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Arm Total Design for Physical AI brings more than 80 developers together
With its new program and its Robotics Capability Framework, Arm aims to bring more clarity and unity to the robotics industry. The post Arm Total Design for Phy…
Real-Time Service Robot Replanning via Simple Button Interaction for Improved Task Success and User Experience
arXiv:2609.17541v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Service robots must respond to unexpected instructions in real-world environments. However, robots cannot detect…
Predictive Varanus: Combining CSP Conformance Monitoring with Predictive LTL Runtime Verification
arXiv:2609.17625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Runtime Verification is well suited to autonomous and robotic systems because it checks the behaviour that is ac…
LEAP: Learning Emergent Active Perception for Quadruped Navigation
arXiv:2609.17628v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Active perception allows autonomous agents to select their viewpoints rather than passively process the viewpoin…
RAF-VLA: Representation Alignment with the Future for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2609.17728v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for autonomous driving have incorporated world modeling by predicting…
HINT-Plan: Human Intention-Aware Robot Task Planning in Context-Rich Environments using Vision Language Models
arXiv:2609.17771v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Approaches to incorporating human awareness into mobile robot decision-making mainly focus on collision avoidanc…
SPROUT: The Open-Source Soft Growing Robot for Search and Rescue
arXiv:2609.17781v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft robotic systems have long been theorized as ideal candidates for use in search and rescue operations; howev…
Learning Multi-Humanoid Pickup and Transport via Decentralized Object-Centric Control
arXiv:2609.17824v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study cooperative multi-humanoid pickup and transport of objects with varying size, weight, and geometry, req…
Causal-History Test-Time Scaling for Failure Recovery in Autoregressive World-Action Models
arXiv:2609.18016v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World-action models (WAMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for robot manipulation by jointly modeling futur…
Geometric Shortcuts for Complex Trunk Postures: Dual-Helicity Coupling Enables Low-Dimensional Control
arXiv:2609.18050v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How do elephant trunks generate complex postures without relying solely on fine segmental activation? We propose…
OpenDexGrasp: Open-vocabulary Task-Oriented Dexterous Grasping
arXiv:2609.18117v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous grasp synthesis has advanced rapidly in generating stable and physically plausible hand poses, but rea…
Energy-Regularized Imitation Learning for Force- and Work-Aware Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2609.18164v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper studies energy-aware manipulation as a physically grounded learning problem. We define a joint-space …
Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time Vision-Language-Action Policies
arXiv:2609.18207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning fine-tuning on top of large, pretrained Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models offers promis…
UMI-Bridge: Action-Anchored Latent Alignment across Human and Robot Manipulation Data
arXiv:2609.18232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-robot demonstrations are limited, motivating the use of human manipulation data collected without robots, i…
RAFAIL: Relationship-Aware Failure Detection for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2609.18324v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Detecting failures during execution is essential for reliable robotic manipulation. Vision-language models (VLMs…
GraphPoint: Semantic Entity Graphs and Point Trajectories for Compositional Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2609.18358v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot manipulation policies often struggle to generalize beyond their demonstrations, even when new instructions…
Decoupling Vision, Language, and Action for Efficient Multi-Task Robot Policies
arXiv:2609.18374v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models attach an action module to a Vision-Language Model (VLM) with billions of pa…
FIERCE: From Generalist Robot Policies to Fast Specialists via Progress-Failure Feedback
arXiv:2609.18651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalist robot policies offer useful initialization, but refining compact specialists through limited physical…
PASSAGE: Scaling Scene-Aligned Motion Learning for Perceptive Humanoid Traversal in Cluttered Environments
arXiv:2609.18732v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots can step over, squeeze past, and duck under obstacles, but learning to select and coordinate the…
TRACER: Adaptive Multi-Robot Social Navigation via Joint Human-Response Prediction and Interaction-Aware Replanning
arXiv:2609.18776v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot navigation in human-shared spaces is inherently interactive: coordinated robot motions influence how…
SOL-SLAM: Inverse Compositional Gauss-Newton Direct Registration for Fast Sonar-Only Local SLAM
arXiv:2609.18893v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous underwater navigation typically relies on complex and expensive multi-modal sensor suites designed to…
Examining the Difference in Human Behavior Between Virtual and Real-World Human-Robot Teaming
arXiv:2609.18900v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prototyping and evaluating human-robot teaming (HRT) scenarios in the real-world is costly. Virtual simulation o…
Learning to Stack: Cube-Stacking Imitation Learning from Virtual Reality Demonstrations
arXiv:2609.19040v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitation learning is attractive for robot manipulation, but collecting demonstrations remains a bottleneck for …
ElastiQP: An Always-Feasible QP Solver for Constrained Robot Control
arXiv:2609.19080v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As robot capabilities increase, quadratic programming (QP)-based controllers must account for a similarly increa…
REVERSAL-BENCH: A Reversibility Axis and Reset Oracle for Measuring the Reset-Free RL Cliff
arXiv:2609.17745v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central goal of autonomous reinforcement learning is continuous policy training without external resets. How…
RoboVAD: A Large Cross-Domain Evaluation Benchmark for Anomaly Detection in Robotic Arm Manipulation Videos
arXiv:2609.17843v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video anomaly detection (VAD) is an actively studied task, having wide applications in typical scenarios such …
PRISM: Predictive Representation of Interaction Style and Motion for Social Robot Navigation
arXiv:2609.18125v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans often observe others before interacting and adjust their behavior accordingly. Robot navigation in crow…
Towards Interaction Regulation from Human Feedback via Free Energy Minimization
arXiv:2609.18853v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central challenge across control and learning is the design of mechanisms regulating the interactions betwee…
PointZero: 3D Point Track Completion for Learning Transferable 3D Dynamics
arXiv:2609.19142v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models endow perceptual systems with the ability to predict how scenes evolve under interaction. They ar…
End2Race: An End-to-End Learning Framework for Multi-Vehicle Autonomous Racing
arXiv:2509.16894v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous racing serves as a compelling testbed for advancing autonomous vehicle systems. The 1/10-scale F1…