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2480 storiesChat2Scenic: An Iterative RAG-Based Framework for Scenario Generation in Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607.14387v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Validating autonomous driving systems requires diverse, regulation-compliant test scenarios. In simulation-bas…
Lights, Camera, Malfunction: When Illumination Robustness Leaves VLA Models Blind to Color
arXiv:2607.14698v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for general-purpose robot manipulation; …
Catch, Throw, Repeat: Planning for Human-Robot Partner Juggling
arXiv:2607.15129v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dynamic object exchange between humans and robots remains a challenging problem due to uncertainty in perception…
Hybrid Rigid-Soft Robotic Gripper with Shape Adaptation, Uniform Force Distribution, and Self-Locking Capabilities
arXiv:2607.14730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional robotic grippers face a significant challenge in agricultural automation: the trade-off between com…
Towards Human-like Physical Intelligence: LifelongVision-Language-Action Learning for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.14852v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Similar to the natural capabilities of humans to sequentially learn new tasks, robots with Vision-Language-Actio…
Scaling Behavior Foundation Model for Humanoid Robots
arXiv:2607.15163v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid control requires natural whole-body coordination, precise real-time responses to control signals, and r…
Mixed-Agent Museum Tour Guide Design Improves Gendered Learning Outcomes and Visitor Preferences
arXiv:2607.14468v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots are increasingly integrated into everyday contexts, including museums, where they can both entertain and …
An offline approach to fNIRS-guided reinforcement learning for robot behavior
arXiv:2607.14393v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-in-the-loop Reinforcement Learning has become a popular approach to training, finetuning, and aligning rob…
BadWAM: When World-Action Models Dream Right but Act Wrong
arXiv:2607.15207v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World-action models (WAMs) are emerging as a promising foundation for embodied control: rather than predicting…
ConFlow: Constraints-Guided Learning with Flow Matching for Motion Generation
arXiv:2607.14424v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In recent years Flow Matching has become a prominent method for generative modeling robot motion generation. In …
Active Real-World Factor-Based Evaluation for Generalist Robot Policies
arXiv:2607.14439v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generalist robot manipulation policies trained on large, diverse datasets have shown remarkable promise across…
Curvature-Constrained and Constant-Speed Distributed Simultaneous Arrival Control for Multi-Robot Systems
arXiv:2607.14781v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The simultaneous arrival of multiple mobile robots at a target point is crucial for cooperation tasks such as co…
Beyond Visual Grasping: Benchmarking Complex Grasping from Detection to Execution
arXiv:2607.14341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust robotic grasping remains a fundamental challenge for complex real-world applications. Recent advances in …
Stochastic Filtering for Quorum Sensing in Robot Swarms under Anonymous Communication
arXiv:2607.14262v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quorum Sensing (QS) is a key capability for robot swarms, useful for coordination of activities at the group lev…
DiMaS: Distribution Matching for Steering Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2607.14280v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow-matching-based vision-language-action (VLA) models have emerged as powerful policies for robotic manipulati…
Octopus-inspired Distributed Control for Soft Robotic Arms: A Graph Neural Network-Based Attention Policy with Environmental Interaction
arXiv:2603.10198v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper proposes SoftGM, an octopus-inspired distributed control architecture for segmented soft robotic …
Bringing Network Coding into Multi-Robot Systems: Interplay Study for Autonomous Systems over Wireless Communications
arXiv:2603.17472v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Communication is a core enabler for multi-robot systems (MRS), providing the mechanism through which robots …
Human-Robot Interaction in GenAI Architectures via the Agent-Client Protocol
arXiv:2607.14919v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), are dr…
An Intelligent-Cloud Edge Multimodal Interaction System for Robots
arXiv:2607.14675v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust human-robot interaction in complex environments requires accurate gesture perception, semantic scene unde…
Open-AoE: An Open Egocentric Manipulation Dataset and Toolchain for Embodied Learning
arXiv:2607.14183v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Egocentric videos of human manipulation provide scalable supervision for embodied intelligence, yet existing res…
Interventional Causal Circuits for Safe Robot Action Testing and Failure Recovery
arXiv:2607.14826v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe physical AI for robot actions are required not only likely to succeed but tested to be safe before executio…
Image-to-Point Cloud Registration Made Easy with Rectified Flow-based LiDAR Upsampling
arXiv:2607.14639v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Image-to-Point Cloud Registration (I2P) is essential for integrating camera and LiDAR in perception and autonomo…
MEMORA: Embodied Action Memory from Egocentric Videos for Reasoning and Planning
arXiv:2607.14252v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon robot planning requires more than predicting what actions will do next; it also requires memory of …
VQ-Touch: A Data-Efficient Tactile Generation Framework Across Sensors and Scenarios
arXiv:2607.14728v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tactile image generation significantly reduces the dependency on expensive and wear-prone sensors by synthesiz…
AHEAD: Anticipatory Hand-Driven Teleoperation via Human Intent Prediction
arXiv:2607.15172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Direct hand-driven teleoperation maps an operator's hand motion to robot end-effector commands at every frame, e…
Communication-Efficient Relative Pose Estimation with Vision Foundation Models for Ephemeral Collaborative Perception
arXiv:2607.14539v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Relative pose estimation is a fundamental capability for collaborative perception and coordination in multi-robo…
Safe Execution of RL Policies Via Acceleration-Based CBF-QP Constraint Enforcement for Real-World Robotic Deployments
arXiv:2607.14488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has demonstrated remarkable capabilities for solving complex robotic control problem…
Observability-Aware Control for Quadrotor Formation Flight with Range-only Measurement
arXiv:2411.03747v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Cooperative Localization is a promising approach to achieving safe quadrotor formation flight through precis…
Motion Planning with Model-Based Diffusion via Constraint Optimization and Adaptive Scheduling
arXiv:2607.14455v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Single-Robot Motion Planning (SRMP) in highly non-convex constrained environments, where robots must satisfy col…
Representation-Aligned Tactile Grounding for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.14609v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tactile-enhanced vision-language-action (VLA) policies have been introduced for contact-rich manipulation, where…