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3285 storiesTransformer Transformer: A Unified Model for Motion-Conditioned Robot Co-design
arXiv:2607.25798v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An often overlooked factor of robot manipulation performance is the embodiment of the robot itself. Motivated by…
Steeringless Drifting: Differential-Torque Control of a Four-Wheel Independently Driven Vehicle
arXiv:2607.24863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Control methods for emerging vehicle chassis architectures are important for autonomous driving near handling li…
Diff2DGS: Reliable Reconstruction of Occluded Surgical Scenes via 2D Gaussian Splatting
arXiv:2602.18314v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-time reconstruction of deformable surgical scenes is vital for advancing robotic surgery, improvi…
Extended Reality as a Mediation Layer for Situated Human Control in Human-Robot Teaming
arXiv:2607.25047v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Extended Reality (XR) is increasingly used in human-robot interaction to communicate robot intent, planned mot…
DC-WAM: Dynamic-Centric Visual Supervision and Reasoning for World-Action Models
arXiv:2607.25918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World-Action Models (WAMs) augment robot policies with future visual prediction, but it remains unclear what the…
S2A2: Audio-Visual Imitation Learning for Manipulation Tasks Using Acoustic Spatial Information
arXiv:2607.26047v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Acoustic information provides rich cues about object location, material properties, and changes caused by contac…
When Does Legacy Data Start to Help? Emergent Transfer in Cross-Configuration Robot Learning
arXiv:2607.25593v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic hardware evolves over time, but demonstration data is often tied to a specific sensor and actuator confi…
Decompose and Reorganize: Planning with Primitives and Visuomotor Policies Learned from Demonstrations
arXiv:2607.25397v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Successfully automating dexterous, long-horizon robotic manipulation requires frameworks capable of both high-le…
CycleVLA: Proactive Self-Correcting Vision-Language-Action Models via Subtask Backtracking and Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding
arXiv:2601.02295v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current work on robot failure detection and correction typically operates in a post hoc manner, analyzing er…
HOME: Robust Hough-space Matching Method for Structured and Textureless Videos
arXiv:2607.25389v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual front-ends for robotic localization typically rely on point-based features such as Oriented FAST and Ro…
SONG: A Photorealistic 3D Gaussian Simulation Platform for Benchmarking Social Navigation
arXiv:2607.25219v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Social navigation has progressed from simplified 2D environments toward a more general vision-based setting, in …
Tri-Manual Visuomotor Imitation Learning of Robot Policies
arXiv:2607.25731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bimanual teleoperation provides an effective way to collect robot demonstrations, but it assumes that the operat…
Belief-Aware Influence and Trust (BAIT): Shaping Human Belief During Repeated Human-Robot Interaction
arXiv:2607.25327v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Repeated human-robot interaction (HRI) requires proactively accounting for humans who continually adapt to evolv…
Input Shaping for Point-to-Point Motion with a Continuum Robot Arm
arXiv:2607.25071v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A cable-driven continuum robot arm is an underactuated mechanism and may suffer residual vibration at the end of…
HiFi-UMI: Learning Deployable Manipulation Policies from High-Fidelity UMI Data Alone
arXiv:2607.25895v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning deployable manipulation policies is bottlenecked by the scarcity of data that is both high-fidelity and…
Tripody: An Overconstrained 3-SPR-like Parallel Robot for High-Reach Construction Tasks
arXiv:2607.25781v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many ceiling construction tasks still rely on heavy serial manipulators that are difficult to deploy in cluttere…
SAM3D-Guided Object-Centric Representation Alignment for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2607.25912v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong potential for general robot manipulation, but most existin…
Nautilus: From One Prompt to Plug-and-Play Robot Learning
arXiv:2605.11665v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robot learning research is fragmented across policy families, benchmark suites, and real robots; each implem…
A Causality-aware Infer-diagnose-refine Framework for Test-time Modality Adaptation in VLA Models
arXiv:2607.25516v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models predict sequential actions to execute tasks specified by language instructio…
SGTP: Sampling-based Game-Theoretic Planning for Real-Time Multi-Vehicle Autonomous Racing
arXiv:2607.25388v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous multi-vehicle racing requires real-time planning of diverse competitive behaviors in intense interact…
ENvue Medical develops robotic feeding tube placement system
ENvue Drive is designed to assist, not replace, the clinician, who retains full control of the procedure at all times. The post ENvue Medical develops robotic f…
Registration is open for RoboBusiness 2026
This year, join us in October in Santa Clara to celebrate 20 years of robotics excellence at RoboBusiness 2026. The post Registration is open for RoboBusiness 2…
How Integrated Actuators Improve Humanoid Robot Joint Performance and System Integration
Humanoid robots have become an important area of research in robotics, attracting attention from universities, research institutions, and technology companies. …
Agency Tool Company wants to make OTA software updates easier
Two Scythe co-founders are using their experience building commercial robots to create tools for robotics developers at Agency Tool Co. The post Agency Tool Com…
Soft robotic heart offers new way to study disease and test life-saving devices
The soft robotic model of the human heart, developed at UNSW. Credit: UNSW/Richard Freeman. UNSW researchers have developed a soft robotic model of the human he…
Continual-RL for Generalization in Autonomous Racing on the RoboRacer Platform
arXiv:2607.24320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A key challenge in modern robotics is to adapt to changing environments, a challenge that is exacerbated when si…
A Case Study on the Acceptance of a Humanoid Robotic Head Employed in Three Public Spaces
arXiv:2607.24113v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Previous research has shown that a human-like robot's acceptance heavily depends on the setting in which it oper…
The Curse of Precision: A Data Scaling Law for High-Precision Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.23108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While scaling laws for imitation learning have primarily focused on generalization in open-world settings, the r…
Accuracy potential of visual localization exploiting high-end street-level imagery
arXiv:2607.24409v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate and reliable pose information with respect to a reference frame is increasingly demanded across appli…
Self-Supervised Consistency Enhanced Disentangled Learning for Neural Decoding Generalization in Brain-Machine Interface
arXiv:2607.24023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMIs) provide a direct communication pathway between the brain and external devices,…