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1860 storiesHATS: A Human-Agent Teleoperation System for Multi-Arm Data Collection
arXiv:2606.16491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many real-world manipulation scenarios, such as handling complex collaborative tasks and dealing with large work…
Agile Fall Recovery for Quadrotors with Bidirectional Thrust via Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2606.16513v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous fall recovery is a critical capability for quadrotors operating in real-world environments, where col…
Training and Evaluating Diffusion Policies with Long Context Lengths
arXiv:2606.16447v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitation learning has enabled highly-dexterous robotic manipulation from RGB observations. Policies trained wit…
Is Your Trajectory Displacement Safe in Long-tail?
arXiv:2606.16313v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-tail scenarios remain a major bottleneck for autonomous driving evaluation, even as datasets grow by orders…
ATHENA: Accelerated Multi-Task Heterogeneous Influence Functions for Robot Data Curation
arXiv:2606.16208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In robot imitation learning, influence functions provide a principled approach to quantify each demonstration's …
A Deployment Case Study in Robotic Apparel Automation: Digital Twin Integration, Interoperability, and Workforce Enablement
arXiv:2606.16078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite steady advances in flexible automation in sectors such as electronics and automotive manufacturing, appa…
Energy-Efficient Arm Reaching for a Humanoid Robot via Deep Reinforcement Learning with Identified Power Models
arXiv:2606.15918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots performing in-field manipulation tasks, such as robotic apple harvesting, face severe energy con…
GeoTLM: Geometry-aware Tactile-Language Models for Contact Motion Orientation Reasoning of Dynamic Objects
arXiv:2606.15909v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern tactile-language models (TLMs) have shown potential for robot learning tasks, such as material and textur…
Can Causal Models Enhance Robot Navigation? Online Causal Adaptation for Real-Robot Navigation
arXiv:2606.15691v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Causality in robotics aims to produce more interpretable and flexible robot behaviours by enabling robots to pre…
FD-SLAM: Fast Dense Radar-Inertial SLAM with Frequency-Domain Loop Closure and Pose Graph Optimization
arXiv:2606.15491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Radar SLAM is attractive for autonomous ground vehicles operating in visually degraded environments, however, sc…
Acting While Understanding: Asynchronous Semantic-Action Decoupling for Real-Time Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2606.15285v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) have demonstrated strong task understanding and generalization in robotic m…
Co-Creating Buildable and Open Social Robot Study Companions with University Students
arXiv:2606.15239v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-source social robots offer accessibility, repairability, and student empowerment, yet the build itself ofte…
Rethinking Implicit Spatial Representation in Visuomotor Policy Learning
arXiv:2606.15232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative model-based imitation learning has become a widely adopted paradigm for robotic manipulation, where p…
Task-Aware Environment Augmentation for Reliable Navigation via Shielded Conditional Diffusion
arXiv:2606.15154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable trajectory planning under partial observability depends not only on computing a feasible geometric path…
MimicIK: Real-Time Generative Inverse Kinematics from Teleoperation with FK Consistency
arXiv:2606.15148v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inverse kinematics (IK) remains a critical bottleneck for real-time robot manipulation. Classical numerical solv…
Exact, Efficient, and Safe Occlusion-Aware Planning Using AH-Polyhedrons
arXiv:2606.15046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safely handling occlusions is a fundamental challenge for autonomous mobile robots operating in dynamic environm…
DynaHMRC: Decentralized Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Collaboration for Dynamic Tasks with Large Language Models
arXiv:2606.14882v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) provide robots with richer task understanding and adaptability, making them promisi…
TacStyle: Personalizing Tactile Robot Policies using Structured Behavior Representations
arXiv:2606.14862v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic systems that assist humans should be capable of adapting their behaviors to individual user preferences.…
GenZ-LIO: Generalizable LiDAR-Inertial Odometry Beyond Confined--Open Boundaries
arXiv:2603.16273v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: For field robotic missions such as inspection, search-and-rescue, and exploration, light detection and rangi…
Evidence of an Emergent "Self" in Continual Robot Learning
arXiv:2603.24350v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A key challenge to understanding self-awareness has been a principled way of quantifying whether an intellig…
An Ergonomic, Customizable Soft Robotic Glove toward Personalized Hand Rehabilitation
arXiv:2604.00768v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Hand impairment following neurological disorders substantially limits independence in activities of daily li…
Driving, Fast or Slow? Neuro-Symbolic Guidance for Motion Prediction in Multi-Modal Ground Mobility
arXiv:2606.15251v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate and interpretable motion prediction for heterogeneous traffic spaces, including pedestrians, bicycles, …
Seam-to-Graph Reconstruction for Garment Configuration Alignment
arXiv:2606.15171v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Seams encode rich structural information about garments but are frequently partially observable in robotic manip…
DragMesh-2: Physically Plausible Dexterous Hand-Object Interaction with Articulated Objects
arXiv:2606.15133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous interaction with articulated objects is important for household, assistive, and humanoid manipulation,…
Deep Learning-Based Lunar Crater Terrain Relative Navigation
arXiv:2606.14776v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate position estimation is crucial for the successful implementation of future lunar landings using autonom…
Action with Visual Primitives
arXiv:2605.22183v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising paradigm for generalist robotic manipulation…
Perceptive Behavior Foundation Model: Adapting Human Motion Priors to Robot-Centric Terrain
arXiv:2606.08059v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humanoid behavior foundation models aim to acquire reusable whole-body control policies from broad human mot…
AetheRock: An Arm-Worn Robot Teaching System for Force-Guided Vision-Tactile Learning
arXiv:2606.09777v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Force and tactile sensing are indispensable in contact-rich manipulation. However, force-aware robot learnin…
CoIRL-AD: Collaborative-Competitive Imitation-Reinforcement Learning in Latent World Models for Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2510.12560v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving models trained with imitation learning (IL) often generalize poorly, par…
AVA-VLA: Improving Vision-Language-Action models with Active Visual Attention
arXiv:2511.18960v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown remarkable progress in embodied tasks recently, but mos…