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4147 storiesMemory as Plans: World-Action Modeling with Memory-Grounded Planning
arXiv:2609.11561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mainstream robotic policies often adopt a Markovian formulation, but many complex real-world manipulation tasks …
SEED-UMI: Sharing the Exoskeleton between human and robot for onE-to-one Dexterous demonstration
arXiv:2609.11753v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitation learning for dexterous hands is bottlenecked by the difficulty of collecting contact-rich demonstratio…
UniMPA: A Unified Memory-Prediction-Action Model via Action-Grounded Transition Modeling
arXiv:2609.11875v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have improved robotic manipulation, yet observation-to-ac…
FastMap: Real-Time Semantic Map Completion via Bitwise Masked Modeling
arXiv:2506.07350v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Semantic map completion, which predicts the layout of unobserved regions from partial observations, is a cri…
CMoE: Contrastive Mixture of Experts for Motion Control and Terrain Adaptation of Humanoid Robots
arXiv:2603.03067v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: For effective deployment in real-world environments, humanoid robots must autonomously navigate a diverse ra…
Wiggle and Go! System Identification for Zero-Shot Dynamic Rope Manipulation
arXiv:2604.22102v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many robotic tasks are unforgiving; a single mistake in a dynamic throw can lead to unacceptable delays or u…
A Multi-Modal Perception Pipeline for Object Detection and Tracking in Autonomous Racing
arXiv:2609.08338v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Object detection and tracking are fundamental components of perception systems for autonomous driving. Achie…
Diagnosing and Dynamically Filtering Occupancy World Models for Active Mapping
arXiv:2609.06820v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Active mapping requires a robot to select camera viewpoints that efficiently reconstruct an unknown 3D scene…
GIF: Agentic Generation of Interactive and Functional Object Compositions for Robot Learning
arXiv:2609.05927v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robot manipulation foundation models require scalable evaluation and data generation across diverse scenario…
Evaluation of Vision-Language Models Across Diverse Coastal Environments
arXiv:2609.10855v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) enable robotic per- ception by associating visual observations with natural-lang…
Rapid Learning of Dexterous In-Hand Pen Writing through Real-Time Jacobian Estimation
arXiv:2609.11775v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous in-hand manipulation of a grasped object with an anthropomorphic hand is an unsolved frontier for robo…
CARLAverse: A Highly Modular, Distributed, and Multimodal Framework for Human-in-the-Loop Simulation
arXiv:2609.11478v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The development of autonomous driving demands comprehensive testing in mixed-traffic scenarios involving vulnera…
CAP: Continuously Adaptive Perception-Blind Humanoid Locomotion via Learned Denoising
arXiv:2609.11553v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid locomotion across complex terrain demands forward-looking exteroception to anticipate obstacles, yet th…
Harness Robotic OS: A Unified Embodied-Agent Runtime for Closed-Loop Quadruped Inspection
arXiv:2609.11225v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous property inspection requires more than robust robot navigation: a deployable system must connect hete…
RIDE: Relocalization-Informed Depth Estimation with 3D Gaussian Splatting
arXiv:2609.11079v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Render--match--PnP relocalization establishes correspondences between query image pixels and 3D map points for c…
LTLDiff: Finite Linear Temporal Logic-Guided Data Generation and Diffusion Policies for Multi-agent Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2609.11043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent robotic manipulation tasks require coordination among agents to satisfy task-level temporal, logical…
Planning along Differentiable Charts of Constraint Manifolds with General-Purpose IK Solvers
arXiv:2609.10905v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Planning trajectories for robot manipulators under kinematic equality constraints restricts feasible motions to …
IMLE-VLA: Fast Single-Step Action Generation for Vision-Language-Action Policies
arXiv:2609.10915v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies leverage pretrained vision-language backbones to achieve strong cross-task…
Testing Between the Test Cases: Proving End-to-End Steering in Conditions You Never Drove
arXiv:2609.10951v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-based automated vehicle testing is challenging because a model that passes every test condition can still fai…
Quasi-static analysis of passive stability in a novel underactuated multi-finger hand
arXiv:2609.11579v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Underactuated robotic hands achieve adaptive and robust grasping with a reduced number of actuators, but predict…
Rhythm: Learning Interactive Whole-Body Control for Dual Humanoids
arXiv:2603.02856v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Realizing interactive whole-body control for multi-humanoid systems is critical for unlocking complex collab…
DCReg: Decoupled Characterization for Efficient Degenerate LiDAR Registration
arXiv:2509.06285v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LiDAR point cloud registration is fundamental to robotic perception and navigation. In geometrically degener…
ORCH: Organizational Principles Enable Collective Intelligence in Embodied AI
arXiv:2609.11737v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Collective intelligence depends not only on the capabilities of individual members, but also on how those memb…
MC-DeTra: Motion-Consistent Joint Object Detection and Socially-Aware Trajectory Forecasting in Bird's-Eye-View Images
arXiv:2609.11717v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unified models for object detection and trajectory forecasting aim to merge perception and prediction for auto…
ActSafeGuard: Differentiable and Training-Aligned Constraint Enforcement for Flow-Matching Policies
arXiv:2609.11697v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) and World-Action Models (WAMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in general-pur…
SwarmNxt: Open-source Software-Hardware Platform for Fast and Agile Aerial Swarms
arXiv:2609.11382v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aerial robot swarms have the potential to transform time-critical safety, security, and search-and-rescue operat…
Freehand Sketching for End-User Programming of Robot Swarms
arXiv:2609.11078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot swarms are increasingly used in applications where accessible interaction with non-expert users is desirab…
ObstaDiff: Generalizable Diffusion Policy Learning via Obstacle-aware Representations
arXiv:2609.10918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitation learning has achieved impressive results in robotic manipulation, yet most existing approaches assume …
Expressive Robotic Pianist: Mastering Complex Piano Repertoire with Graph-Mimic and Musical Dynamics
arXiv:2609.10844v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enabling robots to perform musical instruments with human-level expressivity represents a frontier in bridging t…
When Information is Worth the Risk: Behavioral Valuation for Hazardous Robotic Exploration
arXiv:2609.10726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hazardous robotic exploration requires robots to map spatial risks, such as unsafe terrain, radiation, fire, min…