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4146 storiesUCON: Uncertainty-aware Navigation with Historical Re-association in Dynamic Environments
arXiv:2609.29419v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous navigation in dynamic environments is hindered by two fundamental challenges: perception instability …
Temperament Engineering: Designing Strategic Behavioural Diversity in Robot Swarms
arXiv:2609.29423v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: No two robots are truly identical: calibration, battery state, sensor drift and wear give every swarm a distribu…
RoboLDA: A Probabilistic Generative Model for Uncovering Embodied Hierarchical Structures in Voxel-based Soft Robots
arXiv:2609.29490v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in robotics highlight hierarchical configurations of robot morphology, where multiple levels of …
Markerless Multi-Modal Autonomous Robotic Inspection of Large Space Structures
arXiv:2609.29644v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Future orbital infrastructures, such as deployable antennas, solar farms, and large orbital platforms will requi…
Do World Models Make Better Robots? A Survey of Evaluation Benchmarks for Predictive Embodied Intelligence
arXiv:2609.29669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot learning now advances along two tracks that rarely meet. On one side, direct Vision-Language-Action (VLA) …
From Target Selection to Digging: A Learning-Based Framework for Continuous Autonomous Excavation
arXiv:2609.29750v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Repeated excavation continuously reshapes pile geometry, requiring an autonomous excavator to adapt its digging …
Self-Supervised Anchoring of Fingertip Sensing to Proprioception and Proactive Actions for Robot Imitation Learning
arXiv:2609.29822v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic imitation learning often relies on external cameras, yet local interaction cues such as object proximity…
MorphIK: Morphology-Conditioned Neural Inverse Kinematics for Unknown Robots
arXiv:2609.29908v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural models can learn to generate various solutions to the inverse kinematics problem from data, but are usual…
Pairwise Approximation Can Select the Wrong Multi-Robot Plan
arXiv:2609.29929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot coordination methods often score a joint plan from singleton and pairwise terms, leaving out the ter…
Body-Grounded Replanning for Physically Adaptive Manipulation
arXiv:2609.30024v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Manipulation requires not only reasoning about the external environment, but also about the robot's physical con…
M3GD: Multi-Modal Multi-View Geometric Diffusion for Camera--LiDAR Novel View Synthesis
arXiv:2609.30056v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic novel view synthesis (NVS) must recover both visual appearance and metric 3D structure, yet most generat…
Self-Adaptive VLA for Robust Robot Deployment
arXiv:2609.30092v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models demonstrate impressive capabilities in robotic manipulation, their mem…
Faster Visuomotor Policy Learning on Action Manifolds via Riemannian MeanFlow
arXiv:2609.30127v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visuomotor policies learn a direct map from raw sensory observations to robot action sequences. Policies based o…
Rolling-WAM: World Action Models with Rolling Imagination
arXiv:2609.30247v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) couple action generation with future visual prediction for robotic manipulation. Howe…
RAPID: Robot Agentic Programming from Demonstrations
arXiv:2609.30249v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding agents have demonstrated enormous success in solving complex programming problems. To leverage their pote…
DeltaWAM: Delta World Action Models for Bimanual Manipulation
arXiv:2609.28811v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World-action models (WAMs) transfer visual and motion priors from pretrained video generators to robot control…
A Procedure for Classifying Attachments and Affective Social Bonds in Human-Robot Dyads
arXiv:2609.29063v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human-robot interaction (HRI) claims that people form attachments and social bonds with artificial agents, yet…
Retrieve-to-Localize: Bridging Large Language Models and LiDAR Geometry for Spatial Grounding
arXiv:2609.29835v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LiDAR provides precise geometric information for spatial perception tasks such as object detection in autonomo…
Ego-Exo4D Human Meshes Dataset: 4D Human Motion Reconstruction for Ego-Exo Captures
arXiv:2609.30187v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ego-Exo4D is a large-scale dataset providing synchronized egocentric and multi-view exocentric video, a rich r…
Synthetic Enclosed Echoes: A New Dataset to Mitigate the Gap Between Simulated and Real-World Sonar Data
arXiv:2505.15465v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper introduces Synthetic Enclosed Echoes (SEE), a novel dataset designed to enhance robot perception …
Physics-Guided Residual Reinforcement Learning for Humanoid Narrow-Path Traversal
arXiv:2508.20661v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Traversing narrow paths is challenging for humanoid robots due to the sparse and safety-critical footholds r…
Novelty Adaptation Through Hybrid Large Language Model (LLM)-Symbolic Planning and LLM-guided Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2603.11351v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In dynamic open-world environments, autonomous agents often encounter novelties that hinder their ability to…
Coordinate-Independent Robot Model Identification
arXiv:2603.14656v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robot model identification is commonly performed by least-squares regression on inverse dynamics, but existi…
GenPHRI: Agentic Generative Simulation for Physical Human-Robot Interaction
arXiv:2604.08664v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-world physical human-robot interaction (pHRI) development is costly and slow, while simulation requires…
When Search Becomes Memory: Accelerating Robot Design Discovery with Self-Evolving Skills
arXiv:2605.25832v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as proposal generators for evolutionary robot design, yet…
Streaming-WAM: Action-Conditioned World-Action Model for Asynchronous Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2609.28927v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World action models (WAMs) that use future visual prediction at inference time incur substantial generation cost…
RoboRecover: Benchmarking Robot Policy Recovery under Execution Deviations
arXiv:2609.28952v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot-policy benchmarks increasingly cover diverse tasks and preset out-of-distribution conditions, but typicall…
ActGaze: Learning Action-Grounded Gaze through Counterfactual Visual Interventions for High-Precision Manipulation
arXiv:2609.28955v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models often struggle with high-precision robotic manipulation. We attribut…
HarnessPAI: An Evolving Harness for Physical AI
arXiv:2609.29166v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical AI aims to build embodied agents that perceive the world, understand and reason about it, and decide ho…
Anthropomimetic Soft Robotic Forearm with Independently Articulated Carpal Bones Enabling Human-Like Adaptive Stiffness Modulability
arXiv:2609.29176v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The human wrist exhibits adaptive stiffness modulability: joint stiffness anisotropy can be actively regulated t…