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3285 storiesMax-Q Selective Imitation for Human-in-the-Loop Online Robot Learning
arXiv:2608.15088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-in-the-loop (HIL) online reinforcement learning for real robots must absorb human interventions quickly wh…
Modeling and Control of an Eel-Inspired Soft Robot for Design Optimization
arXiv:2608.14860v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Anguilliform locomotion is a highly efficient swimming mode; the advent of new materials for soft robots enables…
MISTac: A Vision-Based Tactile Sensor for Minimally Invasive Surgery
arXiv:2608.14772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Minimally invasive and robot-assisted surgery offer many advantages over traditional open surgery, but deprive s…
SkillComposer: Learning Reusable Skills for Natural-Language Robot Programming
arXiv:2608.14944v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Natural-language interfaces can lower the barrier to programming robots, but existing systems struggle when user…
Contact Modes Are Strata: What Geometric Structure Buys in Discrete-Continuous Planning
arXiv:2608.15541v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact-rich manipulation poses a discrete question and a continuous one at once, namely which contacts are acti…
Pre-training Visual Dexterity in Simulation
arXiv:2608.15917v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale pre-training has made robot policy fine-tuning increasingly data-efficient, but this progress has la…
Learning Varying Physical Therapist-Patient Interactions for Robot-mediated Upper Limb Task-Specific Training
arXiv:2608.15995v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Upper extremity motor function recovery is positively linked to Task-Specific Training (TST) and sufficient ther…
US-VLA: An Ultrasound Vision-Language-Action Model for Embodied Abdomina
arXiv:2608.16074v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence-assisted ultrasound scanning enhances diagnostic reliability and efficiency by providing…
HiPHI: A Large-Scale Benchmark for High-Precision Human Motion and Object-Interaction
arXiv:2608.16222v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid intelligence requires learning over an extremely diverse space of whole-body motions and physically gro…
Robot-Body-Aware Traversal Risk Graph Planning for Wheeled-Legged Robots in Complex Terrain
arXiv:2608.16433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traversal Risk Graphs (TRGs) provide a compact, terrain-aware representation for global navigation, but native T…
Flow Motion Policy: Manipulator Motion Planning with Flow Matching Models
arXiv:2604.07084v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Open-loop end-to-end neural motion planners have recently been proposed to improve motion planning for robot…
Formalisms for Robotic Mission Specification and Execution: A Comparative Analysis
arXiv:2603.15427v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robots are increasingly deployed across diverse domains and designed for multi-purpose operation. As r…
EvoScene-VLA: Evolving Scene Beliefs Inside the Action Decoder for Chunked Robot Control
arXiv:2605.21862v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Chunked vision-language-action (VLA) policies predict multi-step robot controls, conditioning each update on…
RoboMirror: Understand Before You Imitate for Video to Humanoid Locomotion
arXiv:2512.23649v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humans learn locomotion through visual observation, interpreting visual content first before imitating actio…
Towards a Unified Understanding of Robot Manipulation: A Comprehensive Survey
arXiv:2510.10903v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Embodied intelligence has witnessed remarkable progress in recent years, driven by advances in computer visi…
DiSA-IQL: Offline Reinforcement Learning for Robust Soft Robot Control under Distribution Shifts
arXiv:2510.00358v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Soft snake robots offer remarkable flexibility and adaptability in complex environments, yet their control r…
Relay-Based Coordination for Energy-Efficient Multi-Robot Pickup and Delivery
arXiv:2509.14127v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We consider the problem of delivering multiple packages from a single depot to distinct goal locations using…
Two by Two: Learning Multi-Task Pairwise Objects Assembly for Generalizable Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2504.06961v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 3D assembly tasks, such as furniture assembly and component fitting, play a crucial role in daily life and r…
FollowUpBot: An LLM-Based Conversational Robot for Automatic Postoperative Follow-up
arXiv:2507.15502v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Postoperative follow-up plays a crucial role in monitoring recovery and identifying complications. However, tr…
HAF: Adapting Generalist VLAs to Humanoid Whole-Body Loco-manipulation via Hierarchical Action Flow and Spectral Latent RL
arXiv:2608.16837v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots hold great promise as general-purpose agents in human-centered environments, yet generalist visi…
Design Optimization for Large High-Force Soft Robot Manipulators Under Gravitational Loads
arXiv:2608.16728v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Designing large soft robots capable of generating high forces for physical human-robot interaction remains a sig…
Throwing a Tight Spiral American Football by a Humanoid Robot
arXiv:2608.16642v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate throwing of the American football requires precise regulation of release conditions, where coupled line…
Zetta $\zeta$: An Efficient Closed-Loop Embodied Harness for Self-Evolving Physical Intelligence
arXiv:2608.16590v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied agents are increasingly used to close the gap left by end-to-end policy models. Yet the agentic path ha…
Co-design of Neural and Muscle Network based on Embodied Perceptron Representation
arXiv:2608.16555v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in AI technologies have enabled the advanced design of complex control policies. In contrast, fo…
NebulaVLA: A Dual-Frequency Vision-Language-Action Model With Guide Action for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2608.16503v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world deployment of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models is often bottlenecked by efficiency-performance tra…
Cyclops: LiDAR as a Camera That Dreams in Color
arXiv:2608.16264v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventionally, robotic perception relies heavily on cameras due to the rich semantic texture they provide. Howe…
Unified Condition-Action Modeling for Accurate One-Step Action Generation
arXiv:2608.16153v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot manipulation requires policies that are both accurate and efficient, as robot control must respond to chan…
Benchmarking Identity-Sensitive LLM Outputs for Surveillance and Security Robots
arXiv:2608.16030v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate textual robot design specifications, interaction …
Revisiting Open-Loop Execution in Robotics: Toward Reactive, Higher-Performing Policies
arXiv:2608.15938v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action chunking --- the practice of predicting a sequence of actions and executing a prefix open-loop --- has em…
Tac4Loco: Learning Spatiotemporal Plantar Pressure Representations for Humanoid Locomotion
arXiv:2608.15766v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots are expected to traverse complex terrains, where the plantar support may vary dramatically due t…