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3285 storiesTowards Miniature Humanoid Tele-Loco-Manipulation Using Virtual Reality and Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607.20399v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Full-sized humanoid robot capabilities have grown exponentially in recent years, aiming towards general-purpose …
Effort-Based Criticality Metrics for Evaluating 3D Perception Errors in Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2603.28029v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Criticality metrics such as time-to-collision (TTC) quantify collision urgency but do not distinguish …
SeededGrasp: Language-Guided Grasping in Complex Scenes with Multiple Embodiments
arXiv:2607.20207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Practical robotic grasping in complex scenes requires both 3D spatial reasoning and alignment with task-specific…
V2F: Vision-Informed Grasp Force Prediction for Damage-Aware Robotic Handling of Date Fruits
arXiv:2607.19804v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a vision-informed grasp force prediction framework for robotic handling of date fruits. Addr…
Morphing MILR: Design and control of a cable-driven limbless robot with rolling joints for maneuvering in complex environments
arXiv:2607.19714v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Limbless robots offer exceptional mobility in confined and cluttered environments due to their slender bodies an…
Defer to Plan: Adaptive Multi-Agent Fusion for End-to-End V2X Driving
arXiv:2607.19774v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vehicle-to-everything-aided autonomous driving (V2X-AD) significantly enhances driving performance through infor…
What Matters in Humanoid General Motion Tracking? An Empirical Study
arXiv:2607.19903v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid general motion tracking requires policies that can follow diverse whole-body references while maintaini…
Distributed Motion Planning with Safety Guarantees for Self-Reconfiguring Robotic Boats
arXiv:2607.20352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aquatic self-reconfigurable robots must assemble into desired shapes while ensuring safe interactions among mult…
EgoRecovery: Acquiring Failure Recovery Ability Through Human Recovery Demonstration
arXiv:2607.19745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust embodied robots should be able to recover from failures and retry tasks in order to operate reliably in u…
Unified Prediction and Planning via Conflict-Aware Disjoint Parameter Training
arXiv:2607.19971v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate motion prediction of surrounding agents and safe motion planning are two closely coupled key tasks for …
Milo, a Fully Autonomous Indoor/Outdoor Robotic Guide Dog
arXiv:2607.19530v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many Blind and Low-Vision (BLV) people rely on guide dogs for moment-to-moment navigation, such as staying on pa…
PGTT: Phase-Guided Terrain Traversal for Perceptive Legged Locomotion
arXiv:2510.18348v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: State-of-the-art perceptive Reinforcement Learning controllers for legged robots typically either (i) impose…
Learning Personalized Safety Interventions for Haptic Human-Robot Shared Control
arXiv:2607.19534v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Haptic feedback provides an implicit channel for communicating safety intentions during human-robot shared contr…
Dynamic Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery in Robotic Cellular Warehousing Systems
arXiv:2606.05669v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic Cellular Warehousing Systems (RCWS) give rise to multi-agent pickup and delivery (MAPD) processes in…
Closing the Lab-to-Store Gap: A Data-Efficient Post-Training and Experience-Driven Learning VLA Framework for Retail Humanoids
arXiv:2607.20345v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Closing the gap between benchmark performance and reliable real-world operation remains a central challenge for …
ModPack: An Extensible Teleoperation Interface for Bimanual Mobile Manipulation
arXiv:2607.19479v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing teleoperation systems are often tailored to specific robot hardware and task domains, limiting their sc…
Robots Acquire Manipulation Skills in Seconds from a Single Human Video
arXiv:2607.20033v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The ability to acquire skills rapidly and effortlessly while retaining those already mastered is essential for r…
VG3S: Visual Geometry Grounded Gaussian Splatting for Semantic Occupancy Prediction
arXiv:2603.06210v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: 3D semantic occupancy prediction has become a crucial perception task for comprehensive scene understa…
Clinical Pathways as Safety Specifications for Physical AI in Hospital Wards
arXiv:2607.19827v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ensuring safety in Physical AI systems operating in real-world environments is a critical challenge, particularl…
NavVerse: Benchmarking Indoor-to-Outdoor Embodied Navigation in Continuous Robot Simulation
arXiv:2607.19695v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots deployed in delivery, campus, and emergency-response settings often need to navigate from buildings to st…
Courteous Anticipation: Improving Long-Lived Task Planning in Persistent Shared Environments
arXiv:2607.20289v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We consider a task planning scenario in which robots sharing a persistent environment are assigned tasks one at …
LENS: LLM-guided Environment Simplification for Planning and Control in Clutter
arXiv:2607.19633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite recent advances in general-purpose robotic manipulation, real-world multi-object clutter remains challen…
Emergent Autonomous Drifting for Collision Avoidance in Real-World Winter Driving Scenarios
arXiv:2607.19484v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world collision avoidance is a core motivation for studying the dynamics and control of high sideslip drift…
Diffusion ReRoll: Revisable Denoising for Robotic Sequential Prediction
arXiv:2607.19919v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose Diffusion ReRoll, a diffusion-based framework for robotic sequential prediction that enables revisabl…
Don't Fool Me Twice: Adapting to Adversity in the Wild with Experience-Driven Reasoning
arXiv:2605.31119v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In robotics, dangers and adversity modes are often embodiment-specific and relative to each agent. A frontie…
Physical AI and Robotics
The State of Physical AI and Robotics While robotics developers have used artificial intelligence for years, the past few years have seen a fundamental shift in…
Medtronic to launch AI compute platform for the operating room
Touch Surgery bridges pre-operative planning and training, intra-operative tele-mentoring and tele-proctoring, and post-operative insights. The post Medtronic t…
Agentic Real2Sim: Physics-based World Modeling with Vision-Language Agents
arXiv:2607.19190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-to-sim conversion for robotic interaction with objects remains labor-intensive because it requires more tha…
Toward Learning POMDPs Beyond Full-Rank Actions and State Observability
arXiv:2601.18930v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We are interested in enabling autonomous agents to learn and reason about systems with hidden states, …
Computing on the Fly: Navigating a Vision for the Future of Drone Computing
arXiv:2607.19213v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The report envisions a decade in which drones move goods, medical supplies, and information at a scale comparabl…