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3285 storiesRoSE: A Robotic Soft Esophagus for Endoprosthetic Stent Testing
arXiv:2608.09891v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft robotic systems are well suited for developing devices for biomedical applications. A bio-mimicking robotic…
XPolicyLab: A Unified Standard and Open Ecosystem for Robot Policy Evaluation and Deployment
arXiv:2608.09892v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot policy evaluation and deployment remain fragmented by model-specific software dependencies, data represent…
An AI Scientist that Doesn't Drift: Taste, Structure, and Falsifiable Findings in a Quadruped Navigation Research Loop
arXiv:2608.07542v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous research loops driven by large language models can run machine-learning experiments at scale but te…
The Field Knows: Cross-Dimensional Geometry from Navigation to Black Holes
arXiv:2608.07566v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce a continuous metric field framework trained by a single causal contrastive loss. The framework en…
Open-World Hierarchical Perception: Taxonomic Abstraction over Class-Agnostic Proposals for the Safe Handling of Out-of-Vocabulary Road Objects
arXiv:2608.07577v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A closed-set detector for autonomous driving must assign every object one of a fixed set of labels. On an obje…
CMU-Drive and V2V-VLA: Cooperative Multi-agent Unified Driving with Reasoning Benchmark and Vehicle-to-Vehicle Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2608.07621v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently achieved impressive performance for end-to-end autonomous dr…
LUCID: Latent-Skill Unified Control via Imagined Dynamics for Long-Horizon Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
arXiv:2608.07746v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon humanoid loco-manipulation requires composing versatile whole-body skills and reliable high-level…
Explore, Map, Remember, Decide: Are Embodied VLMs Ready for Safety-Critical Scenarios?
arXiv:2608.08077v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Theory of Space framework (ToS) assesses the spatial understanding of curiosity-driven Vision-Language Models …
Preview-Based Relative-Motion Control of an Insertion Tool for Neural-Thread Placement in Pulsating Tissue
arXiv:2608.08860v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic neural-thread placement requires regulating the insertion-tool tip relative to tissue that moves with …
Real-Time Nonlinear MPC via Sequential Quadratic Programming with Structure-Exploiting ADMM and Interior-Point Methods for Underactuated Double-Pendulum Swing-Up
arXiv:2608.09272v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The 4th "AI Olympics with RealAIGym" competition, to be held at IJCAI-ECAI 2026 in Bremen, challenges particip…
A Height-Constrained 2-Point Minimal Solver for Pose Estimation from Active LED Markers with Event Cameras
arXiv:2608.09520v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In many autonomous applications requiring real-time localization, active marker-based systems are preferred du…
A Semantic Communication Approach to Fiducial Marker Processing in 5G-Enabled Edge SLAM
arXiv:2608.09620v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous robots increasingly rely on edge computing to offload computationally intensive perception tasks wh…
REMAC: Self-Reflective and Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Collaboration for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2503.22122v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in robotic planning, particularly fo…
X2C: A Dataset Featuring Nuanced Facial Expressions for Realistic Humanoid Imitation
arXiv:2505.11146v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Fine-grained facial expression transfer from humans to humanoid agents presents a unique pattern recognition…
Calib3R: Hand-Eye Calibration and 3D Metric-Scaled Scene Reconstruction with 3D Foundation Models
arXiv:2509.08813v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robots often rely on RGB images for tasks like manipulation. However, reliable interaction typically require…
CLEAR: A Semantic-Geometric Terrain Abstraction for Large-Scale Unstructured Environments
arXiv:2601.13361v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-horizon navigation in unstructured environments demands terrain abstractions that scale to tens of squa…
HyperDet: 3D Object Detection with Hyper 4D Radar Point Clouds
arXiv:2602.11554v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: How far can 3D object detection go using 4D radar alone? Despite offering weather-robust and velocity-aware …
AnyCamVLA: Zero-Shot Camera Adaptation for Viewpoint Robust Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2603.05868v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite remarkable progress in Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) for robot manipulation, these large pre-…
Knowing When to Ask: Resolving Uncertainty in Human-Robot Joint Planning via Explicit Dialogue and Implicit Intent Cues
arXiv:2603.07822v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Effective human-robot collaboration in open-world environments requires joint planning under uncertainty abo…
Learning When to See and When to Feel: Adaptive Vision-Torque Fusion for Contact-Aware Manipulation
arXiv:2604.01414v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-based policies have achieved a good performance in robotic manipulation due to the accessibility and …
Optimizing Trajectory-Trees in Belief Space: An Application from Model Predictive Control to Task and Motion Planning
arXiv:2605.01860v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper explores the benefits of computing arborescent trajectories (trajectory-trees) instead of commonl…
Anomaly-Informed Confidence Calibration for Vision-Based Safety Prediction
arXiv:2605.21109v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reliable confidence estimates are important for safely deploying vision-based controllers in autonomous raci…
Global-Local Attention Decomposition for Terrain Encoding in Humanoid Perceptive Locomotion
arXiv:2606.00637v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Although reinforcement learning has significantly advanced humanoid locomotion, perceptive policies still st…
DiSCo: Diffusion Sequence Copilots for Shared Autonomy
arXiv:2603.22787v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Shared autonomy combines human user and AI copilot actions to control complex systems such as robotic …
RynnValue: Scaling Robotic Value Foundation Models with Temporal Distance
arXiv:2608.09853v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose reward models are increasingly the bottleneck for scaling robot learning, yet the recipe for lea…
GWM-VLA: Geometry-Aware Latent World Modeling for Vision-Language-Action Learning
arXiv:2608.07619v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve strong robotic manipulation performance but often degrade under visu…
Unsupervised Point Cloud Registration with Self-Distillation
arXiv:2409.07558v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Rigid point cloud registration is a fundamental problem and highly relevant in robotics and autonomous…
Epically Powerful: An open-source software and mechatronics infrastructure for wearable robotic systems
arXiv:2511.05033v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Epically Powerful is an open-source robotics infrastructure that streamlines the underlying framework of wea…
DAP-Pose: Deep Temporal Alignment and Physics-aware Cross-modal Sensor Fusion for Robust Pose Estimation
arXiv:2607.23755v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust and accurate pose estimation with multi-modal sensors is fundamental for autonomous vehicles and mobile…
Entanglement-Free Trajectory Planning for Tethered Mobile Robots with a Slack Tether
arXiv:2608.09860v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In motion planning algorithms for tethered mobile robots, the entanglement state of the tether is a critical asp…