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3285 storiesNestDex: Nested Policy Learning with Copilot Assisted Teleoperation for Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv:2608.13362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous manipulation promises substantially richer robot interaction with the physical world, but learning the…
FIRE-VLA: Failure-Informed Self-Evolution for Vision-Language-Action Models in Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2608.13395v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning improves autonomous-driving vision-language-action (VLA) models by evaluating trajectorie…
Capstan-driven Continuum Surgical Robot: Design, Modeling, and Perception
arXiv:2608.13396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Shape and force sensing have long been critical bottlenecks in the development of compact capstan-driven continu…
Deliberate Practice: Learning Robot Skills under a Budget
arXiv:2608.13415v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We consider the problem of autonomously learning robot skills under a limited practice budget for sequential tas…
ContactGuard: Pre-Contact Execution Monitoring with Action-Conditioned Latent World Models
arXiv:2608.13438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact-rich manipulation failures are often detected only after the robot has committed to contact. This is esp…
Mind the Context: Continual Learning of Socially Appropriate Robot Actions via Environmental-Social Disentanglement
arXiv:2608.13448v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Social robots are expected to operate across diverse environments, where similar arrangements can imply differen…
HumanTracker: Towards Comprehensive and Human-Aligned Motion Tracking Benchmark
arXiv:2608.13555v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid motion tracking is central to teleoperation and whole-body imitation, yet evaluation often disagrees wi…
Can Vision-Language Models Assess Proxemic Risk from Egocentric Robot Images?
arXiv:2608.12515v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Assessing proxemic danger from a robot's egocentric perspective is critical for safe embodied navigation in hu…
Entropy-Augmented Multi-Objective Policy Optimization in Multiagent Systems
arXiv:2608.12534v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous agent teams deployed in settings such as marine and extraterrestrial outposts must coordinate actio…
Towards Socially Compliant Navigation in Deep Reinforcement Learning via Proxemics-Based Reward Modeling
arXiv:2608.12917v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Developing effective robot navigation methods in crowded environments is essential for real-world applications…
RGB-D Video Generation for Improving Human-to-Robot Object Handover Prediction
arXiv:2608.13028v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human-to-robot (H2R) object handover is a fundamental capability for human-robot collaboration, yet progress i…
DreamX-Phi 1.0: Action-Conditioned Video World Model for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2608.13489v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present \textbf{DreamX-Phi 1.0}, an action-conditioned video world model for robotic manipulation that, giv…
SONIC: Supersizing Motion Tracking for Natural Humanoid Whole-Body Control
arXiv:2511.07820v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite the rise of billion-parameter foundation models trained across thousands of graphical processing uni…
APEX: Learning Adaptive High-Platform Traversal for Humanoid Robots
arXiv:2602.11143v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humanoid locomotion has advanced rapidly with deep reinforcement learning (DRL), enabling robust feet-based …
Perception-Aware Autonomous Exploration in Feature-Limited Environments
arXiv:2603.15605v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous exploration in unknown environments typically relies on onboard state estimation for localisation…
SpatialVAM:Spatial-Aware Multi-View Video Diffusion as a Data-Efficient Robot Policy
arXiv:2604.03181v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic manipulation requires understanding both the 3D spatial structure of the environment and its tempora…
JailWAM: Jailbreaking World Action Models in Robot Control
arXiv:2604.05498v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for robotic manipulation, enabling physical …
Trajectory First: A Curriculum for Discovering Diverse Policies
arXiv:2506.01568v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Being able to solve a task in diverse ways makes agents more robust to task variations and less prone …
Predictive Relative-Velocity Steering for Safe Robotic Manipulator Teleoperation in Dynamic Environments
arXiv:2608.13284v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in teleoperation have enabled robotic manipulators to perform dexterous, human-arm-like motions.…
OpenRC: An Open-Source Robotic Colonoscopy Framework for Multimodal Data Acquisition and Autonomy Research
arXiv:2604.03781v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Colorectal cancer screening critically depends on colonoscopy, yet existing platforms offer limited support …
AMR-Pose: An Active LED Marker-Based Relative Pose Estimation Framework With Probabilistic Switching PnP for Cooperative AUVs
arXiv:2608.12866v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable relative pose estimation between autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) is critical for cooperative ocea…
BioflexBot robot hand aims to replicate key human hand motions
Researchers created the BioflexBot, a novel robot that mimics and even exceeds core motions of the hand with a simple design. The post BioflexBot robot hand aim…
Mobile manipulators and humanoids: The future of robotics
Humanoid robotics and software startups have emerged weekly for the past year, capturing media attention and billions of dollars in investment. While some human…
Experts to discuss the state of humanoid robots at RoboBusiness
The RoboBusiness panel will include insights on humanoid robots from Agility, Apptronik, Persona AI, and PSYONIC experts. The post Experts to discuss the state …
ARM Institute calls for defense manufacturing technology projects
The ARM Institute and the U.S. Department of War are seeking technology project submissions to help rapid U.S. production. The post ARM Institute calls for defe…
Towards Tighter Convex Relaxation of Mixed-Integer Programs: Leveraging Logic Network Flow for Task and Motion Planning
arXiv:2509.24235v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper proposes an optimization-based task and motion planning framework, named "Logic Network Flow," th…
Robotic Manipulation is Vision-to-Geometry Mapping: Vision-Geometry Backbones over Language and Video Models
arXiv:2604.12908v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: At its core, robotic manipulation is a problem of vision-to-geometry mapping ($f(v) \rightarrow G$). Physica…
TMRL: Diffusion Timestep-Modulated Pretraining Enables Exploration for Efficient Policy Finetuning
arXiv:2605.12236v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Fine-tuning pre-trained robot policies with reinforcement learning (RL) often inherits the bottlenecks intro…
Top-down Traffic Scenario Generation via Joint Initial-Goal Diffusion and Trajectory Infilling
arXiv:2608.11407v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust traffic simulators are crucial for developing and testing autonomous vehicles to reduce the costly, labor…
From Self-Normal-Positioning to Omni-Directional Tracking: Real-Time Surface Modeling Enabled Probe Tilt Control for Robotic Ultrasound Imaging
arXiv:2608.11409v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ultrasound (US) provides real-time, radiation-free imaging, but the image quality depends strongly on how the pr…