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4146 storiesSpiking Neural Network Control of a Flapping-Wing Robot on Resource-Constrained Hardware
arXiv:2605.19430v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Flapping-Wing Micro Aerial Vehicles (FWMAVs) provide exceptional maneuverability and aerodynamic efficiency …
Lend me an Ear: Speech Enhancement Using a Robotic Arm with a Microphone Array
arXiv:2602.17818v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Speech enhancement performance degrades significantly in noisy environments, limiting the deployment of spee…
Imagine2Act: Leveraging Object-Action Motion Consistency from Imagined Goals for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2509.17125v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Relational object rearrangement (ROR) tasks (e.g., insert flower to vase) require a robot to manipulate obje…
DexWrist: A Robotic Wrist for Constrained and Dynamic Manipulation
arXiv:2507.01008v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Development of dexterous manipulation hardware has primarily focused on hands and grippers. However, these e…
Action-Directed Information for Distributed Control and Agentic Interaction
arXiv:2609.27580v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Distributed intelligence concerns systems in which semi-autonomous components with local dynamics and partial …
Data-driven discrete-time deep recurrent neural network-based modeling for dissipative systems
arXiv:2609.27186v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physical AI has gained increasing attention for its role in developing AI systems that better understand, pred…
PointCast: One World Model for Rigid, Articulated, and Deformable Object Manipulation
arXiv:2609.28393v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models are useful for robotic manipulation because robots can predict how actions change the states of obj…
ForgetMimic: Motion Unlearning for Reinforcement Learning Humanoid Control
arXiv:2609.28378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid control, leveraging human demonstrations, has achieved diverse, agile, and natural locomotion behaviors…
Multimodal Voice Activity Projection for Social Robot Mediation: Expected Behavior and Deployment Constraints
arXiv:2609.28317v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Turn-taking prediction is especially relevant for social robots that act as mediators in human-human interaction…
TANDEM: Task and Motion Planning with As-Needed Demonstrations for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model Fine-tuning
arXiv:2609.28314v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human teleoperators spend substantial time demonstrating behaviors that robots can already perform autonomously,…
MemBodied: Recurrent Associative Memory for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2609.28256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models provide a strong foundation for general-purpose robot control, yet a vast majority…
VLMs Can Describe, But Not Measure: Object-Centric Scene Understanding for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2609.28184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic operation in previously unseen environments requires both semantic understanding and reliable metric inf…
Dynamic, Decentralized Spatial Code Reuse for OCDMA LiDAR in Robot Swarms
arXiv:2609.28172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots in a LiDAR-equipped swarm mutually interfere when their optical ranging codes collide. Existing mitigatio…
Dissecting Advantage-Guided Post-Training for Vision-Language-Action Policies
arXiv:2609.28161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advantage-guided reinforcement learning provides a practical way to post-train vision-language-action (VLA) poli…
Distillation for Efficient Multitask Manipulation Policies via Conditional Flow Matching
arXiv:2609.28107v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advances in generative modeling have recently been extensively employed in robotics for policy learning. In part…
Backdoors in Learning-Based Industrial Robotic Arm Manipulation: An Empirical Security Study
arXiv:2609.26868v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning-based models (e.g., visuomotor and Vision-Language-Action (VLA)) are increasingly explored for industri…
Intelligence Across Embodiments
arXiv:2609.27095v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic embodiment encompasses the sensing, kinematics, dynamics, geometry, actuation, and control through which…
BladeMaster: Real-Time Robotic Cutting Simulation with Online-Generated Persistent Discontinuities
arXiv:2609.27342v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cutting changes both the shape and topology of deformable objects, making accurate simulation challenging for ro…
Reflection-Aware Reasoning for Non-Line-of-Sight Pedestrian Localization
arXiv:2609.27346v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable localization of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) pedestrians is critical for safe urban autonomous driving, yet…
Omnidirectional Amphibious Locomotion via Internal Mass Actuation
arXiv:2609.27358v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Field robots must traverse varied terrain and obstacles while remaining robust to water, debris, vegetation, and…
Automotive mmWave Spinning Radar Place Recognition with Spatially Gated Feature-Correlation Representation
arXiv:2609.27394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automotive spinning FMCW radar provides dense, $360^\circ$ sensing and remains reliable under poor illumination …
CoRelNav: Collaborative Relational Navigation for Multi-Robot Spatially Constrained Semantic Navigation
arXiv:2609.27720v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatially constrained semantic navigation requires robots to identify targets specified not only by semantic cat…
InfiNoVA: Infinite Novel View Augmentation for Viewpoint Invariant Robot Policies
arXiv:2609.27734v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies often rely strongly on the camera viewpoints seen during training, causing…
BIDETA: Brain-Inspired Data-Efficient Tactile Adaptation for Unseen Sensors
arXiv:2609.08673v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-based tactile sensors provide high-resolution contact information for robotic perception and contact-…
LLM-Powered Socially Assistive Robot-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Exercises: an Exploratory Study with University Students
arXiv:2402.17937v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Mental health is a significant healthcare challenge, and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a widely used…
Watch, Recall, Act: Always-On Robots in Concurrent Embodied Streams
arXiv:2609.28429v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An always-on robot faces an endless stream that never resets: instructions arrive and lapse, the scene changes, …
BrickCraft-Duo: Efficient Dual-Arm Skill Learning and Refinement for Compositional Long-Horizon Assembly
arXiv:2609.28281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interlocking brick assembly provides a representative testbed for evaluating real-world robotic manipulation cap…
Controlling Collectives of AI Agents in Reasoning Space with Spatial Transformers
arXiv:2609.28247v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) introduce an exciting new paradigm for planning and navigation in robotics, but fai…
Task-Prototype Guided Flow Matching for Few-Shot Generalization in Vision-Language Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2609.27780v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language robot manipulation policies can follow semantic instructions, but adapting them to a new procedu…
Less Language, More Latents: Annotation-Efficient VLAs for Driving
arXiv:2609.27747v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action models (VLA) promise human-steerable autonomous driving, but their training is bottleneck…