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4147 storiesUniDex-ViTac: Learning Unified Visuo-Tactile Dexterous Manipulation Policy from Human Video Data
arXiv:2609.16504v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human videos provide demonstrations of dexterous manipulation but lack robot-executable actions and tactile meas…
The Robot Data Factory
arXiv:2609.16705v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical AI requires more than increasingly large robot datasets: intelligent robots acquire knowledge through c…
BRAVE-6D: Benchmark for Robotic Active Vision in 6DOF Pose Estimation
arXiv:2609.17106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Detecting and grasping small objects remains a significant challenge in robotics. Active vision, where the robot…
Fingers as Legs: Learning Self-Supported Locomotion and Manipulation with an Anthropomorphic Hand
arXiv:2609.17172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A walking robotic hand must use the same fingers to move its body, support its weight, and interact with the env…
TIO-Former: Ultra-Lightweight 6-Directional ToF-Inertial Odometry for Nano-UAVs via a Streaming Causal Transformer
arXiv:2609.17198v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous nano-UAV navigation requires accurate ego-motion estimation under stringent size, weight, power, and …
FluxVLA Engine: A One-Stop VLA Engineering Platform for Embodied Intelligence
arXiv:2609.17210v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models, world-action models (WAMs), and offline reinforcement learning methods are …
Swim-and-Breach at Palm Scale: A Rudder-Steered Two-Propeller Underwater Robot Platform with Differential-Thrust Pitch Control
arXiv:2609.17240v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a palm-scale (65 mm, 34 g) swim-and-breach robot platform. Two vertically stacked propellers provide …
DriveMCP: An Agentic AI framework for Advanced Driver Assistance System
arXiv:2609.17247v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An agentic AI driver-assistance framework that integrates perception, compliance reasoning, vehicle-state interp…
CAD-Based Relation Learning and Geometric-Symbolic Planning for Robotic Assembly
arXiv:2609.17263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Assembly Sequence Planning (ASP) remains a challenging problem due to its combinatorial nature, making exhaustiv…
XPACE: Joint World and Action Modeling from Heterogeneous Experience
arXiv:2609.17372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A general-purpose robot needs to draw on diverse experience, choose actions, and anticipate how those actions wi…
Exact Fusion and Coordinated Exploration in Multi-Robot Active Inference
arXiv:2609.17384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot teams that learn a common environment model exchange belief summaries and plan by the expected information…
Gaussian Processes for Modelling Spatial Fields with Robot Swarms
arXiv:2609.17463v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot swarms, by virtue of their decentralised architecture, are a natural tool for scalable, robust modelling o…
RobResilience: Implementing and Evaluating a Resilience Framework for Cyber-Physical Embodied Systems
arXiv:2609.17349v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In embodied cyber-physical systems, active cyberattacks pose an immediate threat not just to data, but to phys…
ISS Policy : Scalable Diffusion Policy with Implicit Scene Supervision
arXiv:2512.15020v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-based imitation learning has enabled impressive robotic manipulation skills, but action imitation alo…
Do You Have Freestyle? Expressive Humanoid Locomotion via Audio Control
arXiv:2512.23650v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humans intuitively move to sound, but current humanoid robots lack expressive improvisational capabilities, …
Real-Time Non-Contact Force Compensation for Wrist-Mounted Force/Torque Sensors in Haptic-Enabled Robotic Surgery Training
arXiv:2604.23696v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Haptic feedback has been a long-missed feature in robotic-assisted surgery, one that would allow surgeons to…
DGSG-Mind: Dynamic 3D Gaussian Scene Graphs for Long-Term Scene Understanding and Grounding
arXiv:2605.29879v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Integrating open-vocabulary semantic information into dynamic 3D scene representations is essential fo…
Scensory: Real-Time Robotic Olfactory Perception for Joint Identification and Source Localization
arXiv:2509.19318v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Olfaction offers robots access to chemical information that is largely inaccessible to vision, touch, …
HumanEgo: Zero-Shot Robot Learning from Minutes of Human Egocentric Videos
arXiv:2605.24934v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human egocentric video captures rich manipulation demonstrations without any robot hardware, yet transferrin…
SafeFlow: Real-Time Text-Driven Humanoid Whole-Body Control via Physics-Guided Rectified Flow and Selective Safety Gating
arXiv:2603.23983v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in real-time interactive text-driven motion generation have enabled humanoids to perform div…
Mind the Gap: Rethinking I/O Design for Contact-Rich Visuomotor Policy Learning
arXiv:2602.08776v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Contact-rich teleoperation logs expose a policy I/O design choice: demonstrations may contain the robot exec…
TARC: Time-Adaptive Robotic Control
arXiv:2510.23176v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Most robotic systems rely on fixed-frequency discrete-time controllers, creating a trade-off between the eff…
SlotDiT: Object-Centric Representations for Diffusion Transformers
arXiv:2609.17414v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-conditioned latent diffusion models perform strongly in video generation and are promising backbones for …
Machine Zygote: Causal Biparental Heredity Before Learning in a Germline--Soma Artificial Agent
arXiv:2609.17300v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial ontogeny, developmental encodings, robot reproduction, and inherited controllers are established re…
sensVLA: Spatially-Grounded Vision-Language-Action Model for Autonomous Wheel Loader
arXiv:2609.17021v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous wheel-loader control requires joint reasoning over task semantics, egocentric vision, proprioceptio…
Beyond Gestures: Estimating Full Hand Pose and Contact Forces from Wrist-Worn Pressure Sensor Array
arXiv:2609.16518v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Capturing hand motion and interaction forces is critical for interactive computing, VR, and high-fidelity tact…
A Programmable Optics Cloud Laboratory
arXiv:2609.16413v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Laboratory automation can improve experimental throughput, accessibility, and reproducibility, but many roboti…
Autonomous Droplet Navigation via Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2609.16369v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Precise manipulation of liquid droplets underpins lab-on-a-chip platforms for diagnostics, chemical synthesis,…
Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability for Hybrid Systems: Unified Goal-Driven Control with Safety Guarantees
arXiv:2609.17430v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hybrid dynamical systems provide a powerful modeling framework for robotic systems, particularly in contact-rich…
Online Geometric Change Detection via Scene Decomposition
arXiv:2609.17302v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous robots are increasingly deployed on long duration single- and multi-session missions in dynamic envir…