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2480 storiesChronos: A Physics-Informed Full-History Framework for Non-Markovian Long-Horizon Manipulation
arXiv:2606.30318v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose robot policies should be modeled as dynamical systems, yet many VLA and generative imitation pol…
Real-time Rendering-based Surgical Instrument Tracking via Evolutionary Optimization
arXiv:2603.11404v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate and efficient tracking of surgical instruments is fundamental for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive…
WARP: Whole-Body Retargeting for Learning from Offline Human Demonstrations
arXiv:2606.29940v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Direct transfer from human demonstration to learnable robot action is a crucial step towards scalable whole-body…
Differentiable Physics-Informed Adaptive Koopman Control for Stable Flight under Unknown Disturbances
arXiv:2506.08319v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Uncertainties and disturbances in robotic systems, such as aerodynamic forces, are fundamentally outco…
Towards Biosignals-Free Autonomous Prosthetic Hand Control via Imitation Learning
arXiv:2506.08795v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Limb loss affects millions globally, impairing physical function and reducing quality of life. Most traditio…
OGM-CBF: Occupancy Grid Map-based Control Barrier Function for Safe Mobile Robot Control with Memory of out of View Obstacles
arXiv:2405.10703v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Safe control in unknown environments is a key challenge in mobile robotics. Control Barrier Functions (CBFs)…
ConCent: Contact-Centric Real-to-Sim-to-Real Learning from One Demonstration
arXiv:2606.30268v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sim-to-real policy transfer -- deploying policies trained in simulation in the real world -- is a promising para…
Training Vision-Language-Action Models with Dense Embodied Chain-of-Thought Supervision
arXiv:2606.30552v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-embodiment transfer in vision-language-action (VLA) models remains challenging because low-level state and…
Grounding Sim-to-Real Generalization in Robotic Manipulation: An Empirical Study with Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2603.22876v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning a generalist control policy for robotic manipulation typically relies on large-scale datasets. Give…
AERMANI-VLM: Structured Prompting and Reasoning for Aerial Manipulation with Vision Language Models
arXiv:2511.01472v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The rapid progress of vision--language models (VLMs) has sparked growing interest in robotic control, where …
Learning Transferable Dynamics Priors from Action to World Modeling
arXiv:2606.29501v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study action-conditioned world modeling as a scalable way to learn transferable dynamics priors for robot lea…
Learning to Balance Motor Thermal Safety and Quadrupedal Locomotion Performance with Residual Policy
arXiv:2605.27046v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Motor thermal management is often overlooked in the context of electrically-actuated robots, particularly le…
OpenSPM: An Environment-Transferable Robotic Key Spatial Pose Memory and Closed-Loop High-Frequency Flow-Matching Action Generation Model
arXiv:2606.29936v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-environment tabletop robotic manipulation requires systems to possess semantic understanding, precise geome…
Grasp-Oriented Non-Prehensile Manipulation via Learning a Graspability Field
arXiv:2606.30474v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Non-prehensile manipulation is often used as a preparatory step for robotic grasping, yet existing approaches ty…
Sequential Planning via Anchored Robotic Keypoints
arXiv:2606.30613v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Sequential Planning via Anchored Robotic Keypoints, SPARK, a training-free neurosymbolic manipulation…
Tactile Gesture Recognition with Built-in Joint Sensors for Industrial Robots
arXiv:2508.12435v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While gesture recognition using vision or robot skins is an active research area in Human-Robot Collaboratio…
SPACE: Swarm Pheromone Fields for Adaptive Collision-Aware Exploration
arXiv:2606.29372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Massive robot swarms can explore unknown environments quickly, but adding robots eventually stops helping. Doorw…
Improvement of Robot's Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Using an Effective Transformation to Achieve Linear Model
arXiv:2606.28475v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Nowadays mobile robots have wide engineering applications. Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is an im…
AnyBody: Free-Form Whole-Body Humanoid Control from Arbitrary Keypoint Guidance
arXiv:2606.29209v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present AnyBody, a unified whole-body humanoid controller driven by an arbitrary subset of body keypoints cho…
A Physics-Grounded Benchmark for Multi-Agent Dynamics in World Models
arXiv:2606.28757v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative world models hold immense promise as scalable simulators for autonomous systems, particularly for s…
Critical Interval MSE: Toward Reliable Offline Validation for Robot Manipulation Policies
arXiv:2606.29898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world evaluation is the gold standard for robot policies because it tests them against the physical conditi…
RoboGaze: Evaluating Robot World Models via Structured Vision-Language Analysis
arXiv:2606.28385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in robot world models enable synthetic video generation for embodied prediction and planning. Ho…
Auditing LLM-Governed Social Robots with Culture-Specific Moral Gradients
arXiv:2606.28345v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-governed social robots increasingly decide who receives real-world assistance first. As prioritization norms…
Trajectory Optimization for Collision-Aware Redundant Robotic Multi-Axis Additive Manufacturing by Constrained Gradient Projection
arXiv:2606.29766v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Redundant robotic multi-axis additive manufacturing (MAAM) enables support-free and conformal fabrication, but t…
Flying to Image-Specified Objects: 3D Quadrotor Navigation via Cross-Graph Memory and Viewpoint Planning
arXiv:2606.29917v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Instance-Specific Image-Goal Navigation (InstanceImageNav) requires a robot to navigate toward the exact object …
Event-VLA: Action-Conditioned Event Fusion for Robust Vision-Language-Action Model
arXiv:2606.29384v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become an important paradigm of embodied AI. However, existing VLA mo…
Robotic Arm-Based Spectral Sensing for Strawberry Positioning and Non-Destructive Sweetness Measurement
arXiv:2606.28555v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate assessment of sweetness is essential for quality control in agriculture, yet conventional methods rely …
BioProVLA-Agent: An Affordable, Protocol-Driven, Vision-Enhanced VLA-Enabled Embodied Multi-Agent System with Closed-Loop-Capable Reasoning for Biological Laboratory Manipulation
arXiv:2605.07306v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Biological laboratory automation can reduce repetitive manual work and improve reproducibility, but reliable…
SA-VLA: State-aware tokenizer for improving Vision-Language-Action Models' performance
arXiv:2606.30113v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discrete action tokenization provides a compact interface for autoregressive VLA policies, but accurately recove…
Demonstration-Free Robotic Control via LLM Agents
arXiv:2601.20334v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic manipulation has increasingly adopted vision-language-action (VLA) models, which achieve strong perf…