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Learn why food is physical AI’s hardest problem at RoboBusiness
Rajat Bhageria, the founder and CEO of Chef Robotics, will explore what makes food such a demanding benchmark for physical AI. The post Learn why food is physic…
EmbodiedSkills: A Unified Framework for Orchestrating, Training, and Deploying VLA Agents
arXiv:2609.01281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models map visual observations and language instructions directly to robot actions,…
Autonomous robotic bridging using distributed swarm control without inter-agent communication
arXiv:2609.01394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We describe SCARAB--Swarm-Capable Autonomous Robotic Aquatic Bridging. Using distributed swarm control and multi…
Obstacle-Aware Autonomous Coverage and Navigation for Outdoor Robots
arXiv:2609.01384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-duration outdoor coverage with autonomous platforms remains challenging beyond classical planning: deployme…
Scalable Rao-Blackwellized Online Planning for High-Dimensional POMDPs
arXiv:2609.01351v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online planning under uncertainty remains a fundamental challenge for robotic systems operating in partially obs…
DNC-IMM: Early Lane-Change Intention Recognition via Neural Calibration Based on Driving Context Information
arXiv:2609.01120v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Early recognition of lane-change intention is essential for proactive decision-making in autonomous driving and …
Adaptive Depth-Map-Guided Bundle Adjustment for Correspondence-Free Multi-View Point Cloud Registration
arXiv:2609.01089v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic processing of irregular steel scrap requires dense 3-D measurement to replace manual visual assessment i…
Peg-in-Bench: A Modular Benchmark for High-Precision Robotic Insertion
arXiv:2609.00906v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-precision insertion remains a fundamental challenge in robotic manipulation due to the strict alignment req…
Optimal UGV-UAV Cooperative Partitioning and Inspection of Shortest Paths
arXiv:2604.25284v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study cooperative shortest path planning for an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) assisted by an unmanned aer…
DynSSM: A Physics-Aware State-Space Memory Framework for Learning Vehicle Dynamics
arXiv:2605.08489v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate modeling of nonlinear vehicle dynamics is essential for high-speed autonomous racing, where control…
EAAE: Energy-Aware Autonomous Exploration for UAVs in Unknown 3D Environments
arXiv:2603.15604v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Battery-powered multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can rapidly map unknown environments, but mission…
From Legible to Inscrutable Trajectories: (Il)legible Motion Planning Accounting for Multiple Observers
arXiv:2602.09227v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In cooperative environments, such as in factories or assistive scenarios, it is important for a robot to com…
MobileOcc: A Human-Aware Semantic Occupancy Dataset for Mobile Robots
arXiv:2511.16949v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Dense 3D semantic occupancy perception is critical for mobile robots operating in pedestrian-rich environmen…
Hydra: Marker-Free RGB-D Hand-Eye Calibration
arXiv:2504.20584v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This work presents an RGB-D imaging-based approach to marker-free hand-eye calibration using a novel impleme…
Adaptive Collision Sensitivity for Efficient and Safe Human-Robot Collaboration
arXiv:2409.20184v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: What is considered safe for a robot operator during physical human-robot collaboration (HRC) is specified in…
CoLT-Drive: Counterfactual Long-Tail Benchmarking and Knowledge-Preserving Adaptation for Driving Affordance Prediction
arXiv:2609.00242v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-tail autonomous driving failures are often framed as rare-object recognition errors. We argue that this v…
Evaluating Multimodal LLMs as Generalist Vision-Language-Action Agents for Drone Control: Commanding, Approaching, Tracking and Searching
arXiv:2609.01404v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are strong perceivers of images and video. We ask how far that reach ex…
TacVLA: Contact-Aware Tactile Fusion for Robust Vision-Language-Action Manipulation
arXiv:2603.12665v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated significant advantages in robotic manipulation. Howeve…
Parallel Reference-Centric Continuous-Time Relative Localization with Augmented Clamped Non-Uniform B-Splines
arXiv:2602.22006v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate relative localization is critical for multi-robot cooperation. In robot groups, measurements from d…
Dual Process Motion Planning
arXiv:2609.01260v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic systems are deeply embedded in both industry and everyday life, where they are expected to act with sp…
Federated Trust for Embodied Robot Capability Marketplaces
arXiv:2609.00404v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot capability marketplaces, the "app store for robot skills," are emerging as the deployment vector for LLM…
Facet-0: A Robotic Foundation Model for Contact-Rich Precise Manipulation
arXiv:2609.01596v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world robotic assembly at sub-millimeter tolerances demands spatial precision, compliant interaction, and r…
A System for Fast, Resilient, and Adaptable Loco-Manipulation Behaviors on Humanoid Robots
arXiv:2609.01518v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: There is tremendous value in humanoid robots taking on physically demanding, hazardous, and repetitive work in s…
On Global Regulatability of Robot Manipulators by Classical PID
arXiv:2609.01207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper studies a class of uncertain multi-input multi-output (MIMO) nonlinear systems using extended PID (EP…
Behavior--Realization Separation for Constrained Physical Human--Robot Interaction
arXiv:2609.00669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical human--robot interaction software often couples desired-behavior specification with constrained realiza…
AM-Bench: A Modular Simulation Suite and Benchmark for Aerial Manipulation Policy Learning
arXiv:2609.00641v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Standardized benchmarks have played a central role in advancing robot manipulation learning, yet most focus on g…
Geometric analysis of generic 3R robots, and necessary and sufficient conditions for a class of orthogonal robots to have four IKS
arXiv:2609.00316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The kinematic analysis of a generic 3R robot has been investigated with multiple approaches in the past. The alg…
Beyond Object Selection:Markerless Gaze-based Robot Placement at Arbitrary Position
arXiv:2609.00478v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gaze-based assistive manipulation typically supports object selection, while arbitrary-position placement requir…
Fleets Need a Context Plane: Rethinking Cooperative Perception for Autonomous Drones
arXiv:2609.00659v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cooperative perception allows a drone fleet to combine observations from multiple viewpoints. However, existing …
A Compact Robotic Finger with 2-DoF MCP Joint Embedding DoF-Selective Passive Continuously Variable Transmission for Wide Force-Speed Operating Range
arXiv:2609.00769v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This letter presents a compact two-degree-of-freedom (DoF) robotic finger with a flexion-selective passive conti…