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2482 storiesHumanoid Whole-Body Manipulation via Active Spatial Brain and Generalizable Action Cerebellum
arXiv:2605.21133v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this paper, we explore spatial-aware humanoid whole-body manipulation task. Compared with tabletop settin…
WAM-TTT: Steering World-Action Models by Watching Human Play at Test Time
arXiv:2607.06988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Steering robot foundation models (RFMs) toward new task variants or user-preferred behaviors remains challenging…
GeoGS-SLAM: Geometry-Only Gaussian Splatting for Dense Monocular SLAM
arXiv:2607.07452v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dense visual SLAM is a fundamental problem in robotics. Recent advances in 3DGS have demonstrated its potential …
End-to-End LLM Flight Planning with RAG-based Memory and Multi-modal Coach Agent
arXiv:2607.06964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bridging the gap between human pilot intent and autonomous flight operation is critical for real-world electric …
VOTE: Vision-Language-Action Optimization with Trajectory Ensemble Voting
arXiv:2507.05116v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent large-scale Vision Language Action (VLA) models have shown superior performance in robotic mani…
Communicative Efficiency of Single vs. Multi-Axis Robot Neck Motion
arXiv:2607.07390v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Nonverbal communication through head and neck movement is fundamental to human social signalling, yet how roboti…
GemNav: Discrete-Token Visual Robot Navigation using a Multimodal Large Language Model
arXiv:2607.06882v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual navigation policies built on large pretrained models have so far followed a common recipe: a dedicated vi…
Flow-ERD: Agent-type Aware Flow Matching with Entropy-Regularized Distillation for Diverse Traffic Simulation
arXiv:2607.06957v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Realistic and diverse traffic simulation is essential to autonomous driving development. Yet prevailing benchmar…
A Continual Learning Framework for Adaptive Control of Modular Soft Robots
arXiv:2607.06740v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft robots have attracted significant attention in applications such as medical intervention, rehabilitation, a…
PriGo: Test-Time Primitive Guidance to Diffusion and Flow Policies for Adaptive Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.07076v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitation learning has enabled remarkable progress in robotic manipulation, especially with diffusion and flow-b…
CARLA-GS: Decoupling Representation, Reasoning, and Physics Simulation for Autonomous Driving Corner-Case Synthesis
arXiv:2607.07601v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety evaluation for autonomous driving is dominated by rare, safety-critical interactions, motivating simulato…
Manual, Joystick, or Haptic Control? An In Vitro Comparison of Navigation Strategies for Robotic Interventional Neuroradiology Procedures
arXiv:2607.07253v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Objective: To evaluate robotic controller interfaces for interventional neuroradiology procedures in-vitro incor…
DAG-Based QoS-Aware Dynamic Task Placement for Networked Multi-Stage Control Pipelines
arXiv:2605.19887v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current Physical AI (PAI) relies heavily on closed-loop visual-servoing pipelines, whose perception an…
Dual Latent Memory in Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.07608v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mainstream Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models predict actions primarily from the current observation under a Ma…
Smooth Operator: A Real-Time Sampling-Based Algorithm for Kinematic Hand Retargeting
arXiv:2607.07491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advances in learning-based robotic manipulation, such as Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and Video Action Mo…
Zero-Human Demonstration End-to-end Autonomous Driving with Trajectory Scorer
arXiv:2510.24108v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human demonstrations are widely considered the cornerstone of end-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving despite hu…
EmbodiedGen V2: An Agentic, Simulation-Ready 3D World Engine for Embodied AI
arXiv:2607.07459v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present EmbodiedGen V2, a generative 3D world engine for building executable sim-ready environments for embod…
Shared Modular Recurrence in Contextual MDPs for Universal Morphology Control
arXiv:2506.08630v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A universal controller for any robot morphology would greatly improve computational and data efficienc…
NVIDIA and Hugging Face bring new models and frameworks to LeRobot
Hugging Face LeRobot is an open-source robotics library for training, running, and sharing robot datasets, models, policies, and workflows. The post NVIDIA and …
Tickets, geofences, and 1M miles: The new reality of California AV compliance
Guident CEO Harald Braun breaks down the new AV mandates in California mandates and how they will affect the driverless industry. The post Tickets, geofences, a…
ENCY Software and Stäubli Robotics partner to simplify robot programming
ENCY Software and Stäubli Robotics have signed a global agreement to make robot programming more intuitive, faster, and more accessible. The post ENCY Software …
Preference-Calibrated Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2606.03949v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning (HIL-RL) improves sample efficiency in real-robot manipulation thro…
RynnWorld-Teleop: An Action-Conditioned World Model for Digital Teleoperation
arXiv:2607.06558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling robot learning requires massive, diverse trajectory data, yet collection is currently bottlenecked by ph…
Learning to Throw Objects Safely in Multi-Obstacle Environments
arXiv:2607.06388v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic throwing enables fast and efficient object placement beyond the robot's immediate workspace, but reliabl…
Training-Free Acceleration for Vision-Language-Action Models with Action Caching and Refinement
arXiv:2607.06370v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising approach for generalizable robotic manipulations…
$\pi_0$-EqM: Equilibrium Matching for Closed-Loop Vision-Language-Action Control
arXiv:2605.23128v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Currently, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become the most adopted paradigm for robotic manipulatio…
O3N: Omnidirectional Open-Vocabulary Occupancy Prediction
arXiv:2603.12144v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding and reconstructing the 3D world through omnidirectional perception is becoming increasin…
Learning 4D Geometric Priors for Inference-Efficient World Action Models
arXiv:2607.05468v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) have shown strong potential for robotic manipulation by jointly modeling visual futur…
Thor: Towards Human-Level Whole-Body Reactions for Intense Contact-Rich Environments
arXiv:2510.26280v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humanoids hold great potential for service, industrial, and rescue applications, in which robots must sustai…
Hypothesis-driven Model Expansion under Uncertainty for Open-World Robot Planning
arXiv:2607.06501v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We consider an open-world planning setting in which service robots must operate in unknown environments with inc…