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4147 storiesSeeing What the Vehicle Sees: Video-Augmented Virtual Reality for Physical Autonomous Vehicles
arXiv:2609.13224v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous vehicles are expected to improve road safety and efficiency, but passengers often remain uncertain ab…
ShieldVLA: Feasibility-Aware Safety Alignment for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2609.13231v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models demonstrate strong generalization in robotic manipulation and navigation, bu…
Harnessing human expertise for high-precision robotic assembly in industrialized construction: A sample-efficient installer-in-the-loop interactive reinforcement learning framework
arXiv:2609.13234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrialized construction imposes stringent precision requirements on robotic assembly of modular components s…
Self-Evolving AI for Humanoids: Mechanisms, Safety, and Evaluation of Post-Deployment Self-Improvement
arXiv:2609.13236v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots are becoming an important part of embodied artificial intelligence, driven by advances in reinfo…
Ergodic Control and Controlled Diffusion for Robot Learning: Review and Tutorial
arXiv:2609.13295v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion learning leverages the statistical mechanism of diffusion processes for learning, reasoning, and infer…
Bridging Thought and Action: Taming Long-Horizon Instability in Open-Source LLM Agents with a MetaTool-Enhanced ROS Framework
arXiv:2609.13335v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled more natural human-robot interaction, but open-source models often exh…
Chance-Constrained Belief-Space Maneuver Planning for Autonomous Collision Avoidance Under Uncertainty
arXiv:2609.13428v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Increasing conjunction frequency in low Earth orbit places growing pressure on spacecraft operators to determine…
How Well Do Pseudo-Rigid Body Models Capture Real Plants? In-Field Validation of Simulated Blueberry Canes
arXiv:2609.13627v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many labor-intensive tasks in fruit production such as pruning require physically interacting with the plant (e.…
GeomVLA: Unifying Scene, Motion, and Action in 3D
arXiv:2609.13812v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present GeomVLA, a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that unifies perception, latent scene motion prediction…
EMoG: Emotion-Modulated Gait Generation for Expressive Humanoid Locomotion
arXiv:2609.14432v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing humanoid locomotion systems primarily focus on stability and task execution, while integrating expressi…
Robotic Servo Tracking of Moving Targets with Dynamic Imitation Constraints
arXiv:2609.14589v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imposing explicit trajectory constraints in robot visual servoing remains challenging. Existing tracking methods…
REVOLVE: An Automated Closed-Loop Framework for Evolving Robot Manipulation with Minimal Human Intervention
arXiv:2609.14633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in data-driven robot manipulation policies have substantially improved task execution and genera…
Skill Composition for Legged Robot Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2609.14647v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots, and humanoid robots in particular, are increasingly competent at individual behaviors, each obtained by …
An Adaptive Fixed-Time Line-of-Sight Guidance Scheme for 3D Path Following of Underwater Vehicles: Theory and Experiment
arXiv:2609.14756v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable path tracking is crucial for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) operating in dynamic and uncertain m…
Exact Feasibility Certification and Optimal Responsibility Allocation for Multi-Robot CBF Safety Filters
arXiv:2609.14935v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot Control Barrier Function (CBF) safety filters can become infeasible, but a failed quadratic program …
ResSafe: Learning Safety Filtering with Residual Reinforcement Learning for Humanoids
arXiv:2609.15988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe control of humanoid robots remains challenging due to their high-dimensional dynamics, contact-rich interac…
Part Grounding, Not Action Knowledge: Locating the Bottleneck in VLM Affordance Prediction
arXiv:2609.13225v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Benchmarks agree that vision-language models reason poorly about low-level manipulation, but an aggregate accu…
An MRI-Guided Robotic System to Improve Hippocampal Access for Epilepsy Interventions
arXiv:2609.13572v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an MRI-guided robotic system that improves hippocampal access by delivering a curved needle-…
How to Better Train VLAs: Lessons Learned From the REAL-I Challenge at ICRA 2026
arXiv:2609.13679v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How can robot policies learn more effectively from a fixed demonstration budget? The first Real-world Embodied A…
Co-Speech with You: Training-Free Personalization of Robot Co-Speech Gestures
arXiv:2609.13876v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personal robots should adapt their co-speech gesture style to a new user without requiring model retraining. We …
MessyMem: Learning-from-Doing Memory for Mobile Manipulation
arXiv:2609.15976v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile manipulators deployed across many rooms and visits should improve with experience: after discovering that…
Unlabeled Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Improved Separation Trade-offs
arXiv:2603.19502v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study unlabeled MRMP for unit-disk robots in a polygonal environment. Although the problem is hard …
Large-FOV RGBD Imaging via Structured PSF Coding in a Bio-inspired Monocentric System
arXiv:2510.25314v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: High-fidelity large-field-of-view (LFOV) 3D sensing, essential for autonomous platforms, is hindered b…
Colosseum V2: Benchmarking Generalization for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2605.27759v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models demonstrate promising generalization in robotic manipulation, driven by …
Steering Generative Robot Policies with Lexicographic Preferences
arXiv:2609.15014v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained generative robot policies can produce effective behaviors across diverse environments, but deployment…
IMPACT-VLA: Interaction-aware Multimodal Propagation Attribution via Counterfactual Trajectories for Vision-Language-Action Policies
arXiv:2609.15005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies perform robot manipulation tasks using multimodal inputs such as visual ob…
A Novel Robot-Assisted Learning Pedagogy for Children with ASD
arXiv:2609.14710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interaction paradigms used in robot-assisted autism intervention have historically employed robots as teachers, …
EcoBoat: Design and Experimental Validation of an Autonomous Body-Board Boat For Cleaning Water Bodies
arXiv:2609.14450v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cleaning water bodies such as swimming pools and lakes typically demands significant manual effort or reliance o…
Multi-Task Visual Perception Network with LLM Conditioning for Autonomous Navigation
arXiv:2609.14297v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term navigation for service robots faces crit- ical challenges like the accumulation of odometry drift and …
DreamSat-Bench: Development and Initial Testing of a Testbed for AI-Based Pose Estimation from 3D Reconstruction
arXiv:2609.14183v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents the development and initial testing of DreamSat-Bench, a modular rendezvous and proximity op…