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3285 storiesData-Driven Risk Fields for Safer End-to-End Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2609.10377v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety is a fundamental requirement for autonomous driving, yet existing end-to-end driving models still lack ex…
Identifying Habit, Physics, and Nuisance in Robot World Models
arXiv:2609.09210v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Teleoperated demonstrations are often multimodal even when the underlying dynamics are nearly deterministic give…
AXON: A ROS 2 RMW with Shared-Memory/QUIC Transport and QKD/ML-KEM Key Establishment
arXiv:2609.10024v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2) standardizes application code against a middleware interface (RMW) whose refere…
Learning Terrain-Adaptive Humanoid Locomotion on Granular Terrain
arXiv:2609.10286v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid locomotion on granular terrain remains a significant challenge due to its complex foot-terrain interact…
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous UAV Exploration in Wildfire Response
arXiv:2609.10433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study develops a deep reinforcement learning framework for training Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) agents to…
Proxy Policy Steering
arXiv:2609.09148v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generalist robot policies carry broad manipulation priors from large-scale data, but specializing them to a …
Monkey See, Can Monkey Do? A Benchmark for Evaluating Robot Skill Learning by Observation
arXiv:2609.08209v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning from Observation (LfO) is a fundamental robotic capability that replicates how humans and animals s…
Dex-X: Learning Visual-Tactile Dexterous Manipulation From Human Videos with Simulated Interaction
arXiv:2609.07747v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human videos are an abundant source of dexterous manipulation behaviors, but they lack tactile information t…
Advancing Accessible Underwater Robotics: The Mini-Girona I-AUV at RAMI 2025
arXiv:2609.02605v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The Mini-Girona Intervention Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (I-AUV) represents an advancement in accessible u…
CoMo3R-SLAM: Collaborative Monocular Dense SLAM with Learned 3D Reconstruction Priors for Outdoor Multi-Agent Systems
arXiv:2605.30488v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Outdoor robot teams need a shared dense map despite limited overlap, independent reference frames, and uncer…
Bilevel Planning with Learned Symbolic Abstractions from Interaction Data
arXiv:2603.08599v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Intelligent agents must reason over both continuous dynamics and discrete representations to generate effect…
PACE: Perceived-Latency-Aware Cascading Service Routing and Filler Control for QoE-Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Dialogue Serving
arXiv:2609.10372v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present the PACE, a framework for retrieval-augmented dialogue serving that formalizes Perceived Time-to-Fi…
CLFTv2: Efficient Camera-LiDAR Fusion for Semantic Segmentation via Hierarchical Feature Pyramids
arXiv:2609.09881v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic segmentation for autonomous driving requires reliable detection of vulnerable road users (VRUs) despi…
SwingBot: Learning Whole-Body Brachiation for Humanoid Robots
arXiv:2609.10283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Brachiation enables primates to move across overhead supports when ground paths are blocked, suggesting a comple…
FolDeX: A Physical-World Benchmark for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects
arXiv:2609.10243v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied AI, including vision-language-action and world-action models, must operate reliably in the physical wor…
Adaptive Shared Control with Online Bounded-Rational Human Behavior Estimation
arXiv:2609.10215v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work considers adaptive shared human-robot control for nonlinear control-affine systems, where the assumpti…
Multi-Robot Scanner for Automated Full-Body Dermoscopic Imaging
arXiv:2609.10169v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper outlines the specifications and design approach used to construct a full body imaging scanner capable…
Automatic Reproducible Camera Intrinsic Calibration
arXiv:2609.10082v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate camera intrinsic calibration is fundamental to robot perception, and the accuracy depends on the qualit…
RoboDrop: Curating VLA Post-Training Data via Local Gradient Compatibility
arXiv:2609.10021v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision--language--action (VLA) models acquire broad generalization through large-scale pretraining, yet adapting…
HaWMPO: Hallucination-Aware World Model-based Policy Optimization for Generalist Robot Policy
arXiv:2609.09941v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalist robot policies have demonstrated strong generalization across robotic manipulation tasks, yet their s…
ViBe: Visual Behavior Adaptation for Perceptive Humanoid Whole-Body Control
arXiv:2609.09918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motion tracking provides a scalable recipe for humanoid whole-body control. By design, the resulting trackers la…
PccDiffuser: Multi-solution Motion Planning for Continuum Robots
arXiv:2609.09745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present the PccDiffuser, a conditional diffusion framework for continuum robots that learns a multimodal dist…
A Risk-Sensitive and Uncertainty-Aware Decision-Making and Control Framework for Safe and Robust Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2609.09650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated considerable potential for autonomous driving decision-making. Howe…
PGMT: Perceptive General Motion Tracking for Humanoid Robots
arXiv:2609.08511v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humanoid motion trackers can reproduce diverse whole-body motions, but their performance degrades on complex…
Unitree shares down 53% from IPO debut
Shares of Unitree Robotics have fallen nearly 40% from their first-day closing price on Aug. 19 2026, erasing roughly $20 billion in market value from that poin…
What bricklaying has taught Monumental about robots in construction
The construction industry is rife with opportunity for robotics, but the technology hasn't broken in at scale yet. The post What bricklaying has taught Monument…
Vention opens Physical AI Lab for manufacturing in Montreal
Vention's new Physical AI Lab will focus on advancing robotic manipulation from research to scalable production-line deployment. The post Vention opens Physical…
AGIBOT to explain how to scale humanoids from the lab to the real world at RoboBusiness
AGIBOT plans to give attendees actionable insights on identifying high-value robotics use cases and building sustainable developer ecosystems. The post AGIBOT t…
AI can’t outrun a humanoid’s hardware
The remarkable progress in AI has brought robotics closer to machines capable of determining what they should do. The next major advance may depend on whether t…
Boston Dynamics veterans launch Dynamic Creatures to bring characters to life with robotics
Dynamic Creatures plants to create its own line of characters, and to re-create characters for specific brands and environments. The post Boston Dynamics vetera…