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2482 storiesVLM-CASE: Vision-Language Model Enabled Context-Adaptive Safety Envelopes for Anticipatory Safe Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607.05180v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adverse driving conditions, such as bad weather, remain a principal barrier to autonomous driving because they d…
Nano-U: Efficient Terrain Segmentation for Tiny Robot Navigation
arXiv:2605.10210v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Terrain segmentation is a fundamental capability for autonomous mobile robots operating in unstructured outd…
Multi-Robot Open Adaptive Teaming Across Unseen Environments, Partners, and Scales
arXiv:2607.04972v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying robot teams in the real world requires simultaneous adaptation to unseen environments, unknown partner…
CN-CBF: Composite Neural Control Barrier Function for Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments
arXiv:2603.06921v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Safe navigation of autonomous robots remains one of the core challenges in the field, especially in dynamic …
Governed Caste Reassignment in Heterogeneous Swarms: An Asymmetric-Trust Protocol with Audited Operator Countersignature
arXiv:2607.04634v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In heterogeneous robot swarms, caste reassignment (rebinding a robot to a new capability-bound role) is a high-f…
Do Vision-Language-Action Models Mean What They Say? On the Role of Faithfulness in Embodied Reasoning
arXiv:2607.04681v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied Chain-of-Thought has emerged as a promising mechanism to enhance robot decision-making and interpretabi…
ACE: Agentic Control for Embodied Manipulation via Zero-shot Workflow Reasoning
arXiv:2607.04162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-ended tabletop manipulation requires agents to not only understand natural language but also adapt to dynam…
Deform360: A Massive Multi-view Visuotactile Dataset for Deformable World Models
arXiv:2607.05390v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting object dynamics (i.e., world modeling) is a fundamental challenge for robotic manipulation, and model…
Designing Touch for Trauma-Informed Social Robots: A Design Space for Direct and Indirect Actuation
arXiv:2607.04981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Touch is a fundamental communication modality in human-robot interaction and may support grounding, emotional re…
Robustness Verification of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle-based Plankton Classifier
arXiv:2607.04453v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The assessment of planktonic standing stocks and microorganism structures is critical for understanding upper oc…
Toward Interaction Dynamics: A Predictive Framework for Safe Physical Human Robot Interaction
arXiv:2606.08281v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Safe physical human-robot interaction (pHRI) is fundamentally a problem of interaction dynamics: the robot m…
From Fixed to Free Cameras: Calibration-Free View-Robust Vision-Language-Action Model
arXiv:2607.05396v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world robot deployment rarely maintains the training-stage camera setup, where cameras often experience r…
Insect-inspired Visual Point-goal Navigation
arXiv:2601.16806v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Insect neuroethology provides a compelling biological template for efficient autonomous navigation. We…
Differential Amplifier-Inspired AmpAttention for Multi-View Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.02845v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-view robotic manipulation methods with the attention mechanism have recently achieved significant progress…
High-Fidelity One-Step Generative Visuomotor Policy via Recursive Correction, Frequency Consistency, and Contrastive Flow Matching
arXiv:2607.03865v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative models such as diffusion and flow matching have advanced robotic visuomotor policies by modeling mult…
DRBA: Dynamic Robotic Balance Assistant -- An assist-as-needed gait and balance rehabilitation robot for versatile training
arXiv:2607.03027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The decline of human balance control due to aging and pathological conditions increases fall risk, a major conce…
Think Proprioceptively: State-Grounded Visual Token Selection for VLA Policies
arXiv:2602.06575v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models typically inject proprioception only as a late conditioning signal, prev…
Layout-independent actuation allocator for fin-actuated marine robots
arXiv:2607.03204v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this study, we propose a layout-independent control allocator capable of zero-shot deployment across diverse …
CableTract: A Co-Designed Cable-Driven Field Robot for Low-Compaction, Off-Grid Capable Agriculture
arXiv:2604.09938v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Conventional field operations spend most of their energy moving the tractor body, not the implement. Yet fea…
Flocking phase transition and threat responses in bio-inspired autonomous drone swarms
arXiv:2512.21196v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Collective motion inspired by animal groups offers powerful design principles for autonomous aerial swarms. …
Occluding the Solution Space: Planner-Agnostic Adversarial Attacks on Tolerance-Aware Manipulation
arXiv:2607.03758v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adversarial attacks on motion planning are crucial for evaluating and quantifying the intrinsic robustness of ro…
Strouhal-Aware Model Predictive Control for Efficient Multi-Fin Flapping Locomotion
arXiv:2607.03216v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient flapping propulsion hinges on operating within a narrow Strouhal number window, a principle nature has…
Mitigating Covariate Shift in Imitation Learning for Autonomous Vehicles Using Latent Space Generative World Models
arXiv:2409.16663v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose the use of latent space generative world models to address the covariate shift problem in autonom…
Integrated Graph Search and Model Predictive Control for Smooth and Efficient Path Planning in Autonomous Vehicles
arXiv:2607.04259v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Path planning is a fundamental component of autonomous vehicles, where achieving safe, comfortable, and dynamica…
OmniTacTune: Policy-Agnostic Real-World RL for Tactile Residual Adaptation of Visual Policies
arXiv:2607.03723v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual policies learned from human videos, teleoperation, and robot demonstrations offer scalable motion priors,…
Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst: Occlusion-Aware Contingency Planning for Autonomous Vehicles
arXiv:2607.03155v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The deployment of autonomous vehicles in urban environments introduces significant safety challenges, particular…
Scalable Dexterous Robot Learning with AR-based Remote Human-Robot Interactions
arXiv:2602.07341v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper focuses on the scalable robot learning for manipulation in the dexterous robot arm-hand sys…
TiROD: Tiny Robotics Dataset and Benchmark for Continual Object Detection
arXiv:2409.16215v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Detecting objects with visual sensors is crucial for numerous mobile robotics applications, from autonomous …
InternVLA-A1.5: Unifying Understanding, Latent Foresight, and Action for Compositional Generalization
arXiv:2607.04988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unified models for robot manipulation aim to equip one policy with both the semantic priors of pretrained VLMs a…
StageCraft: Execution Aware Mitigation of Distractor and Obstruction Failures in VLA Models
arXiv:2603.20659v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large scale pre-training on text and image data along with diverse robot demonstrations has helped Vision La…