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Simulated zebrafish and a vision-equipped robotic fish reveal how the body shapes brain circuits
Image credit: Olivier Porchet, Biorobotics Laboratory, EPFL When a fish holds its position against a current in a river, its brain must figure out how fast to s…
Reimagine Robotics emerges from stealth with robots that ‘learn on the job’
Reimagine Robotics, founded by former Google DeepMind Applied Robotics leaders, is developing systems that do not require specialized programmers. The post Reim…
MROPE: A Multi-Robot Safe Cooperative Strategy via combined Predictive Safety Filters and Ellipse-based Constraint Compression
arXiv:2607.29203v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying drone swarms to track a dynamic target in cluttered environments presents severe computational and saf…
D-VLC: Decentralized Vision-Language Collaboration for Heterogeneous Embodied Multi-Robot Systems in Unknown Environments
arXiv:2607.29009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot systems, particularly heterogeneous robot swarms, can improve the efficiency of complex task executi…
WCM: A World Critic Model for Vision-Language-Action Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607.29613v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models has shown strong promise for ro…
Kinodynamic Motion Retargeting for Humanoid Locomotion via Multi-Contact Whole-Body Trajectory Optimization
arXiv:2603.09956v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present the KinoDynamic Motion Retargeting (KDMR) framework, a novel approach for humanoid locomotion tha…
AquaJEPA: Action-Conditioned Multimodal Predictive Representations for Underwater Robot Dynamics
arXiv:2607.29393v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Underwater robots combine complementary sensors whose reliability changes abruptly with water visibility, viewpo…
BWM: A Low-Cost High-Fidelity World Simulator for Robot Learning
arXiv:2607.29302v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable robot learning requires a world simulator that can predict action consequences before execution on phys…
Combining Large Language Models and Symbolic Reasoning for Multi-Robot Temporal Planning through Explainable Knowledge Bases
arXiv:2502.19135v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present PLANTOR, a framework for generating and executing multi-robot task plans from natural-langu…
GPA-RAM: Grasp-Pretraining Augmented Robotic Attention Mamba for Spatial Task Learning
arXiv:2504.19683v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Fine-grained robotic manipulation often fails when inaccurate initial grasps propagate errors and necessitat…
FibVLA: An Efficient Temporal Vision-Language-Action Model with Fibonacci Sampling
arXiv:2607.29596v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action models (VLAs), which leverage the cognition of multimodal information to infer physical-w…
Diagnosing Compositional Generalization in Sequential Robot Tasks
arXiv:2607.29687v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sequential robot manipulation requires policies to execute novel combinations of familiar instruction components…
Vision-Based Agile Landing on Turbulent Waters
arXiv:2605.23717v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous landing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles on maritime vessels is challenging due to the coupled motion …
Outcome-Guided Distillation: A Teacher-Student Framework to Advance VLM Reasoning in Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607.29052v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving aims to learn a direct mapping from visual observations to control actions. …
Receding-Horizon Next-Best-View Planner for Autonomous Leaf Surface Reconstruction
arXiv:2607.28995v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate plant leaf modeling is fundamental to downstream tasks such as plant growth monitoring, and phenotyping…
TransGraspNet: Physically and Geometrically Consistent Manipulation of Transparent Labware
arXiv:2607.29567v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Manipulating transparent laboratory glassware that contains liquid is inherently safety-critical: even small geo…
STAGE: STyle-controllable Action GEneration for personalized autonomous driving
arXiv:2607.29517v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Driving style refers to the behavioral preferences that drivers maintain during driving, shaped by their diverse…
Automated Straight-line Sewing of Stretchable Fabrics with Different Lengths
arXiv:2607.29464v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Different Length Alignment Sewing (DLAS), which involves stretching the shorter fabric to match the longer one a…
Advances, challenges, and opportunities for legged robots
arXiv:2607.28952v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid and quadrupedal robots have the potential to revolutionize the way we work, interact, and coexist with …
ASVSim (AirSim for Surface Vehicles): A High-Fidelity Simulation Framework for Autonomous Surface Vehicle Research
arXiv:2506.22174v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The transport industry has recently shown significant interest in unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), specific…
Homotopy-Aware Corridor Generation without Predefined Reference Paths
arXiv:2607.29513v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating safe corridors is essential for collision-free robotic motion planning, yet most existing methods rel…
Balancing of Humanoid with Object Mass: Trade-off Analyses and Lifting Control
arXiv:2607.29625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The demand for humanoid loco-manipulation tasks with an object has recently increased, and most existing control…
TacPrint: A Wearable Fingertip Tactile Sensor for Human-to-Robot Contact Reproduction
arXiv:2607.29231v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-centric data collection is emerging as a significant paradigm for robot skill acquisition, but seamlessly …
TRACT: Temporally Routed Action Chunks with Chronological Phase Authority for Contact-Rich Manipulation
arXiv:2607.29285v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action chunking shortens the effective decision horizon of robot imitation learning by predicting multiple futur…
ActFovea: Runtime Safeguarding for VLA Policies via Spatiotemporal Visual-Action Consistency
arXiv:2607.29169v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies achieve strong performance in robotic manipulation but remain vulnerable t…
Auto-JEPA: A Latent World Model of Continuous Intent for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607.29031v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing autonomous-driving world models typically perform dense prediction of future videos, occupancy states, …
ST-WAM: Semantic-Temporal World Action Model for Robust Manipulation under Visual Distribution Shifts
arXiv:2607.28993v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm by jointly modeling robot actions and future vis…
FBFM: A Training-Free Asynchronous Feedback Mechanism for Flow-Matching in World-Action Models Execution
arXiv:2607.29235v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although world-action models (WAMs) enhance long-horizon robot control by predicting visual evolution before act…
CLIFT: Turning Gemini Robotics On-Device into Humanoid Specialists via Non-Invasive Closed-Loop Iterative Fine-Tuning
arXiv:2607.29172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While robot foundation models are growing increasingly capable, the strongest models are typically trained on pr…
HAM-VLN: Harnessing Hierarchical Agentic Memory for Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation
arXiv:2607.29600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) enables robots to follow instructions in previously unseen environments. Re…