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4147 storiesHiPHI: A Large-Scale Benchmark for High-Precision Human Motion and Object-Interaction
arXiv:2608.16222v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid intelligence requires learning over an extremely diverse space of whole-body motions and physically gro…
Robot-Body-Aware Traversal Risk Graph Planning for Wheeled-Legged Robots in Complex Terrain
arXiv:2608.16433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traversal Risk Graphs (TRGs) provide a compact, terrain-aware representation for global navigation, but native T…
Flow Motion Policy: Manipulator Motion Planning with Flow Matching Models
arXiv:2604.07084v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Open-loop end-to-end neural motion planners have recently been proposed to improve motion planning for robot…
Formalisms for Robotic Mission Specification and Execution: A Comparative Analysis
arXiv:2603.15427v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robots are increasingly deployed across diverse domains and designed for multi-purpose operation. As r…
EvoScene-VLA: Evolving Scene Beliefs Inside the Action Decoder for Chunked Robot Control
arXiv:2605.21862v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Chunked vision-language-action (VLA) policies predict multi-step robot controls, conditioning each update on…
RoboMirror: Understand Before You Imitate for Video to Humanoid Locomotion
arXiv:2512.23649v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humans learn locomotion through visual observation, interpreting visual content first before imitating actio…
Towards a Unified Understanding of Robot Manipulation: A Comprehensive Survey
arXiv:2510.10903v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Embodied intelligence has witnessed remarkable progress in recent years, driven by advances in computer visi…
DiSA-IQL: Offline Reinforcement Learning for Robust Soft Robot Control under Distribution Shifts
arXiv:2510.00358v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Soft snake robots offer remarkable flexibility and adaptability in complex environments, yet their control r…
Relay-Based Coordination for Energy-Efficient Multi-Robot Pickup and Delivery
arXiv:2509.14127v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We consider the problem of delivering multiple packages from a single depot to distinct goal locations using…
Two by Two: Learning Multi-Task Pairwise Objects Assembly for Generalizable Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2504.06961v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 3D assembly tasks, such as furniture assembly and component fitting, play a crucial role in daily life and r…
FollowUpBot: An LLM-Based Conversational Robot for Automatic Postoperative Follow-up
arXiv:2507.15502v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Postoperative follow-up plays a crucial role in monitoring recovery and identifying complications. However, tr…
HAF: Adapting Generalist VLAs to Humanoid Whole-Body Loco-manipulation via Hierarchical Action Flow and Spectral Latent RL
arXiv:2608.16837v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots hold great promise as general-purpose agents in human-centered environments, yet generalist visi…
Design Optimization for Large High-Force Soft Robot Manipulators Under Gravitational Loads
arXiv:2608.16728v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Designing large soft robots capable of generating high forces for physical human-robot interaction remains a sig…
Throwing a Tight Spiral American Football by a Humanoid Robot
arXiv:2608.16642v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate throwing of the American football requires precise regulation of release conditions, where coupled line…
Zetta $\zeta$: An Efficient Closed-Loop Embodied Harness for Self-Evolving Physical Intelligence
arXiv:2608.16590v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied agents are increasingly used to close the gap left by end-to-end policy models. Yet the agentic path ha…
Co-design of Neural and Muscle Network based on Embodied Perceptron Representation
arXiv:2608.16555v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in AI technologies have enabled the advanced design of complex control policies. In contrast, fo…
NebulaVLA: A Dual-Frequency Vision-Language-Action Model With Guide Action for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2608.16503v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world deployment of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models is often bottlenecked by efficiency-performance tra…
Cyclops: LiDAR as a Camera That Dreams in Color
arXiv:2608.16264v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventionally, robotic perception relies heavily on cameras due to the rich semantic texture they provide. Howe…
Unified Condition-Action Modeling for Accurate One-Step Action Generation
arXiv:2608.16153v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot manipulation requires policies that are both accurate and efficient, as robot control must respond to chan…
Benchmarking Identity-Sensitive LLM Outputs for Surveillance and Security Robots
arXiv:2608.16030v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate textual robot design specifications, interaction …
Revisiting Open-Loop Execution in Robotics: Toward Reactive, Higher-Performing Policies
arXiv:2608.15938v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action chunking --- the practice of predicting a sequence of actions and executing a prefix open-loop --- has em…
Tac4Loco: Learning Spatiotemporal Plantar Pressure Representations for Humanoid Locomotion
arXiv:2608.15766v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots are expected to traverse complex terrains, where the plantar support may vary dramatically due t…
Robo-Dopamine 2.0: History-Conditioned and OOD-Aware Process Reward Modeling for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2608.15680v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models improve robotic manipulation but remain vulnerable to compounding errors, sc…
Algorithm-Architecture Co-Design for Efficient VLA Inference via Speculative Inference and Verification
arXiv:2608.15636v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in the field of embodied AI, but t…
MistyPilot: Enabling Social-Robot Control through Multi-Agent LLM Skill Orchestration
arXiv:2608.15549v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Programming small social robots from natural-language instructions requires more than invoking isolated APIs. In…
Detachable Wire Drive : Reconfigurable Robot Architecture with Shared Actuators
arXiv:2608.15461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reconfigurable robots offer significant potential for adapting to diverse tasks; however, conventional centraliz…
GUIDER: Evaluating Goal-Free Human Intent Inference for Teleoperated Manipulation on Real-Robot Data
arXiv:2608.15446v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an evaluation of a goal-free probabilistic framework for human intent inference during robot…
VTInstructor: Visual Trajectory Prompting for Navigation Instruction Generation in Continuous Environments
arXiv:2608.15284v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Navigation instruction generation from ego-centric RGB video in continuous environments is an important yet chal…
Remember Smarter: Visual History Compressor and Hyperbolic Experience Space for Robotic Memory
arXiv:2608.15269v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon robot policies require compact access to recent observations and reusable experience without expand…
StructRL: Structured Action-Space Exploration for Flow-Based VLAs
arXiv:2608.15139v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow-based Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are now widely used for continuous robotic manipulation, and onli…