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4147 storiesAlgorithmic Accuracy as a Motivational Driver in Robot-Mediated Learning: A Comparative Study of Cross-Correlation and CNN-Based Sound Detection in an Interactive Quiz Game
arXiv:2607.16299v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In competitive learning activities, inaccurate robot decisions may reduce students' perceptions of fairness an…
PRISM: Multimodal Terrain Mapping for Rover Navigation in Unstructured Environments
arXiv:2607.16366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic navigation in unstructured environments requires robust situational awareness to safely traverse hazards…
From Perception to Assistance: Open-Vocabulary Shared Autonomy for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.17323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Teleoperating a robotic manipulator in industrial environments demands precision that camera-based interfaces al…
xperception -- Making Robotic Grasping Easier
arXiv:2607.16312v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The transition toward high-mix low-volume manufacturing demands flexibility in robotic manipulation. However, …
Logic-Guided Socially-aware Robot Navigation World Model
arXiv:2510.23509v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Social robot navigation increasingly relies on large language models for reasoning, path planning, and enabl…
From Sign Language Generation to Humanoid Execution: Vision-Language Guided Retargeting with Collision Mitigation
arXiv:2607.17769v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent sign language generation (SLG) systems increasingly output dense 3D body representations, which better pr…
Distilling Global Traversability Priors for Image-based Affordance Prediction in Off-road Environments
arXiv:2607.17984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Standard methods for autonomous navigation in unstructured terrain are prone to myopic behaviors in long-horizon…
3D and 4D World Modeling: A Survey
arXiv:2509.07996v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: World modeling has become a cornerstone in AI research, enabling agents to understand, represent, and …
Unified Disturbance Aware Safe Kinematic Control for Closed-Architecture Robots
arXiv:2512.05292v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In commercial robotic systems, it is common to encounter a closed inner-loop torque controller that is not u…
VLN-AVP: Zero-Shot Vision-Language Navigation with Hybrid Long-Short-Term Memory for Autonomous Valet Parking
arXiv:2607.17767v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing methods in Autonomous Valet Parking (AVP) typically rely on pre-built maps, which severely restricts th…
Patch Policy: Efficient Embodied Control via Dense Visual Representations
arXiv:2607.18236v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained dense visual features from Vision Transformers (ViTs) are powerful yet have been underutilized in rob…
A BIM-enabled, Agent-based Discrete-event Simulation Platform for Robotic Studies: A Method based on Graph Theory
arXiv:2607.16920v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Indoor robots are increasingly employed for facility management tasks such as cleaning and inspection. These app…
PrimitiveVLA: Learning Reusable Motion Primitives for Efficient and Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2605.28634v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models offer a promising paradigm for generalist robotic policies, yet their ad…
SLAM in Low-Light Environments: Project Report
arXiv:2607.17699v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is one of the fundamental problems in robotics, as it enables auton…
ADMM-Based Safety-Critical Distributed NMPC for Cooperative Transportation by Quadrupedal Robots
arXiv:2607.17007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a safety-critical distributed nonlinear model predictive control (DNMPC) framework for coope…
Finite-Time Curvature-Constrained Vector Field for Saturation-Free Motion Planning of Nonholonomic Robots
arXiv:2607.17542v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurately steering a robot to a target configuration is fundamental in engineering, yet remains challenging for…
Autonomous VR-Based Risk Detection for Situational Awareness in Dangerous Settings
arXiv:2607.16582v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In high-risk environments such as disaster response, situational awareness depends not only on detecting hazards…
GraspADMM: Improving Dexterous Grasp Synthesis via ADMM Optimization
arXiv:2603.13832v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Synthesizing high-quality dexterous grasps is a fundamental challenge in robot manipulation, requiring adher…
COLIP-2: Olfaction-Vision-Language Embeddings
arXiv:2607.17559v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Contrastive Olfaction-Language-Image Pre-training 2 (COLIP-2) model is a multimodal embeddings space that pl…
VersualRL: Closed-Loop Verbal Reinforcement Learning with Visual Execution Feedback for Task-Level Robot Planning
arXiv:2603.22169v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce VersualRL, a closed-loop framework for task-level robot planning that uses visual execution fee…
SAGE: A Socially-Aware Generative Engine for Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Navigation
arXiv:2607.16619v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe and socially compliant navigation in open human-robot environments requires robots to reason about heteroge…
Back to the museum: Investigation of the acceptance of Android Andrea with and without emotion simulation in a museum
arXiv:2607.16428v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For a second time, the android robot Andrea was set up at a public museum in Germany for six consecutive days to…
Configuration-Induced Passive Self-Rotation for Perception-Enhanced Autonomous Flight
arXiv:2607.17646v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous flight in confined and cluttered environments is fundamentally limited by the restricted field of vie…
G2-Nav: Grounded and Guarded Vision-Language Costmaps for Robot Social Navigation
arXiv:2607.16956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Social navigation requires the robot to reason and respond in complex real-world environments. While recent work…
Depth-Regularized JEPA World Models Learn More Transferable Representations from Real Outdoor Robot Data
arXiv:2607.16314v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models, especially based on JEPA architectures, have been shown to learn robust dynamics of various envi…
Remote Awareness of Seafloor Images Collected by AUVs over Low-Bandwidth Communication Links
arXiv:2607.18013v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper introduces a method for real-time processing and transmission of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV…
Optimization of sim-to-real transfer in the humanoid robot NICO
arXiv:2607.18210v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic grasping requires accurate coordination between visual perception, object localization, inverse kinemati…
GeoWorldAD: Geometry World Action Model for Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607.17521v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving requires both safe and efficient planning decisions in dynamic 3D environments. Although rece…
RoboHarness: Memory-Driven Orchestration of Heterogeneous Robot Policies for Long-Horizon Planning
arXiv:2607.18060v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon robotic tasks require diverse capabilities that no single policy can reliably provide. Heterogeneou…
SoMA: A Real-to-Sim Neural Simulator for Robotic Soft-body Manipulation
arXiv:2602.02402v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Simulating deformable objects under rich interactions remains a fundamental challenge for real-to-sim robot …