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2480 storiesGraspADMM: Improving Dexterous Grasp Synthesis via ADMM Optimization
arXiv:2603.13832v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Synthesizing high-quality dexterous grasps is a fundamental challenge in robot manipulation, requiring adher…
COLIP-2: Olfaction-Vision-Language Embeddings
arXiv:2607.17559v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Contrastive Olfaction-Language-Image Pre-training 2 (COLIP-2) model is a multimodal embeddings space that pl…
VersualRL: Closed-Loop Verbal Reinforcement Learning with Visual Execution Feedback for Task-Level Robot Planning
arXiv:2603.22169v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce VersualRL, a closed-loop framework for task-level robot planning that uses visual execution fee…
SAGE: A Socially-Aware Generative Engine for Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Navigation
arXiv:2607.16619v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe and socially compliant navigation in open human-robot environments requires robots to reason about heteroge…
Back to the museum: Investigation of the acceptance of Android Andrea with and without emotion simulation in a museum
arXiv:2607.16428v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For a second time, the android robot Andrea was set up at a public museum in Germany for six consecutive days to…
Configuration-Induced Passive Self-Rotation for Perception-Enhanced Autonomous Flight
arXiv:2607.17646v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous flight in confined and cluttered environments is fundamentally limited by the restricted field of vie…
G2-Nav: Grounded and Guarded Vision-Language Costmaps for Robot Social Navigation
arXiv:2607.16956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Social navigation requires the robot to reason and respond in complex real-world environments. While recent work…
Depth-Regularized JEPA World Models Learn More Transferable Representations from Real Outdoor Robot Data
arXiv:2607.16314v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models, especially based on JEPA architectures, have been shown to learn robust dynamics of various envi…
Remote Awareness of Seafloor Images Collected by AUVs over Low-Bandwidth Communication Links
arXiv:2607.18013v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper introduces a method for real-time processing and transmission of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV…
Optimization of sim-to-real transfer in the humanoid robot NICO
arXiv:2607.18210v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic grasping requires accurate coordination between visual perception, object localization, inverse kinemati…
GeoWorldAD: Geometry World Action Model for Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607.17521v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving requires both safe and efficient planning decisions in dynamic 3D environments. Although rece…
RoboHarness: Memory-Driven Orchestration of Heterogeneous Robot Policies for Long-Horizon Planning
arXiv:2607.18060v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon robotic tasks require diverse capabilities that no single policy can reliably provide. Heterogeneou…
SoMA: A Real-to-Sim Neural Simulator for Robotic Soft-body Manipulation
arXiv:2602.02402v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Simulating deformable objects under rich interactions remains a fundamental challenge for real-to-sim robot …
TrackDeform3D: Markerless and Autonomous 3D Keypoint Tracking and Dataset Collection for Deformable Objects
arXiv:2603.17068v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Structured 3D representations such as keypoints and meshes offer compact, expressive descriptions of d…
DeeperRadar: End-to-End MIMO Radar Design and Multi-Modal Fusion for Autonomous Vehicle Perception
arXiv:2607.17351v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: DeeperRadar is a radar-centric, sensor-stack-conditioned framework that co-designs radar sensing and multi-mod…
The World According to a Social Robot -- Augmenting Human-Robot Dialogue With Vision Language Models
arXiv:2607.16318v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision Language Models (VLMs) enable robots to visually perceive their environment as well as the actions and …
TempoVLA: Learning Speed-Controllable Vision-Language-Action Policies
arXiv:2606.06491v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robot manipulation alternates between low-risk transit phases that call for fast execution and high-risk con…
Li-ViP3D++: Query-Gated Deformable Camera-LiDAR Fusion for End-to-End Perception and Trajectory Prediction
arXiv:2601.20720v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: End-to-end perception and trajectory prediction from raw sensor data is one of the key capabilities fo…
Differentiable Reinforcement Learning for Path Tracking by an Agile Fish-Like Robot
arXiv:2607.16508v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fish-like swimming has inspired the design of several dozens if not hundreds of bioinspired robots in the last f…
A2RL V\textsubscript{max}: The A2RL autonomous racing dataset for long-range, high-speed perception and multi-vehicle interaction
arXiv:2607.17813v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In autonomous driving development, a perception dataset is crucial, as it provides fundamental data for training…
DROID-ANCHOR: Odometry-Anchored Recurrent Metric Depth Estimation
arXiv:2607.17058v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Precise metric depth estimation is fundamental for autonomous robot navigation, yet monocular systems inherently…
S.E.A.G.R: A Socially and Emotionally Aware Greeting Robot Framework with Dual-Layer Cultural and Affective Modulation
arXiv:2607.16341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents SEAGR (Socially and Emotionally Aware Greeting Robot), a robotic greeting framework designed…
Lifelong Localization in Dynamic Indoor Environments Combining Odometry with Sparse Distance Sampling
arXiv:2607.17852v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Localization is a key task in robot navigation, and many techniques exist for it. In many plausible scenarios, a…
SplatSearch: Instance Image Goal Navigation for Mobile Robots using 3D Gaussian Splatting and Diffusion Models
arXiv:2511.12972v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The Instance Image Goal Navigation (IIN) problem requires mobile robots deployed in unknown environments to …
PREFAIL: Identifying Precursors to Failures in Robotic Lift-and-Place Tasks to Improve Task Execution Performance
arXiv:2607.16921v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Non-prehensile manipulation enables flexible material handling with part carriers, but friction-based support ma…
HyperDCM: Dynamic Cluster Memory Replay in Hyperbolic Space for Continual Robotic Navigation Across Scenes
arXiv:2607.16267v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning in visual navigation remains challenging due to catastrophic forgetting and the difficulties …
Receiver-Centered Robot-to-Human Handover with Grasp-Aware Object Orientation
arXiv:2607.17839v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collaborative robots are increasingly sharing workspaces with human operators, making tool handover a frequent a…
Task-Space Constrained Stochastic Trajectory Optimization for Time-Optimal Forestry Crane Motion Planning
arXiv:2607.17818v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient, collision-free, and time-optimal motion planning is a fundamental requirement for autonomous forestry…
Closing the Loop in Humanoid VLA: Persistent 3D Object Tokens for Verifiable Loco-Manipulation
arXiv:2607.18016v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action policies are a promising foundation for general robot control, but long-horizon humanoid …
Hybrid Machine Learning for Articulation Angle Estimation of Truck-Semitrailer Combinations
arXiv:2607.16758v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate articulation angle estimation of trucks with trailers is critical for autonomous driving and advanced…