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4147 storiesWAM-OPD: On-Policy Distillation for World Action Models
arXiv:2608.22364v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World action models (WAMs) couple visual future prediction with robot action generation, but accelerated stude…
MIVIFI: Bridging Perspective and Fisheye Domains for Training Multi-View Fisheye Image Generation Models
arXiv:2608.23140v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Achieving 360{\deg} coverage is critical for the visual perception systems of autonomous vehicles. Fisheye cam…
MomADv2: Reliable Temporal Memory for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2608.23405v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon planning is critical for safe autonomous driving in complex scenarios. Existing methods improve p…
GeoWAM: Visual Geometry World Action Models for Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2608.23486v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World action models (WAMs) have recently gained increasing attention as a framework for jointly modeling scene…
To What Extent Does the Perceived Obesity Level of Humanoid Robots Affect People's Trust in Them?
arXiv:2411.06039v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite obesity being widely discussed in the social sciences, the effect of a robot's perceived obesity lev…
Balancing Safety and Optimality in Robot Path Planning: Algorithm and Metric
arXiv:2505.23197v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Path planning for autonomous robots faces a fundamental trade-off between path length and obstacle clearance…
Whole-Body Bilateral Teleoperation with Multi-Stage Object Parameter Estimation for Wheeled Humanoid Locomanipulation
arXiv:2508.09846v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents an object-aware whole-body bilateral teleoperation framework for wheeled humanoid loco-m…
LaGEA: Language Guided Embodied Agents for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2509.23155v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic manipulation benefits from foundation models that describe goals, but today's agents still lack a pr…
MDCPP: Multi-Robot Dynamic Coverage Path Planning for Workload Adaptation
arXiv:2509.23705v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-robot coverage path planning commonly balances geometric area or path length under a constantspeed ass…
Learning Diffusion Policies for Robotic Manipulation of Timber Joinery under Fabrication Uncertainty
arXiv:2511.17774v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Fabrication uncertainty arising from tolerance accumulation, material imperfection, and positioning errors r…
Guardian: Detecting Robotic Planning and Execution Errors with Vision-Language Models
arXiv:2512.01946v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robust robotic manipulation requires reliable failure detection and recovery. Although recent Vision-Languag…
MPCFormer: A physics-informed data-driven approach for explainable socially-aware autonomous driving
arXiv:2512.03795v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous Driving (AD) vehicles still struggle to exhibit human-like behavior in highly dynamic and interac…
UNCLE-Grasp: A Task-Adapted Framework for Uncertainty-Aware Grasping of Leaf-Occluded Strawberries
arXiv:2601.14492v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic strawberry harvesting remains challenging under partial occlusion, where leaves obscure fruit geomet…
RPL: Learning Robust Humanoid Perceptive Locomotion on Challenging Terrains
arXiv:2602.03002v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humanoid perceptive locomotion has made significant progress and shows great promise, yet achieving robust m…
XIT: Exploration and Exploitation Informed Trees for Active Gas Distribution Mapping in Unknown Environments
arXiv:2602.13739v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Mobile robotic gas distribution mapping (GDM) provides critical situational awareness during emergency respo…
A Latency-Aware Framework for Visuomotor Policy Learning on Industrial Robots
arXiv:2602.14255v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Industrial robots are increasingly deployed in construction and manufacturing tasks, where the deployment of…
When Should a Robot Think? Resource-Aware Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning for Embodied Robotic Decision-Making
arXiv:2603.16673v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Embodied robotic systems increasingly rely on large language model (LLM)-based agents to support high-level …
Beyond Viewpoint Generalization: What Multi-View Demonstrations Offer and How to Synthesize Them for Robot Manipulation?
arXiv:2603.26757v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Does multi-view demonstration truly improve robot manipulation, or merely enhance cross-view robustness? We …
CAVERS: Multimodal SLAM Data from a Natural Karstic Cave with Ground Truth Motion Capture
arXiv:2604.15052v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous robots operating in natural karstic caves face perception and navigation challenges that are qual…
Learning While Deploying: Fleet-Scale Reinforcement Learning for Generalist Robot Policies
arXiv:2605.00416v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generalist robot policies increasingly benefit from large-scale pretraining, but offline data alone is insuf…
$\tau_0$-WM: A Unified Video-Action World Model for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2606.01027v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic manipulation requires models that generate executable actions while anticipating and evaluating thei…
Mission-Aligned Learning-Informed Control of Autonomous Systems: Formulation and Foundations
arXiv:2507.04356v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Research, innovation and practical capital investment have been increasing rapidly toward the realizat…
Obstacle Avoidance of UAV in Dynamic Environments Using Direction and Velocity-Adaptive Artificial Potential Field
arXiv:2512.07609v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The conventional Artificial Potential Field (APF) is fundamentally limited by the local minima issue a…
DreamMimic: Learning Visuomotor Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation via World Model
arXiv:2608.22278v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-based whole-body loco-manipulation on humanoid robots is challenging due to partial observability, contac…
Position: Robot Privacy as Embodied Boundary Work. Connecting Capabilities, Contexts, and Design Responses in Everyday Robotics
arXiv:2608.21410v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots are increasingly entering everyday environments where privacy is shaped not only by data practices, but a…
SuperMap: A Spatio-Temporal SLAM System for Visual-Language Navigation
arXiv:2608.22896v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic navigation in human environments requires a spatio-temporal semantic representation that can rec- oncile…
CSymPlan: Certified Symbolic Planning and Control for High-DOF Manipulators
arXiv:2608.22983v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot manipulators are commonly engineered around a decoupled motion-generation stack: a planner computes a coll…
Free-Energy-Gated Plasticity for Real-Time Online Motor Learning in Physical Human--Robot Interaction
arXiv:2608.23000v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fully online embodied learning requires synaptic adaptation to acquire new behaviors while preserving previously…
RoboRacer Arena: Scaling High-Fidelity Autonomous Racing in Isaac Sim
arXiv:2608.23040v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: RoboRacer offers a standardized platform for research using 1:10-scale autonomous vehicles, but the variety of a…
AI Visual Inspection for Garment Production
arXiv:2608.21426v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The garment manufacturing industry is under increasing pressure to improve product quality, reduce costs, and …