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2482 storiesDiagnosing Semantic Handoff Failures in Agent-Orchestrated Vision-Language-Action Skill Composition
arXiv:2607.06256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon household tasks require robots to compose many language-conditioned skills, yet the boundary betwee…
Dynamic Evaluation of Classical and Control-Aware Optimal Trajectory Planning in Robot Manipulators
arXiv:2607.05544v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trajectory planning strongly influences tracking accuracy, actuator demand, and overall execution behavior in ro…
UniLM-Nav: A Unified Framework for Zero-Shot Last-Mile Navigation
arXiv:2607.06537v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile manipulation requires a robot to navigate to a target object or receptacle and then perform intended mani…
IndoorR2X: Indoor Robot-to-Everything Coordination with LLM-Driven Planning
arXiv:2603.20182v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Although robot-to-robot (R2R) communication improves indoor scene understanding beyond what a single robot c…
Edge-Based QoS-Aware Adaptive Task Placement: A Closed-Loop Control in Multi-Robot Systems
arXiv:2606.00552v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multi-robot systems (MRS) increasingly offload compute-intensive perception tasks to edge nodes to mee…
Exploring Human-Robot Collaboration: Analysis of Interaction Modalities in Challenging Tasks
arXiv:2605.13380v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This work compares three interaction modalities for human-robot collaboration: passive, reactive, and proact…
Hilti-Trimble-Oxford Dataset: 360 Visual-Inertial Benchmark with Floor Plan Priors for SLAM and Localization
arXiv:2607.06464v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated progress monitoring on construction sites is an active area of research and development. Robot and hum…
First Plan Then Evaluate: Multi-Target Planning with Post-Planning Success Evaluation Improves Learning-Based Grasping Pipelines
arXiv:2509.07162v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous multi-finger grasping is a fundamental capability in robotic manipulation. Optimization-based app…
OrchardBench: A Physically-Grounded, GPU-Parallel Apple-Orchard Simulation Benchmark for Agricultural Robotics
arXiv:2607.06337v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic tree-fruit harvesting is a flagship problem for agricultural automation, but progress is bottlenecked by…
A Four-Tier Communication Architecture and Sim-to-Real Validation of a Graphical Open-Source Platform for Robotic Engineering Education
arXiv:2606.00550v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The persistent challenge in scaling authentic manipulator education within university laboratories is …
Lift3D-VLA: Lifting VLA Models to 3D Geometry and Dynamics-Aware Manipulation
arXiv:2607.06564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated strong generalization across diverse tasks. Howe…
RynnWorld-4D: 4D Embodied World Models for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.06559v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic manipulation in the open world requires not only recognizing what a scene looks like, but also anticipat…
ThorArena: Benchmarking Humanoid Physical Interaction with Human Motion-Force Demonstrations
arXiv:2607.06052v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots are increasingly expected to perform contact-rich tasks that require not only accurate whole-bod…
WristMimic: Full-Body Humanoid Control with Wrist-Guided Manipulation
arXiv:2607.06438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retargeting human object interaction demonstrations to physics based simulation requires reproducing not only bo…
RoboTALES: Learning Reasoning-Guided Robot Policies via Task-Aligned Simulated Futures
arXiv:2607.06018v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained video generative models are promising backbones for visuomotor control, but their imagined futures of…
RoboVAST: Automated Scenario-Based Validation of Robots at Scale
arXiv:2607.06248v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Validation of robotic systems critically depends on the operating conditions under which they are assessed. Scen…
Intercepting an Agile Target with Net-Carrying Drones using Competitive Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607.05939v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This article presents a solution to intercept an agile drone by a team of agile drone carrying catching nets. We…
Driving the Wrong Way: Leveraging Interpretability in End2End Autonomous Driving Models
arXiv:2607.06328v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The increasing adoption of end-to-end learning for autonomous driving introduces increased model complexity an…
DexTele: A Dual-Arm Dexterous Teleoperation System Based on Motion Retargeting and Adaptive Force Control
arXiv:2607.05883v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In dual-arm dexterous teleoperation, cross-platform generalization of motion retargeting and interactivity of gr…
EgoVerse: An Egocentric Human Dataset for Robot Learning from Around the World
arXiv:2604.07607v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robot learning increasingly depends on large and diverse data, yet robot data collection remains expensive a…
Passive Variable Impedance For Shared Control
arXiv:2604.20557v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Shared Control methods often use impedance control to track target poses in a robotic manipulator. The guida…
Towards Real-World Applications with an Autonomous Powered Wheelchair
arXiv:2607.06383v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wheelchair users call for assistive mobility systems that provide active support, adapt to dynamic environments,…
HANDFUL: Sequential Grasp-Conditioned Dexterous Manipulation with Resource Awareness
arXiv:2604.25126v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Dexterous robot hands offer rich opportunities for multifunctional manipulation, where a robot must execute …
LIPP: Load-Aware Informative Path Planning with Physical Sampling
arXiv:2603.06924v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In classical Informative Path Planning (C-IPP), robots are typically modeled as mobile sensors that acquire …
Efficient Transfer Learning of Robot Dynamic Models Using Morphological Similarity
arXiv:2607.05665v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study proposes a neural network-based transfer learning framework for modeling the dynamics of soft, fin-ac…
Embodied Human-Robot Interaction via Acoustics: A MARL Approach with AcoustoBots for Spatial Data Physicalization
arXiv:2607.06563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traditional data physicalization is often static and disconnected from real environments, limiting its ability t…
Responsible Personalisation: The Double-Edged Sword of Personalisation in Human-Robot Interaction
arXiv:2607.06344v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While personalisation is becoming a defining capability in human-robot interaction (HRI), the existing literatur…
GraspIT: A Dataset Bridging the Sim-to-Real gap and back for Validated Grasping SE(3) Pose Generation
arXiv:2607.05869v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust robotic grasping of novel objects requires datasets that simultaneously provide photorealistic RGB-D obse…
From Passive Observer to Active Critic: Reinforcement Learning Elicits Process Reasoning for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2603.15600v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate process supervision remains a critical challenge for long-horizon robotic manipulation. A primary b…
EgoDyn-Bench: Evaluating Ego-Motion Understanding in Vision-Centric Foundation Models for Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2604.22851v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have advanced high-level reasoning in autonomous driving, their ab…