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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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3583 storiesCableRobotGraphSim: A Graph Neural Network for Modeling Partially Observable Cable-Driven Robot Dynamics
arXiv:2602.21331v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: General-purpose simulators have accelerated the development of robots. Traditional simulators based on first…
Going with the Flow: Koopman Behavioral Models as Pseudo Planners for Visuo-Motor Dexterity
arXiv:2602.07413v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Contemporary visuo-motor dexterity models often rely on expressive policy classes with diffusion and transfo…
Scalable and General Whole-Body Control for Cross-Humanoid Locomotion
arXiv:2602.05791v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning-based whole-body controllers have become a key driver for humanoid robots, yet most existing approa…
Goal-oriented Communication for Fast and Robust Robotic Fault Detection and Recovery
arXiv:2601.18765v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous robotic systems are widely deployed in smart factories and operate in dynamic, uncertain, and hum…
Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for Vehicle Platoons with State-Dependent Friction Uncertainty
arXiv:2601.10724v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-robot formation control has various applications in domains such as vehicle troops, platoons, payload …
ObjSplat: Geometry-Aware Gaussian Surfels for Active Object Reconstruction
arXiv:2601.06997v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous high-fidelity object reconstruction is fundamental for creating digital assets and bridging the s…
Model-Based Diffusion Sampling for Predictive Control in Offline Decision Making
arXiv:2512.08280v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Offline decision-making via diffusion models often produces trajectories that are misaligned with system dyn…
MIND-V: Hierarchical World Model for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation with RL-based Physical Alignment
arXiv:2512.06628v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scalable embodied intelligence is constrained by the scarcity of diverse, long-horizon robotic manipulation …
EM-Fall: Embodied mmWave Sensing for Day-and-Night Fall Detection on Humanoid Robots
arXiv:2606.11109v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Falls are one of the leading causes of injury and hospitalization among elderly individuals, making reliable fal…
Dexterous Point Policy: Learning Point-based Dexterous Hand Policies from Human Demonstrations
arXiv:2606.10614v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic foundation models pre-trained on human demonstration videos have shown promise, but a significant embodi…
Act on What You See: Unlocking Safe Social Navigation in Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2606.10495v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe social navigation requires robots to distinguish people from ordinary obstacles and to react before danger …
AgenticNav: Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation as a Tool-Calling Harness
arXiv:2606.10577v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Zero-shot vision-and-language navigation in continuous environments (VLN-CE) has recently become feasible with l…