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A flapping robot swims and flies like a diving bird
Image copyright: Raphael Zufferey. By Jennifer Chu Loons, gulls, puffins, and petrels are some of the 100 species of birds that can both fly and swim. These div…
ABot-AgentOS: A General Robotic Agent OS with Lifelong Multi-modal Memory
arXiv:2607.10350v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent VLM and VLA systems have improved robotic perception and action prediction, yet long-horizon embodied a…
Streamlining stereo differentiable rendering for marker-free real-time tracking of surgical robots
arXiv:2607.12604v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Purpose: Marker-based tracking of surgical robots is occlusion-prone in cluttered operating rooms. We evaluate s…
DenseReward: Dense Reward Learning via Failure Synthesis for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.13033v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning holds great promise for improving robot policies beyond the limits of imitation learning.…
TrustVLA: Mechanism-Guided Inference-Time Defense Against Vision-Language-Action Backdoors
arXiv:2607.12571v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are deployed through pipelines that end users cannot audit, and a poisoned V…
Deployable Human Preference Alignment in Robotics: Learning Representative Rewards from Diverse Human Preferences
arXiv:2607.12466v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aligning robot policies with human preferences is essential for deployment to diverse end users. In per-user ali…
Jetson-PI: Towards Onboard Real-Time Robot Control via Foresight-Aligned Asynchronous Inference
arXiv:2607.12659v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have achieved impressive performance on diverse embodied tasks. However, dep…
TerraZero: Procedural Driving Simulation for Zero-Demonstration Self-Play at Scale
arXiv:2607.13028v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training robust autonomous driving agents requires a simulator that is fast enough for reinforcement learning …
SANTS: A State-Adaptive Scheduler for World Action Models
arXiv:2605.27947v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) improve robot manipulation by using video-based future representations to conditi…
Mosaic: An Extensible Framework for Composing Rule-Based and Learned Motion Planners
arXiv:2604.13853v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Safe and explainable motion planning remains a central challenge in autonomous driving. While rule-based pla…
Enabling 24-hour Agricultural Robotics: Unsupervised Day-to-Night Cross-Modal Image Translation for Nighttime Visual Navigation
arXiv:2607.12065v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While visual navigation has been extensively studied in agricultural robotics, most existing systems assume dayt…
GaitSpan: Growing Humanoid Locomotion from Walking to Running
arXiv:2607.12114v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A humanoid that can walk should not relearn locomotion from scratch to jog or run. Yet current approaches often …
Robot Drummer: Learning Rhythmic Skills for Humanoid Drumming
arXiv:2507.11498v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humanoid robots have seen remarkable advances in dexterity, balance, and locomotion, yet their role in expre…
Real-Time Model Checking for Closed-Loop Robot Reactive Planning
arXiv:2508.19186v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reactive obstacle avoidance methods often cause agents to become trapped in local minima, because they can o…
Look, Focus, Act: Efficient and Robust Robot Learning via Human Gaze and Foveated Vision Transformers
arXiv:2507.15833v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human vision is a highly active process driven by gaze, which directs attention to task-relevant regions thr…
TADPO: Reinforcement Learning Goes Off-road
arXiv:2603.05995v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Off-road autonomous driving poses significant challenges such as navigating unmapped, variable terrain with …
Practical Judgment, Virtue, and Intuition in the Use of Opaque AI-Enabled Systems
arXiv:2607.12755v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI-enabled systems are seeing increasing deployment across numerous domains, with many being "black boxes" wit…
Model-Based Diffusion Optimal Control for Multi-Robot Motion Planning
arXiv:2607.12423v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-Robot Motion Planning in continuous environments, where robots must generate dynamically feasible, collisi…
Contract-Grounded Behavior Tree Synthesis via Coding Agents
arXiv:2607.12220v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthesizing deployable robot behavior trees (BTs) from natural language (NL) requires grounding to ensure every…
UR-VC: Unsupervised Robotic Value Correction for Time-Derived Progress Proxies
arXiv:2607.12892v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern robot learning systems increasingly rely on dense progress or value signals to evaluate intermediate stat…
EFLUX: Elastic Multi-Robot Formation Navigation and Adaptation with Agentic LLMs
arXiv:2607.12050v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot teams operating in confined or cluttered environments must adapt both their formation geometry and g…
Unveiling Complex Collective Behaviors from Simple Rewards
arXiv:2607.12861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) holds great potential for robot swarms, but the black-box nature of ne…
More than a Manipulator: Planning Propellant-Free Attitude Maneuvers for Free-Floating Spacecraft
arXiv:2607.12130v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spacecraft attitude control is traditionally achieved using momentum exchange devices or propellant-consuming th…
Globalized Constrained Stein Variational Inference for Diverse Feasible Robot Motion Planning
arXiv:2607.12732v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot motion planning is inherently multimodal, yet classical planners typically return only a single solution. …
VistaVLA: Geometry- and Semantic-Aware 3D Gaussian-Grounded VLA for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.12356v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a powerful end-to-end paradigm for robotic manipulation by m…
APPLV: Adaptive Planner Parameter Learning from Vision-Language-Action Model
arXiv:2603.08862v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous navigation in highly constrained environments remains challenging for mobile robots. Classical na…
MAMMOTH: A Multi-Modal End-to-End Policy for Off-Road Mobility Robust to Missing Modality
arXiv:2607.12965v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable autonomous navigation in unstructured off-road environments remains a critical unsolved challenge due t…
Infra-Swarm: Robust Vision-Based Multi-Robot Swarming via Near-Infrared Spectral Vision
arXiv:2607.12489v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distributed swarms typically rely on either active wireless communication or passive vision, and they are freque…
RoboDesign1M: A Large-scale Dataset for Robot Design Understanding
arXiv:2503.06796v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robot design is a complex and time-consuming process that requires specialized expertise. Gaining a deeper u…
LapSurgie: Humanoid Robots Performing Surgery via Teleoperated Handheld Laparoscopy
arXiv:2510.03529v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic laparoscopic surgery has gained increasing attention in recent years for its potential to deliver mo…