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4147 storiesLifelong Robot Recomposition via Persistent Categorical Modeling for Unified Task-Driven Co-Design, Verification, and Planning
arXiv:2608.21676v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic systems are traditionally designed and deployed in static configurations, with assumptions made at desig…
Vision Guided Target Conditioned Control for Autonomous Excavation
arXiv:2608.21778v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous excavation requires an intelligent control system that can convert spatial work intent into coordinat…
An Interpretable Deep Learning Framework for Material Perception and Classification from Multisensory Tactile Data
arXiv:2608.21894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human tactile perception relies on complex multisensory cues. Yet the relationship between tactile signals and p…
CIDER: Continual Interactive Distillation for Embodied Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2608.21899v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-in-the-loop real-world reinforcement learning enables rapid acquisition of effective robotic manipulation …
Design of a Human-Assistance Robot System with Contextual Action Recognition
arXiv:2608.22028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a conceptual design for a proactive human assisting robot system capable of recognizing huma…
Ludi${}_{\scriptscriptstyle 0.1}$: An Agentic System for Socially Intelligent Robots
arXiv:2608.22035v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot foundation models have substantially advanced perception and control, but natural human-robot collaboratio…
EndoNav: Semantic-to-Geometric Grounding for Language-Guided Robotic Endoscopic Examination
arXiv:2608.22093v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Minimally invasive procedures performed within confined anatomical spaces depend on continuous endoscopic visual…
Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation in Construction via Zero-Shot Learning: A Diffusion Policy-Guided Adaptive Control
arXiv:2608.22100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Construction robotics and automation offer promising means of improving productivity, alleviating workforce shor…
The Imitator Game: Benchmarking Robot Imitative Ability Beyond Action Prediction
arXiv:2608.22301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans imitate at the level of intent: given a demonstration, we infer its goal and carry it out with whatever t…
MotionDLO: Hybrid Event- and Frame-Based Tracking of Deformable Linear Objects
arXiv:2608.22398v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliably tracking moving deformable linear objects (DLOs) while simultaneously ensuring robustness, accuracy, an…
LD4WAM: Learning Latent Dynamics from Human Videos for World Action Models
arXiv:2608.22403v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human video is playing an increasingly central role in training World Action Models (WAMs), owing to its diversi…
Robust Bimanual Vision-Language-Action Models via Embarrassingly Simple Modality Masking
arXiv:2608.22419v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Query-based Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models offer low-latency inference that is attractive for bimanual robo…
WorldToken: Time-First Sequence Modeling for Robotic Imitation Learning
arXiv:2608.22591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot policies receive heterogeneous observations at each decision step, yet sequence models differ in how they …
Enhancing Sim2Real Transfer for Torque-Controlled Robots through Real2Sim Dynamics Estimation and Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2608.22629v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transferring reinforcement learning policies from simulation to Real-World robots remains a major challenge, par…
Physical Agentic AI: An Architecture for Orchestrating a Robot Crew with LLMs
arXiv:2608.22657v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI frameworks interpret open-ended task goals and decompose them into multi-step plans. Richer informati…
VikPath: A Vision Kansformer Framework for Effective Obstacle Avoidance in Self-Supervised Pathfinding
arXiv:2608.22675v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pathfinding is a fundamental problem in artificial intelligence and autonomous systems. Traditional heuristic-ba…
Physics Filtering Favors the Generalization of Robot Learning
arXiv:2608.22701v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Living organisms exhibit extraordinary adaptability to unseen environments through their intrinsic physical stru…
Reproducible Vision-Guided 6-DoF Robotic Manipulator with a Mixed Stepper-Driver Architecture and Browser-Native Control
arXiv:2608.22799v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present the NeuralNexus Arm, an open, low-cost 6-DOF robotic manipulator built by an undergraduate engineerin…
Triplet2Track: A Hierarchical System with Object-Centric Representations for Reliable Long-Horizon Manipulation
arXiv:2608.22800v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ensuring reliability in uncertain environments remains difficult for long-horizon robotic manipulation. End-to-e…
InstructMove: A Text-Indispensable Benchmark for Instruction-Following Manipulation
arXiv:2608.22990v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have made general-purpose robot manipulation increasingly plausible by condi…
Switched Turn-based Adaptive Source Seeking Strategy using Estimation and Information-driven Direction of Improvement
arXiv:2608.23068v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Source seeking arises in applications such as gas leak localization, radiation monitoring, and environmental sur…
Shaping the Evolutionary Dynamics of Robot Morphology via Adaptive Control Learning
arXiv:2608.23100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot co-design via bi-level optimization couples within-lifetime controller learning for fitness evaluation wit…
Pointing-VLA: Typed Spatial Grounding Interfaces for Vision-Language-Action Manipulation
arXiv:2608.23138v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models often expose spatial grounding through autoregressive text coordinates or op…
Design of a Biomimetic Joint-Covering Skin with Tissue-Like Structure to Enhance Proprioception in a Musculoskeletal Humanoid
arXiv:2608.23304v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Proprioception in musculoskeletal humanoids is typically estimated primarily from muscle sensing, while the role…
ROS2SmolVLA: Enabling Small Vision-Language-Action Models for Integration into Industrial-Grade Lightweight Robots
arXiv:2608.23320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial demand changes the paradigms of production. Due to smaller batch sizes and more variations in product…
OptiSight: Bridging Semantic Reasoning and Geometric Control for Embodied Navigation
arXiv:2608.23354v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous indoor navigation requires both semantic understanding and precise geometric control. We propose Opti…
Act with Intent: Distilling Behavior Intent for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2608.23478v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models can turn multimodal context into robot actions, but their action decoders ar…
Retrieval-grounded robot program generation and simulation-based correction via Model Context Protocol
arXiv:2608.21417v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flexible manufacturing requires industrial robots to be reprogrammed rapidly as product variants change. This …
Agentic AI for Safety-critical Multi-drone Systems: Challenges and Opportunities
arXiv:2608.21444v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-drone systems are increasingly positioned for safety-critical missions such as search and rescue (SAR) a…
GuardianBench: A Same-Scene Instruction-Contrastive Benchmark for Latent Contextual Risk in Embodied AI
arXiv:2608.21928v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In embodied AI, safety risk can be latent: a benign instruction and a safe scene become hazardous only when co…