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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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6273 storiesWhen Obstacles Bend: Modeling Vegetation Deformation in the context of Field Robotics
arXiv:2608.26050v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous robots operating in natural environments must often interact with vegetation rather than simply avoid…
VISTA: Visually Inferred Spatial ConTact Attention for Contact-Rich Manipulation
arXiv:2608.25872v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact-rich manipulation requires precise interaction feedback. While vision-centric imitation learning is prev…
MA-VLA: Multi-Arm Vision-Language-Action Model for Collaboration and Compositional Generalization
arXiv:2608.25864v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-arm collaboration is becoming a core capability in embodied manipulation. Recent vision-language-action (V…
Anytime Global Tensor Motion Planning
arXiv:2608.25830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Global Tensor Motion Planning (GTMP) solves motion planning with batched tensor operations over a layered multip…
AGRO-Nav: Autonomous Graph-based Orchard Navigation
arXiv:2608.25799v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Orchards form semi-structured environments in which parallel tree rows create natural driving corridors, yet nar…
Advantage-Driven Explicit Memory for Social Navigation
arXiv:2608.25610v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot policies are predominantly learned with classical parametric variants of imitation learning or RL, where t…
ConfAL-WM: Confidence-Guided Active Learning for Action-Conditioned World Models
arXiv:2608.25572v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action-conditioned world models have become an important foundation for embodied prediction, planning, and synth…
Dynamic Modeling of a Welding Torch Umbilical and Its Impact on Robot Dynamics
arXiv:2608.25509v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic welding is widely used in industrial manufacturing, where the welding torch is often connected to the ge…
SUPER ODOMETRY 2.0: Resilient Odometry via Hierarchical Adaptation
arXiv:2608.25427v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Resilient and robust odometry is crucial for autonomous systems operating in complex and dynamic environments. E…
LAC: Linear and Angular Compliance for Humanoid Whole-body Control
arXiv:2608.25405v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world humanoid tasks involve physical interaction with objects and humans, yet current controllers either r…
CRESSim-Neo: A Batched GPU Simulation Engine for Surgical Robotics and Robot Learning
arXiv:2608.25192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce CRESSim-Neo, a batched GPU simulation engine for surgical robotics and robot learning. CRESSim-Neo …
Longitudinal Robot Learning from Demonstration with Care Providers in a Home Environment
arXiv:2608.25196v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning from demonstration (LfD) methods enable non-expert end users to teach robots novel skills without expli…
Control-Oriented Learning for Dynamic Tracking and Stability Analysis of Soft Pneumatic Actuators
arXiv:2608.25171v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft pneumatic actuators offer inherent compliance and safe interaction but remain difficult to model and contro…
Sequential Object Placement Optimization with Convex Decomposition
arXiv:2608.25162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic object packing has been a core challenge for robotic deployment in logistics, industry, etc., due to the…
SkyDrive: Learning to Drive in a New City from Aerial Traffic Monitoring
arXiv:2608.25142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving has made remarkable progress through imitation learning with massive human demonstration data…
Extending Ground-Constraint LiDAR-IMU Calibration to Tilted Surfaces in a Continuous-Time Framework
arXiv:2608.25135v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a novel method that extends targetless LiDAR-IMU calibration for ground vehicles to non- fla…
Towards safe and optimal flight: Viability Kernel MPC for Fully Actuated Multirotor
arXiv:2608.25459v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial aerial robotics demands safety guarantees for navigation in unstructured environments while optimizin…
Latent Chain-of-Thought World Modeling for End-to-End Driving
arXiv:2512.10226v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for autonomous driving explore inference-time reasoning as …
Regularized Latent Dynamics Prediction is a Strong Baseline For Behavioral Foundation Models
arXiv:2603.15857v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Behavioral Foundation Models (BFMs) produce agents with the capability to adapt to any unknown reward …
Minimalist Visual Inertial Odometry
arXiv:2605.19990v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO), which is critical to mobile robot navigation, uses cameras with a large numb…
UNRIO: Uncertainty-Aware Velocity Learning for Radar-Inertial Odometry
arXiv:2604.13584v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: mmWave radars are robust to darkness and occlusions such as dust and smoke, and can directly constrain ego-v…
Scene2Demo: Self-Evolving Embodied Data Generation via Object-Action Graph
arXiv:2602.12065v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present Scene2Demo, a self-evolving framework for offline embodied data generation. Given a single real-w…
MI-SLAM: Magnetic Inertial SLAM Systems
arXiv:2512.10128v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Spatially inhomogeneous magnetic fields offer a valuable, non-visual information source for positioning. Amo…
Choose Your Game Wisely: Measuring Game-Theoretic Structures in Real-World Vehicle Interactions
arXiv:2608.25917v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Game-theoretic models provide principled frameworks for modeling vehicle interactions, but their underlying te…
Saliency-Depth Conditioning for Zero-Shot Segmentation of Communication-Tower Components in Cluttered UAV Imagery
arXiv:2608.25435v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-grained segmentation of communication-tower components in UAV imagery is essential for automated inspecti…
PhaseShift: Topology-Aware Data Harmonization and Model Consolidation Across Signalized Intersections
arXiv:2608.25275v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learned traffic-behavior models are commonly trained separately for each intersection, creating model portfoli…
Zero-WAM: In-Context World-Action Modeling from Human Videos for Open-Ended Task Generalization
arXiv:2608.26103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Zero-shot cross-task generalization, where a policy must execute manipulation tasks never seen during training, …
Fast Generative Grasping via Lie Group-Constrained MeanFlow
arXiv:2608.26076v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Grasp synthesis is a core task in robotic manipulation, for which the solution typically forms a multimodal dist…
Phantom Navigator: Stealthy and Precise Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Redirection with Real-Time Tracking and GPS Spoofing
arXiv:2608.26011v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Redirecting unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from their intended mission trajectories has been an active area of …
A Statistical Audit of Physical AI Benchmark Redundancy
arXiv:2608.25940v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical AI models are evaluated on suites of benchmarks that differ across model reports, leaving the model-by-…