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3285 storiesObstacle Avoidance of UAV in Dynamic Environments Using Direction and Velocity-Adaptive Artificial Potential Field
arXiv:2512.07609v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The conventional Artificial Potential Field (APF) is fundamentally limited by the local minima issue a…
DreamMimic: Learning Visuomotor Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation via World Model
arXiv:2608.22278v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-based whole-body loco-manipulation on humanoid robots is challenging due to partial observability, contac…
Position: Robot Privacy as Embodied Boundary Work. Connecting Capabilities, Contexts, and Design Responses in Everyday Robotics
arXiv:2608.21410v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots are increasingly entering everyday environments where privacy is shaped not only by data practices, but a…
SuperMap: A Spatio-Temporal SLAM System for Visual-Language Navigation
arXiv:2608.22896v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic navigation in human environments requires a spatio-temporal semantic representation that can rec- oncile…
CSymPlan: Certified Symbolic Planning and Control for High-DOF Manipulators
arXiv:2608.22983v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot manipulators are commonly engineered around a decoupled motion-generation stack: a planner computes a coll…
Free-Energy-Gated Plasticity for Real-Time Online Motor Learning in Physical Human--Robot Interaction
arXiv:2608.23000v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fully online embodied learning requires synaptic adaptation to acquire new behaviors while preserving previously…
RoboRacer Arena: Scaling High-Fidelity Autonomous Racing in Isaac Sim
arXiv:2608.23040v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: RoboRacer offers a standardized platform for research using 1:10-scale autonomous vehicles, but the variety of a…
AI Visual Inspection for Garment Production
arXiv:2608.21426v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The garment manufacturing industry is under increasing pressure to improve product quality, reduce costs, and …
MorFiC: Fixing Value Miscalibration for Zero-Shot Quadruped Transfer
arXiv:2603.14554v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generalizing learned locomotion policies across quadrupedal robots with different morphologies remains a cha…
Reactive Planning based Control for Mobile Robots in Obstacle-Cluttered Environments
arXiv:2605.14232v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper addresses the motion control problem for mobile robots in obstacle-cluttered environments. The mo…
A Unified Neural-Aided Alignment and Calibration Method for AUVs
arXiv:2608.22496v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) rely on the fusion of inertial navigation systems (INS) and Doppler veloci…
Inferring Action from Future Latent State for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2608.22067v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World-Action Models (WAMs) build robot control on video-generation backbones, which jointly predict dense future…
In-Situ Reconstruction of the International Space Station Using 3D Gaussian Splatting and Astrobee
arXiv:2608.21685v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This article presents a novel 3D reconstruction and mapping of the interior of the International Space Station (…
Betting for Sim-to-Real Performance Certificates
arXiv:2608.21572v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Consider a typical test of a robot system: one observes a sequence of outcomes concerning some aspect of interes…
RiskWorld: Object-Centric Latent World Modeling for Autonomous Driving Risk Identification
arXiv:2608.21414v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving risk identification aims to determine which observed object is likely to become safety-critic…
The next big AI play isn’t apps or humanoids; it’s machines with brains and brawn
For agricultural and construction equipment makers to stay relevant as workforces dwindle, they need to add AI, says Agtonomy's founder. The post The next big A…
XPeng Motors humanoid robot unit Dogotix raises $900M
Dogotix, the humanoid unit of XPeng Motors, has attained a valuation of $6.3 billion as it plans to produce robots at scale. The post XPeng Motors humanoid robo…
Demonstration-Guided Humanoid Stand-Up on an Emulated Deformable Surface
arXiv:2608.20852v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a reference-guided reinforcement learning framework to generate stand-up motion for a 29-DOF…
Beyond Imitation: Self-Improving Robot Policies via Off-Policy Q-Planning
arXiv:2608.21204v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Behaviour Cloning (BC) has driven remarkable progress in robot manipulation, yet it is fundamentally limited by …
Mining beyond Earth with Space Robots: Exploration, Sampling, and Extraction
arXiv:2608.21358v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Space resource acquisition and utilization, commonly referred to as Space Mining, represent critical pathways fo…
Pneumatic Units for Logic-based Sequential Excitation (PULSE) in Wearable Haptic Devices
arXiv:2608.20626v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Soft, wearable robotic devices can deliver haptic feedback to support a wide range of tasks, such as extended …
A Collaborative Multi-Modality Interaction for VLA-based End-to-End Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2608.20890v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving by j…
Update-Free On-Policy Steering via Verifiers
arXiv:2603.10282v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In recent years, Behavior Cloning (BC) has become one of the most prevalent methods for learning manipulatio…
Just Noticeable Difference Modeling for Token Compression in Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2608.21247v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Token compression has become a key technique for reducing the inference cost of large foundation models, with …
A Safety-Driven Architectural Framework for Fail-Operational Drone Swarms in Critical Missions
arXiv:2608.20906v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The certification of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms for safety-critical operations requires verifiable d…
Multi-Modal Traffic Sign Detection with Semantic Attributes for Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2608.20874v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable traffic sign detection is a prerequisite for the global deployment of autonomous driving systems, whe…
GhostTac: Manipulating Tactile Sensors without Physical Contact
arXiv:2608.20817v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tactile sensors are integral to modern robotic systems, enabling robots to perceive and interact with the phys…
SRL-MPC: Shape-Aware Reinforcement Learned Model Predictive Control
arXiv:2608.21175v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe and efficient shape-aware navigation in heterogeneous crowds and robot fleets remains challenging. Traditio…
Neural-Primitive: An Efficient End-to-end Local Planner with Primitive-based Imitation Learning for Autonomous Flight
arXiv:2608.20948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous flight in unknown cluttered environments is hindered by the computation-quality-memory trilemma of on…
Natural Sit-to-Stand Motion Synthesis For Humanoids via Guided Assistance Curricula and Staged Rewards
arXiv:2608.20823v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A humanoid has infinitely many ways to stand up from sitting while maintaining balance, making sit-to-stand (STS…