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1860 storiesWaveLander: A Generalizable Hierarchical Control Framework for UAV Landing on Wave-Disturbed Platforms via Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607.01281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous landing of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on wave-disturbed marine platforms remains challenging due…
VLA-Arena: An Open-Source Framework for Benchmarking Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2512.22539v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) are rapidly advancing towards generalist robot policies, it remai…
Actuator Reality Shaping for Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Robot Learning
arXiv:2607.02205v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sim-to-real transfer in robot learning is often limited by discrepancies between the ideal actuator dynamics ass…
Influence of Radial Basis Activation Functions on Intelligent Controller for Robotic Manipulators
arXiv:2607.02167v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents an intelligent control framework for trajectory tracking of robotic manipulators using rad…
BIFROST: Bridging Invariant Feature Representation for Observation-space Sim2Real Transfer
arXiv:2607.01410v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sim2real transfer for robot policy learning suffers due to mismatch between simulation and reality. Existing met…
DriveVLM-RL: Neuroscience-Inspired Reinforcement Learning with Vision-Language Models for Safe and Deployable Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2603.18315v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Traditional reinforcement learning (RL) methods rely on manually engineered rewards or sparse collision sign…
VLAFlow: A Unified Training Framework for Vision-Language-Action Models via Co-training and Future Latent Alignment
arXiv:2607.01586v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action models (VLAs) have recently advanced robotic manipulation, yet the effects of different…
ManipArena: Comprehensive Real-world Evaluation of Reasoning-Oriented Generalist Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2603.28545v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and world-action models have emerged as central paradigms for general-pu…
Learning Semantic Atomic Skills for Multi-Task Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2512.18368v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scaling imitation learning to diverse multi-task robot manipulation remains challenging due to suboptimal de…
CoFL-S: Spatially Queryable Sector Flow Fields for Local Language-Conditioned Navigation
arXiv:2607.02222v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation has increasingly emphasized high-level instruction reasoning, memory, global map cons…
From Actions to Understanding: Conformal Interpretability of Temporal Concepts in LLM Agents
arXiv:2604.19775v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents capable of reasoning, plan…
MetaTune: Adjoint-based Meta-tuning via Robotic Differentiable Dynamics
arXiv:2603.27313v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Disturbance observer-based control has shown promise in robustifying robotic systems against uncertainties. …
Guided Action Flow: Q-Guided Inference for Flow-Matching Vision-Language-Action Policies
arXiv:2607.02092v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow-matching vision-language-action policies generate robot action chunks through an iterative transport proces…
Physically Native World Models: A Hamiltonian Perspective on Generative World Modeling
arXiv:2605.00412v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: World models have recently re-emerged as a central paradigm for embodied intelligence, robotics, auton…
WorldSample: Closed-loop Real-robot RL with World Modelling
arXiv:2607.02431v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) can overcome the demonstration-coverage limitation of imitation learning (IL) by all…
A Reconfigurable Rocker-Bogie Robot for High Step Climbing and Turning
arXiv:2607.01554v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study proposes a reconfigurable rocker-bogie mechanism that achieves efficient turning motion with a small …
QuadRocket: An Aerial Robotic Testbed for Adaptive Thrust-Vector Control of Rocket-Like Vehicles
arXiv:2607.02474v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents QuadRocket, a quadrotor-based rocket prototype that provides a low-cost, low-risk platform f…
Overthink-Triggered Slowdown Attacks on LVLM-Based Robotic Systems
arXiv:2607.01518v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have been increasingly integrated into robotic systems. However, these mo…
Neuro-Symbolic Safety Guidance for Vision-Language-Action Models via Constrained Flow Matching
arXiv:2607.01378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated promising generalization capabilities across robotic manip…
The Moving Eye: Enhancing VLA Spatial Generalization via Hybrid Dynamic Data Collection
arXiv:2607.02322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown remarkable promise in generalized robotic manipulation. However, …
Lightweight Safe Reinforcement Learning for End-to-End UAV Navigation
arXiv:2607.01794v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the rapid development of autonomous aerial systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deploy…
HEFT: Heavy-Payload Full-size Humanoid Teleoperation with Privileged Motion Guidance and Windowed Payload Curriculum
arXiv:2607.02332v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General motion tracking and teleoperation offer a promising path to scalable humanoid skill acquisition, yet mos…
One Demonstration Is Enough for Real-World Robotic Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607.01651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning effective robot control policies on physical hardware is challenging due to costly data collection and …
Automate 2026 show recap
Editors Steve Crowe, Mike Oitzman, and Sarah Wynn review Automate 2026, analyzing key trends in physical AI, humanoids, and software orchestration. The post Aut…
AI Chips for Robotics: Which Processors Power Modern Robots and Why It Matters (2026)
Controllers in Robotics: Game, Microcontroller, and PLC — Which One Does Your Robot Actually Need?
Robotics Deployment & Automation: Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD Pipelines for Robot Systems (2026 Guide)
#RoboCup2026 – humanoid league day 1
Image credit: RoboCup Federation. RoboCup 2026 kicked off today in Incheon, South Korea, with the league competitions running until 5 July. It’s an exciting tim…
Luxonis closes Series A round to scale physical AI perception layer
Luxonis said it plans to scale production of its OAK camera and refine its platform to support robotics and industrial automation. The post Luxonis closes Serie…
Why you should combine robot dexterity with mechanical positioning for complex assembly operations
Experts are recognizing the importance of mechanical positioning and its impact on the machine’s mobility, range and speed. The post Why you should combine robo…