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4147 storiesD-SafeMPC: Diffusion-Driven Safe Model Predictive Control with Discrete-Time Control Barrier Functions
arXiv:2607.10842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A key limitation on the use of diffusion models in robotic planning is their inability to inherently enforce saf…
A Risk-Field Enhanced Closed-Loop Digital Twin Framework for Autonomous Driving Safety Validation
arXiv:2607.09772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving systems require reliable safety validation before real-world deployment. However, large-scale…
VehAnchor: Metadata-Free Metric Scale Recovery from Vehicle Cues in Aerial Imagery
arXiv:2603.04277v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous aerial robots operating in GPS-denied or communication-degraded environments frequently lose acce…
Closed-Loop Control with Rule-Aligned Small Language Models and Multi-Agent Self-Correction
arXiv:2607.09713v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A key step toward autonomous industrial operation is the ability to create and reconfigure control policies fr…
CoRL-MPPI: Enhancing MPPI With Learnable Behaviours For Efficient And Provably-Safe Multi-Robot Collision Avoidance
arXiv:2511.09331v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Decentralized collision avoidance is a core challenge for scalable multi-robot systems. A promising approach…
From Non-Rigid to Rigid: Safe Acquisition of Rigid Communication Graphs under Limited Sensing
arXiv:2607.10170v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Communication graph rigidity is a fundamental requirement in many multi robot formation control approaches. Howe…
Towards Predictive, Aligned, and Scalable Robot Learning
arXiv:2607.11270v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning, at its core, extends beyond memorization to the ability to reason and solve novel problems by navigati…
TAC-LOCO: Unified Whole-Body Control for Quadrupedal TACtile-Informed LOCO-Manipulation
arXiv:2607.10132v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dynamic loco-manipulation requires legged robots to coordinate whole-body motion while maintaining stable physic…
Action Map Policy: Learning 3D Closed-loop Manipulation via Pixel Classification
arXiv:2607.10706v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The action space poses a major challenge in robot learning, since it is often high-dimensional, can span long ti…
Mixture of Frames Policy: Multi-Frame Action Denoising for Bimanual Mobile Manipulation
arXiv:2607.11884v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic manipulation is inherently multi-frame: local actions may be simple in an end-effector frame, while tran…
EgoSteer: A Full-Stack System Towards Steerable Dexterous Manipulation from Egocentric Videos
arXiv:2607.09701v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Steerability is a defining capability of generalist robot policies, yet remains largely absent in dexterous-hand…
Learning Roller-Skating Motions of Humanoid Robots Based on Adversarial Motion Priors
arXiv:2607.10815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid roller-skating is difficult because the robot must coordinate whole-body balance, rolling contacts, and…
Whole-Body Semantic-to-Actuation Grounding of Elephant-Inspired Soft-Trunk Motion via Lightweight Flow Matching
arXiv:2607.11018v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For close-contact human-robot interaction (HRI), trunk-like continuum manipulators provide a physical channel fo…
BucketKD: A Safety-Aware Bucket-Based Knowledge Distillation Framework for End-to-End Motion Planning
arXiv:2607.10565v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end motion planning has emerged as a promising paradigm in autonomous driving, directly mapping raw senso…
XR-1: Towards Versatile Vision-Language-Action Models via Learning Unified Vision-Motion Representations
arXiv:2511.02776v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent progress in large-scale robotic datasets and vision-language models (VLMs) has advanced research on v…
PrismAD: Decoupled Planning via Semantic Mixture-of-Planners for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607.10336v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This letter presents PrismAD, a decoupled end-to-end autonomous driving framework based on a Semantic Mixture-of…
Wearing A Coat: Dual-Arm Robot-Assisted Dressing with Differentiable Clothing Simulation
arXiv:2607.10999v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The development of assistive robots for dressing tasks serves to augment human convenience and improve the quali…
Breaking the 15% Barrier: A Real-World Data-Driven System for Proactive Social Robot Triggered by User Nonverbal Cues
arXiv:2607.11633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Service robots in retail stores increasingly rely on cascaded speech pipelines (STT-LLM-TTS), yet many customer-…
Autonomous Close-Proximity Photovoltaic Panel Coating Using a Quadcopter
arXiv:2509.10979v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Photovoltaic (PV) panels are becoming increasingly widespread in the domain of renewable energy, and thus, s…
World Models as Adversaries: Multi-Agent Self-Play Fine-Tuning for Robust Motion Planning
arXiv:2607.10630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust motion planning in dense traffic requires autonomous vehicles to interact in rare and safety-critical sce…
A Model for Mediating Multi-Modal Human Intent into Safe Maneuvers for UAVs
arXiv:2607.11654v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Direct human interaction with autonomous UAV systems can be enabled through modalities such as speech, gestures,…
VINE: Taming Generative Control Policies for Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607.10369v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow-matching policies have emerged as an effective policy parameterization for robot learning. They iteratively…
Trajectory Planning and Certification for 3-DOF Robot Manipulators Using Real Quantifier Elimination Based on Comprehensive Gr\"obner Systems
arXiv:2607.11657v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose an algorithm and its implementation for trajectory planning and certification for 3-DOF robot manipul…
Distributionally Robust Control via Stein Variational Inference for Contact-Rich Manipulation
arXiv:2605.19029v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reliable robotic manipulation requires control policies that can accurately represent and adapt to uncertain…
A Minimalist Retargeting-Guided Reinforcement Learning Recipe for Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv:2607.11874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work in humanoid whole-body control has found success with a simple recipe: retarget human motion to robo…
LLM-Centric Agentic AI for UAV Swarms: Architecture, Enabling Technologies, and Open Problems
arXiv:2607.09756v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms have significant potential for applications such as Search and Rescue (SAR)…
Casting Everything to Online API Services? A Survey of Integrating Localized Speech Recognition Models in Robotic Systems
arXiv:2607.11792v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has become a critical component of modern robotic systems because it is one o…
Ondas acquires DZYNE for $875.8M, expanding its defense capabilities
DZYNE Technologies specializes in long-endurance autonomous aircraft, counter-drone systems, and autonomous effects. The post Ondas acquires DZYNE for $875.8M, …
Yaskawa America gets information security certification
Yaskawa America said that independent ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification shows its focus on protecting customer information. The post Yaskawa America gets informa…
The Robot Report parent company, WTWH Media, rebrands as Arrowfly
The Arrowfly name unifies more than 40 brands under a new identity built for the future of B2B content and events. The post The Robot Report parent company, WTW…