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3285 storiesBridging Semantics and Physical Execution: A Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Multi-Pair Robotic Assembly
arXiv:2606.10808v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-pair robotic assembly in unstructured environments faces spatial interference and contact uncertainties. E…
ros2probe: Non-intrusive, Kernel-selective Observability for Robot Operating System 2 Middleware
arXiv:2606.10746v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2), the de facto standard middleware framework for robots, runs each robot as a gr…
Hand-centric Human-to-Robot Trajectory Transfer from Video Demonstrations via Open-World Contact Localization
arXiv:2606.10743v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning from human video demonstrations remains challenging due to noisy hand-object interactions, unseen objec…
Pushing the Performance Limits in Autonomous Racing: Continuous Stability-Aware Adaptive Velocity Planning in Formula Student Driverless
arXiv:2606.10733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In autonomous racing, especially in competitions such as Formula Student Driverless, precise planning of the tar…
Vehicle Prediction Model for Enhanced MPC Path Tracking in Formula Student Driverless
arXiv:2606.10732v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous race cars, such as in Formula Student Driverless, operate close to their physical handling limits. Th…
Self-Supervised Relevance Modelling in Autonomous Driving via Counterfactual Analysis
arXiv:2606.10688v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving relies on computationally intensive perception pipelines to continuously detect and track obj…
Planar-Sector LOS Guidance for Interception of Agile Targets with Lifting-Wing Quadcopters
arXiv:2606.10639v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous visual interception of agile aerial targets is challenging due to unpredictable target motion, limite…
VeriSpace: Spatially Grounded Action Verification for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2606.10568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown strong promise for robotic manipulation, but their reliability at…
Uncovering Vulnerability of Vision-Language-Action Models under Joint-Level Physical Faults
arXiv:2606.10501v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models in real robotic systems requires robustness not only to semantic a…
GuideWalk: Learning Unified Autonomous Navigation and Locomotion for Humanoid Robots across Versatile Terrains
arXiv:2606.10449v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots have achieved strong locomotion capabilities, but reliable navigation on versatile terrains rema…
UMI-Bench 1.0: An Open and Reproducible Real-World Benchmark for Tabletop Robotic Manipulation with UMI Data
arXiv:2606.10382v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-robot evaluation is essential for understanding whether learned manipulation policies can operate reliably …
Test-time Adversarial Takeover: A Real-time Hijacking Interface against Robotic Diffusion Policies
arXiv:2606.10371v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion-based action generation has become a foundational component of embodied AI, but its reliance on visual…
A Practical Recipe Towards Improving Sim-and-Real Correlation for VLA Evaluation
arXiv:2606.10366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulation has become an essential tool for evaluating and improving vision-language-action (VLA) policies, offe…
HiMem-WAM: Hierarchical Memory-Gated World Action Models for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2606.10363v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) have emerged as a new powerful paradigm for embodied intelligence, learning action-re…
OMG: Omni-Modal Motion Generation for Generalist Humanoid Control
arXiv:2606.10340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid whole-body control has made significant progress in recent years, yet existing approaches remain limite…
SARM2: Multi-Task Stage Aware Reward Modeling for Self Improving Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2606.10305v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuning vision-language-action (VLA) policies for long-horizon manipulation still relies heavily on behavior…
Hierarchical Policies from Verbal and Egocentric Human Signals for Natural Human-Robot Interaction
arXiv:2606.10276v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For natural human-robot interaction, a robot must understand human intent expressed not only through language bu…
Locomotion analysis of a quadruped interacting with the lunar granular surface
arXiv:2606.10273v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying legged robots in extra-terrestrial environments includes many challenges due to complex terrain intera…
What Matters in Orchestrating Robot Policies: A Systematic Study of Hierarchical VLA Agents
arXiv:2606.10267v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hierarchical vision-language-action (Hi-VLA) systems have emerged as a promising paradigm for complex robot mani…
Efficient-WAM: A 1B-Parameter World-Action Model with Low-Cost Future Imagination
arXiv:2606.10040v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World-Action Models (WAMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for embodied control by coupling future visual p…
Robotic Nonprehensile Object Transportation with a Hanging Tray
arXiv:2606.10039v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We consider the nonprehensile object transportation task known as the waiter's problem, in which a robot must mo…
GHOST: Hierarchical Sub-Goal Policies for Generalizing Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2606.10025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present GHOST, a framework for learning visuomotor manipulation policies that generalize beyond the training …
Uncertainty-Aware Motion Planning for Autonomous Driving in Mixed Traffic Environment
arXiv:2606.09958v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In mixed-traffic environments where autonomous and human-driven vehicles may co-exist, motion planning for auton…
Neuromorphic Reinforcement Learning for Quadruped Locomotion Control on Uneven Terrain
arXiv:2605.09595v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has enabled robust quadruped locomotion over complex terrain, but most lea…
RoboGPT-R1: Enhancing Robot Task Planning with Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2510.14828v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Improving the reasoning capabilities of embodied agents is crucial for robots to complete complex huma…
BadRobot: Jailbreaking Embodied LLM Agents in the Physical World
arXiv:2407.20242v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Embodied AI represents systems where AI is integrated into physical entities. Large Language Model (LL…
Deterministic Execution of ROS 2 Applications via Lingua Franca
arXiv:2606.09203v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2) is a widely used middleware for robotic systems, characterized by a pub…
HANDOFF: Humanoid Agentic Task-Space Whole-Body Control via Distilled Complementary Teachers
arXiv:2606.06493v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: For a humanoid robot to be deployed in the real world, the choice of command space (i.e., the interface betw…
VOLT: Vision and Language Trajectory Segmentation for Faster-than-Demonstration Policies
arXiv:2606.06323v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humans often take longer to demonstrate a task than a robot would need to execute it. Rather than learning t…
Discrete-WAM: Unified Discrete Vision-Action Token Editing for World-Policy Learning
arXiv:2606.05645v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous driving requires reasoning about how ego actions shape future world evolution, rather than merely…