatial intelligence, encompassing 3D perception and reasoning, is the essential next frontier of AI. …
MoE-ACT: Scaling Multi-Task Bimanual Manipulation with Sparse Task-Conditioned Mixture-of-Experts Transformers
arXiv:2603.15265v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Developing a unified policy for multi-task robotic manipulation remains challenging due to policy degradatio…
Heterogeneous Robot Collaboration in Unstructured Environments with Grounded Generative Intelligence
arXiv:2510.26915v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While heterogeneous teams have typically been designed for well-specified missions with known semantics, gen…
Enhancing Autonomous Driving Safety through World Model-Based Predictive Navigation and Adaptive Learning Algorithms for 5G Wireless Applications
arXiv:2411.15042v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Addressing the challenge of ensuring safety in ever-changing and unpredictable environments, particularly in…
Which Terrain Is Better? Preference Learning with VLM Prototypes for Off-Road Traversability Ranking
arXiv:2609.23673v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In vision-based off-road navigation, a robot needs to know not only which obstacles to avoid but also which te…
Towards robust multimodal 3D object detection via visual foundation models
arXiv:2609.23541v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal 3D object detection is fundamental to robust perception in autonomous driving because it integrates…
Identity Continuity in Long-Term Embodied AI Relationships: From Agent-Specific Identity Representation to Identity-Continuity Appraisal
arXiv:2609.23356v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-term embodied AI will undergo learning, model updates, memory compression, hardware repair, and migration…
An Affordable AI-Integrated Smart Cane for Multimodal Mobility Assistance of Visually Impaired Users
arXiv:2609.22277v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual impairment affects over 2.2 billion people worldwide, yet conventional white canes cannot detect elevat…
Learning Beyond What Humans Can Demonstrate
arXiv:2609.24996v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Behavior cloning for robot manipulation relies on expert demonstrations. However, for tasks that require dynamic…
DualWAM: Dual-System World Action Models for Asynchronous Global Planning and Local Refinement
arXiv:2609.24868v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) jointly generate robot actions and predict future world states, transferring priors f…
PredActor: Predictive Action Diffusion for Steerable Onboard Humanoid Control
arXiv:2609.24840v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models offer flexible motion generation, but translating this flexibility into feedback-responsive hum…
Uranus: Building the Next-Generation Simulation Infrastructure for Embodied AI
arXiv:2609.24815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scalable simulation is essential for robot data generation, policy training, evaluation, and safe iteration, yet…
SPARSER: Sparse Variable Projection by Exploiting Separable Structure in Robotic Perception
arXiv:2609.24708v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic perception often requires solving large nonlinear least-squares (NLS) problems. While sparsity has been …
MIRA: Real-Time Full-Duplex Human-Robot Interaction for Embodied Companions
arXiv:2609.24547v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time embodied companion interaction requires a robot to infer user intent from streaming speech, generate t…
Zeva-Ego: Egocentric Mid-Training with In-Context Causal Learning for Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2609.24411v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Egocentric video offers a scalable source of physical interaction experience, yet translating it into robot-exec…
Tactile-JEPA: Topology-Aware Self-Supervised Representation Learning for Distributed Tactile Sensors
arXiv:2609.24385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tactile sensing is an essential modality for robots performing contact-rich, dexterous manipulation, particularl…
Phrase-Level Robotic Guqin Performance: Bimanual Motion Planning and Audio-Tactile Interaction Monitoring
arXiv:2609.24133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in humanoid robotics and embodied intelligence have enabled robots to perform increasingly compl…
ActiveArena: Benchmarking and Understanding Active Perception in Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2609.24124v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Active perception and manipulation are crucial for robots to interact with complex scenes. Existing benchmarks s…
Opt2VLA: Force-Aware Vision-Language-Action for Contact-Rich Humanoid Whole-Body Manipulation
arXiv:2609.23968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots are expected to perform diverse human-level tasks in daily environments, many of which require p…
Topology-Informed Visual Prompting For Vision Language Action Policies
arXiv:2609.23944v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies can struggle with manipulation tasks with complex obstacle geometries due …
MR-SPITE: Accelerating Multi-Robot Conflict Scans via Hierarchical Swept-Volume Approximations
arXiv:2609.23928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conflict scanning over synchronized robot paths requires detailed collision checking, potentially across every r…
HumynexSurg-1: A Curated Expert Liposuction Dataset
arXiv:2609.23885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot foundation models learn manipulation from large demonstration corpora, but surgery is missing from those c…
ContactDP: Contact-Guided Diffusion Policy for Tight Insertion Tasks
arXiv:2609.23800v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-precision connector insertion remains challenging for robotic systems due to tight mechanical tolerances, p…
UniPoint: Unified Point-Level Sensor Fusion for Humanoid Locomotion Across Challenging Terrains
arXiv:2609.23666v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-world deployment requires humanoid robots to cross highly heterogeneous terrain safely, with perception tha…
Cognitive Action Reasoning for Proactive Robots from Human-Centered Multimodal Observations
arXiv:2609.23486v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots operating in human-centered environments are typically designed to execute explicit instructions, and mos…
STRIDER: Stepping-Enabled Multi-Gait Hierarchical 3D Loco-Manipulation Framework for Humanoid Robots
arXiv:2609.23483v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid loco-manipulation faces two prominent limitations: controllers using continuous velocity commands canno…
HEARTH: An Object-Centric RGB-Thermal-3D Dataset for Temperature-Aware Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2609.23418v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language-guided manipulation can depend on physical properties that visible appearance does not reveal. Temperat…
EmoPose: Vision-Language Model Guided Emotion-Aware Gesture Generation for Humanoid Robots
arXiv:2609.23414v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Socially competent humanoid robots must communicate affect and intent through gesture as well as speech, yet ope…
Shared Execution-Clock Drifting Policy for Dynamic Precision Manipulation
arXiv:2609.23305v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Manipulation under time constraints requires both accurate actions and an execution rhythm that matches the evol…