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2456 storiesRoboMME-Interference: Benchmarking Robot Memory Under Interference
arXiv:2606.22338v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robots deployed in realistic settings will accumulate experience across many sessions and tasks over their d…
Decentralized Scalable Exploration via Emergent Adaptive L\'evy Walks on Minimal-Sensing Platforms
arXiv:2607.25195v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient autonomous exploration with palm-sized nano-UAVs remains challenging due to severe limitations in sens…
Egocentric Station Holding of Robotic Fish in Unknown Turbulent Background Flow
arXiv:2607.24860v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Approaching a target position and holding station in flowing water is a fundamental and critical capability for …
Modular Robotic Catheters for Endovascular Aneurysm Repair
arXiv:2607.25807v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fenestrated/Branched endovascular aneurysm repair (FEVAR/BEVAR) require surgeons to navigate catheters and guide…
P3: Probabilistic Policy Propagation for Stable VAE-Based Robot Learning
arXiv:2607.25541v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Variational Autoencoders are widely used to encode high-dimensional and noisy observations in robotics. However,…
Hybrid Artificial Potential Fields and Spatio-Temporal Transformers for Real-Time AUV Path Planning
arXiv:2607.25056v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) operate in complex, unstructured environments where efficient and safe pat…
RankFormer: A Propose-then-Select Transformer for Multi-Agent Multimodal Trajectory Prediction
arXiv:2604.07126v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Predicting vehicle trajectories plays an important role in autonomous driving, transportation safety analysi…
Physics-Aware End-to-End Deep Reinforcement Learning for Quadcopter Control with Actuator Dynamics
arXiv:2607.25985v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), particularly quadcopters, present unique challenges for autonomous control due …
A context-adaptive policy framework for robust and reactive robotic manipulation via uncertainty-aware imitation learning
arXiv:2410.24035v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generating robust and reactive manipulation strategies that can adapt to changing context information is a c…
Predictive Control for Driving under Uncertain Road Geometry Estimated from Onboard Vision
arXiv:2508.02494v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous vehicles driving on unknown roads must estimate the road geometry from onboard sensors and …
Towards Embodied Cognition in Robots via Spatially Grounded Synthetic Worlds
arXiv:2505.14366v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present a conceptual framework for training Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to perform Visual Perspec…
Transformer Transformer: A Unified Model for Motion-Conditioned Robot Co-design
arXiv:2607.25798v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An often overlooked factor of robot manipulation performance is the embodiment of the robot itself. Motivated by…
Steeringless Drifting: Differential-Torque Control of a Four-Wheel Independently Driven Vehicle
arXiv:2607.24863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Control methods for emerging vehicle chassis architectures are important for autonomous driving near handling li…
Diff2DGS: Reliable Reconstruction of Occluded Surgical Scenes via 2D Gaussian Splatting
arXiv:2602.18314v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-time reconstruction of deformable surgical scenes is vital for advancing robotic surgery, improvi…
Extended Reality as a Mediation Layer for Situated Human Control in Human-Robot Teaming
arXiv:2607.25047v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Extended Reality (XR) is increasingly used in human-robot interaction to communicate robot intent, planned mot…
DC-WAM: Dynamic-Centric Visual Supervision and Reasoning for World-Action Models
arXiv:2607.25918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World-Action Models (WAMs) augment robot policies with future visual prediction, but it remains unclear what the…
S2A2: Audio-Visual Imitation Learning for Manipulation Tasks Using Acoustic Spatial Information
arXiv:2607.26047v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Acoustic information provides rich cues about object location, material properties, and changes caused by contac…
When Does Legacy Data Start to Help? Emergent Transfer in Cross-Configuration Robot Learning
arXiv:2607.25593v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic hardware evolves over time, but demonstration data is often tied to a specific sensor and actuator confi…
Decompose and Reorganize: Planning with Primitives and Visuomotor Policies Learned from Demonstrations
arXiv:2607.25397v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Successfully automating dexterous, long-horizon robotic manipulation requires frameworks capable of both high-le…
CycleVLA: Proactive Self-Correcting Vision-Language-Action Models via Subtask Backtracking and Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding
arXiv:2601.02295v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current work on robot failure detection and correction typically operates in a post hoc manner, analyzing er…
HOME: Robust Hough-space Matching Method for Structured and Textureless Videos
arXiv:2607.25389v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual front-ends for robotic localization typically rely on point-based features such as Oriented FAST and Ro…
SONG: A Photorealistic 3D Gaussian Simulation Platform for Benchmarking Social Navigation
arXiv:2607.25219v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Social navigation has progressed from simplified 2D environments toward a more general vision-based setting, in …
Tri-Manual Visuomotor Imitation Learning of Robot Policies
arXiv:2607.25731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bimanual teleoperation provides an effective way to collect robot demonstrations, but it assumes that the operat…
Belief-Aware Influence and Trust (BAIT): Shaping Human Belief During Repeated Human-Robot Interaction
arXiv:2607.25327v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Repeated human-robot interaction (HRI) requires proactively accounting for humans who continually adapt to evolv…
Input Shaping for Point-to-Point Motion with a Continuum Robot Arm
arXiv:2607.25071v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A cable-driven continuum robot arm is an underactuated mechanism and may suffer residual vibration at the end of…
HiFi-UMI: Learning Deployable Manipulation Policies from High-Fidelity UMI Data Alone
arXiv:2607.25895v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning deployable manipulation policies is bottlenecked by the scarcity of data that is both high-fidelity and…
Tripody: An Overconstrained 3-SPR-like Parallel Robot for High-Reach Construction Tasks
arXiv:2607.25781v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many ceiling construction tasks still rely on heavy serial manipulators that are difficult to deploy in cluttere…
SAM3D-Guided Object-Centric Representation Alignment for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2607.25912v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong potential for general robot manipulation, but most existin…
Nautilus: From One Prompt to Plug-and-Play Robot Learning
arXiv:2605.11665v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robot learning research is fragmented across policy families, benchmark suites, and real robots; each implem…
A Causality-aware Infer-diagnose-refine Framework for Test-time Modality Adaptation in VLA Models
arXiv:2607.25516v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models predict sequential actions to execute tasks specified by language instructio…