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1860 storiesWorld Action Models Enable Continual Imitation Learning with Recurrent Generative Replays
arXiv:2606.27374v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Going beyond predicting robot actions, World Action Models (WAMs) can also generate future visual observations. …
Humanoid-DART: Humanoid Loco-Manipulation using Diffusion-guided Augmentation through Relabeling and Tracking
arXiv:2606.26855v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitating human demonstrations has emerged as a dominant paradigm for learning humanoid loco-manipulation polici…
RelAfford6D: Relational 6D Affordance Graphs for Constraint-Driven Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2606.27036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bridging abstract semantics and precise physical control remains a fundamental challenge in open-world robotic m…
PlanRL: A Trajectory Planning Architecture for Reinforcement Learning-based Driving Experts
arXiv:2606.26858v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a prominent framework for developing driving experts in autonomous vehicl…
WatchAct: A Benchmark for Behavior-Grounded Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2606.26443v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A robot working alongside people must reason about what they have done, in what order, and with what intent. Vid…
CogAD: Cognitive-Hierarchy Guided End-to-End Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2505.21581v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While end-to-end autonomous driving has advanced significantly, prevailing methods remain fundamentally misa…
ForesightSafety-VLA: A Unified Diagnostic Safety Benchmark for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2606.27079v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In embodied intelligence, safety is a prerequisite for reliable robot deployment in the physical world. Current …
Hardware Design for Table Tennis Robot Capable of Beating Professional Players
arXiv:2606.26643v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper focuses on the hardware specifications required for a table tennis robot to beat professional players…
E-TTS: A New Embodied Test-Time Scaling Framework for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2606.27268v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, a few works have made early attempts to study test-time scaling for embodied tasks. However, two major…
Bridging Performance and Generalization in Reinforcement Learning for Agile Flight
arXiv:2606.27348v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous drone racing is a fundamentally challenging regime for autonomous aerial robots, requiring time-optim…
OmniRobotHome: A Multi-Camera Home Platform for Real-Time Human-Robot Interaction
arXiv:2604.28197v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robots in homes must continuously sense the people around them, yet most prior work relies on limited or off…
Real-Time Safety Evaluation of Human Arm Operations Using a Wrist-Mounted IMU with PSM System
arXiv:2502.09241v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach to real-time safety monitoring in human-robot collaborative manufacturi…
LAMP: Lane-Aligned Motion Primitives for Feasible Trajectory Prediction
arXiv:2606.26661v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motion forecasting is essential for autonomous driving systems to enable safe decision-making and planning in co…
Reinforcement Learning Enables Autonomous Microrobot Navigation and Intervention in Simulated Blood Capillaries
arXiv:2606.26154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous microrobots navigating biological vasculature could enable targeted drug delivery and thrombolysis, y…
History-Conditioned Spatio-Temporal Visual Token Pruning for Efficient Vision-Language Navigation
arXiv:2603.06480v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) enables robots to follow natural-language instructions in visually grounded…
Unsupervised Memory-Enhanced Video Transformers: Obstacle Detection for Autonomous Agricultural Rover
arXiv:2606.26151v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While autonomous rovers have become indispensable to precision farming, achieving consistent operational safety …
Robust.AI chooses Aptiv PULSE sensor for Gen 3 Carter mobile robot
Aptiv provides sensor fusion from radar and vision using AI to enable Robust.AI's Carter robot to move safely around people. The post Robust.AI chooses Aptiv PU…
Hirebotics offers no-code, explosion-proof cobot for painting
Hirebotics' Cobot Painter supports stationary painting, with parts placed in a paint booth where robots perform all spraying operations. The post Hirebotics off…
ARM Institute expands RoboticsCareer.org into physical AI
RoboticsCareer.org now lists the growing job opportunities in physical AI and enables employers to connect to qualified talent. The post ARM Institute expands R…
ForceBand: Learning Forceful Manipulation with sEMG
arXiv:2606.26093v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human demonstrations are a scalable data source for learning robot manipulation policies. However, common source…
RARM: Confidence-Gated Progress Reward Modeling for RL in Manipulation
arXiv:2606.22027v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning for robot manipulation is often bottlenecked by reward design, especially in long-hor…
Learning Robot Visual Navigation in Crowds via Intention-Aware Scene Representations
arXiv:2606.26047v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot crowd navigation requires the ability to infer human intentions while accounting for the structural constr…
RoboRouter: Training-Free Policy Routing for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2603.07892v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Research on robotic manipulation has developed a diverse set of policy paradigms, including vision-language-…
FAR-LIO: Enabling High-Speed Autonomy through Fast, Accurate, and Robust LiDAR-Inertial Odometry
arXiv:2606.26010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust and accurate odometry estimation is essential in modern robotics. In environments characterized by highly…
AeroCast: Probabilistic 3D Trajectory Prediction for Non-Cooperative Aerial Obstacles via Transformer-MDN Architecture
arXiv:2606.25122v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous aerial vehicles operating in shared airspace must predict the future positions of non-cooperative obs…
Learning Perceptive Platform Adaptive Locomotion Controllers for Quadrupedal Robots
arXiv:2606.25179v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Universal quadrupedal locomotion remains limited by the difficulty of integrating perception across diverse robo…
HEART: Coordination of Heterogeneous Expert Agents for Physically Grounded Robotic Task Planning
arXiv:2606.25404v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) can reason over complex instructions but often fail to satisfy the physical and spa…
G2DP: Diffusion Planning with Spatio-Temporal Grid Guidance
arXiv:2606.26017v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In autonomous driving, diffusion-based planners have emerged as a promising paradigm for robust motion planning …
RigPI: Dynamic Parameter Identification of Rigid Body via VLM-Seeded Differentiable Simulation
arXiv:2606.25212v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate physical parameter identification of manipulated objects is fundamental to advanced robotic manipulatio…
fARfetch: Enabling Collocated AR-HRC in Large Visually Diverse Environments with VLM-Driven AR Content Adaptation
arXiv:2606.25162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Augmented Reality (AR) can improve collocated human-robot collaboration by making robot state and intent visible…