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4147 storiesGIFT: Glove-Inferred Force Transfer: Force-Aware Human-to-Robot Skill Transfer from a Wearable Sensing Glove to a Robot Hand Without Tactile Sensors
arXiv:2609.14173v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-to-robot skill transfer from sensing gloves has so far relied on shared hardware: the same tactile glove w…
Mobile Multi-Robot Navigation under Runtime Uncertainty via Koopman Operator Learning and Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
arXiv:2609.14058v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this work, we developed a nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) framework that employs learned dynamics v…
Rethinking the Implications of Human Feedback for Preference Learning in Human-Robot Collaboration
arXiv:2609.13982v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Human-Robot Interaction, the standard approach to learn a reward model that represents human preferences for …
Decentralized Multi-Robot Task Allocation Under Degraded Communication: A Benchmark of Performance, Reliability, and Computation
arXiv:2609.13711v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Selecting a decentralized Multi-Robot Task Allocation (MRTA) method for embedded deployment on autonomous platfo…
LiPS: Lightweight Panoptic Segmentation for Resource-Constrained Robotics
arXiv:2604.00634v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Panoptic segmentation is a key enabler for robotic perception, as it unifies semantic understanding with obj…
Habitat-GS: A High-Fidelity Navigation Simulator with Dynamic Gaussian Splatting
arXiv:2604.12626v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Training embodied AI agents depends critically on the visual fidelity of simulation environments and the abi…
Learning Multi-Agent Task Assignment and Navigation in the Factory: from Simulation to Real Robots
arXiv:2609.14567v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown considerable promise for robotic decision-making, yet deploying multi-agen…
Language-Grounded Semantic Target Navigation for Autonomous Surface Vehicles
arXiv:2609.14558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASVs) are increasingly expected to operate in ports and harbour environments, where…
BIG-CBF: Behavior-Imagination-Guided Control Barrier Function with Shared Uncertainty for Mobile Robot Navigation
arXiv:2609.14343v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Control barrier functions (CBFs) provide a mathematically grounded framework for enforcing local collision-avoid…
VLBiMan++: Expanding the Generalization Boundary of Vision-Language Anchored One-Shot Bimanual Manipulation
arXiv:2609.14310v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalizable bimanual robotic manipulation requires a reusable task prior that can persist across increasingly …
Task-Specified Active Metrological Inspection with Measurement-Steered VLA Manipulation and Deterministic Evidence Gating
arXiv:2609.14219v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-mix low-volume (HMLV) manufacturing requires inspection systems to adapt to changing parts, specifications,…
Vision-Force Admittance Learning for Peg Insertion into a Movable Hole
arXiv:2609.14133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Precise manipulation in dynamic environments, whether induced by a mobile robot base or a target with unknown mo…
ReWeight: Leveraging Human Data for VLA Post-Training via Demonstration Retrieval and Sample Weighting
arXiv:2609.13851v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training vision-language-action (VLA) models for specific robots and tasks requires in-domain demonstration…
Goal-Oriented Communications for Physical AI: Design and Testbed
arXiv:2609.15895v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical AI relies on frequently-updated, latency-sensitive video stream to perceive, reason, and interact with …
GRAVA: Grounded Reasoning-to-Action Representation and Learning for Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2609.15169v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Driving vision-language-action (VLA) models increasingly reason before acting, but their intermediate reasonin…
Learning Agile Flight Maneuvers: Deep SE(3) Motion Planning and Control for Quadrotors
arXiv:2209.11097v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agile flights of autonomous quadrotors in cluttered environments require constrained motion planning and con…
Trust-Region Neural Moving Horizon Estimation for Robots
arXiv:2309.05955v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate disturbance estimation is essential for safe robot operations. The recently proposed neural moving …
Is Semantic SLAM Ready for Embedded Systems ? A Comparative Survey
arXiv:2505.12384v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Semantic SLAM holds promise for robust robot navigation in complex environments, but its practicality on emb…
Humanoid Whole-Body Badminton via an Annealed Reinforcement Learning Curriculum
arXiv:2511.11218v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humanoid robots have demonstrated strong capabilities for interacting with static scenes across locomotion a…
CREPES-X: Hierarchical Bearing-Distance-Inertial Direct Cooperative Relative Pose Estimation System
arXiv:2512.24688v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Relative localization is essential for cooperation in autonomous multi-robot systems. Existing approaches ei…
An LLM-Agnostic, MAVLink-Based Drone Command and Control Interface and Agentic Harness Using the Model Context Protocol
arXiv:2601.15486v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Artificial intelligence integrated with drone command and control (physical AI) offers a route to autonomy t…
Learning Human-Like Badminton Skills for Humanoid Robots
arXiv:2602.08370v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Realizing versatile and human-like performance in high-demand sports like badminton remains a formidable cha…
OVMAN: A Task and Benchmark for Open-Vocabulary Motion-Aware Navigation
arXiv:2609.06424v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Homes change between a robot's visits. Navigation benchmarks pose their goals in the world the agent current…
Robusto-2: Benchmarking Humans & VLMs for Autonomous Driving in Lima & New York City
arXiv:2606.20980v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As Self-Driving Cars continue to expand internationally and use multi-modal systems such as VLMs as a …
Constraint-Grounded Reinforcement Learning for Variable Impedance Control in Contact-Rich Robotic Insertion
arXiv:2609.13516v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In robotic insertion under uncertain contact, the axial force limit and the appropriate controller gain vary acr…
IMM-based Multiple Object Tracking using a State Prediction Neural Network
arXiv:2609.13307v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Object tracking is essential for autonomous vehicles to avoid obstacles and plan routes. Radar maintains detecti…
Conflict-Predictive Variable Horizons in Multi-Drone Distributed Model Predictive Control
arXiv:2609.13270v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In distributed model predictive control for multi-drone collision avoidance, a fixed prediction horizon forces a…
Report covers advances in surgical robots, deploying warehouse automation in the real world
Learn from a surgical robotics case study and a discussion of how to best deploy mobile robots in the warehouse in this issue. The post Report covers advances i…
Why RaaS needs more than a subscription model
At RoboBusiness 2026, a panel of robotics business leaders will examine the practical playbook behind Robots-as-a-Service or RaaS offerings. The post Why RaaS n…
Arm to discuss scaling physical AI at RoboBusiness
Dermot O'Driscoll, the VP of go-to-market for physical AI at Arm, will examine key compute principles behind trusted physical AI. The post Arm to discuss scalin…