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3285 storiesEA-WM: Event-Aware World Models with Task-Specification Grounding for Long-Horizon Manipulation
arXiv:2606.13053v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained-feature world models provide a useful substrate for robot imagination, but visual or latent predictio…
WT-UMI: Tactile-based Whole-Body Manipulation via Force-Supervised Contact-Aware Planning
arXiv:2606.13232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Whole-body humanoid manipulation of bulky, deformable, and shared-load objects requires distributed contact sens…
MCR-Bionic Hand: Anatomical Structural Priors for Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv:2606.13601v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous robotic hands are usually formulated as high dimensional active control systems governed by degrees of…
MaskWAM: Unifying Mask Prompting and Prediction for World-Action Models
arXiv:2606.13515v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) present a promising paradigm for robotic control via video prediction. However, cur…
LabVLA: Grounding Vision-Language-Action Models in Scientific Laboratories
arXiv:2606.13578v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientific laboratories increasingly rely on AI systems to reason about experiments, but the physical act of d…
Learning Robot Safety from Sparse Human Feedback using Conformal Prediction
arXiv:2501.04823v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Ensuring robot safety can be challenging; user-defined constraints can miss edge cases, policies can become …
$\texttt{WEAVER}$, Better, Faster, Longer: An Effective World Model for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2606.13672v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The potential impacts of world models (WMs, i.e., learned simulators) on robotics are far-reaching -- policy eva…
NavWAM: A Navigation World Action Model for Goal-Conditioned Visual Navigation
arXiv:2606.13494v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Goal-conditioned visual navigation requires a robot to act under partial observability by anticipating how its m…
Humor Style Drives Laughter, Topic Shapes Acceptability: Evaluating Bilingual Personal and Political Robot-Delivered AI Jokes
arXiv:2606.13256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humor plays a central role in human social relationships, and recent advances in computational humor create new …
Embedding ISO 10218 Safety Compliance in Robots via Control Barrier Functions for Human-Robot Collaboration
arXiv:2606.13203v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) requires strict adherence to safety standards, such as ISO 10218, to prevent har…
SERF: Spatiotemporal Environment and Robot Feature Map for Long-Horizon Mobile Manipulation
arXiv:2606.12956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon robot mobile manipulation requires continual reasoning about localization, environment changes, and…
Bounding Boxes as Goals: Language-Conditioned Grasping via Neuro-Symbolic Planning
arXiv:2606.12910v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For robotics to be effectively integrated into household or industrial environments, machines must adapt to natu…
EgoEngine: From Egocentric Human Videos to High-Fidelity Dexterous Robot Demonstrations
arXiv:2606.12604v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous manipulation is limited by the cost of collecting large-scale robot demonstrations. Egocentric human v…
SCALE: Self-uncertainty Conditioned Adaptive Looking and Execution for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2602.04208v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising paradigm for general-purpose robotic control…
Adaptive-Horizon Conflict-Based Search for Closed-Loop Multi-Agent Path Finding
arXiv:2602.12024v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: MAPF is a core coordination problem for large robot fleets in automated warehouses and logistics. Existing a…
AssemLM: A Spatial Reasoning Multimodal Large Language Model for Robotic Assembly
arXiv:2604.08983v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Spatial reasoning is a fundamental capability for embodied intelligence, especially for fine-grained manipul…
From Digital to Physical: Digital Agents as Autonomous Coaches for Physical Intelligence
arXiv:2601.21570v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The field of Embodied AI is witnessing a rapid evolution toward general-purpose robotic systems, fuele…
Action-Effect Memory Pretraining for Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2606.12499v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present AEM, an Action-Effect Memory pretraining framework for robot manipulation that learns compact tempora…
EgoMoD: Predicting Global Maps of Dynamics from Local Egocentric Observations
arXiv:2603.00167v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Efficient navigation in dynamic environments requires anticipating how motion patterns evolve beyond the rob…
Miniature Testbed for Validating Multi-Agent Cooperative Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2511.11022v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Cooperative autonomous driving, which extends vehicle autonomy by enabling real-time collaboration between v…
GLIDE: A Coordinated Aerial-Ground Framework for Search and Rescue in Unknown Environments
arXiv:2509.14210v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present a cooperative aerial-ground search-and-rescue (SAR) framework that pairs two unmanned aerial vehi…
Data-Driven Soft Robot Control via Adiabatic Spectral Submanifolds
arXiv:2503.10919v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The mechanical complexity of soft robots creates significant challenges for their model-based control. Speci…
GAE: Unleashing Physical Potential of VLM with Generalizable Action Expert
arXiv:2510.03896v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models demonstrate strong reasoning and planning abilities, yet grounding these predic…
Safety Case Patterns for VLA-based driving systems: Insights from SimLingo
arXiv:2603.16013v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA)-based driving systems represent a significant paradigm shift in autonomous driv…
Lyapunov-Based PI-Like Control for Robust Trajectory Tracking of a Four-Wheel Independently Driven and Steered Robot: Design and Experimental Validation
arXiv:2602.15424v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this paper, a Lyapunov-based synthesis of a PI-like controller is proposed for robust trajectory tracking…
Learning Visually Interpretable Oscillator Networks for Soft Continuum Robots from Video
arXiv:2511.18322v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning soft continuum robot (SCR) dynamics from video offers flexibility but existing methods lack interpr…
Adaptive Model-Predictive Control of a Soft Continuum Robot Using a Physics-Informed Neural Network Based on Cosserat Rod Theory
arXiv:2508.12681v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Dynamic control of soft continuum robots (SCRs) holds great potential for expanding their applications, but …
Heterogeneous LiDAR Early Fusion and Learned Re-Ranking Strategy for Robust Long-Term Place Recognition in Unstructured Environments
arXiv:2606.13503v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust localization in unstructured environments, such as agricultural fields, is a critical challenge for aut…
Diffusion Transformer World-Action Model for AV Scene Prediction
arXiv:2606.12987v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Action-conditioned world models let an autonomous vehicle predict future camera scenes from its own planned co…
SemanticXR: Low Power and Real-time Queryable Semantic Mapping with an Object-Level Device-Cloud Architecture
arXiv:2606.12849v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic mapping is a core service that enables grounded interactions in emerging Extended Reality (XR) applic…