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3285 storiesDo World Action Models Generalize Better than VLAs? A Robustness Study
arXiv:2603.22078v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robot action planning in the real world is challenging as it requires not only understanding the current sta…
VPWEM: Non-Markovian Visuomotor Policy with Working and Episodic Memory
arXiv:2603.04910v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Imitation learning from human demonstrations has achieved significant success in robotic control, yet most v…
AXIS: A Growable Community-Driven Data Engine for Scalable Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2607.21588v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning effective robot manipulation policies requires diverse, high-quality demonstrations, yet existing data …
Scale Up Strategically: Learning Compositional Generalization via Bias-Aware Evaluation and Data Collection for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.21582v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compositional generalization is essential for robot to follow diverse instructions. However, pretrained policies…
Enhancing Glass Surface Reconstruction via Depth Prior for Robot Navigation
arXiv:2604.18336v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Indoor robot navigation is often compromised by glass surfaces, which severely corrupt depth sensor measurem…
Q-SpiRL: Quantum Spiking Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Robot Navigation
arXiv:2605.20801v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Adaptive robot navigation in dynamic environments requires policies that can reach the target reliably while…
URF: A Unified Robot Control-Policy Framework for Stable Contact Aware Manipulation
arXiv:2607.20912v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning-based manipulation policies usually predict robot actions from sensory observations and leave their exe…
Safe and Scalable Multi-Drone Payload Transport via CBF-based Reinforcement Learning with Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Transfer
arXiv:2607.20665v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-drone payload transportation has emerged as a promising research paradigm with potential applications in c…
Vision-Language-Policy Model for Dynamic Robot Task Planning
arXiv:2512.19178v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Bridging the gap between natural language commands and autonomous execution in unstructured environments rem…
Robostral Navigate
arXiv:2607.20785v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying navigation systems at scale requires a recipe that minimizes sensor assumptions, generalizes across ro…
TOPReward: Token Probabilities as Hidden Zero-Shot Rewards for Robotics
arXiv:2602.19313v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: General-purpose robot learning requires dense, instruction-conditioned feedback that can distinguish meaning…
TableVerse: A Large-scale Tabletop Dataset with Real-world Grounded Layouts for Generalizable Manipulation
arXiv:2607.21017v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The development of generalizable robotic manipulation policies is inherently bounded by the availability of larg…
PhysCoRe: Physics-Corrected Residual World Models for Material-Aware Deformable Dynamics
arXiv:2607.20653v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting how deformable objects evolve under robotic manipulation is a longstanding challenge. Existing approa…
HGeo-TopoMap: Boosting Topological Mapping with Hierarchical Geometric Priors
arXiv:2607.21281v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Topological maps are key outputs of autonomous driving perception systems, delivering essential road informati…
Towards Capability-Aware Traversability Navigation for Unstructured Environments
arXiv:2607.20679v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Estimating traversability in unstructured environments requires conditioning on robot embodiment, as the same te…
Human-Inspired Framework for Robotic Craniotomy: Integrating Multimodal Fusion and Adaptive Trajectory Adjustment
arXiv:2607.21058v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Manual craniotomy is a high-risk, skill-dependent procedure associated with surgeon fatigue and potential dural …
Compact Latent Coordination for Autonomous Vehicles at Unsignalized Intersections
arXiv:2607.21488v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Coordinating autonomous vehicles at unsignalized intersections remains a critical challenge for multi-agent re…
TransBiolab: A Real-World Multi-View Dataset of Cluttered Transparent Biomedical Objects
arXiv:2607.21071v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous biomedical laboratories increasingly rely on visual perception to recognize, localize, and manipula…
i2Nav-Robot: A Large-Scale Indoor-Outdoor Robot Dataset for Multi-Sensor Fusion Navigation
arXiv:2508.11485v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate and reliable navigation is crucial for autonomous unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). However, current…
Socially Consistent Multi-Robot Navigation Using Decoupled Planning and Trajectory Coordination
arXiv:2607.20772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The successful integration of mobile robots in human-centric environments requires navigation that is not only s…
Self-Supervised Bio-Inspired Robotic Trajectory Planning with Obstacle Avoidance
arXiv:2607.20743v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trajectory planning is a fundamental problem in robotics, requiring the generation of collision-free and efficie…
Deep Reinforcement-Learning-Guided Model Predictive Control for Preventing Overtakes in Autonomous Racing
arXiv:2607.20973v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses defensive blocking in autonomous racing, where a vehicle must prevent a faster opponent fro…
Uber co-founder raises $1.7B for new robotics startup ATOMS
Travis Kalanick, the former CEO of Uber, said with ATOMS, he hopes to create physical automation to transform industry. The post Uber co-founder raises $1.7B fo…
Holiday Robotics raises $105M for its FRIDAY wheeled humanoid
Holiday's robot features a wheel-based mobile base, an upper body for dexterous manipulation, and hot-swappable batteries. The post Holiday Robotics raises $105…
Ropedia raises $22M to scale data collection for training robots
Ropdeia's HOMIE is a head-mounted device, equipped with a 360º camera view, that captures first-person data for training robots. The post Ropedia raises $22M to…
AMD unveils Kria module for real-time control, unified memory for robots
AMD has launched the Ryzen AI Embedded X100 and Kria AI SoM, bringing unified memory and real-time control to challenge NVIDIA in robotics. The post AMD unveils…
Optimal Placement of Docking Stations and Resident AUVs for Subsea Pipeline Inspection
arXiv:2607.19944v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A two-stage mixed-integer linear programming framework is introduced for subsea pipeline incident response pla…
Extreme-RGMT: Continual Learning of Highly Dynamic Skills for Robust Generalist Humanoid Control
arXiv:2607.20110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans can progressively acquire highly dynamic motor skills while preserving reliable everyday motor abilities.…
Distributed Acoustic Localization Array Deployed Using a Soft Everting Vine Robot
arXiv:2607.20392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft robot exteroception is increasingly being explored for a variety of field applications. In this work, we pr…
SOPD-SocialNav: Selective On-Policy Distillation for Vision-Language Social Navigation
arXiv:2607.19850v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models have shown strong potential for social robot navigation by leveraging rich semantic under…