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4147 storiesHybrid Attention Estimation Pipeline for Adaptive HRI Using an Expressive Robotic Head
arXiv:2608.00284v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an applied case study on hybrid visual attention estimation for human-robot interaction usin…
DriveCode: Domain Specific Numerical Encoding for LLM-Based Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2603.00919v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown great promise for autonomous driving. However, discretizing nu…
DiffPhysCam: Differentiable Physics-Based Camera Simulation for Inverse Rendering and Embodied AI
arXiv:2508.08831v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generating synthetic images that closely mimic those from real cameras is instrumental in training vis…
Faster-WAM: Do World Action Models Need Deep Action Modules?
arXiv:2608.02365v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) couple robot action prediction with video world models. Existing WAMs with shared-b…
CoWAM: Coordination Contracts for Selective Policy Intervention with WAMs
arXiv:2608.02578v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) augment robot policies with action-conditioned predicted futures, but a plausible fut…
Teleopit: A Full-Embodiment Humanoid Teleoperation System
arXiv:2608.01834v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid teleoperation for demonstration collection requires coordinated whole-body motion, continuous dexterous…
WAM-Diff2: Hierarchical AR-to-Diffusion Distillation for Highly Efficient Autonomous Driving VLA
arXiv:2608.01035v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a prominent paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving; howe…
When Prompts Control Robots: Prompt Injection Attacks in Multi-Agent Robotic Systems
arXiv:2608.00747v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly integrated into autonomous robotic systems for task planning and control,…
SelfWAM: A Self-Grounded Unified World Action Model for Fast Robot Control
arXiv:2608.00725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) improve robot policy learning by jointly modeling actions and future observations. Ho…
EndoWAM: A Grounded World-Action Model for Generalizable Endoscopic Navigation
arXiv:2608.01221v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous endoscopic navigation can reduce clinicians' operational burden, yet robust control remains challengi…
Adaptive Human-Robot Collaborative Painting Combining Preference-Based Optimization and Dynamic Motion Primitives
arXiv:2608.01981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work presents a human-centered collaborative framework that integrates Preference-Based Optimization (PBO) …
Rapid Embodiment Adaptation for Quadrupedal Locomotion
arXiv:2608.01506v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans readily adapt their movements as their bodies change through aging, injury, or load carrying, but learnin…
Situation Aware Frontier Prioritization for Quadruped Search and Rescue
arXiv:2608.02571v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quadruped robots are a promising platform for search and rescue missions because they can navigate cluttered ind…
Identifying and Exploiting Structure in Robot Co-Design
arXiv:2604.11768v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Co-design of a robot's morphology and control is a high-dimensional search problem. Efficient search depends…
QuASH: Using Natural-Language Heuristics to Query Visual-Language Robotic Maps
arXiv:2510.14546v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Embeddings from Visual-Language Models are increasingly utilized to represent semantics in robotic maps, off…
Weights or Skills? A Survey of Robot-Learning Techniques: from Action-Predicting Weights to Robots that Write their Own Skills
arXiv:2608.01851v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot learning is splitting into two bets: policies that bake competence into frozen weights (vision-language-ac…
A drone that learns to efficiently find non-uniformly distributed objects in agricultural fields: from simulation to the real world
arXiv:2505.09278v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Drones are promising for data collection in precision agriculture but are limited by battery capacity. Drone…
Learning-Based Motion Planning for Dynamic Environments: From Foundational Algorithms to Emerging Paradigms
arXiv:2608.00625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motion planning in dynamic environments is a fundamental problem in robotics, aiming to generate safe and effici…
TravKAN: Fast and Interpretable Nonlinear Traversability Analysis with Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
arXiv:2608.02320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traversability analysis is a fundamental capability for autonomous mobile robots operating in unstructured envir…
Who Is Responsible? Self-Adaptation Under Multiple Concurrent Uncertainties With Unknown Sources in Complex ROS-Based Systems
arXiv:2504.20477v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic systems increasingly operate in dynamic, unpredictable environments, where tightly coupled sensors a…
Bicycle Acrobatics with Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2608.00880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bicycle robots are fast and energy efficient, but their simple mechanical design and their underactuated and non…
GeminiPainter's sequence-formed pipeline comprised of perception, cognition, planning, and action stages
arXiv:2608.00829v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present an autonomous robotic portrait-generation system combining real-time face detection, AI-based sketch …
Learning Panorama-Aware VLA for Mobile Manipulation with Whole-Body Teleoperation
arXiv:2608.02257v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile manipulation is a key capability for embodied intelligence, enabling robots to accomplish complex multi-s…
DPL: Depth-only Perceptive Humanoid Locomotion via Realistic Depth Synthesis and Cross-Attention Terrain Reconstruction
arXiv:2510.07152v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advancements in legged robot perceptive locomotion have shown promising progress. However, terrain-aw…
ACDC: Adaptive Curriculum Planning with Dynamic Contrastive Control for Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning in Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2603.02104v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Goal-conditioned reinforcement learning has shown considerable potential in robotic manipulation; however, e…
Sampling-Based Visibility Task Planning
arXiv:2608.01027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) algorithms enable autonomous operation by incorporating the specific funct…
OC-VLA++: Monocular Geometry-Guided Cross-View Consistency for Viewpoint-Robust Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2608.01066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose OC-VLA++, an extension of OC-VLA for viewpoint generalization under limited camera coverage. While OC…
DexMani: Human-Derived Manipulability Guidance for Dexterous Rotation
arXiv:2608.00554v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous object rotation is a sequential contact problem: each support, release, and re-contact decision must b…
Towards General Language-Conditioned Latent Safety Filters
arXiv:2608.00315v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot policies are becoming increasingly general, with vision-language-action (VLA) models enabling a single pol…
FRA-NBV: A Fast and Reflectivity-Aware Next-Best-View Strategy
arXiv:2608.01950v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous 3D reconstruction with depth sensors is strongly affected by reflective surfaces, which cause missing…