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1860 storiesSocially-Aware Autonomous Doorway Traversal and Payload Delivery for Emergency Assistance
arXiv:2607.05315v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this work, we focus on the scenario of a robot-assisted emergency evacuation. We consider two capabilities re…
Simple-to-Complex Structured Demonstrations for Vision-Language-Action Learning
arXiv:2607.04591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated strong capabilities in robotic manipulation by integrating…
CoLA-Flow Policy: Temporally Coherent Imitation Learning via Continuous Latent Action Flow Matching for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2601.23087v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning long-horizon robotic manipulation requires jointly achieving expressive behavior modeling, real-tim…
Beyond Heuristics: A Standardized Real2Sim Pipeline for Physical Human Robot Interaction in Human-in-the-Loop Simulation
arXiv:2607.03017v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The aging global population drives demand for assistive robots, yet the safety risks and costs of physical testi…
GaP: A Graph-as-Policy Multi-Agent Self-Learning Harness For Variational Automation Tasks
arXiv:2607.05369v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For robots to work reliably in commercial and industrial applications, can recent advances in agentic coding sys…
PRISM: Personalized Robotic Dataset Generation via Image-based Scene and Motion Synthesis
arXiv:2607.04880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in large-scale pretrained vision-language-action models have improved robot policy learning, but…
A Reliable Context-Aware and Temporal Planning Framework for Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607.04689v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe operation of autonomous vehicles in dense urban traffic depends on perception and planning that remain reli…
DSWAM: A Dual-System World Action Foundation Model for Fine-Grained Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2607.04927v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) provide a promising alternative to Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies by using vid…
VLM-CASE: Vision-Language Model Enabled Context-Adaptive Safety Envelopes for Anticipatory Safe Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607.05180v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adverse driving conditions, such as bad weather, remain a principal barrier to autonomous driving because they d…
Nano-U: Efficient Terrain Segmentation for Tiny Robot Navigation
arXiv:2605.10210v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Terrain segmentation is a fundamental capability for autonomous mobile robots operating in unstructured outd…
Multi-Robot Open Adaptive Teaming Across Unseen Environments, Partners, and Scales
arXiv:2607.04972v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying robot teams in the real world requires simultaneous adaptation to unseen environments, unknown partner…
CN-CBF: Composite Neural Control Barrier Function for Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments
arXiv:2603.06921v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Safe navigation of autonomous robots remains one of the core challenges in the field, especially in dynamic …
Governed Caste Reassignment in Heterogeneous Swarms: An Asymmetric-Trust Protocol with Audited Operator Countersignature
arXiv:2607.04634v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In heterogeneous robot swarms, caste reassignment (rebinding a robot to a new capability-bound role) is a high-f…
Do Vision-Language-Action Models Mean What They Say? On the Role of Faithfulness in Embodied Reasoning
arXiv:2607.04681v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied Chain-of-Thought has emerged as a promising mechanism to enhance robot decision-making and interpretabi…
ACE: Agentic Control for Embodied Manipulation via Zero-shot Workflow Reasoning
arXiv:2607.04162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-ended tabletop manipulation requires agents to not only understand natural language but also adapt to dynam…
Deform360: A Massive Multi-view Visuotactile Dataset for Deformable World Models
arXiv:2607.05390v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting object dynamics (i.e., world modeling) is a fundamental challenge for robotic manipulation, and model…
Designing Touch for Trauma-Informed Social Robots: A Design Space for Direct and Indirect Actuation
arXiv:2607.04981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Touch is a fundamental communication modality in human-robot interaction and may support grounding, emotional re…
Robustness Verification of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle-based Plankton Classifier
arXiv:2607.04453v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The assessment of planktonic standing stocks and microorganism structures is critical for understanding upper oc…
Toward Interaction Dynamics: A Predictive Framework for Safe Physical Human Robot Interaction
arXiv:2606.08281v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Safe physical human-robot interaction (pHRI) is fundamentally a problem of interaction dynamics: the robot m…
From Fixed to Free Cameras: Calibration-Free View-Robust Vision-Language-Action Model
arXiv:2607.05396v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world robot deployment rarely maintains the training-stage camera setup, where cameras often experience r…
Insect-inspired Visual Point-goal Navigation
arXiv:2601.16806v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Insect neuroethology provides a compelling biological template for efficient autonomous navigation. We…
Differential Amplifier-Inspired AmpAttention for Multi-View Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.02845v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-view robotic manipulation methods with the attention mechanism have recently achieved significant progress…
High-Fidelity One-Step Generative Visuomotor Policy via Recursive Correction, Frequency Consistency, and Contrastive Flow Matching
arXiv:2607.03865v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative models such as diffusion and flow matching have advanced robotic visuomotor policies by modeling mult…
DRBA: Dynamic Robotic Balance Assistant -- An assist-as-needed gait and balance rehabilitation robot for versatile training
arXiv:2607.03027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The decline of human balance control due to aging and pathological conditions increases fall risk, a major conce…
Think Proprioceptively: State-Grounded Visual Token Selection for VLA Policies
arXiv:2602.06575v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models typically inject proprioception only as a late conditioning signal, prev…
Layout-independent actuation allocator for fin-actuated marine robots
arXiv:2607.03204v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this study, we propose a layout-independent control allocator capable of zero-shot deployment across diverse …
CableTract: A Co-Designed Cable-Driven Field Robot for Low-Compaction, Off-Grid Capable Agriculture
arXiv:2604.09938v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Conventional field operations spend most of their energy moving the tractor body, not the implement. Yet fea…
Flocking phase transition and threat responses in bio-inspired autonomous drone swarms
arXiv:2512.21196v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Collective motion inspired by animal groups offers powerful design principles for autonomous aerial swarms. …
Occluding the Solution Space: Planner-Agnostic Adversarial Attacks on Tolerance-Aware Manipulation
arXiv:2607.03758v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adversarial attacks on motion planning are crucial for evaluating and quantifying the intrinsic robustness of ro…
Strouhal-Aware Model Predictive Control for Efficient Multi-Fin Flapping Locomotion
arXiv:2607.03216v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient flapping propulsion hinges on operating within a narrow Strouhal number window, a principle nature has…