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2482 storiesAPIVOT: Adaptive Planning with Interleaved Vision-Language Thoughts
arXiv:2607.08024v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon robot planning requires jointly reasoning over semantic task structure and geometric feasibility.…
TriphiBot: A Triphibious Robot Combining FOC-based Propulsion with Eccentric Design
arXiv:2602.01385v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Triphibious robots capable of multi-domain motion and cross-domain transitions are promising to handle compl…
FunHOI: Annotation-Free 3D Hand-Object Interaction Generation via Functional Text Guidance
arXiv:2502.20805v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Hand-object interaction(HOI) is the fundamental link between human and environment, yet its dexterous and co…
AnyDexRT: Calibration-Free Dexterous Hand Retargeting with Few-Shot Human Guidance
arXiv:2607.08341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Teleoperation is a key interface for controlling dexterous robotic hands and collecting demonstrations for imita…
A Collaborative Reasoning Framework for Anomaly Diagnostics in Underwater Robotics
arXiv:2511.03075v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The safe deployment of autonomous systems in safety-critical settings requires a paradigm that combines huma…
ARDY: Autoregressive Diffusion with Hybrid Representation for Interactive Human Motion Generation
arXiv:2607.08741v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generating realistic 3D human motions in real-time within interactive applications is key for animation, simul…
Native Video-Action Pretraining for Generalizable Robot Control
arXiv:2607.08639v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The advent of video-action models offers a promising path for robot control. Nevertheless, we argue that repurpo…
Towards Soft Robotic Exogloves for Musculoskeletal Manipulation to Reduce Pain and Spasticity
arXiv:2607.07958v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hand spasticity and resulting pain affect 12 million people worldwide, including stroke survivors, arthritis pat…
EgoWAM: World Action Models Beyond Pixels with In-the-Wild Egocentric Human Data
arXiv:2607.08436v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Egocentric human data offers scalable supervision for robot manipulation. However, behavior cloning entangles tr…
In vivo feasibility study of humanoid robots in surgery
arXiv:2607.07972v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in actuation, control and learning have rapidly pushed humanoid robots from a distant vision tow…
ContactMimic: Humanoid Object Interaction via Contact Control
arXiv:2607.08742v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Keypoint tracking alone is insufficient for object interaction tasks such as sitting on a chair, wiping a board,…
Idiobionics: The Unification of Privacy and Intelligent Robotic Prostheses
arXiv:2607.07775v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The human body is at the center of a growing family of technologies designed to tightly and persistently coupl…
SeFA-Policy: Fast and Accurate Visuomotor Policy Learning with Selective Flow Alignment
arXiv:2511.08583v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Developing efficient and accurate visuomotor policies poses a central challenge in robotic imitation learnin…
Understanding and Mitigating the Video-Action Generalization Gap via Temporal Ratio
arXiv:2607.08127v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative video foundation models exhibit strong compositional priors, yet world-action models (WAMs) and vid…
A New Human-Likeness and Comfort Index for Robot Movements Along Prescribed Paths
arXiv:2607.08620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As human-robot interaction rapidly spreads in numerous fields, the subject of robot acceptance gains increasing …
FSD-VLN: Fast-Slow Dual-System Modeling for Aerial Long-Horizon Vision-Language Navigation
arXiv:2607.08359v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) enables UAV autonomous navigation in unknown environments by mapping language i…
Learning Adaptive Solvers for Distributed Factor Graph Optimization on Matrix Lie Groups
arXiv:2607.08735v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern robotic perception increasingly involves large-scale geometric optimization problems distributed across m…
Post-Training in End-to-End Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607.08072v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end models that map multimodal inputs directly to future trajectories/maneuvers have emerged as an incr…
D-CLIPSE: Distributed Consensus-based Localization with Passive Listening on Shared State Exchange
arXiv:2607.07995v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot localization that is accurate and consistent is imperative for downstream tasks such as planning and…
X-ACTA: eXtended Analytic Center Tension distribution Algorithm for fixed and mobile cable-driven-parallel-robot
arXiv:2607.08265v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Steering Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (CDPRs) beyond their Wrench-Feasible Workspace (WFW) augments their capabi…
Simulator Ensembles for Trustworthy Autonomous Driving Systems Testing
arXiv:2503.08936v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scenario-based testing with driving simulators is extensively used to identify failing conditions of a…
Shift & Drift: A Zero-Shot Benchmark for Generalizable and Robust Autonomous Driving Motion Planning
arXiv:2607.07844v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While closed-loop motion planners trained on large-scale, object-level datasets, e.g., nuPlan, demonstrate stron…
Time-to-Collision Based Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance Using Pretrained Vision Models for Robots in Unstructured Environments
arXiv:2607.07885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dynamic obstacle avoidance in unstructured outdoor environments remains a critical challenge for autonomous mobi…
Swapping Faces, Saving Features: A Dual-Purpose Pipeline for Pedestrian Privacy in ITS
arXiv:2607.08402v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-scale and diverse datasets are needed to train AI models to take real-time decisions for autonomous vehi…
DexVerse: A Modular Benchmark for Multi-Task, Multi-Embodiment Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv:2607.08751v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building general-purpose dexterous manipulation policies requires benchmarks that go beyond isolated tasks to sy…
Soft Robotic Exogloves for Dexterous Mobility -- Towards Personalized Rehabilitation
arXiv:2607.07968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft robotic exogloves can provide hand rehabilitation and assistance. Fitting these gloves often relies on stan…
STEMbot: A Compliant Robot for Under-Canopy Plant Navigation
arXiv:2607.07873v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The scalability of organic agriculture is partially limited by the labor costs associated with monitoring for pe…
Graph-Loc: Robust Graph-Based LiDAR Pose Tracking with Compact Structural Map Priors under Low Observability and Occlusion
arXiv:2602.08417v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Map-based LiDAR pose tracking is essential for long-term autonomous operation, where onboard map priors need…
Physics-Guided Biomechanical Gait Adaptation for Humanoid Locomotion on Extreme Sloped Terrains
arXiv:2607.07830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model-free reinforcement learning has enabled impressive humanoid locomotion; however, control on steep slopes r…
ForSight Robotics’ road to performing a fully robotic cataract surgery
ForSight Robotics' JASPER Platform assists surgeons with cataract surgeries, while still leaving the power in the surgeon's hands. The post ForSight Robotics…