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4146 storiesStrataVLA: Hierarchical and Efficient 3D Geometric Grounding for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2609.26071v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models inherit strong semantic priors from large-scale vision-language pretraining,…
Situation Aware Locomotion for Dual Mobile Cobots in Shared Environments
arXiv:2609.26083v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a situation aware locomotion framework for two mobile collaborative robots operating in shar…
Mirror Skin: In Situ Visualization of Robot Touch Intent on Robotic Skin
arXiv:2512.11472v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Effective communication of robot touch intent is essential for safe and predictable physical human-rob…
TM-APR: Thermal Temporal-Memory Localization via Analytic Online Adaptation
arXiv:2609.26766v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Thermal Visual Place Recognition (Thermal VPR) maps camera observations to metric poses within a mapped environm…
Imperfection for Precision: Upcycling Imperfect Data for High-Precision Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2609.26672v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training vision-language-action (VLA) models for high-precision manipulation typically requires task-specific, h…
Sample, Simulate, Select: Physics-in-the-Loop Text-to-Motion for Humanoids Without Training
arXiv:2609.26420v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-motion models generate plausible human motion but do not model a robot's dynamics; whole-body tracking c…
Generalizing Manipulation Skills with a Local Coding Agent
arXiv:2609.26499v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Today, progress in open-weight language models enables systems capable of writing, executing and debugging code …
DexJoCo: A Benchmark and Toolkit for Task-Oriented Dexterous Manipulation on MuJoCo
arXiv:2605.16257v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Achieving human-level manipulation requires dexterous robotic hands capable of complex object interactions. …
NeMo-map: Neural Implicit Flow Fields for Spatio-Temporal Motion Mapping
arXiv:2510.14827v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Safe and efficient robot operation in complex human environments can benefit from good models of site-specif…
Real-time autonomous magnetic microrobot navigation across dynamic and biologically relevant environments
arXiv:2509.05500v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous microrobots could enable minimally invasive interventions in confined biological environments, bu…
Toward User-Mediated Self-Repair in Ubiquitous Robots Through Goal-Oriented Agentic AI
arXiv:2609.26157v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ubiquitous robotic systems often lack traditional visual interfaces, necessitating resilient natural language …
MatchFusion: Explicit-Implicit Instance Matching for Spatio-Temporal Multimodal Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2609.25860v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse instance representations provide a compact interface for spatial LiDAR-camera and temporal past-current…
MATE: Multi-Agent Virtual Teleoperation Platform for Humanoid Collaboration Data Collection
arXiv:2609.26520v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots require diverse embodied experiences to acquire complex loco-manipulation and collaborative skil…
Skytopia: Monocular Drone Navigation with Action-Conditioned Latent World Models
arXiv:2609.26007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Monocular drone navigation requires reaching a goal in an unseen environment from a single forward-facing camera…
Sometimes You Gotta Run Before You Can Walk: Run-then-Walk Scheduling Strategy for VLM Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2609.25831v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent VLM-based autonomous driving planners adopt GRPO-style reinforcement learning to optimize driving perform…
Towards Adaptive Interaction Strategies for Human Companion Robot via Deep Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2609.25031v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), achieving flexibility in human-accompanying within real-world env…
Learning to Plan in Human-Robot Collaboration: Multimodal Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Interaction
arXiv:2609.25274v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot assistants for older adults and people with disabilities need to perform collaborative tasks with users ef…
HOTICE: Whole-Body Humanoid Object Transportation in Cluttered Environments
arXiv:2609.25363v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Object transportation is a fundamental capability for humanoid robots operating in real-world, human-centric env…
Norm2Tex: Augmenting Visuo-Tactile Simulations with Texture
arXiv:2609.25398v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale datasets are essential for training generalist robot control policies. Collecting real-world tactile…
Brace Yourself: Task-Conditioned Environmental Bracing for Forceful Humanoid Manipulation
arXiv:2609.25486v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Forceful manipulation is challenging for humanoid robots because interaction forces can disturb whole-body balan…
RoboMP-DINOv2: Prompts, Not Filters for Robust Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2609.25506v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot manipulation policies must generalize across visual shifts while preserving scene context relevant to acti…
A Deployment Study of Identity-Gated Drone Gesture Control
arXiv:2609.25511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-based gesture control accepts commands from any hand in the camera field of view, which is unsafe in shar…
Digital Twin-Driven VR Teleoperation with Multi-View Spatial Perception for Surgical Robots
arXiv:2609.25527v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current robot-assisted minimally-invasive surgery (RMIS) platforms provide a fixed console for the surgeon to vi…
HABILIS Brain 0: Geometry-Change Supervision for Vision-Language-Action and Residual Flow Recovery
arXiv:2609.25558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action policies benefit from geometric supervision, but current-frame geometry alone does not ex…
IndustrialVLA-Bench: A Traceable Multi-Axis Evaluation of Open Robot Policy Models
arXiv:2609.25562v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open robot policies increasingly follow two paradigms: vision-language-action models (VLAs) directly map observa…
Recording Hand-Held Laparoscopic Instrument Motion in the Operating Room: Magnetometer-Free Fusion of Inertial, Range and Visual Sensing
arXiv:2609.25577v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most minimally invasive procedures are still performed with hand-held laparoscopic instruments, yet only the end…
Relative Contact Velocity-Controlled Hand-Object Mechanism for Dexterous Tool Manipulation
arXiv:2609.25619v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work investigates how to enable general multi-finger robotic hands to perform the complete tool manipulatio…
From Instrument-Mounted Demonstrations to In-Vivo Execution: Learning Bimanual Laparoscopic Appendectomy Without Robot-Collected Demonstrations
arXiv:2609.25625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most minimally invasive surgery is still performed with hand-held laparoscopic instruments, and the surgeon's in…
MachEmbodied-U0: Unified Understanding and Generation Model for Embodied Intelligence
arXiv:2609.25627v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose robot control requires models to understand task intent, identify where to interact, capture how…
Design and Implementation of an Ultra-Low-Cost Wall-Climbing Robot for Infrastructure Crack Detection
arXiv:2609.26130v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Crack detection is a crucial process to ensure the safety and longevity of buildings and other infrastructure. I…