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4146 storiesPACT-WAM: Predicting Actions and Visual Foresight with Compact Temporal Encoding for Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2602.15882v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robot manipulation uses temporal context to select actions and visual foresight to assess their consequences…
Multimodal Behavior Tree Generation: A Small Vision-Language Model for Robot Task Planning
arXiv:2603.06084v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models have been widely used for robotic task planning, often taking advantage of representat…
Enhancing Human-Likeness in Reinforcement Learning Agents via Hierarchical Macro Action Quantization
arXiv:2605.30928v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human-like agents are a long-standing goal of artificial intelligence. Despite strong performance, most rein…
SurgRAW: Multi-Agent Workflow with Chain of Thought Reasoning for Robotic Surgical Video Analysis
arXiv:2503.10265v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) is central to modern surgery, driving the need for intelligent systems …
Veo-Act: Enhancing VLA Policies with Frontier Video Models
arXiv:2604.04502v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Video generation models can produce coherent vi- sual sequences depicting object motion and interactions. We…
EmboAlign: Aligning Video Generation with Compositional Constraints for Zero-Shot Manipulation
arXiv:2603.05757v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Video generative models (VGMs) pretrained on large-scale internet data can produce temporally coherent rollo…
OmniPlanner: Universal Exploration and Inspection Path Planning Across Robot Morphologies
arXiv:2603.04284v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous robotic systems are increasingly deployed for mapping, monitoring, and inspection in complex and …
Learning Contact Dynamics through Touching: Action-conditional Graph Neural Networks for Robotic Peg Insertion
arXiv:2509.12151v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present a learnable physics-based model that predicts motion of the robot end effector and reaction force…
Visual Perception Engine: Fast and Flexible Multi-Head Inference for Robotic Vision Tasks
arXiv:2508.11584v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deploying multiple machine learning models on resource-constrained robotic platforms for different perceptio…
In-Context Robot Learning with VLM Agents
arXiv:2609.19138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Enabling robots to adapt to unfamiliar environments as readily as humans remains a moonshot goal of embodied A…
FIVE-VLA: Fast and EffectIVE Autonomous Driving with Recurrent Action Memory
arXiv:2609.18623v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: State-of-the-art vision-language-action models (VLA) for autonomous driving face critical limitations: excessi…
WetRobo: A Reproducible Robot Kit for Coding Agents in Biological Laboratories
arXiv:2609.18435v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automating biological research requires general-purpose, reproducible robot systems that allow individual wet-…
Indicators of resilience for autonomous control systems
arXiv:2609.18264v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As modern societies rely more on autonomous systems to facilitate daily life, assuring their safe operation is…
rMuscle: Robotic Muscle Memory for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model Inference
arXiv:2609.19104v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Factory work is a promising early scenario for embodied AI: assigning repetitive manual jobs to robots has clear…
KINO: A Keyframe Interface for VLM Planning and Whole-Body Control in Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
arXiv:2609.18869v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid loco-manipulation requires robots to interpret task instructions and scene semantics while executing co…
Hardware-Free Robotics Laboratories in Mixed Reality
arXiv:2609.18434v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Teaching robotics relies on screen-based simulation, showing robot motion in an abstract coordinate frame rather…
DistAL: Distance-based Advantage Learning for VLA Fine-Tuning
arXiv:2609.18392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action models (VLAs) have trans- formed the field of robotic manipulation in recent years by com…
Function-Preserving Data Generation for Zero-Shot Real-to-Sim-to-Real Manipulation
arXiv:2609.18293v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic data generation is a promising paradigm for scaling robot learning without collecting large-scale real-w…
Acting in Meters: Learning Metric Interactions for Precise Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2609.18243v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models and World-Action Models have advanced language-conditioned robotic manipulation, y…
Characterizing Replay Retention Under Dynamics Shift in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2609.18167v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adapting to changes in robot dynamics requires learning from new data without discarding experience that may sti…
LUMO: Designing Luminous Contact Morphology for Repeatable Whole-Finger Contact Observation
arXiv:2609.18165v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A low-impedance robot finger reports through joint torque how strongly it is loaded, but the same torque can ari…
Fetch My Beer: Synthetic-to-real Hierarchical Policy for Smooth Pick-and-place
arXiv:2609.18119v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many real-world robotic applications require dynamically sensitive manipulation, where success depends not only …
A Comprehensive Review of Generative Physical Artificial Intelligence
arXiv:2609.18111v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The integration of large-scale foundation models with physical embodiments has led to significant advancements i…
An Efficient Algorithm for Minimum-Pressure Growth Planning of Vine Robots
arXiv:2609.18070v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vine robots navigate cluttered environments by extending from their tip. Although their ability to operate in su…
CLASP: A Cluster-Level Autonomous Selective Picking Robot with a Soft Rolling-Band Gripper for Fresh-Market Blueberry Harvesting
arXiv:2609.18051v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fresh-market blueberries require selective, gentle picking, which is labor-intensive and expensive. Over-the-row…
Feedback-Modulated Harmonic Policies for Quadruped Locomotion
arXiv:2609.17946v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learned quadruped locomotion policies commonly map observations directly to joint-level actions, leaving the per…
Adaptive-MHE : A Sampling-Based Adaptive MPC for Legged Loco-Manipulation via Moving Horizon Estimation
arXiv:2609.17832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Legged robots have demonstrated a remarkable ability to traverse various terrains, yet generating effective loco…
Timely Activation of Safety Filters via One-Step Reachability Expansion
arXiv:2609.17904v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Least-restrictive safety filters based on Hamilton-Jacobi reachability provide strong safety guarantees by overr…
Beyond Pixel Similarity: Task-Aware Evaluation of GAN-Based Synthetic Sonar Data for Robotic Perception
arXiv:2609.18100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthetic data can reduce the cost of collecting and annotating training data for robotic perception, but genera…
DetAug: Obstacle-Blind Trajectory Augmentation for Zero-shot Obstacle Avoidance
arXiv:2609.18395v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Policies for robotic manipulation are produced by training on large teleoperated datasets. These datasets typica…