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2482 storiesPrismAD: Decoupled Planning via Semantic Mixture-of-Planners for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607.10336v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This letter presents PrismAD, a decoupled end-to-end autonomous driving framework based on a Semantic Mixture-of…
Wearing A Coat: Dual-Arm Robot-Assisted Dressing with Differentiable Clothing Simulation
arXiv:2607.10999v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The development of assistive robots for dressing tasks serves to augment human convenience and improve the quali…
Breaking the 15% Barrier: A Real-World Data-Driven System for Proactive Social Robot Triggered by User Nonverbal Cues
arXiv:2607.11633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Service robots in retail stores increasingly rely on cascaded speech pipelines (STT-LLM-TTS), yet many customer-…
Autonomous Close-Proximity Photovoltaic Panel Coating Using a Quadcopter
arXiv:2509.10979v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Photovoltaic (PV) panels are becoming increasingly widespread in the domain of renewable energy, and thus, s…
World Models as Adversaries: Multi-Agent Self-Play Fine-Tuning for Robust Motion Planning
arXiv:2607.10630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust motion planning in dense traffic requires autonomous vehicles to interact in rare and safety-critical sce…
A Model for Mediating Multi-Modal Human Intent into Safe Maneuvers for UAVs
arXiv:2607.11654v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Direct human interaction with autonomous UAV systems can be enabled through modalities such as speech, gestures,…
VINE: Taming Generative Control Policies for Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607.10369v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow-matching policies have emerged as an effective policy parameterization for robot learning. They iteratively…
Trajectory Planning and Certification for 3-DOF Robot Manipulators Using Real Quantifier Elimination Based on Comprehensive Gr\"obner Systems
arXiv:2607.11657v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose an algorithm and its implementation for trajectory planning and certification for 3-DOF robot manipul…
Distributionally Robust Control via Stein Variational Inference for Contact-Rich Manipulation
arXiv:2605.19029v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reliable robotic manipulation requires control policies that can accurately represent and adapt to uncertain…
A Minimalist Retargeting-Guided Reinforcement Learning Recipe for Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv:2607.11874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work in humanoid whole-body control has found success with a simple recipe: retarget human motion to robo…
LLM-Centric Agentic AI for UAV Swarms: Architecture, Enabling Technologies, and Open Problems
arXiv:2607.09756v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms have significant potential for applications such as Search and Rescue (SAR)…
Casting Everything to Online API Services? A Survey of Integrating Localized Speech Recognition Models in Robotic Systems
arXiv:2607.11792v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has become a critical component of modern robotic systems because it is one o…
Ondas acquires DZYNE for $875.8M, expanding its defense capabilities
DZYNE Technologies specializes in long-endurance autonomous aircraft, counter-drone systems, and autonomous effects. The post Ondas acquires DZYNE for $875.8M, …
Yaskawa America gets information security certification
Yaskawa America said that independent ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification shows its focus on protecting customer information. The post Yaskawa America gets informa…
The Robot Report parent company, WTWH Media, rebrands as Arrowfly
The Arrowfly name unifies more than 40 brands under a new identity built for the future of B2B content and events. The post The Robot Report parent company, WTW…
Wristband enables wearers to control a robotic hand with their own movements
By moving their hands and fingers, users can direct a robot to play piano or shoot a basketball, or they can manipulate objects in a virtual environment.…
Effects of Robotic Touch on Older Users During Walking Guidance by a Humanoid Robot
arXiv:2607.09323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The shortage of healthcare staff is a challenge in geriatric care. To address this, robots can be integrated int…
SplatCtrl: Perception-Action Coupling via Gaussian Scene Representations and Reactive Robot Control
arXiv:2607.08948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic manipulators excel in structured environments but face substantial challenges in unstructured and dynami…
Dec-MARVEL: Decentralized Multi-Agent Exploration without Communication under Budget Constraints
arXiv:2607.09060v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-UAV exploration is often constrained by unreliable communication, limited field-of-view sensing (e.g., lig…
Single-Frame Point-Pixel Registration via Supervised Cross-Modal Feature Matching
arXiv:2506.22784v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Point-pixel registration between LiDAR point clouds and camera images is a fundamental yet challenging…
AgenticFocus: Object-Preserving Mixed Reality Synthesis from Human FPV Video for Dexterous Humanoid Learning
arXiv:2607.08857v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human egocentric video is a scalable supervision source for humanoid policy learning, but current pipelines stru…
Causally Debiased Latent Action Model for Embodied Action Conditioned World Models
arXiv:2607.09185v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Action-conditioned world models (ACWMs) aim to simulate future observations conditioned on embodied actions, o…
CoDiMAD: Diffusion-Based Privileged Distillation for Communication-Free Multi-Robot Coordination
arXiv:2607.09587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decentralized multi-robot coordination under partial observability remains challenging, especially in communicat…
Tactile and Vision Conditioned Contact-Centric Control for Whole-Arm Manipulation
arXiv:2607.09218v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Whole-arm manipulation involves direct contact with the environment while the robot completes a task by distribu…
BeyondSight: Object Permanence for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607.09138v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving operates in partially observable environments where actors may become fully occluded by other…
PAC-ACT: Post-training Actor-Critic for Action Chunking Transformers
arXiv:2607.09590v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Precision industrial contact manipulation requires reliable robot policies under pose perturbations and contact-…
DemoBridge: A Simulation-in-the-Loop Toolkit for Single-View Human Demonstration Retargeting
arXiv:2607.09519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present DemoBridge, an toolkit that turns a single-view RGB stereo recording of a human hand demonstration in…
Implicit-Behavior Coordination from Unlabeled Sub-Task Demonstrations for Rearrangement Tasks
arXiv:2607.09234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon robotic rearrangement tasks are often treated as skill sequencing problems, requiring predefined sk…
Tactile Genesis: Exploring Tactile Sensors at Scale for Learning Dexterous Tasks
arXiv:2606.22332v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tactile sensing is critical for contact-rich dexterous manipulation, yet it remains unclear which tactile ab…
CLAP: Direct VLM-to-VLA Adaptation via Language-Action Grounding
arXiv:2607.08974v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action models (VLAs) inherit semantic capabilities from pretrained VLMs, yet large-scale post-tr…