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4146 storiesWhy Automate This? Exploring Correlations Between Desire for Robotic Automation, Invested Time and Well-Being
arXiv:2501.06348v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding the motivations underlying the human inclination to automate tasks is vital for developi…
Recover, Discover, Plan: Learning Skills and Concepts from Robot Failures
arXiv:2606.18328v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Intelligent robots should not only recover from failures, but also acquire the abstract knowledge needed to avoi…
Congestion-Aware Robot Tour Planning in Crowded Environments
arXiv:2606.19031v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous mobile service robots are often required to complete tours that require navigating through a set of l…
ReSiReg: Towards Spatially Consistent Semantics in Language-Conditioned Robotic Tasks
arXiv:2606.19088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) enable robots to follow open-language instructions. However, dense VLM embeddings …
DexSynRefine: Synthesizing and Refining Human-Object Interaction Motion for Physically Feasible Dexterous Robot Actions
arXiv:2605.05925v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning dexterous manipulation from human-object interaction (HOI) data offers a scalable alternative to ro…
Viking Hill Dataset: A Lidar-Radar-Camera Dataset for Detection and Segmentation in Forest Scenes
arXiv:2606.19154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous robots operating under forest canopies need robust perception of trees and surrounding vegetation acr…
Hardware- and Vision-in-the-Loop Validation of Deep Monocular Pose Estimation for Autonomous Maritime UAV Flight
arXiv:2606.19176v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous UAV operations on ships require reliable vision-based relative pose estimation, yet at-sea validation…
Seeing Through Occlusion: Deterministic Arm Kinematic Correction for Robot Teleoperation
arXiv:2606.19240v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Markerless, single-RGB-D-camera motion capture provides a low-cost and non-invasive alternative to conventional …
Do as I Do: Dexterous Manipulation Data from Everyday Human Videos
arXiv:2606.19333v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How can we scalably generate data for robotic manipulation, especially on human-like platforms such as dexterous…
Mutual Adaptation in Human-Robot Co-Transportation with Human Preference Uncertainty
arXiv:2503.08895v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Mutual adaptation can enhance overall task performance in human-robot co-transportation by integrating both …
STORM: Slot-based Task-aware Object-centric Representation for robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2601.20381v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual foundation models provide strong perceptual features for robotics, but their dense representations la…
Cosmos 3: Omnimodal World Models for Physical AI
arXiv:2606.02800v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce Cosmos 3, a family of omnimodal world models designed to jointly process and generate lan…
RSLCPP -- Deterministic Simulations Using ROS 2
arXiv:2601.07052v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Simulation is crucial in real-world robotics, offering safe, scalable, and efficient environments for develo…
Motion-Focused Latent Action Enables Cross-Embodiment VLA Training from Human EgoVideos
arXiv:2606.18955v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training generalist Vision-Language-Action(VLA) models typically requires massive, diverse robotic datasets wi…
AI Sandboxes: A Threat Model, Taxonomy, and Measurement Framework
arXiv:2606.18532v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI systems are increasingly evaluated in bounded environments that combine isolation, simulation, instrumentat…
A Mixed-Reality Testbed for Autonomous Vehicles
arXiv:2606.19267v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a mixed-reality, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testbed for autonomous vehicles that seamlessly integrate…
Invertible Neural Network Adapter for One-Step Flow Matching in Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2606.19194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an invertible neural network adapter for general robotic manipulation, designed to generate …
Learning to Annotate Delayed and False AEB Events: A Practical System for Extreme Class Imbalance and Asymmetric Label Noise
arXiv:2606.19186v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) optimization relies on accurately annotated real-world trigger events, partic…
TactSpace: Learning a Physics-enriched Shared Latent Space for Tactile Sim-to-Real Transfer
arXiv:2606.18959v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tactile sensing provides direct measurements of contact interactions that are essential for robotic manipulation…
ZiMPedance: Impedance-Aware ZMP Modeling and Control for Payload Carrying with Quadruped Robots
arXiv:2606.18883v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Load transportation with quadruped robots is strongly affected by the dynamics of the physical interface between…
ART-VS: Adaptive Resolution Tiling for Vision Transformer Visual Servoing
arXiv:2606.19089v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual servoing with self-supervised Vision Transformer (ViT) features enables training-free robotic positioning…
Monocular 3D Occupancy Perception for Robots on Sidewalks via Hybrid 2D-3D Learning
arXiv:2606.19122v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sidewalks in the real world are crowded, cluttered, and less structured than roads, making 3D occupancy predicti…
HT-Bench: Benchmarking and Learning Dexterous Full-Hand Tactile Representations with Egocentric Vision
arXiv:2606.19161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Establishing a universal benchmark for tactile representation learning in robotic manipulation remains challengi…
Mobile Pedipulation for Object Sliding via Hierarchical Control on a Wheeled Bipedal Robot
arXiv:2606.19233v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this letter, we present a hierarchical control framework that enables wheeled bipedal robots to perform plana…
Shape Sensing of Continuum Robots using Direct Laser Writing
arXiv:2606.19265v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuum robots offer a promising approach for minimally invasive and natural-orifice surgical procedures due t…
HALOMI: Learning Humanoid Loco-Manipulation with Active Perception from Human Demonstrations
arXiv:2606.18772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human demonstrations, which can be collected at scale and naturally capture active hand-eye coordination, are a …
As You Wish: Mission Planning with Formal Verification using LLMs in Precision Agriculture
arXiv:2606.18519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Though robotic systems are now being commercialized and deployed in various industries, many of these systems ar…
DREAM-Chunk: Reactive Action Chunking with Latent World Model
arXiv:2606.18589v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action chunking has become a common interface for vision-language-action (VLA) models, enabling low-frequency po…
Generating Natural and Expressive Robot Gestures through Iterative Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback using LLMs
arXiv:2606.18747v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Expressive gestures are essential for natural and effective communication, complementing speech when verbal cues…
Admittance-Based Surface Alignment for Human-in-the-Loop Robotic Visual Inspection
arXiv:2606.18601v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Precision visual inspection underpins quality assurance across aerospace, semiconductor, and medical manufacturi…