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1860 storiesWOLF-VLA: Whole-Body Humanoid Optimal Locomotion Framework for Vision-Language-Action Learning
arXiv:2606.25591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently demonstrated strong generalization in robotic manipulation, ye…
RGB: RL Guided Whole-Body MPPI for Humanoid Control
arXiv:2606.25123v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots require whole-body controllers that are both robust and precise in contact-rich environments. Wh…
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Enhanced Event-Triggered Data-Driven Predictive Control for a 3D Cable-Driven Soft Robotic Arm
arXiv:2606.26048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft robots are challenging to control due to their nonlinear and time-varying dynamics. Data-enabled predictive…
Beyond Topology: A Morphological Symmetry Graph Representation for Locomotion Policy Learning
arXiv:2512.00727v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning has enabled impressive locomotion skills on articulated robots, but common policy rep…
Reflective VLA: In-Context Action Consequences Make VLAs Generalize
arXiv:2606.25215v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most vision-language-action (VLA) models are reactive: they predict the next action from the current instructi…
SurveilNav: Collaborative Object Goal Navigation with Robot and Surveillance System
arXiv:2606.25119v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the growing deployment of surveillance systems in factories, offices, and homes, integrating them with robo…
Self Capacitive Tactile Sensor System designed for Companion Robots
arXiv:2606.25348v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tactile sensing is essential for humanoid robots to achieve safe physical interaction, dexterous manipulation, a…
Event-Adaptive Motion Planning with Distilled Vision-Language Model in Safety-Critical Situations
arXiv:2606.25629v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot navigation in safety-critical scenarios faces significant challenges from unforeseen semantic events, wher…
From Rubble Simulation to Active Magnetic Mapping: Quantum Sensing for Disaster Response
arXiv:2606.25957v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Locating survivors of building collapses within the first 72 hours is a critical challenge in disaster response,…
Action ControlNet: A Lightweight Delay-Aware Adapter for Smooth Asynchronous Control in Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2606.25985v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown strong potential for general-purpose robot manipulation, but thei…
Sampling Strategies for Robust Universal Quadrupedal Locomotion Policies
arXiv:2510.07094v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This work focuses on sampling strategies of configuration variations for generating robust universal locomot…
FAULHABER focuses on torque, noise, and power with new GPT gearheads
FAULHABER says its new GPT gearheads work with motors in its standard range and provide more performance with a compact design. The post FAULHABER focuses on to…
Reservoir acquires Contain to scale agtech startups
Reservoir has acquired agriculture finance platform Contain,, naming founder Nicola Kerslake general partner to help scale AI startups. The post Reservoir acqui…
Mantis Robotics launches dual-arm, fenceless robot
Mantis said the robot allows for new flexibility in how to configure automation in complex, real-world environments. The post Mantis Robotics launches dual-arm,…
Humanoid maker Agility Robotics to go public through SPAC merger
Agility Robotics will merge with Churchill Capital Corp XI, raising $620 million to advance Digit v5 and fulfill growing customer orders. The post Humanoid make…
Grounding Generative Policies in Physics: Optimization-Guided Diffusion for Robot Control
arXiv:2606.24208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models sample effectively from high-dimensional, multimodal distributions, but their outputs may viola…
Varying Bundle Size Reactive Multi-Task Assignment using Selective Cost Estimation for Multi-Agent Systems
arXiv:2606.24462v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a scalable framework for multi-robot task allocation in complex environments where estimatin…
Supervise What Survives: Geometry-Guided VLA Adaptation from Synthetic Robot Videos
arXiv:2606.24448v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models require large-scale video-action pairs, yet real teleoperation remains scarc…
G$^3$VLA: Geometric inductive bias for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2606.24472v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have made rapid progress in generalist robot manipulation by harnessing sema…
Explaining Failures of Cyber-Physical Systems with Actual Causality
arXiv:2606.24546v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), such as self-driving cars, face increasingly complex demands, a…
Flow as Flow: Modeling Robot Velocity Fields as Probability Velocity Fields for Flow-Based Object Manipulation
arXiv:2606.23090v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Cross-embodiment data have become central to training robotic foundation models. To leverage such heterogene…
PanoVine: Whole-Body Visuomotor Control for Soft Growing Vine Robot
arXiv:2606.22923v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vine robots, a class of soft, growing robots, are suitable for navigating complex and confined environments …
Wh0: Generative World Models as Scalable Sources of Egocentric Human Hand Manipulation Data
arXiv:2606.22136v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scaling dexterous manipulation requires generalization across objects, scenes, and tasks, yet existing data …
Beyond Monotonic Progress: Retry-Supervised Value Learning for Robot Imitation
arXiv:2606.24633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human demonstrations for robot imitation learning often contain mistakes and corrective behaviors, such as impre…
TACTFUL: Tactile-Driven Exploration For Object Localization and Identification in Confined Environments
arXiv:2606.24712v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans effortlessly locate and identify objects by touch alone, even without vision. In contrast, robotic system…
Critique of Agent Model
arXiv:2606.23991v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: What is an agent? What constitutes agency? With the rise of Large Language Model (LLM) systems marketed as ``c…
MuTRAP: Multi-trigger Trojans Attacking Robot Task Planning Systems
arXiv:2504.17070v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robots need task planning methods to achieve goals that require more than one action. Recently, large pretra…
MILE: A Mechanically Isomorphic Hand Exoskeleton and Visuotactile Robotic Hand for Data Collection in Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv:2512.00324v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Dexterous robotic hands are expected to perform complex, contact-rich object manipulation, but learning such…
Face versus Body Tracking for Human-Robot Interaction: An Egocentric Dataset
arXiv:2606.03694v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Meaningful human-robot interaction (HRI) requires a robot to continuously assess user engagement through per…
SkyJEPA: Learning Long-Horizon World Models for Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Control of Quadrotors
arXiv:2606.23444v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate dynamics models are critical for informed decision-making in robotic systems, particularly for agil…