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4147 storiesTrack-Guided Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Vehicle Drifting with Minimum-Lap-Time Planning
arXiv:2608.00113v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Formula 1, drivers optimize racing lines within tire grip limits to minimize lap times; however, in rally rac…
Belief-Space Perception Routing under Coupled Sensor Faults and Compute Contention
arXiv:2608.00322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A robot that has to see and react on a fixed clock runs into two problems at once. Its cameras degrade in rain, …
Grounded Vision-Language Interpreter for Long-Horizon Bimanual Task and Motion Planning
arXiv:2506.03270v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While recent advances in vision-language models have accelerated language-guided robot planning, their black…
LooperMuscle: Fast and Stable Learning of Humanoid Whole-Body Tracking via Structured Mixture-of-Experts
arXiv:2608.00820v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: FastSAC-style methods significantly reduce humanoid motion training time but often suffer from notable performan…
SIPTraj: Map-Free End-to-End Trajectory Prediction via Physics-Guided Scene Interaction
arXiv:2608.00779v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trajectory prediction of surrounding agents is a prerequisite for safe planning and decision making in autonomou…
Toward Geometry-Scalable Whole-Body Touch for Humanoids: A 3D-Printed Conformal EIT Skin
arXiv:2608.02080v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Whole-body tactile sensing is a prerequisite for humanoids that operate in contact-rich human environments, but …
MANGO-Grasp: Mahalanobis Fields over Geometry-Oriented 3D Gaussians for Cross-Embodiment Dexterous Grasping
arXiv:2608.02014v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-embodiment dexterous grasping aims to synthesize stable grasps across heterogeneous multi-fingered hands w…
Sparse Meets Dense: Correspondence Guided Robotic Manipulation with Rigid-Deformable Interactions
arXiv:2608.01083v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Manipulation involving rigid-deformable interactions, such as hanging clothes or dressing humans, is common in d…
StableMimic: Smooth Human-Like Recovery for Humanoid Motion Tracking - Learning Beyond the Tracking Distribution for Structured Post-Fall Behavior
arXiv:2608.02385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid motion trackers perform reliably within learned tracking distributions, but falls can move the robot in…
Push-Wiper: Toward General-Purpose Robotic Cleaning across Varied Stains and Surfaces with Segmented Pushing Trajectories
arXiv:2608.00730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Viscous stains, characterized by high viscosity and complex rheological properties, remain a major challenge for…
TWINS: A Tactile Wearable Isomorphic Arm Networked System for Contact-Rich Manipulation Learning
arXiv:2608.01733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in robot learning for manipulation have increased the importance of collecting real-world demons…
First Deployable Dynamic-CoM: A Unified Policy and Method-Agnostic Benchmark for Humanoid Single-Leg Balance
arXiv:2608.00500v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unified humanoid policies handle agile whole-body motion, yet stumble on a simple demand: staying balanced on on…
RobotDancing: Residual-Action Reinforcement Learning Enables Robust Long-Horizon Humanoid Motion Tracking
arXiv:2509.20717v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-horizon, high-dynamic motion tracking on humanoids remains brittle: retargeted reference motions are ty…
Why Does Action Chunking Improve Behavioral Cloning Performance in Robotic Control?
arXiv:2608.02547v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action chunking---predicting and executing multiple actions instead of a single action---has proven to be a crit…
Ego2Robot: Scalable Robot Data Synthesis from Egocentric Human Data
arXiv:2608.02580v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning generalizable robot manipulation policies requires large-scale and diverse demonstration data. Egocentr…
Action Chunk Scheduling for Batched Robot Policy Serving
arXiv:2608.00337v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying robot foundation models at scale is the next step towards realizing the potential of general-purpose r…
Embodied Passive Aeroacoustic Perception Enables Relative Sensing and Pursuit Between Aerial Robots
arXiv:2608.00401v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aerial robots generate structured aeroacoustic fields during flight, yet these signals have been underexplored a…
Developing Combined Manipulation and Locomotion Skills with Interaction Representation and Skill Composition
arXiv:2608.00208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses how to enable a humanoid robot to learn motion policies based on developmental principles a…
Compliant Sphere Lattice Contact: Distributed Contact Modeling for Sphere-Based Robot Representations
arXiv:2608.00263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact planning in robotics requires models that are both computationally efficient and physically accurate. Sp…
OmniAI: A Surface-Adaptive Aerial Projection Interface for Human--Drone Interaction
arXiv:2608.00721v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Drones in human environments often lack spatially grounded in- terfaces for situated communication. We present O…
MoRAL: Sensor-Grounded BEV Reasoning for Compact VLMs toward Edge-Oriented Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2608.02449v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying vision-language models (VLMs) for safety-critical spatial reasoning on resource-constrained autonomo…
World Action Models in Real Time: An Empirical Study of Smooth Execution via Asynchronous Deployment
arXiv:2608.01880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models generate fixed-horizon action chunks through iterative denoising, creating substantial infer…
Look Where It Matters: Adaptive Visual Refinement for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2608.02197v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual representations of VLA models remain unreliable for spatially precise robotic manipulation. We uncover th…
Local-Canonicalization Equivariant Graph Neural Networks for Sample-Efficient and Generalizable Swarm Robot Control
arXiv:2509.14431v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) policies for swarm control often learn inefficiently and generaliz…
Spline Policy: A Structured Representation for Robot Policies
arXiv:2606.07386v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern imitation-learning policies for robot manipulation often represent actions as fixed-resolution action…
Latent-Centroid Steering: Single-Pass Classifier-Free Guidance for Command-Aligned Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2608.00237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving,…
AffordTrajDP: Dynamic Affordance-Guided Visuomotor Policy Learning for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2608.01603v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Affordance-guided imitation learning has shown impressive performance in robotic manipulation tasks by compressi…
PRISM: Privileged Probabilistic Latent Supervision for End-to-End Autonomous Driving Motion Planning
arXiv:2608.01201v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving (E2E AD) systems integrate perception, prediction, and planning into a single diff…
ORCESTRA: VLM-driven Visual Robot programming in Mixed Reality
arXiv:2608.00775v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: ORCESTRA is a mixed-reality system for programming robot digital twins through no-code waypoint teaching and lan…
HapticVLA: Contact-Rich Manipulation via Vision-Language-Action Model without Inference-Time Tactile Sensing
arXiv:2603.15257v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tactile sensing is a crucial capability for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) architectures, as it enables dexter…