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3285 storiesBridging Online and Offline Handwriting via Differentiable Physical Rendering
arXiv:2608.03198v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Realistic handwritten text generation plays an important role in numerous applications, such as font design, b…
Unified Visuomotor Targets: Supervising VLAs Beyond Physical Actions
arXiv:2608.03563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: VLA models are trained to predict robot actions from visual and language observations. This is a natural choice,…
ValueFormer: A Causal Transformer Value Function with Stage-Aware Labels for Semi-Autonomous Vision-Language-Action Policies
arXiv:2608.02958v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies trained by behavior cloning fail silently: from the action stream alone, a…
Mixed-Initiative Human-Robot Teaming under Suboptimality with Online Bayesian Adaptation
arXiv:2403.16178v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: For effective human-agent teaming, robots and other artificial intelligence (AI) agents must infer their hum…
Stiffness Copilot: An Impedance Policy for Contact-Rich Teleoperation
arXiv:2603.14068v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In teleoperation of contact-rich manipulation tasks, selecting robot impedance is critical but difficult. Th…
PLS-Calib: A Partial Least Squares Framework for Event Camera and Odometry Calibration under Ground Motion Constraints
arXiv:2608.03296v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate extrinsic rotation calibration between sensors is fundamental to the performance of robotic perception …
Graph Neural Planning and Predictive Control for Multi-Robot Communication-Constrained Unlabeled Motion Planning
arXiv:2605.19209v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The multi-robot unlabeled motion planning problem of concurrently assigning robots to goals and generating s…
GS-Playground: A High-Throughput Photorealistic Simulator for Vision-Informed Robot Learning
arXiv:2604.25459v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Embodied AI research is undergoing a shift toward vision-centric perceptual paradigms. While massively paral…
Semantic Haptic Feedback Enhances Dexterous Robotic Teleoperation
arXiv:2608.02780v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In robot teleoperation, haptic feedback can be used to help human operators accomplish dexterous manipulation ta…
Electrostatic Clutch-Based Mechanical Multiplexer with Increased Force Capability
arXiv:2501.08469v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As robotic systems become increasingly articulated, conventional actuation still dedicates one motor to each…
ETA: A New Agentic Paradigm for Embodied Tasks
arXiv:2608.03924v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When will robots have their ChatGPT moment? Such a breakthrough requires a general-purpose robot that can handle…
POMDPs for Autonomous Science Exploration
arXiv:2608.03155v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous exploration missions require decision-making under sensor uncertainty and computational constraints, …
PFM-HR: Pose Flow Matching for Humanoid Robots
arXiv:2608.03227v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motion priors improve reinforcement learning for physics-based humanoid tracking, but temporal priors require or…
RoboReact: Agentic Skill Distillation from Generated Egocentric Videos for Generalizable Whole-Body Manipulation
arXiv:2608.03387v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots have the potential to perform dexterous manipulation in human environments, yet acquiring divers…
DigitCode: Symbolic Tokenization of Hand Motion by Anatomical Units
arXiv:2608.03127v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hand motion carries the finest-grained information in human activity, yet the representations behind hand genera…
Structure-Aware Robust Fine-Tuning: Defending Vision-Language-Action Robots Against Physical Attention Hijacking
arXiv:2608.03231v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies promise general robotic manipulation, but their robustness against physica…
Light-Loco-Parkour: Versatile Perceptive Whole-Body Locomotion via Multi-Skill Distillation
arXiv:2608.02653v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing humanoid whole-body control systems still fall short of the way humans move through cluttered terrain: …
DeRP: An Algorithm for Self-Assembly of Power-Delivery Networks using Recursive Branching in Information-Limited Environments
arXiv:2608.02904v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Delivering sustained power to distributed equipment in unstructured field environments using pre-planned wired n…
Principles of Robot Autonomy
arXiv:2608.03496v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous robots are moving rapidly from research labs into everyday life - on roads, in the air, in warehouses…
Forbidden Region Dynamic Active Constraints in Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery
arXiv:2608.03010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In robot-assisted surgery, Forbidden Region Active Constraints (FRAC) represent a control strategy that helps ma…
Lightweight 3D Object Detection via Mamba-Based Knowledge Distillation
arXiv:2608.03490v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D object detection using light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors requires a balance between accuracy and co…
Accelerating Human-Aware Robot Trajectory Generation via Diffusion and Consistency Distillation
arXiv:2608.03159v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This research proposes a constrained motion planning framework for robot manipulators in human-robot interaction…
Design and Evaluation of an AI-Enabled Cloud-Edge Architecture for Connected Precision Agriculture Farms
arXiv:2608.03816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Plant diseases cause significant yield losses worldwide, with tomato crops particularly susceptible to early bli…
Active Stiffness Control of a Supportive Continuum Robot
arXiv:2608.03677v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Supportive continuum robots (SCRs) enhance the load-bearing capability of an operative continuum robot by mechan…
Staying on Spec: Real-Time Monitoring under Uncertainty with a Maritime Case Study
arXiv:2608.02811v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic systems must operate under uncertainty while satisfying complex task and safety specifications. Monitori…
Track4Action: Distilling World-Centric 3D Tracker into Vision-Language-Action Policies
arXiv:2608.03727v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action labels tell a vision-language-action (VLA) policy which robot commands to imitate, but not how those comm…
FGGS-LiDAR: Ultra-Fast, GPU-Accelerated Simulation from General 3DGS Models to LiDAR
arXiv:2509.17390v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a strong representation for photorealistic rendering, its …
GEM-4D: Geometry-Enhanced Video World Models for Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2605.22882v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Video world models can generate realistic futures from a single instruction, but they often fail to tr…
Contact-Driven Localization in a Freeform Robotic Self-Assembled Structure
arXiv:2608.02895v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate localization remains a key challenge in swarm robotics, particularly for self-reconfigurable systems th…
Gated Memory Policy: In-Context Memorization and Adaptation
arXiv:2604.18933v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic manipulation tasks exhibit varying memory requirements, ranging from Markovian tasks that require no…