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1860 storiesTrajectory Learning with Graph Representations for Social Robot Navigation
arXiv:2607.00028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous mobile robots are expected to exhibit socially compliant navigation for minimizing pedestrian disturb…
BiliVLA: Scene-Aware Vision-Language-Action Model with Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Biliary Endoscopic Navigation
arXiv:2606.23531v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) demands precise endoscopic navigation and stable bilia…
VolumeDP: Modeling Volumetric Representation for Manipulation Policy Learning
arXiv:2603.17720v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Imitation learning is a prominent paradigm for robotic manipulation. However, existing visual imitation meth…
Robots Ask the Way: Communication-Enabled Social Navigation
arXiv:2607.01044v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Assistive autonomous robots operating in multi-agent environments require efficient strategies to locate specifi…
EmbodimentSemantic: A Spatial Scene-Graph Dataset and Benchmark for Vision-Language Models on Embodied Manipulation Trajectories
arXiv:2607.00020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial grounding remains a key limitation of vision-language-action (VLA) systems for robotic manipulation. Whi…
RoboWorld: Fast and Reliable Neural Simulators for Generalist Robot Policy Evaluation
arXiv:2607.01060v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video world models are emerging as a scalable alternative for evaluating generalist robot policies, bypassing th…
Domain Arithmetic: One-Shot VLA Adaptation under Environmental Shifts
arXiv:2607.00666v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models often fail to perform the same learned tasks under environmental shifts, suc…
Structured 4D Latent Predictive Model for Robot Planning
arXiv:2607.01166v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video predictive models are emerging as a powerful paradigm in robotics, offering a promising path toward task g…
3D Point World Models: Point Completion Enables More Accurate Dynamics Learning
arXiv:2607.00148v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning predictive models of the world enables robotic control through planning, potentially allowing robots to…
Urban Deceleration Behavior Modes Under Scene Context: An Early-Kinematic Classifier from Argoverse 2 Multi-Agent Trajectories
arXiv:2607.00027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Urban deceleration is one of the most empirically studied yet least taxonomically organized behaviors in car-fol…
Learning Dexterous Manipulation Using Contact Wrench Guidance From Human Demonstration
arXiv:2607.00033v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous robot manipulation can benefit from the abundance of human demonstrations, but transferring such demon…
ASPIRE: Agentic /Skills Discovery for Robotics
arXiv:2607.00272v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traditional robot programming is challenging: it requires orchestrating multimodal perception, managing physical…
Unleashing More Actions via Action Compositional Training for VLA Models
arXiv:2607.00351v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models excel at robotic manipulation, driven by the scale and diversity of demonstration …
Technical Report: Asynchronous Distributed Trajectory Estimation of Multi-Robot Systems
arXiv:2607.01106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distributed trajectory estimation arises in many applications across robotics, but existing implementations typi…
AD-MPCC: Adaptive Differentiable Model Predictive Contouring Control for Autonomous Racing
arXiv:2607.00141v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents Adaptive Differentiable Model Predictive Contouring Control (AD-MPCC), a framework for auton…
Joint Discovery of Object and Action Symbols through Effect Prediction for Robotic Manipulation Planning
arXiv:2607.00031v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To perform complex manipulation planning, autonomous robots are required to abstract continuous, high-dimensiona…
FAR: Failure-Aware Retry for Test-Time Recovery and Continual Policy Improvement
arXiv:2607.01111v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot policies inevitably encounter failures when deployed in real environments. Naive retries often repeat the …
Invariant Stochastic Filtering on SE(3) for Inertial-Encoder State Estimation of Serial Rigid Manipulators
arXiv:2607.00026v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An invariant extended Kalman filter (IEKF) is developed for state estimation of serial rigid manipulators with a…
A Unified Benchmark for RCM-Constrained Visual Servoing: Modeling-Controller Interaction and Robustness Analysis in Laparoscopic Robots
arXiv:2607.00030v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In robot-assisted laparoscopic minimally invasive surgery (MIS), accurate enforcement of the remote center of mo…
From Technical Metrics to User Perception: A User Study of a Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction System for Object Detection and Grasping
arXiv:2607.00530v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Improvements in the technical performance of human--robot interaction (HRI) systems do not automatically transla…
Iterated Invariant EKF for 3D Landmark-Aided Inertial Navigation
arXiv:2607.00145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inertial navigation systems aided by three-dimensional landmark measurements constitute a fundamental problem in…
PhyPush: One Push is All You Need for Sensorless Physical Property Estimation with Physics-Guided Transformers
arXiv:2605.26284v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurately estimating object mass and friction is fundamental to reliable robotic manipulation. While intera…
HydraCollab: Adaptive Collaborative-Perception for Distributed Autonomous Systems
arXiv:2607.00191v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collaborative-perception enables multi-robot systems to enhance situational awareness by sharing perceptual info…
From Prior to Pro: Efficient Skill Mastery via Distribution Contractive RL Finetuning
arXiv:2603.10263v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce Distribution Contractive Reinforcement Learning (DICE-RL), a framework that uses reinforcement …
Top 10 robotics developments of June 2026
Humanoid robots made many headlines in June 2026, whether it be for companies going public, new deployments, or hitting production milestones. The post Top 10 r…
Apptronik unveils Apollo 2 and a flagship data collection and training facility
Built as a data collection and training platform, Apollo 2 enables continuous learning through deployment, Apptronik said. The post Apptronik unveils Apollo 2 a…
OopsieVerse: A Safety Benchmark with Damage-Aware Simulation for Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2606.31993v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While robotic manipulation capabilities have advanced rapidly, physical safety remains a major barrier to deploy…
Multi-Robot Coordination for Planning under Context Uncertainty
arXiv:2603.13748v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-world robots often operate in settings where objective priorities depend on the underlying context of o…
HABIT: Human-Aware Behavior and Interaction Training Dataset for Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2606.31682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale demonstration datasets have been central to recent progress in general-purpose robot policies. Howev…
StemVLA:An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model with Future 3D Spatial Geometry Knowledge and 4D Historical Representation
arXiv:2602.23721v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models integrate visual observations and language instructions to predict robot…