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Frontier robotics research: arXiv cs.RO papers, embodied AI, VLA models, manipulation, navigation and learning systems.
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Why robotics teams need virtual gyms before deployment
To address environmental and task variability, robots can benefit from 'virtual gyms' to bridge the sim-to-real gap, says SoftServe. The post Why robotics teams…
XTEND secures U.S. patent for autonomous navigation technology
XTEND said the newly granted patent expands its portfolio supporting autonomous navigation, operator assistance, and mission execution. The post XTEND secures U…
How Path Robotics uses AI to optimize robotic welding
CEO Andy Lonsberry explains how Path Robotics applies AI to welding, and UC San Diego professor Michael Yip discusses robot learning. The post How Path Robotics…
FastTrack: GPU-Accelerated Tracking for Visual SLAM
arXiv:2509.10757v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The tracking module of a visual-inertial SLAM system processes incoming image frames and IMU data to estimat…
ZAPS-DA: Zero-Phase Action Policy Smoothing with Decoupled Actor for Continuous Control in Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2605.30612v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Continuous control policies trained with off-policy reinforcement learning frequently exhibit high-frequency…
BiNoMaP: Learning Category-Level Bimanual Non-Prehensile Manipulation Primitives
arXiv:2509.21256v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Non-prehensile manipulation, encompassing ungraspable actions such as pushing, poking, pivoting, and wrappin…
TFP: Temporally Conditioned Memory-Fusion Policies for Visuomotor Learning
arXiv:2607.08283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision--Language--Action (VLA) policies such as $\pi_{0.5}$ and OpenVLA perform well on many manipulation tasks,…
OREN: Octree Residual Network for Real-Time Euclidean Signed Distance Mapping
arXiv:2510.18999v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reconstructing signed distance functions (SDFs) from point cloud data benefits many robot autonomy capabilit…
SkillPlug: Unsupervised Skill Mining for Few-Shot Adaptation in Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.08354v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning transferable visuomotor imitation policies that generalize across diverse manipulation tasks and adapt …
Factors Influencing Conversational Engagement in Robot-Delivered Individual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (iCST) for Dementia in Home Settings
arXiv:2607.07998v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Social robots offer a promising means of supporting cognitive therapies for dementia care by guiding structured …
EVIS: A Physics-Grounded Event Camera Plugin for NVIDIA Isaac Sim
arXiv:2607.08098v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Event cameras offer microsecond temporal resolution, low latency, and high dynamic range, making them attracti…
INTENT: An LSTM Framework for Vehicle Intention Prediction in Intersection Scenarios with Comprehensive Ablation Analysis
arXiv:2607.08316v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vehicle intention prediction is a pivotal aspect in the agility and safety of autonomous vehicles in all drivi…
StreamVLN: Streaming Vision-and-Language Navigation via SlowFast Context Modeling
arXiv:2507.05240v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) in real-world settings requires agents to process continuous visual str…
V-VLAPS: Value-Guided Planning for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2601.00969v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models provide strong action priors for robotic manipulation, but their reactiv…
APIVOT: Adaptive Planning with Interleaved Vision-Language Thoughts
arXiv:2607.08024v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon robot planning requires jointly reasoning over semantic task structure and geometric feasibility.…
Latent Memory Palace: Reasoning for Control as Autoregressive Variational Inference
arXiv:2607.08724v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human decision-making is highly flexible -- some actions are taken immediately; others require longer delibera…
TriphiBot: A Triphibious Robot Combining FOC-based Propulsion with Eccentric Design
arXiv:2602.01385v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Triphibious robots capable of multi-domain motion and cross-domain transitions are promising to handle compl…
FunHOI: Annotation-Free 3D Hand-Object Interaction Generation via Functional Text Guidance
arXiv:2502.20805v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Hand-object interaction(HOI) is the fundamental link between human and environment, yet its dexterous and co…
Input-Constrained Spatiotemporal Tubes for Safe Navigation of Unknown Euler-Lagrange Systems in Dynamic Environments
arXiv:2607.08189v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safe navigation in dynamic environments is challenging when system dynamics are unknown and actuator inputs ar…
AnyDexRT: Calibration-Free Dexterous Hand Retargeting with Few-Shot Human Guidance
arXiv:2607.08341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Teleoperation is a key interface for controlling dexterous robotic hands and collecting demonstrations for imita…
A Collaborative Reasoning Framework for Anomaly Diagnostics in Underwater Robotics
arXiv:2511.03075v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The safe deployment of autonomous systems in safety-critical settings requires a paradigm that combines huma…
Design optimization and robustness analysis of rigid-link flapping mechanisms
arXiv:2503.21204v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Rigid link flapping mechanisms remain the most practical choice for flapping wing micro-aerial vehicles (MAV…
ARDY: Autoregressive Diffusion with Hybrid Representation for Interactive Human Motion Generation
arXiv:2607.08741v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generating realistic 3D human motions in real-time within interactive applications is key for animation, simul…
Native Video-Action Pretraining for Generalizable Robot Control
arXiv:2607.08639v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The advent of video-action models offers a promising path for robot control. Nevertheless, we argue that repurpo…
Towards Soft Robotic Exogloves for Musculoskeletal Manipulation to Reduce Pain and Spasticity
arXiv:2607.07958v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hand spasticity and resulting pain affect 12 million people worldwide, including stroke survivors, arthritis pat…
EgoWAM: World Action Models Beyond Pixels with In-the-Wild Egocentric Human Data
arXiv:2607.08436v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Egocentric human data offers scalable supervision for robot manipulation. However, behavior cloning entangles tr…
Early to Share, Late to Save: Synchronisation-Driven Communication Gating in Bandwidth-Constrained Cooperative VLN
arXiv:2607.08504v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most cooperative Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) methods assume unlimited communication, not considering real…
SASGeo: Stability-Aware Semantic Map Localization for GNSS-Denied UAVs -- A Framework and Synthetic Proof of Concept
arXiv:2607.07737v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: GNSS-denied unmanned aerial vehicles require occasional absolute position fixes to bound the drift of visual-ine…
Monocular Vision Based Control Framework for Grasping
arXiv:2607.07897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Grasping in unstructured environments requires handling objects with widely different mechanical properties, fro…
In vivo feasibility study of humanoid robots in surgery
arXiv:2607.07972v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in actuation, control and learning have rapidly pushed humanoid robots from a distant vision tow…