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2456 storiesInvariant Extended Kalman Filtering with Partial Orientation Measurement Integration: Theoretical Derivations and Application to Autonomous Surface Vessels
arXiv:2506.10850v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) are increasingly vital for marine science, offering robust platforms for u…
MoMo: Dial Motion Mode in Robot Manipulation with Spatiotemporal Action Tokenization
arXiv:2607.26315v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To operate effectively across diverse contexts, robots must not only perform manipulation tasks accurately but a…
From Passive Video to Editable Experience: Physically Grounded Experience Synthesis for Embodied Intelligence
arXiv:2607.26903v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The key bottleneck in embodied AI is not model architecture but data. Although billions of human manipulation …
Controlled Experiments on Lane Changing by Transitional Autonomous Vehicle: Dataset and Behavioral Insights
arXiv:2607.27085v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents the North Carolina Transitional Autonomous Vehicle Lane-Changing (NC-tALC) dataset and uses …
TurboVLA: Real-Time Vision-Language-Action Model at 32 Hz on an RTX 4090 with <1 GB VRAM
arXiv:2607.27205v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models commonly adopt an LLM-centric $V \to L \to A$ pathway, where visual observ…
Task and Skill Planning: Hierarchical Robot Planning with Black-Box Skills
arXiv:2504.17901v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Task and motion planning (TAMP) is a well-established approach for solving long-horizon robot planning probl…
Vision-TL-Action: Neuro-Symbolic Trajectory Generation from Visual Observations and Temporal Logic
arXiv:2607.26770v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Temporal logic (TL) provides a compositional language for the formulation of long horizon robotic tasks, but exi…
SG-CoT: An Ambiguity-Aware Robotic Planning Framework using Scene Graph Representations
arXiv:2603.18271v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Ambiguity poses a major challenge to large language models (LLMs) used as robotic planners. In this letter, …
ContactFlow: A video action conditioning that transfers across embodiments
arXiv:2607.26579v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models offer a promising route toward robot planning by enabling agents to imagine and verify the conseque…
PACE: Phase-Aware Chunk Execution for Robot Policies with Action Chunking
arXiv:2606.00537v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent vision-language-action and diffusion-based robot policies often use action chunking, where each polic…
Reeling It In: Flexible Needle Pick Up via Thread Manipulation for Autonomous Suturing
arXiv:2607.26337v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Suture-needle pickup is necessary for autonomous suturing, as a needle can be unexpectedly dropped or strategica…
SymmGrid: Super-Scaling On-Robot Learning with Parallelized Symmetries and Egocentric-Exocentric Visual Perception
arXiv:2607.26985v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep reinforcement policy learning directly in physical robots (on-robot learning) remains bottlenecked by slow …
Risk-Aware Motion Planning with Learned Trajectory Primitives and Probabilistic Safety Assessment
arXiv:2607.26802v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a radial basis function network (RBFN)-informed motion planning framework for safe and effic…
HeteroPROPMT: A Real-time and Privacy-Preserving Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception Framework
arXiv:2607.26283v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Collaborative Perception (CP) improves autonomous systems' awareness of their surroundings by sharing sensor d…
TiPToP: A Modular Open-Vocabulary Robot Manipulation System That Plans
arXiv:2603.09971v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present TiPToP, a modular manipulation system that integrates pretrained foundation models with a GPU-acc…
Speech2Grasp: Data-Efficient Transfer of Text-Conditioned Grasp Detection to Speech in Humanoid Robots
arXiv:2607.26567v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots increasingly require multi-modal understanding for natural interaction with humans. Despite the …
Embodied Agents Take Control: Minimal-Interface Zero-Shot Agents Rival Industrial-Scale Policies in Vision-and-Language Navigation
arXiv:2607.26148v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous embodied agents must sustain a long decision-making loop that involves perceiving, acting, verifying,…
GBPP: Grasp-Aware Base Placement Prediction for Robots via Two-Stage Learning
arXiv:2509.11594v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: GBPP is a fast learning based scorer that selects a robot base pose for grasping from a single RGB-D snapsho…
PolygMap: A Perceptive Locomotion Framework for Humanoid Robot Stair Climbing
arXiv:2510.12346v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recently, biped robot walking technology has been significantly developed, mainly in the context of a bland …
FleetScape: A Mixed Reality Sandtable for Spatial Supervision and Control of Scalable Drone Fleets
arXiv:2607.26423v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As autonomous drone deployments scale from individual units to coordinated swarms, the human operator's role s…
Multi-Objective Compliance-Integrated Coevolution For Simulated And Real-World Deployment Of Multi-Robot Marine Autonomy
arXiv:2607.26279v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collaborative robots are well-suited to maritime missions that benefit from coordination, such as the exploratio…
DLAM: Distributional Latent Actions with Temporal Constraints
arXiv:2607.27138v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models remain constrained by scarce action-labeled robot data, whereas action-free …
NeoRacer: An Open, Standardized 1:12 Scale Autonomous Race Car for Benchmarking and Education
arXiv:2607.26855v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many scientific fields rely on standard benchmarks and shared platforms to improve review and reproducibility, b…
Visibility-Aware Cooperative Tracking with Decentralized LiDAR-Based Aerial Swarms
arXiv:2512.01280v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous aerial tracking with drones offers vast potential for surveillance, cinematography, and industria…
LLM-Grounded Dynamic Task Planning with Hierarchical Temporal Logic for Human-Aware Multi-Robot Handover
arXiv:2602.09472v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) enable non-experts to specify open-world multi-robot tasks, but the generated p…
Reinforcement Learning on Cost-Constrained Quadrupedal Hardware
arXiv:2607.26434v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying learned control policies on low-cost robotic platforms introduces transport latencies and noisy motor …
GMEX Robotics to acquire MediaMeta.ai for social intelligence
GMEX Robotics has acquired shares in MediaMeta to incorporate social intelligence capabilities into its service robots. The post GMEX Robotics to acquire MediaM…
Experts react to FCC limits on U.S. imports of new humanoid and mobile robots
The FCC has banned some foreign humanoids, which industry experts say could help U.S. industry but hinder innovation. The post Experts react to FCC limits on U.…
Surviving the paper deluge: a one-year study in learning from demonstration
With the explosion of robotics research, staying current in fields like Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is a monumental challenge. Is AI the solution to the “…
Motion Generation With Environmental Constraints
arXiv:2607.25053v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot motion planning faces challenges in high-dimensional spaces and uncertain environments, often constrained …