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1860 storiesEmcar: Embodied Controller for Animating Robots
arXiv:2606.26008v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This chapter describes EMCAR, a novel software tool for programming robot motion that leverages the unique affor…
1000 Rallies: An Event-Camera Dataset and Real-Time Learned Ball-State Estimation for Robotic Table Tennis
arXiv:2606.25620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic table tennis has emerged as a compelling benchmark for real-time robotic perception due to its fast ball…
Causality-Based Parametric Control Barrier Function for Safe Multi-Vehicle Interaction
arXiv:2606.25134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe control has been widely studied in various safety-critical applications, for instance, autonomous driving. …
GRAFT: Graph-Based Affordance Transfer via Part Correspondence
arXiv:2606.25241v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalizing robotic manipulation to unseen objects remains challenging, as learning-based approaches require ma…
An Integrated Hardware-Software Design for Low-Data Spatial Defect Detection in Robotic Visual Inspection with Hybrid Optoelectronic Neural Networks
arXiv:2606.25277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To address data overload and inefficient shape-level annotation in robotic visual inspection, this paper propose…
RoDyn: Taming Interactive Robot-Dynamic 2.5D World Model for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2510.09036v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learned world models hold significant potential as neural simulators for robotic manipulation. However, prev…
Stage-Aware and Roughness-Constrained Diffusion Policy for Multi-Stage Robotic Polishing
arXiv:2606.25754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Polishing is a critical finishing process in high-end manufacturing fields such as aerospace, where surface qual…
MIL-LC: A Robust Magnetometer-Inertial-LiDAR Fusion Multimodal Localization Framework
arXiv:2606.25796v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Localization in challenging environments, such as GNSS-denied, geometrically repetitive, or textureless scenes c…
Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt: Close Proximity Geometry Reconstruction Using FMCW Radar Shadow Effects
arXiv:2606.25829v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable perception in adverse conditions remains challenging for autonomous systems, as cameras and LiDAR degra…
Spotlighting Task-Relevant Features: Object-Centric Representations for Better Generalization in Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2601.21416v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The generalization capabilities of robotic manipulation policies are heavily influenced by the choice of vis…
RAVEN: Long-Horizon Reasoning & Navigation with a Visuo-Spatio-Temporal Memory
arXiv:2606.25206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term robot deployment requires a compact and scalable memory that preserves fine-grained visual semantics, …
WaveForward: An Omnidirectional Passive Wheeled Quadruped Robot with Casters
arXiv:2606.25299v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wheeled-legged robots possess both agile mobility for traversing complex terrains and high efficiency, making th…
Toward Low-Latency Vision-Language Models with Doubly-Correct Predictions in Egocentric Visual Understanding
arXiv:2606.25160v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid rise of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in egocentric visual understanding has made low-latency inferenc…
Commerge: Communication-Efficient, Robust, and Fast LiDAR Map Merging Framework for Multi-Robot Coordination in Resource-Constrained Scenarios
arXiv:2606.25386v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: By maintaining global consistency across robot teams, multi-robot LiDAR map merging enables faster exploration a…
PhyGile: Physics-Prefix Guided Motion Generation for Agile General Humanoid Motion Tracking
arXiv:2603.19305v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humanoid robots are expected to execute agile and expressive whole-body motions in real-world settings. Exis…
Decoupling Semantics and Geometric Grounding: Spatial Visual Prompts for Language-Conditioned Imitation Learning
arXiv:2606.25360v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While end-to-end Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models show promise in robotic manipulation, their monolithic para…
ZeroWBC: Learning Natural Whole-Body Humanoid Interaction from Human Egocentric Data
arXiv:2603.09170v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Achieving versatile and natural whole-body humanoid interaction control remains challenging due to the high …
Learning Asynchronous Upper-body Task-space Trajectory Tracking Policy for Humanoid Robots
arXiv:2606.25706v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-level humanoid planners often output sparse task-space, low-rate trajectories, whereas whole-body controlle…
MAPL: Multi-Objective Preference Learning for Robot Locomotion
arXiv:2606.25398v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reward design remains a major bottleneck in reinforcement learning for robot locomotion, where successful polici…
In-Context World Modeling for Robotic Control
arXiv:2606.26025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models often fail to generalize to novel setups, such as altered camera view…
AISPO: Enhancing Depth Reliability for Robotic Manipulation of Non-Lambertian Objects via Affine-Invariant Shape Prior
arXiv:2606.25503v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable depth perception is critical for robotic manipulation, especially for non-Lambertian objects such as tr…
Generative AI for Safe and Photorealistic Drone Light Shows
arXiv:2606.25458v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Drone light shows are redefining aerial entertainment, yet their widespread adoption is bottlenecked by labor-in…
Memory Retrieval in Visuomotor Policies for Long-Horizon Robot Control
arXiv:2606.25136v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose robots operating in partially observable environments, such as homes, require memory to support …
ASSCG: Just-Right Gating over Chattering for Fast-Slow LLM Planning in Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2606.25509v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can improve autonomous driving planning but are costly to query online, and existin…
ARTOO-DARTU: Studying AR-HRC With AR Obstruction Mitigation During a Warehouse Task
arXiv:2606.25202v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human-robot collaboration (HRC) often requires robot intentions and internal states to be conveyed to users fo…
AI Coaching for Accelerating Human Skill Development with Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2606.25337v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI copilots can substantially boost human performance through shared control, but excessive assistance can induc…
One Body, Two Minds: Variable Autonomy Approach for a Co-embodied Robotic Hand
arXiv:2606.25575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Assistive robotic systems face a fundamental trade-off: fully autonomous systems lack user agency, while fully u…
Learning Action Priors for Cross-embodiment Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2606.26095v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models build on a Vision-Language Model (VLM) backbone by attaching an action …
MANGO: Automated Multi-Agent Test Oracle Generation for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2606.24815v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are emerging robotic control systems that integrate perception, language u…
GROVE: Grounded Pedestrian Simulation via Natural Language for Interactive Social Robot Navigation
arXiv:2606.25504v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pedestrian simulation is a critical component for training and deploying social robot navigation approaches, yet…