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1860 storiesFDIO: Frequency Decomposed Inertial Odometry
arXiv:2511.15645v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pedestrian inertial odometry (PIO) estimates autonomous pedestrian motion using only acceleration and …
NIMO: A Software Platform for Closed-Loop Materials Exploration with Diverse AI Algorithms
arXiv:2606.15522v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-driving laboratories (SDLs), where artificial intelligence proposes subsequent experiments and robotic sy…
Self-Driving Negotiator: An interactive, verifiable benchmark for social negotiation and theory of mind under hidden intent
arXiv:2606.15139v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous driving is full of tiny social negotiations: a driver presses forward, another yields, a pedestrian…
DataLadder: A Simulation-Enabled Interconversion Toolchain for the Embodied Data Pyramid
arXiv:2606.16776v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalist robot policies require trustworthy evaluation and robot-usable training data, but both are difficult …
An Augmented Reality Brain-Robot Interface for Generalist Robot Arm Manipulation
arXiv:2606.16413v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The integration of augmented reality (AR) and EEG-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) offers a promising path…
PO-PDDL: Learning Symbolic POMDPs from Visual Demonstrations for Robot Planning Under Uncertainty
arXiv:2606.15654v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world robot task planning must operate under both stochastic action execution and partial observability, ye…
Learning Context-Aware Neural ODE Dynamics for Adaptive Robotic Control
arXiv:2606.15469v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic systems deployed in uncertain and dynamically changing environments often face variations in contact con…
OSDAG: Online Scheduling for Efficient Multi-Robot Collaboration
arXiv:2606.15255v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coordinating heterogeneous multi-robot systems (MRS) for complex, long-horizon tasks requires both flexible high…
An Autonomous Subgram SMA-Based Swimmer
arXiv:2606.15028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present the Swima, a bioinspired 900-mg swimmer propelled by two 10-mg high-work-density (HWD) actuators driv…
Synthetic-to-Real Pipeline for Safe Landing Zone Detection
arXiv:2606.14767v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) transition toward higher levels of autonomy, the ability to perform unassiste…
Multimodal Physiological Assessment of Contact-Rich Physical Human-Robot Interaction Under Varying Environmental Conditions
arXiv:2606.14969v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical human-robot interaction (pHRI) in real-world settings exposes operators to fluctuating environmental co…
Inference-time Policy Steering via Vision and Touch
arXiv:2606.14981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inference-time steering adapts pre-trained generative robot policies during deployment by verifying candidate ac…
Covariance-Regulated Recursive Koopman Learning for Nonlinear Systems with Uncertain Time-Varying Dynamics
arXiv:2606.15317v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offline models for autonomous robots often fail under time-varying dynamics outside their training distribution.…
Understanding and Modeling Perceived Cognitive and Physical Strain Dynamics for Planning-Oriented Human-Robot Collaboration in Prefabricated Construction
arXiv:2606.15494v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-robot collaboration (HRC) in prefabricated construction requires planning approaches that consider not onl…
Reinforcement Learning-Guided Retrieval with Soft Fusion for Robust Multimodal Imitation Learning under Missing Modalities
arXiv:2606.15514v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic systems perceive the world through multiple input modalities -- including visual camera streams and natu…
Robots as Tokens: Unified Diffusion Transformer for Coordinated Multi-Robot Trajectory Generation
arXiv:2606.15550v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The success of generative models in language and visual generation has inspired extensive applications to genera…
ControlMap: Controllable High-Definition Map Generation for Traffic Scenario Simulation
arXiv:2606.15930v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulation is central to validating autonomous driving systems, yet current pipelines are limited by insufficien…
RHO: Your Coding Agent is Secretly a Roboticist
arXiv:2606.16458v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Code-as-Policies (CaP) has shown that large language models (LLMs) can write code to solve robotics tasks by com…
Robots that Collaborate: Sequential Asymmetric Imitation for Learning Coupled Robot Policies
arXiv:2606.16490v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collaborative mobile manipulation requires robots to coordinate with a partially observed partner while physical…
V2P-Manip: Learning Dexterous Manipulation from Monocular Human Videos
arXiv:2606.16436v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Achieving autonomous robotic dexterous manipulation requires precise, human-like action sequences at scale. As a…
PATCH: Action-Chunk-Conditioned Latent Patch Innovation Monitoring for Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2606.16690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning-based manipulation policies have made substantial progress in real-world robot manipulation, particular…
ATOM-Bench: A Real-World Benchmark for Atomic Skills and Compositional Generalization in Manipulation Policies
arXiv:2606.16826v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalist manipulation policies are increasingly presented as foundation models for robotic control, but their …
LOPAL: Local Performance-Aware Active Learning from Imperfect Demonstrations
arXiv:2606.16888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning from Demonstration (LfD) enables intuitive robot skill acquisition by allowing robots to learn directly…
MotionVLA: Vision-Language-Action Model for Humanoid Motion
arXiv:2606.15142v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generating realistic humanoid motion from scene images and text involves both low-frequency pose semantics and…
X-Tokenizer: A Multimodal Action Tokenizer for Vision-Language-Action Pretraining
arXiv:2606.14752v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models must bridge pretrained vision-language reasoning and precise contin…
T-Rex: Tactile-Reactive Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv:2606.17055v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The ability to react dynamically to tactile signals has long been considered crucial to agile human-level dexter…
Beyond English: Uncovering the Multilingual Gap in Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2606.15714v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models have recently demonstrated promising capabilities in learning generalist robot p…
Towards mm-Level Accurate UWB Radar: High-Accuracy Phase-Based Obstacle Detection through Multi-Channel Fusion
arXiv:2606.16657v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate, tag-free distance estimation with ultrawideband (UWB) radar is essential for applications such as au…
Intelligent Sailing Model for Open Sea Navigation
arXiv:2501.04988v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous vessels potentially enhance safety and reliability of seaborne trade. To facilitate the developme…
DemoDiffusion: One-Shot Human Imitation using pre-trained Diffusion Policy
arXiv:2506.20668v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose DemoDiffusion, a simple method for enabling robots to perform manipulation tasks by imitating a s…