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Frontier robotics research: arXiv cs.RO papers, embodied AI, VLA models, manipulation, navigation and learning systems.
Frontier robotics research: arXiv cs.RO papers, embodied AI, VLA models, manipulation, navigation and learning systems.
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6171 storiesNavSafe-$\infty$: Benchmarking Closed-Loop Driving Safety in Photorealistic Environments
arXiv:2609.26618v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end (E2E) driving policies have progressed rapidly on open-loop (OL) benchmarks, yet OL evaluation cannot…
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. …
Unleashing the Agility of Wheeled-Legged Robots for High-Dynamic Reflexive Obstacle Evasion
arXiv:2604.23761v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Wheeled-legged robots combine the efficiency of rolling with the adaptability of legged locomotion, offering…
HazardArena: Evaluating Semantic Safety in Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2604.12447v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models inherit rich world knowledge from vision-language backbones and acquire …
Expanding the Workspace of Electromagnetic Navigation Systems Using Dynamic Feedback for Single- and Multi-agent Control
arXiv:2511.18486v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Electromagnetic navigation systems (eMNS) enable a number of magnetically guided surgical procedures. A chal…
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 …
MATES: Learning Multi-Agent Interactions by Transforming Observations for Frozen Single-Agent Policies
arXiv:2609.26010v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) commonly trains decentralized policies from scratch, requiring agent…
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…
Benchmarking Robots for Everyday Environments: From Lab Experiments to Real-World Operations
arXiv:2609.26490v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study introduces an interdisciplinary framework for benchmarking robots deployed in public environments, ad…
SparseNav: Instruction-conditioned Sparse Semantic Perception for Training-Free Vision-Language Navigation
arXiv:2609.26408v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Map-based vision-language navigation (VLN) relies on persistent spatial representations to connect language unde…
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…
Manipulation with Stability Guarantees: Linear Deformable Objects with Non-negligible Physical Response Grasped at Multiple Location
arXiv:2609.26004v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most research on the manipulation of deformable objects focuses on lightweight systems with negligible mechanica…
Destination Support Restoration for Finite-Set Multimodal Trajectory Prediction
arXiv:2609.25942v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots operating around pedestrians often reason over a finite set of predicted human futures. Repeated online u…
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…
Cosserat Modeling of Trimmed Helicoid Soft Arms with a Separated-Section Constitutive Law
arXiv:2609.25264v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cosserat rod models for soft robots usually construct sectional stiffness by summing material properties over a …
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…
JAMB: Joint Action-Motion Diffusion for Bimanual Manipulation
arXiv:2609.25322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coordinated bimanual manipulation is challenging because the motion of either arm can alter the shared 3D scene …
GINIO: A Geometric SO(3)-Equivariant Interface for Neural Inertial Odometry
arXiv:2609.25338v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural inertial odometry increasingly uses networks as learned measurements inside filtering pipelines. Such mea…
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…
Angular momentum analysis on Karate roundhouse kicks: a longitudinal case study
arXiv:2609.25374v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human gait in reality extends beyond straight-line walking, with some situations even requiring drastic back-and…
PARTE: Plane-Assisted Robust Transformation Estimation for Point Cloud Registration
arXiv:2609.25375v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Global point-cloud registration remains challenging when limited overlap, repetitive geometry, and sensor noise …
VLAQuantBench: Closed-Loop Evaluation of Post-Training Quantization for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2609.25376v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training quantization reduces the memory requirements of vision-language-action (VLA) models, but precision…
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…
Effects of Assistance Delay on Joint Mechanics and Energetics in Biological Torque Control of a Hip Exoskeleton
arXiv:2609.25417v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biological torque control directly maps an estimated human joint moment to exoskeleton assistance, providing a t…
REDACT: Robust Perceptive Locomotion under Unseen Visual Corruption
arXiv:2609.25450v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Depth-conditioned locomotion policies have demonstrated impressive agile maneuvers, but can be steered to unpred…
A bioinspired internal model-based online estimator for planar pursuit
arXiv:2609.25470v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bioinspired feedback controls for pursuit, tracking, and collective motion are often expressed in terms of the r…