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3285 storiesYou Don't Need To Stay in The Loop: An Agentic Robotics Loop for Robot-Policy Improvement
arXiv:2608.07555v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex close the software loop: a main agent manages the loop, subagents an…
Learning Physical Interaction: A Survey of Tactile- and Force-aware Robot Learning
arXiv:2608.07558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physically grounded robot intelligence requires robots to perceive, reason about, and regulate their interaction…
Reconfigurable Structural Robotic Assembly: Interlocking 3D Aggregations with Self-Aligning Compound Nested Lattice Modules
arXiv:2608.07576v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic construction systems often treat the material system and the robot as separate design problems, locating…
LIRA: Local Cross-Layer Information Routing for Vision-Language-Action Decoding
arXiv:2608.07596v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models transform representations from pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) into…
AdaDexGrasp: Adaptive Dexterous Grasping via 3D Visuo-Tactile Representation Fusion
arXiv:2608.07600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans achieve stable and adaptive grasps by seamlessly integrating visual perception and tactile feedback, a ca…
A Reconfigurable Tracked Robot for Enhanced Obstacle Traversal Through Movable Articulation Point and Internal Mass Relocation
arXiv:2608.07624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tracked robots are widely used in unstructured environments; however, their obstacle traversal capability is fun…
H\"older Signed Distance: A Differentiable, Signed, Parallelizable Metric for Robotics
arXiv:2608.07707v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computing distances between sets is essential in robotic motion planning and control, where differentiable gradi…
Complete, Scalable, and Robust Prioritized Planning for Multi-Robot Ordered Storage and Retrieval at Maximum Capacity
arXiv:2608.07734v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated warehouses face a fundamental trade-off between maximizing storage density and achieving high retrieva…
Enhancing Autonomous Vehicle Navigation with a Clothoid-Based Lateral Controller
arXiv:2608.07740v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study introduces an advanced lateral control strategy for autonomous vehicles using a clothoid-based approa…
CoCoNav: Conformal Control for Safe Robot Navigation in Crowds
arXiv:2608.07751v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe and efficient robot navigation in crowds requires anticipating pedestrian motion despite uncertain and pote…
Drone-Assisted UAV-UGV Collaboration for Autonomous Navigation in Snow-Covered Terrain
arXiv:2608.07797v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a collaborative UAV-UGV navigation framework for high-altitude, snow-covered terrain, where …
A Mixed-Stiffness Anthropomimetic Fingertip Broadens the Operating Range for Coin Grasping
arXiv:2608.07887v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic grasping of thin, flat objects such as coins on hard surfaces remains challenging because conventional m…
Auditing Instruction-Trajectory Mismatches in Multimodal Robot Demonstrations
arXiv:2608.07895v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot demonstration datasets used to train vision-language-action policies can contain a subtle but harmful fail…
4D-WAM: Infusing Spatiotemporal Awareness into World Action Models through Trajectory Fields
arXiv:2608.08023v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building on recent advances in world models, World Action Models (WAMs) jointly model video prediction and actio…
DA-NBV: A Direction-Aware Next-Best-View Planner for Efficient 3D Reconstruction of Ships at Sea
arXiv:2608.08025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate 3D reconstruction of ships at sea is important for maritime supervision, damage assessment, and autonom…
Compiling and Benchmarking Task-State Horizons for Embodied Agents
arXiv:2608.08036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier agentic models are increasingly deployed as high-level planners for long-horizon embodied tasks. Existi…
Event-Time Hybrid Optimal Control for Robotic Table Tennis Serves
arXiv:2608.08157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic table tennis serves require high ball velocity and spin while respecting the robot's kinodynamic limits.…
Multi-modal Interactive Control of Robotic Arm based on Offline Large Language Models
arXiv:2608.08183v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly revolutionized the modern society with numerous advanced interac…
Scalable High-Speed Lateral Control for Single-Body and Articulated Autonomous Vehicles
arXiv:2608.08293v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a scalable lateral control framework for robust path tracking of single-body and articulated…
Diminishing Returns of Intelligence: The Non-Linear Relationship Between LLM Scale and User Perception in Short-Duration Open-Ended Social Human-Robot Interactions
arXiv:2608.08320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to drive embodied social agents, yet it remains unclear wheth…
MPPI Planning with Gaussian Based Human Cost Function for Social Navigation
arXiv:2608.08323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe robot navigation in crowded spaces requires planning that accounts for where people will be, not only where…
Stochastic Physics-Informed Neural Networks on Lie Groups for Learning Underwater Vehicle Dynamics
arXiv:2608.08356v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate models of underwater vehicle motion are needed for autonomous execution of marine tasks like infrastruc…
Curriculum Generation under Structured Parametric Environments for Robust Navigation Policies
arXiv:2608.08545v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust navigation policies for autonomous agents must generalize across continuously varying environmental condi…
Vid2WAM: Distilling Video Diffusion Priors into World Action Models
arXiv:2608.08558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) improve robot policy learning by jointly modeling future visual dynamics and actions.…
WA-SpecDec: World-Aware Speculative Decoding for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2608.08725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies generate robot controls autoregressively, making closed-loop latency domin…
OnEvoMemory: Evolving Memory through Online Robot Rollouts for Pretrained Robot Policies
arXiv:2608.08749v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon robot manipulation requires policies to track completed subtasks and critical interaction events. H…
PEEL: Parallel Extraction for Long-Horizon Disassembly Planning via Scale-Invariant Sampling
arXiv:2608.08773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon multi-part object disassembly requires robots to compute feasible sequences of collision-free remov…
SG-WAM: Text-Grounded and Spatial-aware Semantic Guidance for World-Action Models
arXiv:2608.08839v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World-Action Models (WAMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for robotic manipulation. However, most existing…
Hierarchical Topology-Aware Planning and Control of Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems in Confined Environments
arXiv:2608.08871v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses autonomous intervention with an underwater vehicle--manipulator system (UVMS) in confined, …
SHRIMP: Iterative Refinement of Robot Task Plans
arXiv:2608.08884v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As collaborative robots have entered domains such as manufacturing, agriculture, and healthcare, programming or …