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4146 storiesFrom LiDAR Maps to Visual Localization: Unified Visual Association for Robust Point-Line-Plane Pose Estimation
arXiv:2609.27363v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Camera localization in a prior LiDAR map provides a persistent geometric reference for long-term robotic navigat…
CoPRE: Improving Sensitivity in Proprioceptive Contact Detection for Low-Cost Robot Arms
arXiv:2609.27381v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact detection during robotic manipulation allows robots to recognize unexpected contact and adapt their moti…
X2Real: an eXtensive simulation benchmark for real-world generalist policies
arXiv:2609.27449v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalist robot manipulation policies have developed rapidly, yet their reliable evaluation remains challenging…
A Modular Dual-Arm Robotic Cell for Disassembly and Repair of Industrial Control Electronics
arXiv:2609.27466v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial control electronics such as programmable logic controllers, servo drives and operator panels are rout…
Kairos: Grounded Forecasting of Presence and Directional Flow in 4D Scene Graphs
arXiv:2609.27467v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term autonomy in human-populated environments requires anticipating whether and how people will move at tim…
Collocated Shape Regulation for Soft Robots
arXiv:2609.27469v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Controlling the shape of a continuum soft robot typically requires an accurate dynamic model and actuation of al…
RoboCaf\'e in the Open: Interaction Continuity in Long-Term Public Human-Robot Interaction
arXiv:2609.27475v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As robots remain in public spaces over extended periods, they must maintain interaction continuity by preserving…
Behavior-Aligned Action Tokenization for Robot Policy Learning
arXiv:2609.27513v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive robot policies learn continuous control by predicting discrete action tokens from observations. D…
Behaviora - A Conceptual Architecture for External and Internal Behavior of Robots and Agents
arXiv:2609.27536v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Behaviora is a preliminary conceptual architecture for representing agent and robot behavior, external and inter…
Gray-Box Model Predictive Control for Articulated Dump Trucks via Gaussian Process Learning of Sideslip
arXiv:2609.27597v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The growing demand for automation in the mining industry, particularly for the autonomous operation of articulat…
RegenHarness: A Robot Agent Harness with Evidence-Gated Recursive Self-Improvement
arXiv:2609.27612v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon robot execution requires a clear distinction between a model's proposal, a controller's termination…
InternW0: A Foundational Physical World Model for Efficient Real-World Interactions
arXiv:2609.27656v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical intelligence requires more than predicting how the world may evolve: predictions must remain actionable…
GLoTouch: Global-to-Local Haptic Perception Using a Parallel Gripper for Object Search, Recognition, and Grasping Without External Vision
arXiv:2609.27695v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Perceiving objects in the environment is a fundamental capability of autonomous robots. In dark or low-light env…
Wave-Robust Passive AUV Localization Using FP-MUSIC
arXiv:2609.27712v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Localizing an autonomous underwater vehicle without pre-deployed seabed transponders, or direct access to onboar…
Safe Multi-Robot Coordination via VLM-LLM Reasoning and Reachability Analysis
arXiv:2609.27816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe coordination in heterogeneous machine-to-machine (M2M) robotic systems is challenging when robots differ in…
Remote Surfaces at Your Fingertips: Electrovibration-Based Tactile Feedback for Robot Teleoperation via Touchscreen Interfaces
arXiv:2609.27938v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enabling operators to perceive and interact with remote environments naturally is a fundamental challenge in rob…
DAVIS: A Depth-Only End-to-End Active-Vision Framework for Humanoid Soccer Skills
arXiv:2609.28175v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid soccer contact skills require more than producing high-impact foot-ball contacts: the robot must close …
Generalizable Robotic Insertion with World Models
arXiv:2609.28258v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic assembly in high-mixture settings requires adaptable systems that can handle diverse parts, yet current …
Beyond Future Prediction: Denoising as Generative Adaptation for Robot Control
arXiv:2609.28339v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained generative Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) capture rich pixel-level visual and language-conditioned str…
Amplify: A Lightweight Library for Reproducible Nonlinear Programming Problems in Robotics
arXiv:2609.28377v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Optimization problems (OPs) are key to solving many challenging research problems in robotics. However, reproduc…
Tractable Reinforcement Learning for Full Class of Signal Temporal Logic Specifications Using Spatiotemporal Tube Reward
arXiv:2609.28396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses the control problem for robotic systems, including non-holonomic and underactuated platform…
Where Should I Join? Robot Group Joining via Language-Guided Goal Prediction
arXiv:2609.28467v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Social navigation typically assumes a specified goal and focuses on reaching it while respecting social conventi…
Surgical Kinematics from Monocular Video with Learned Articulated Motion Constraints
arXiv:2609.27227v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Objective assessment of robotic surgery uses instrument kinematics, which must be reconstructed when only vide…
A Scalable Multi-Robot Framework for Decentralized and Asynchronous Perception-Action-Communication Loops
arXiv:2309.10164v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We develop a decentralized Perception-Action-Communication (PAC) system for multi-robot teams that enables t…
Robust Trajectory Tracking of Autonomous Surface Vehicle via Lie Algebraic Online MPC
arXiv:2511.18683v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) are influenced by environmental disturbances such as wind and waves, maki…
Vision-Based Safe Human-Robot Collaboration with Uncertainty Guarantees
arXiv:2604.15221v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Safe human-robot collaboration (HRC) requires accurate human pose estimation and motion prediction to preven…
Reproducible Dynamic Parameter Identification for a Low-Cost Robot Arm: A Positive-Definiteness Audit for Model Acceptance
arXiv:2605.15949v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Dynamic parameter identification of low-cost robot arms is challenging because limited sensing and drivetrai…
An Open Panoramic Aerial Robot: Airframe-Integrated Multi-Fisheye Sensing, Onboard ERP Formation, and Field Evaluation
arXiv:2609.02319v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present an open panoramic aerial robot with four synchronized fisheye cameras integrated into a carbon-fi…
EA-WM: Event-Aware Generative World Model with Structured Kinematic-to-Visual Action Fields
arXiv:2605.06192v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pretrained video diffusion models provide powerful spatiotemporal generative priors, making them a nat…
Duet: Dual-Robot Understanding via Efficient Teaching
arXiv:2606.20990v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Dual-robot collaboration enables tasks that exceed the reach and payload of a single robot, such as collabor…