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1861 storiesPreference-Calibrated Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2606.03949v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning (HIL-RL) improves sample efficiency in real-robot manipulation thro…
RynnWorld-Teleop: An Action-Conditioned World Model for Digital Teleoperation
arXiv:2607.06558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling robot learning requires massive, diverse trajectory data, yet collection is currently bottlenecked by ph…
Learning to Throw Objects Safely in Multi-Obstacle Environments
arXiv:2607.06388v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic throwing enables fast and efficient object placement beyond the robot's immediate workspace, but reliabl…
Training-Free Acceleration for Vision-Language-Action Models with Action Caching and Refinement
arXiv:2607.06370v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising approach for generalizable robotic manipulations…
$\pi_0$-EqM: Equilibrium Matching for Closed-Loop Vision-Language-Action Control
arXiv:2605.23128v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Currently, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become the most adopted paradigm for robotic manipulatio…
O3N: Omnidirectional Open-Vocabulary Occupancy Prediction
arXiv:2603.12144v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding and reconstructing the 3D world through omnidirectional perception is becoming increasin…
Learning 4D Geometric Priors for Inference-Efficient World Action Models
arXiv:2607.05468v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) have shown strong potential for robotic manipulation by jointly modeling visual futur…
Thor: Towards Human-Level Whole-Body Reactions for Intense Contact-Rich Environments
arXiv:2510.26280v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humanoids hold great potential for service, industrial, and rescue applications, in which robots must sustai…
Hypothesis-driven Model Expansion under Uncertainty for Open-World Robot Planning
arXiv:2607.06501v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We consider an open-world planning setting in which service robots must operate in unknown environments with inc…
Diagnosing Semantic Handoff Failures in Agent-Orchestrated Vision-Language-Action Skill Composition
arXiv:2607.06256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon household tasks require robots to compose many language-conditioned skills, yet the boundary betwee…
Dynamic Evaluation of Classical and Control-Aware Optimal Trajectory Planning in Robot Manipulators
arXiv:2607.05544v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trajectory planning strongly influences tracking accuracy, actuator demand, and overall execution behavior in ro…
UniLM-Nav: A Unified Framework for Zero-Shot Last-Mile Navigation
arXiv:2607.06537v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile manipulation requires a robot to navigate to a target object or receptacle and then perform intended mani…
IndoorR2X: Indoor Robot-to-Everything Coordination with LLM-Driven Planning
arXiv:2603.20182v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Although robot-to-robot (R2R) communication improves indoor scene understanding beyond what a single robot c…
Edge-Based QoS-Aware Adaptive Task Placement: A Closed-Loop Control in Multi-Robot Systems
arXiv:2606.00552v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multi-robot systems (MRS) increasingly offload compute-intensive perception tasks to edge nodes to mee…
Exploring Human-Robot Collaboration: Analysis of Interaction Modalities in Challenging Tasks
arXiv:2605.13380v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This work compares three interaction modalities for human-robot collaboration: passive, reactive, and proact…
Hilti-Trimble-Oxford Dataset: 360 Visual-Inertial Benchmark with Floor Plan Priors for SLAM and Localization
arXiv:2607.06464v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated progress monitoring on construction sites is an active area of research and development. Robot and hum…
First Plan Then Evaluate: Multi-Target Planning with Post-Planning Success Evaluation Improves Learning-Based Grasping Pipelines
arXiv:2509.07162v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous multi-finger grasping is a fundamental capability in robotic manipulation. Optimization-based app…
OrchardBench: A Physically-Grounded, GPU-Parallel Apple-Orchard Simulation Benchmark for Agricultural Robotics
arXiv:2607.06337v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic tree-fruit harvesting is a flagship problem for agricultural automation, but progress is bottlenecked by…
A Four-Tier Communication Architecture and Sim-to-Real Validation of a Graphical Open-Source Platform for Robotic Engineering Education
arXiv:2606.00550v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The persistent challenge in scaling authentic manipulator education within university laboratories is …
Lift3D-VLA: Lifting VLA Models to 3D Geometry and Dynamics-Aware Manipulation
arXiv:2607.06564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated strong generalization across diverse tasks. Howe…
RynnWorld-4D: 4D Embodied World Models for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.06559v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic manipulation in the open world requires not only recognizing what a scene looks like, but also anticipat…
ThorArena: Benchmarking Humanoid Physical Interaction with Human Motion-Force Demonstrations
arXiv:2607.06052v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots are increasingly expected to perform contact-rich tasks that require not only accurate whole-bod…
WristMimic: Full-Body Humanoid Control with Wrist-Guided Manipulation
arXiv:2607.06438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retargeting human object interaction demonstrations to physics based simulation requires reproducing not only bo…
RoboTALES: Learning Reasoning-Guided Robot Policies via Task-Aligned Simulated Futures
arXiv:2607.06018v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained video generative models are promising backbones for visuomotor control, but their imagined futures of…
RoboVAST: Automated Scenario-Based Validation of Robots at Scale
arXiv:2607.06248v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Validation of robotic systems critically depends on the operating conditions under which they are assessed. Scen…
Intercepting an Agile Target with Net-Carrying Drones using Competitive Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607.05939v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This article presents a solution to intercept an agile drone by a team of agile drone carrying catching nets. We…
Driving the Wrong Way: Leveraging Interpretability in End2End Autonomous Driving Models
arXiv:2607.06328v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The increasing adoption of end-to-end learning for autonomous driving introduces increased model complexity an…
DexTele: A Dual-Arm Dexterous Teleoperation System Based on Motion Retargeting and Adaptive Force Control
arXiv:2607.05883v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In dual-arm dexterous teleoperation, cross-platform generalization of motion retargeting and interactivity of gr…
EgoVerse: An Egocentric Human Dataset for Robot Learning from Around the World
arXiv:2604.07607v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robot learning increasingly depends on large and diverse data, yet robot data collection remains expensive a…
Passive Variable Impedance For Shared Control
arXiv:2604.20557v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Shared Control methods often use impedance control to track target poses in a robotic manipulator. The guida…