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arXiv:2608.01535v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are emerging as a key component of embodied intelligence, with growing applicati…
A Robotic System for Automated Manufacturing of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators
arXiv:2608.00369v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This letter presents an automated robotic manufacturing system for soft capacitors which operate as actuators an…
Residual-Based Adaptive Kalman Filtering for Legged Robot State Estimation
arXiv:2608.02316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: State estimation is a key component in model-based control of walking robots and, more broadly, applicable where…
Motion Planning for Mobile Manipulators Navigating Doorways via Model Predictive Control
arXiv:2608.00206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Navigating doorways is a fundamental capability for mobile manipulators operating in human environments, requiri…
FeDepth: Federated Learning for Depth Estimation under Robot Heterogeneity
arXiv:2608.01129v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although recent robot perception research emphasizes training on data from diverse environments to improve gener…
GenTrack: Physical Alignment for Robot-Native Motion Generation and Zero-Shot Humanoid Tracking
arXiv:2608.01410v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose humanoid trackers can execute diverse references, but their zero-shot coverage depends on large …
MemoAct: Atkinson-Shiffrin-Inspired Hierarchical Memory-Augmented Policy for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2603.18494v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Memory-augmented robotic policies are essential in handling memory-dependent tasks. However, existing approa…
ProtoAct: Turning Wet-Lab Protocols into Embodied Robotic Actions
arXiv:2608.01690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biological wet-lab protocols are written for trained researchers and often leave routine operations, state-depen…
Hermite Curves as Trajectory Priors for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2608.01265v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite recent progress in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for robotic manipulation, the action chunk remain…
igus launches energy chain with 600-degree rotation for industrial robots
igus says its new twisterchain energy chain provides cable management for challenging industrial robotics applications such as palletizing. The post igus launch…
HEBI Robotics earns NASA SBIR grant to fast track miniaturized actuators
This Phase I award is only part of HEBI Robotics' roadmap. The company also plans to continue developing its existing actuation hardware. The post HEBI Robotics…
Simulated zebrafish and a vision-equipped robotic fish reveal how the body shapes brain circuits
Image credit: Olivier Porchet, Biorobotics Laboratory, EPFL When a fish holds its position against a current in a river, its brain must figure out how fast to s…
Reimagine Robotics emerges from stealth with robots that ‘learn on the job’
Reimagine Robotics, founded by former Google DeepMind Applied Robotics leaders, is developing systems that do not require specialized programmers. The post Reim…
MROPE: A Multi-Robot Safe Cooperative Strategy via combined Predictive Safety Filters and Ellipse-based Constraint Compression
arXiv:2607.29203v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying drone swarms to track a dynamic target in cluttered environments presents severe computational and saf…
D-VLC: Decentralized Vision-Language Collaboration for Heterogeneous Embodied Multi-Robot Systems in Unknown Environments
arXiv:2607.29009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot systems, particularly heterogeneous robot swarms, can improve the efficiency of complex task executi…
WCM: A World Critic Model for Vision-Language-Action Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607.29613v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models has shown strong promise for ro…
Kinodynamic Motion Retargeting for Humanoid Locomotion via Multi-Contact Whole-Body Trajectory Optimization
arXiv:2603.09956v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present the KinoDynamic Motion Retargeting (KDMR) framework, a novel approach for humanoid locomotion tha…
AquaJEPA: Action-Conditioned Multimodal Predictive Representations for Underwater Robot Dynamics
arXiv:2607.29393v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Underwater robots combine complementary sensors whose reliability changes abruptly with water visibility, viewpo…
BWM: A Low-Cost High-Fidelity World Simulator for Robot Learning
arXiv:2607.29302v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable robot learning requires a world simulator that can predict action consequences before execution on phys…
Combining Large Language Models and Symbolic Reasoning for Multi-Robot Temporal Planning through Explainable Knowledge Bases
arXiv:2502.19135v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present PLANTOR, a framework for generating and executing multi-robot task plans from natural-langu…
GPA-RAM: Grasp-Pretraining Augmented Robotic Attention Mamba for Spatial Task Learning
arXiv:2504.19683v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Fine-grained robotic manipulation often fails when inaccurate initial grasps propagate errors and necessitat…
FibVLA: An Efficient Temporal Vision-Language-Action Model with Fibonacci Sampling
arXiv:2607.29596v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action models (VLAs), which leverage the cognition of multimodal information to infer physical-w…
Diagnosing Compositional Generalization in Sequential Robot Tasks
arXiv:2607.29687v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sequential robot manipulation requires policies to execute novel combinations of familiar instruction components…
Vision-Based Agile Landing on Turbulent Waters
arXiv:2605.23717v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous landing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles on maritime vessels is challenging due to the coupled motion …
Outcome-Guided Distillation: A Teacher-Student Framework to Advance VLM Reasoning in Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607.29052v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving aims to learn a direct mapping from visual observations to control actions. …
Receding-Horizon Next-Best-View Planner for Autonomous Leaf Surface Reconstruction
arXiv:2607.28995v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate plant leaf modeling is fundamental to downstream tasks such as plant growth monitoring, and phenotyping…
TransGraspNet: Physically and Geometrically Consistent Manipulation of Transparent Labware
arXiv:2607.29567v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Manipulating transparent laboratory glassware that contains liquid is inherently safety-critical: even small geo…
STAGE: STyle-controllable Action GEneration for personalized autonomous driving
arXiv:2607.29517v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Driving style refers to the behavioral preferences that drivers maintain during driving, shaped by their diverse…
Automated Straight-line Sewing of Stretchable Fabrics with Different Lengths
arXiv:2607.29464v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Different Length Alignment Sewing (DLAS), which involves stretching the shorter fabric to match the longer one a…
Advances, challenges, and opportunities for legged robots
arXiv:2607.28952v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid and quadrupedal robots have the potential to revolutionize the way we work, interact, and coexist with …