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4147 storiesSeeing the Bigger Picture: 3D Latent Mapping for Mobile Manipulation Policy Learning
arXiv:2510.03885v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this paper, we demonstrate that mobile manipulation policies utilizing a 3D latent map achieve stronger s…
PerFACT: Motion Policy with LLM-Powered Dataset Synthesis and Fusion Action-Chunking Transformers
arXiv:2512.03444v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep learning methods have significantly enhanced motion planning for robotic manipulators by leveraging pri…
Embodied Robot Manipulation in the Era of Foundation Models: Planning and Learning Perspectives
arXiv:2512.22983v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in vision, language, and multimodal learning have significantly accelerated progress in robo…
Grounding Robot Generalization in Training Data via Retrieval-Augmented VLMs
arXiv:2603.11426v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent work on robot manipulation has advanced policy generalization to novel scenarios. However, it is ofte…
Morphology-Conditioned World Model for Cross-Embodiment Quadrupedal Locomotion
arXiv:2604.08780v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: World models promise a paradigm shift in robotics, where an agent learns the physics of its environment once…
SADP: Subgoal-Aware Diffusion Policy for Long-Horizon Manipulation Learned from Foundation Model Generated Demonstrations
arXiv:2605.16871v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-horizon robot manipulation requires policies to coordinate multiple intermediate subgoals and determine…
The functional and temporal roles of gaze evolve across the phases and constraints of multi-stage robot-mediated manipulation
arXiv:2606.21920v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Goal-directed eye movements are a fundamental component of visuomotor control, enabling humans to anticipate…
Learning Versatile Humanoid Manipulation with Touch Dreaming
arXiv:2604.13015v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humanoid robots promise general-purpose assistance, yet real-world humanoid loco-manipulation remains challe…
I-Perceive: A Foundation Model for Active Perception with Language Instructions
arXiv:2603.00600v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Active perception - the ability of a robot to proactively select viewpoints to acquire task-relevant informa…
MiDAS: A Multimodal Data Acquisition System and Dataset for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery
arXiv:2602.12407v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Background: Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS) research increasingly relies on multimodal data…
Fully distributed and resilient source seeking for robot swarms
arXiv:2410.15921v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing source-seeking algorithms for robot swarms typically require either direct gradient measurements or…
EcoVLA: Energy-Efficient Device-Edge Co-Inference for Vision-Language-Action Models under Real-Time Constraints
arXiv:2608.15502v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising foundation for Embodied AI, but their high inf…
EgoTac: In-the-wild Tactile Prediction from Egocentric Vision
arXiv:2608.15060v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Touch is fundamental to dexterous manipulation, yet most egocentric human data increasingly used for robot lea…
$\tau_0$-VLA: a Hierarchical Robot Foundation Model with World-Model-Guided Test-Time Computation
arXiv:2608.16885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon robot manipulation requires a robot to both execute individual skills reliably and sequence them co…
Observation-Constrained Joint-Space Viewpoint Optimization for Robotic Inspection of Cylindrical Cavities
arXiv:2608.16442v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inspection is a core capability in many mobile robotics applications, including industrial facility monitoring, …
Marker-Constrained Pose-Graph Correction for Cross-Platform Georeferencing in GNSS-Denied Environments
arXiv:2608.16281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous operation in GNSS-denied environments requires heterogeneous mapping pipelines to maintain a consiste…
RoboStriker: Latent-Space Strategic Games for Autonomous Humanoid Boxing
arXiv:2608.16195v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Achieving human-level competitive intelligence and physical agility in humanoid robots remains a profound challe…
SurgVIL: Scaling Surgical Robot Imitation Learning with Open-source Surgical Videos
arXiv:2608.16058v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning-based surgical robot autonomy requires large-scale demonstrations with synchronized videos and robot ac…
Tabletop Pen Manipulation With a Vision-Guided 4-DoF Arm
arXiv:2608.15968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-cost four-degree-of-freedom (DoF) arms are among the most accessible robotic platforms. But they are, in the…
Tactile Sim2Real without Tactile Simulation via Bottlenecked Latent Reconstruction
arXiv:2608.15897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot sensor designs, particularly tactile sensors, are highly diverse and evolve rapidly. Modeling each sensor …
Grouping Auction-Consensus Algorithm for Decentralized Task Allocation in Multi-Robot Systems
arXiv:2608.15884v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decentralized multi-robot task allocation (MRTA) is essential for scalable and resilient autonomous systems. The…
SCORE: Shape-Conforming Regions for Flight in Enclosed, Degraded Environments
arXiv:2608.15289v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous UAVs enter enclosed environments such as caves and collapsed structures that confine the vehicle and …
Max-Q Selective Imitation for Human-in-the-Loop Online Robot Learning
arXiv:2608.15088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-in-the-loop (HIL) online reinforcement learning for real robots must absorb human interventions quickly wh…
Modeling and Control of an Eel-Inspired Soft Robot for Design Optimization
arXiv:2608.14860v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Anguilliform locomotion is a highly efficient swimming mode; the advent of new materials for soft robots enables…
MISTac: A Vision-Based Tactile Sensor for Minimally Invasive Surgery
arXiv:2608.14772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Minimally invasive and robot-assisted surgery offer many advantages over traditional open surgery, but deprive s…
SkillComposer: Learning Reusable Skills for Natural-Language Robot Programming
arXiv:2608.14944v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Natural-language interfaces can lower the barrier to programming robots, but existing systems struggle when user…
Contact Modes Are Strata: What Geometric Structure Buys in Discrete-Continuous Planning
arXiv:2608.15541v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact-rich manipulation poses a discrete question and a continuous one at once, namely which contacts are acti…
Pre-training Visual Dexterity in Simulation
arXiv:2608.15917v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale pre-training has made robot policy fine-tuning increasingly data-efficient, but this progress has la…
Learning Varying Physical Therapist-Patient Interactions for Robot-mediated Upper Limb Task-Specific Training
arXiv:2608.15995v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Upper extremity motor function recovery is positively linked to Task-Specific Training (TST) and sufficient ther…
US-VLA: An Ultrasound Vision-Language-Action Model for Embodied Abdomina
arXiv:2608.16074v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence-assisted ultrasound scanning enhances diagnostic reliability and efficiency by providing…