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4147 storiesHybrid Impedance-Admittance Control with Multi-Link Aerial Robot for Contact-Rich Surface Sliding Task
arXiv:2608.01800v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-link aerial robots can actively deform their articulated structures during flight, giving them strong pote…
Minute-Scale Training for Microrobot Navigation
arXiv:2608.00854v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Microrobots hold significant potential for various applications, where targeted navigation is a basic requiremen…
RL Bootstrapping of OpenVLA-OFT for a Novel Robot Embodiment
arXiv:2608.01013v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adapting a pretrained vision-language-action (VLA) policy to a new robot usually assumes embodiment-specific dem…
From Digital to Physical Reservoir Computing: Co-Optimizing Soft Robotic Reservoirs via Dynamics Matching
arXiv:2608.00484v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft robotic substrates are promising for Physical Reservoir Computing (PRC) because their compliant nonlinear d…
SynAgent: Generalizable Cooperative Humanoid Manipulation via Solo-to-Cooperative Agent Synergy
arXiv:2604.18557v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Controllable cooperative humanoid manipulation is a fundamental yet challenging problem for embodied i…
RF-HOI: Recognize Human-Object Interaction with Radio Frequency Signals
arXiv:2608.00289v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recognizing Human-Object Interactions (HOI) is essential for intelligent systems, underpinning applications in…
LOCUS-DT: Localization via Observation-Conditioned Uncertainty Scoring with Digital Twins
arXiv:2608.00406v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate indoor localization is essential for emerging applications in robotic navigation and search and rescu…
Perception-and-action system for humanoid robot task execution in construction
arXiv:2608.01600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots, with their human-like shape and multi-tasking capabilities, are well-aligned with human-dominat…
Uncovering and Mitigating Positional Blind Spots in Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2608.01573v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve promising performance in robotic manipulation, typically meas…
TS-MAMP: A Remanufactured Agricultural Robot Powered by Second-Life EV Components and NMS-Free On-Device Weed Detection
arXiv:2608.02270v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agriculture 4.0 robotic systems improve field efficiency yet remain too capital-intensive for the fragmented sma…
Grounded Semantic Re-Binding for Robust Instruction Generalization in Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2608.02497v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models excel in robotic manipulation but suffer catastrophic performance drops when…
STAR-VLM: Spatiotemporal Grounding Vision-Language Models for Motion and Velocity Estimation via Automotive Radar Supervision
arXiv:2608.01535v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are emerging as a key component of embodied intelligence, with growing applicati…
A Robotic System for Automated Manufacturing of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators
arXiv:2608.00369v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This letter presents an automated robotic manufacturing system for soft capacitors which operate as actuators an…
Residual-Based Adaptive Kalman Filtering for Legged Robot State Estimation
arXiv:2608.02316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: State estimation is a key component in model-based control of walking robots and, more broadly, applicable where…
Motion Planning for Mobile Manipulators Navigating Doorways via Model Predictive Control
arXiv:2608.00206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Navigating doorways is a fundamental capability for mobile manipulators operating in human environments, requiri…
FeDepth: Federated Learning for Depth Estimation under Robot Heterogeneity
arXiv:2608.01129v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although recent robot perception research emphasizes training on data from diverse environments to improve gener…
GenTrack: Physical Alignment for Robot-Native Motion Generation and Zero-Shot Humanoid Tracking
arXiv:2608.01410v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose humanoid trackers can execute diverse references, but their zero-shot coverage depends on large …
MemoAct: Atkinson-Shiffrin-Inspired Hierarchical Memory-Augmented Policy for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2603.18494v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Memory-augmented robotic policies are essential in handling memory-dependent tasks. However, existing approa…
ProtoAct: Turning Wet-Lab Protocols into Embodied Robotic Actions
arXiv:2608.01690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biological wet-lab protocols are written for trained researchers and often leave routine operations, state-depen…
Hermite Curves as Trajectory Priors for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2608.01265v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite recent progress in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for robotic manipulation, the action chunk remain…
igus launches energy chain with 600-degree rotation for industrial robots
igus says its new twisterchain energy chain provides cable management for challenging industrial robotics applications such as palletizing. The post igus launch…
HEBI Robotics earns NASA SBIR grant to fast track miniaturized actuators
This Phase I award is only part of HEBI Robotics' roadmap. The company also plans to continue developing its existing actuation hardware. The post HEBI Robotics…
Simulated zebrafish and a vision-equipped robotic fish reveal how the body shapes brain circuits
Image credit: Olivier Porchet, Biorobotics Laboratory, EPFL When a fish holds its position against a current in a river, its brain must figure out how fast to s…
Reimagine Robotics emerges from stealth with robots that ‘learn on the job’
Reimagine Robotics, founded by former Google DeepMind Applied Robotics leaders, is developing systems that do not require specialized programmers. The post Reim…
MROPE: A Multi-Robot Safe Cooperative Strategy via combined Predictive Safety Filters and Ellipse-based Constraint Compression
arXiv:2607.29203v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying drone swarms to track a dynamic target in cluttered environments presents severe computational and saf…
D-VLC: Decentralized Vision-Language Collaboration for Heterogeneous Embodied Multi-Robot Systems in Unknown Environments
arXiv:2607.29009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot systems, particularly heterogeneous robot swarms, can improve the efficiency of complex task executi…
WCM: A World Critic Model for Vision-Language-Action Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607.29613v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models has shown strong promise for ro…
Kinodynamic Motion Retargeting for Humanoid Locomotion via Multi-Contact Whole-Body Trajectory Optimization
arXiv:2603.09956v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present the KinoDynamic Motion Retargeting (KDMR) framework, a novel approach for humanoid locomotion tha…
AquaJEPA: Action-Conditioned Multimodal Predictive Representations for Underwater Robot Dynamics
arXiv:2607.29393v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Underwater robots combine complementary sensors whose reliability changes abruptly with water visibility, viewpo…
BWM: A Low-Cost High-Fidelity World Simulator for Robot Learning
arXiv:2607.29302v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable robot learning requires a world simulator that can predict action consequences before execution on phys…