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Frontier robotics research: arXiv cs.RO papers, embodied AI, VLA models, manipulation, navigation and learning systems.
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6171 storiesSaturation-Aware Robust Trajectory Optimization for Reusable Launch Vehicles via Differentiable Physics
arXiv:2607.09736v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The high-angle-of-attack flip maneuver of reusable launch vehicles presents significant challenges for robust tr…
SanDRA: Safe Large-Language-Model-Based Decision Making for Automated Vehicles Using Reachability Analysis
arXiv:2510.06717v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have been widely applied to knowledge-driven decision-making for automated vehi…
Coverage Path Planning: Classical Foundations, Recent Advances, and Future Directions
arXiv:2607.10649v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coverage path planning (CPP) is a fundamental problem in robot motion planning, whose aim is to produce robot tr…
CSI-Assisted Edge SLAM Testbed Platform for 5G Connected Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles
arXiv:2607.10394v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The evolution from 5G towards 6G reinforces interest in connected robotics, where mobile robots offload comput…
Maximizing Human Efficiency in Large-Scale Robot Post-Training via VLAC-Cut Guided Pipeline
arXiv:2607.09776v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When adapting Vision Language Action (VLA) models to downstream tasks, multiple rounds of post training are requ…
Automated Synthesis of Facial Mechanisms for Conversational Animatronic Robots
arXiv:2607.11688v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Animatronic faces are a central component of socially interactive robots, enabling rich nonverbal communication …
Hierarchical and Holistic Open-Vocabulary Functional 3D Scene Graphs for Indoor Spaces
arXiv:2605.15753v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Functional 3D scene graphs offer a versatile and flexible representation for 3D scene understanding and robo…
Towards Online Robot Interaction Adaptation to Human Upper-limb Mobility Impairments in Return-to-Work Scenarios
arXiv:2510.05425v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Work environments are often inadequate and lack inclusivity for individuals with upper-body disabilities. Th…
Active Noise Floor Estimation for Reliability-Optimal POMDPs: A Value-of-Noise-Information Approach
arXiv:2607.11822v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Finite Reliability Representations (FRR) certify when a cell-constant policy is sufficient for reliable decisi…
PinFT: Miniature 5-Axis Force/Torque Sensor Embeddable to Tweezer-like Tool
arXiv:2607.10000v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present PinFT, a miniature five-axis capacitive force/torque sensor designed for direct tip-level integration…
NeuralActuator: Neural Actuation Modeling for Robot Dynamics and External Force Perception
arXiv:2607.11734v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Differentiable simulators have advanced policy learning and model-based control, yet actuator dynamics remain an…
IntentVLA: Short-Horizon Intent Modeling for Aliased Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2605.14712v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robot imitation data are often multimodal: similar visual-language observations may be followed by different…
CR-Solver: GPU-Accelerated Kinematics Solver for Tendon-driven Continuum Robots
arXiv:2607.11340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuum robots provide intrinsic compliance, high dexterity, and safe physical interaction, enabling navigatio…
AutoPath: Learning Transferable Goal-Conditioned Stochastic Path Prior for Safe Navigation Without Human Demonstrations
arXiv:2607.11739v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time navigation in cluttered and dynamic environments requires collision-free and dynamically feasible moti…
Event-RGB Adaptive Tracking for Nighttime Highway Perception
arXiv:2607.11646v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Intelligent Transportation Systems deployed on highways predominantly rely on conventional RGB cameras for tra…
MotuBrain: An Advanced World Action Model for Robot Control
arXiv:2604.27792v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models generalize semantically well but often lack fine-grained modeling of wor…
Traj-VLN: Learning Pixel-Space Interaction via Autoregressive Trajectory Generation
arXiv:2607.10744v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Benefiting from the powerful priors embedded in large-scale pre-training data and the emerging commonsense rea…
Requirement-Driven Design of Whole-Body Social Tactile Sensing via Virtual Human-Robot Interaction
arXiv:2607.11690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tactile sensing for social-physical human-robot interaction (spHRI) is designed in a hardware-driven manner, whe…
Simple Recipe Works: Vision-Language-Action Models are Natural Continual Learners with Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2603.11653v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Continual Reinforcement Learning (CRL) for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models is a promising directio…
Label-Free Target-Domain Adaptation for Unconstrained Event-Image Feature Matching via Dual-Stage Distillation
arXiv:2607.10082v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Building pixel-level correspondence between event and image data is a fundamental task for multi-sensor system…
IBPA: Real-time Free-form Manifold Mesh Reconstruction via Incremental Ball Pivoting with Integrated Hole Detection
arXiv:2607.11627v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Both Remotely Operated underwater Vehicles (ROVs) and Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are frequently dep…
Soft Eversion Robots for Colonoscopy: Challenges, Open Problems, and Emerging Solutions
arXiv:2607.10294v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional colonoscopy remains limited by patient discomfort and procedural risks, motivating research into co…
RASR: Range-Aware Scale Recovery for Metric UAV Navigation
arXiv:2607.09815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Under Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) denial, a UAV controller still needs a distance and heading comm…
Large Language Model Enhanced Differentiable Trajectory Planning for IoT-Enabled Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607.10438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving planning is a key component of IoT-enabled intelligent transportation systems, requiring vehi…
DA-Nav: Direction-Aware City-Scale Vision-Language Navigation
arXiv:2607.11638v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: City-scale outdoor navigation is currently hindered by the heavy reliance on dense maps or costly navigation sup…
From Sketch Prior to Trajectories: A Mission-Oriented Coordinated Navigation Framework for Indoor UAV Swarm
arXiv:2607.11386v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: UAV swarm for applications, such as indoor inspection, security patrol, and logistics delivery, are often missio…
Learning to Navigate Efficiently with Only 0.58M Trainable Parameters
arXiv:2607.11029v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent progress in visual navigation has largely been driven by scale: end-to-end policies with hundreds of mill…
Pickalo: Leveraging 6D Pose Estimation for Low-Cost Industrial Bin Picking
arXiv:2604.04690v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Bin picking in real industrial environments remains challenging due to severe clutter, occlusions, and the h…
On the Efficiency of LoRA Fine-Tuning for Vision-Language-Action Models in Industrial Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.10172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying billion-parameter Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models on industrial hardware requires fine-tuning to b…
Can we Trust Unreliable Voxels? Exploring 3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction under Label Noise
arXiv:2603.06279v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: 3D semantic occupancy prediction is a cornerstone of robotic perception, yet real-world voxel annotati…