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3285 storiesLearning to Act While Waiting: RL Finetuning of Generalist Robot Policies Under Inference Latency
arXiv:2608.23831v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While reinforcement learning (RL) allows generalist robot policies to continually improve during deployment, the…
Concept-Guided Exploration: Building Persistent, Actionable Scene Graphs
arXiv:2608.23650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The perception of 3D space by mobile robots is rapidly moving from flat metric grid representations to hybrid me…
DreamLedger: Execution-Settled Credit Files for World-Model Imagination in Robot Decision Loops
arXiv:2608.23863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots are beginning to act on world-model predictions, yet reliability is still expressed through instantaneous…
Sensorless damage-safe grasping
arXiv:2608.23983v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic fruit harvesting must hold produce securely without bruising it, yet compression stiffness varies severa…
Bridging Teacher Expectations and Robot Learning via Coupling Dynamics
arXiv:2608.23994v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-robot teaching focuses on enabling nontechnical experts to customize robots according to their needs after…
Trajectory-Level Continuous Action Representation for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2608.24111v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose CAT, a trajectory-level continuous action representation framework for robotic manipulation. Existing…
Adaptive Multi-Mode Out-of-Distribution Detection for Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Vehicles
arXiv:2509.13577v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Trustworthy trajectory prediction grounds autonomous vehicle (AV) safety, yet deployed models inevitab…
Topology-Aware Decision Making for Multi-Session Localization and Mapping
arXiv:2602.17226v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Operating in previously visited environments is becoming increasingly crucial for autonomous systems, with d…
Look as You Leap: Planning Simultaneous Motion and Perception for High-DOF Robots
arXiv:2509.19610v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Most common tasks for robots in dynamic spaces require that the environment is regularly and actively percei…
Design and Evaluation of a Compliant Quasi Direct Drive End-effector for Safe Robotic Ultrasound Imaging
arXiv:2410.03086v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robot-assisted ultrasound scanning promises to advance autonomous and accessible medical imaging. However, e…
GaussianWAM: Distilling Geometry and Semantics from 3D Gaussian Fields into World-Action Models
arXiv:2608.24714v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World-Action Models (WAMs) jointly learn future visual prediction and action generation, using video dynamics as…
VIP: Variation-based Iterative-learning Planning for Robotic Navigation
arXiv:2608.24618v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Over the past decade, autonomous robotic systems have been increasingly deployed in applications such as surveyi…
Gripper-aware Vision Language Action Models
arXiv:2608.24603v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision language action models (VLAs) have advanced general purpose robotic grasping and manipulation by enabling…
TrAct: Bridging Robot Control and Visual Prediction with Visual Tracks
arXiv:2608.24101v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot actions are inherently embodiment-specific and only weakly aligned with image-space visual changes, limiti…
Pattern-Derived Visual Swarm Games: Multi-Scale Drone-Vision States for Interception and Sustainability Audits
arXiv:2608.23575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We convert drone-vision annotation streams into virtual swarm-game states without controlling physical drones. V…
Robust Slip Detection and Material Classification via Spatiotemporal Transformers on a Uniformly-Illuminated Visuo-Tactile Sensor
arXiv:2608.24162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tactile sensing is central to robotic manipulation, among which slip detection stands out as a quintessential an…
Dynamical System-Based Imitation Learning and Neuroadaptive Control for Trajectory Recovery in Autonomous Ships
arXiv:2608.23924v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Repetitive maritime operations can be effectively learned using the Imitation Learning (IL) paradigm, which tr…
A Durable Vision-Based Tactile Fingertip for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2608.24242v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Currently available commercial vision-based tactile sensors provide rich contact information but remain vulnerab…
Jetson Orin Nano 2 doubles inference performance for robotics on the edge, says NVIDIA
With Jetson Orin Nano 2, NVIDIA says that frontier intelligence has reached the edge and can now run in real time. The post Jetson Orin Nano 2 doubles inference…
Humans in the loop are still needed for robotaxi fleet safety, says Guident
As fleets of autonomous vehicles scale, AI and human oversight remain critical for safety, explains Guident's CEO. The post Humans in the loop are still needed …
Early bird pricing for RoboBusiness 2026 ends August 31
Early bird pricing for RoboBusiness 2026, which saves attendees $200 on full conference passes, will end Aug. 31. The post Early bird pricing for RoboBusiness 2…
RoboShape: Information-Theoretic Point Cloud Representations for Privacy-Aware Robot Perception
arXiv:2608.21380v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the increased adoption of robotic agents operating in human environments by scanning and sharing 3D represe…
Multimodal-Language-Model-Driven Interaction and Companionship for Service Robots in Elderly-Care Facilities
arXiv:2608.21387v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Service robots are increasingly deployed in elderly-care facilities to alleviate caregiver workload and enhance …
Gimbal-Based Human Tracking for Companion Robots Using Continual Learning
arXiv:2608.21388v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable and continuous human tracking is essential for natural human-robot interaction, particularly for compan…
On the Optimized Use of Non-Orthonormality Constraints for the Quasi-Static INS Alignment of Autonomous Underwater and Surface Vehicles
arXiv:2608.21390v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inertial navigation systems are specialized navigation apparatuses that equip almost all autonomous underwater a…
Selective Cross-View Consistency for World Action Models: Held-Out Viewpoint Robustness Without Test-Time Camera Information
arXiv:2608.21402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World action models (WAMs) jointly denoise future video frames and robot actions, and the video prior is expecte…
Mamba-based Selective State Space Modeling Improves the Accuracy-Complexity Tradeoff of SmolVLA Vision-Language-Action Experts
arXiv:2608.21407v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models face a crucial tradeoff between their task success rate and the policy-call …
Social Graph Mamba: Forecasting Pedestrian Movements Based on Social Context
arXiv:2608.21411v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Forecasting pedestrian motion has always been fundamental for autonomous navigation in crowded environments. Whi…
Operational digital twin clinics enable task-based evaluation of embodied AI
arXiv:2608.21416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied artificial intelligence (AI) must be tested in the clinical environments where it will operate, but bui…
Evaluating Human and LLM-Generated Thematic Analysis in HRI for Vulnerable Populations: A Comparative and Ethical Analysis
arXiv:2608.21420v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Thematic analysis (TA) has long been regarded as an inherently human, reflexive, and interpretive process. Howev…