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4147 storiesEnd-to-end Conditional Diffusion for Realistic and Controllable Visual Traffic Scenario Generation
arXiv:2607.18637v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating closed-loop traffic scenarios that are both realistic and controllable is crucial for evaluating auto…
Uncertainty-Aware Multi-Robot Task Allocation With Strongly Coupled Inter-Robot Rewards
arXiv:2509.22469v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Allocating tasks to heterogeneous robot teams in environments with uncertain task requirements is a fundamen…
From Distances to Trajectories: Real-Time Signed Distance Function Mapping and Distance-Accelerated Motion Planning for UAVs
arXiv:2607.19306v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous flight in cluttered environments requires a robot to build a geometric map of its surroundings and pl…
RAPT: Model-Predictive Out-of-Distribution Detection and Failure Diagnosis for Sim-to-Real Humanoid Deployment
arXiv:2602.01515v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deploying learned control policies is risky because policies that appear robust in simulation can confidentl…
Fly, Track, Land: Infrastructure-less Magnetic Localization for Heterogeneous UAV-UGV Teaming
arXiv:2603.08926v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Persistent air ground robot teams require nano UAVs that can leave a mobile UGV, perform short scouting or i…
Masked Visual Actions for Unified World Modeling
arXiv:2607.19343v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video models absorb rich priors over how the visual world moves, interacts, and responds to contact, making th…
CONTACT: CONtact-aware TACTile Learning for Robotic Disassembly
arXiv:2603.08560v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic disassembly involves contact-rich interactions in which successful manipulation depends not only on …
WorldScape Policy 2.0: Empowering Steerable World Action Modeling with Reasoning-Augmented Memory
arXiv:2607.18840v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) offer a promising paradigm for robotic manipulation by jointly modeling visual state …
RoboInspector: Unveiling the Unreliability of Policy Code for LLM-enabled Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2508.21378v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities in reasoning and code generation, enabling …
VOFA: Visual Object Goal Pushing with Force-Adaptive Control for Humanoids
arXiv:2605.01518v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The ability to push large objects in a goal-directed manner using onboard egocentric perception is an essent…
Motion Primitive Discovery in a Humanoid Robot via Self-Organising Maps for Phase Recognition
arXiv:2607.18737v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding the computational basis of action recognition is a central challenge in social cognition as well a…
FARO: Feasibility-Aware Robot Motion Optimization
arXiv:2607.18362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fast planning of novel behaviors in unseen scenarios remains a fundamental challenge in robotics. The high-dimen…
Guide, Think, Act: Interactive Embodied Reasoning in Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2605.13632v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this paper, we propose GTA-VLA(Guide, Think, Act), an interactive Vision-Language-Action (VLA) framework …
Hazard or Anomaly? Evaluating VLMs for Understanding Dangers and Discrepancies
arXiv:2607.18325v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern safety-critical systems increasingly rely on human-robot interaction to reduce disaster risk and suppor…
MVP-Tac: A Miniaturized Dual-Modal Vision and Photoelastic Tactile Sensor for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery
arXiv:2607.18660v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS) offers major benefits over open and conventional laparoscopic p…
DASH Robot: Minimalistic Design and Optimal Aerial-Terrestrial Locomotion via Contact-Implicit Control
arXiv:2607.18527v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a novel and minimalistic design of an aerial-terrestrial robot DASH: Ducted Aerial Spring Hopper. The…
EquiBim: Learning Symmetry-Equivariant Policy for Bimanual Manipulation
arXiv:2603.08541v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic imitation learning has achieved impressive success in learning complex manipulation behaviors from d…
Eversion-based robots can enable safe access,steering and endoscopic imaging within the spinal subarachnoid space
arXiv:2607.19274v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe navigation within the spinal subarachnoid space is constrained by its narrow, compliant, and delicate anato…
Beyond Fixed Goal Delivery: Online POMDP Planning for Target Interception in Crowds
arXiv:2607.18517v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Target interception in crowded environments requires reaching a moving objective while navigating among multiple…
Design and stability analysis of an underactuated hand with passively rotating fingers
arXiv:2607.18950v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an innovative design and stability analysis of an underactuated robotic finger with spatial …
Teaching Robots to Interpret Social Interactions through Lexically-guided Dynamic Graph Learning
arXiv:2604.10895v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: For a robot to be called socially intelligent, it must be able to infer users internal states from the…
Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap under Real-Time Constraints in Autonomous Racing
arXiv:2607.18586v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous racing exposes the sim-to-real gap under extreme operating conditions characterized by high speed, ti…
Assistax: A Multi-Agent Hardware-Accelerated Reinforcement Learning Benchmark for Assistive Robotics
arXiv:2507.21638v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As embodied autonomous systems capable of assisting humans in daily activities remain a major goal for…
Evaluating Uncertainty and Quality of Visual Language Action-enabled Robots
arXiv:2507.17049v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA)-enabled robots integrate visual perception, natural language understandin…
STeP: Signal Temporal Logic for Precise Specifications for Action Generation with Vision Language Models
arXiv:2607.18580v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown impressive generalization, but often lack interpretability and ca…
RoboInter1.5: A Holistic Intermediate Representation Suite for Embodied World Modeling and Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.18709v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing robot datasets remain expensive to curate, embodiment-specific, and insufficiently annotated with the f…
Vicarious Surgical officially shutting down
Vicarious Surgical raised about $300 million in total, most of that from a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger in 2021. The post Vicarious Surgica…
U.K.-based Humanoid secures $152M in Series A funding
Humanoid said it has reached a $1.35 billion valuation as it scales its AI-driven industrial robots and expands commercial deployments. The post U.K.-based Huma…
Generative Bionics unveils humanoid robot with full-body tactile sensing
Generative Bionics said its Gene.01 humanoid is fully sensorized, helping it quickly anticipate human presence and respond. The post Generative Bionics unveils …
Friction is key to making better robot world models
Deploying world models in real robotic systems requires a step that receives less attention than the models themselves: conditioning. The post Friction is key t…