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1860 storiesEfficient Sim-to-Real Transfer of World-Action Models from Synthetic Priors
arXiv:2606.31101v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bridging the sim-to-real gap is a core challenge in deploying learned manipulation policies. Sim-to-real learnin…
Stage-Transition Dense Reward Modeling for Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2606.31377v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning for long-horizon robotic manipulation is often limited by sparse and delayed rewards, whi…
RhinoVLA Technical Report
arXiv:2606.07383v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong potential for robotic manipulation, but real-time depl…
LLM-Powered Interactive Robotic Action Synthesis from Multimodal Speech, Gestures, and Music
arXiv:2606.31158v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The quest for intuitive and natural human-robot interaction (HRI) remains a significant challenge in robotics. T…
Off the Rails: Hijacking the Scoring Head in Generative End-to-End Driving Planners with Safety-Violating Adversarial Perturbations
arXiv:2606.30807v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative models have recently seen rapid adoption in End-to-End (E2E) autonomous driving (AD), with diffusion-…
Early-Terminable Energy-Safe Iterative Coupling for Parallel Simulation of Partitioned Port-Hamiltonian Systems
arXiv:2603.16424v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Parallel simulation of robotic systems requires partitioning the dynamics into coupled subsystems. Finite-it…
Position: Vision-Language-Action Models Cannot Be Verified to Perform Physical Reasoning
arXiv:2606.30686v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) systems, built on pretrained vision-language models (VLMs), have shown rapidly impr…
Designing Privacy-Preserving Visual Perception for Robot Navigation Based on User Privacy Preferences
arXiv:2604.06382v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual navigation is a fundamental capability of mobile service robots, yet the onboard cameras required for…
Learning Locomotion on Discrete Terrain via Minimal Proximity Sensing
arXiv:2606.31912v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning-based control has revolutionized dynamic locomotion, yet navigating unstructured terrain remains limite…
RCT: A Robot-Collected Touch-Vision-Language Dataset for Tactile Generalization
arXiv:2606.31694v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For robots manipulating open-world objects, tactile representations must generalize to unseen materials. We intr…
ShapeGrasp: Simultaneous Visuo-Haptic Shape Completion and Grasping for Improved Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2605.02347v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humans grasp unfamiliar objects by combining an initial visual estimate with tactile and proprioceptive feed…
Robustness of Robotic Manipulation: Foundations and Frontiers
arXiv:2606.31494v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans and animals exhibit remarkable robustness in physical manipulation, yet robots remain far behind. Progres…
Learn Weightlessness: Imitate Non-Self-Stabilizing Motions on Humanoid Robot
arXiv:2604.21351v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The integration of imitation and reinforcement learning has enabled remarkable advances in humanoid whole-bo…
Genie Sim 3.0 : A High-Fidelity Comprehensive Simulation Platform for Humanoid Robot
arXiv:2601.02078v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The development of robust and generalizable robot learning models is critically contingent upon the availabi…
RPG: Robust Policy Gating for Smooth Multi-Skill Transitions in Humanoid Fighting
arXiv:2604.21355v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humanoid robots have demonstrated impressive motor skills in a wide range of tasks, yet whole-body control f…
CoReLIN: Constraint-based Reasoning for Zero-shot Lifelong Interactive Navigation
arXiv:2602.20055v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robot navigation typically assumes an obstacle-free path exists between start and goal. In real environments…
Multimodal Benchmark for Safety Assessment in Industrial Inspection Scenarios
arXiv:2601.21173v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With the rapid development of industrial intelligence and unmanned inspection, reliable perception and safet…
PriorEye: Geospatial Visual Priors for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2606.31830v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most end-to-end autonomous driving methods rely solely on instantaneous sensor observations, limiting them to …
From Grasps to Dexterity: Large-Scale Grasp Pretraining for Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv:2606.30749v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale dexterous grasp datasets encode rich priors over hand-object interaction, but their use has largely …
LARA: Latent Action Representation Alignment for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2606.07100v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual-language action (VLA) models enable robots to predict actions directly from observations and la…
Neural Control: Adjoint Learning Through Equilibrium Constraints
arXiv:2605.03288v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many physical AI tasks require sequential implicit computation: at each step, boundary controls are applied,…
Learning All-Terrain Locomotion for a Planetary Rover with Actively Articulated Suspension
arXiv:2606.06790v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents ERNEST, a four-wheeled planetary rover concept equipped with a two-degree-of-freedom Act…
Multisensory Continual Learning: Adapting Pretrained Visuomotor Policies to Force
arXiv:2606.30988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot manipulation often relies on sensory feedback beyond vision, particularly in contact-rich settings where f…
TAPE: Tether-Aware Path Planning for Autonomous Exploration of Unknown 3D Cavities Using a Tangle-Compatible Tethered Aerial Robot
arXiv:2606.30817v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This letter presents the first method for autonomous exploration of unknown cavities in three dimensions (3D) th…
High-Speed Vision-Based Flight in Clutter with Safety-Shielded Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2602.08653v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed in complex missions that demand reliable…
Reinforcement Learning-Based Control for an Inline Skating Humanoid Robot
arXiv:2606.31807v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As humanoid robots become increasingly dynamic, coupling them with reinforcement learning offers a promising app…
Prompting Robot Teams with Natural Language
arXiv:2509.24575v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents a framework to prompt multi-robot teams with high-level tasks using natural language exp…
Locker-based Truck-Drone Routing with Integrated Considerations of Pickups, Deliveries, and No-Fly Zones
arXiv:2606.30680v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Truck-drone delivery is an emerging last-mile logistics mode combining the long-haul capacity of trucks with the…
Registering the 4D Millimeter Wave Radar Point Clouds Via Generalized Method of Moments
arXiv:2508.02187v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 4D millimeter wave radars (4D radars) are new emerging sensors that provide point clouds of objects with bot…
Unified Structural-Hydrodynamic Modeling of Underwater Underactuated Mechanisms and Soft Robots
arXiv:2603.07939v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Underwater robots are widely deployed for ocean exploration and manipulation. Underactuated mechanisms are a…