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1860 storiesScaling Short-Term Memory of Visuomotor Policies for Long-Horizon Tasks
arXiv:2606.16178v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many robotic tasks require short-term memory, whether it's retrieving an object that's no longer visible or turn…
Leveraging Deep Learning for Object and Position Recognition of Load Carriers for Autonomous Logistics Vehicles
arXiv:2606.16042v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work explores the use of artificial intelligence in mobile robotics to achieve autonomous detection and pos…
$\lambda$-Reachability: Geometric-Horizon Safety Bellman Equations for Humanoid Safety
arXiv:2606.16022v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce $\lambda$-Reachability, a scalable approach to Hamilton--Jacobi safety analysis for high-dimensiona…
Identification of a Physics-Based Electrical Power Consumption Model for the Unitree G1 Humanoid Arm
arXiv:2606.15915v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate prediction of electrical power consumption is essential for energy-aware motion planning, battery manag…
VL2Spike: Spike-driven Distillation from VLMs for Low-Power Visual Perception in Embodied AI
arXiv:2606.15898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are brain-inspired, event-driven models that compute with sparse spikes, which en…
FlashNav: Ultra-Fast Policy Training for Robot Navigation within 20 Seconds
arXiv:2606.15846v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning has shown strong potential for robot navigation, but its practical deployment is sti…
LaWAM: Latent World Action Models for Efficient Dynamics-Aware Robot Policies
arXiv:2606.15768v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) leverage large-scale vision-language pretraining for semantic robot control…
Perfect Demo Makes Poor Teacher: Learning Robust Alignment from Critical Motion Segments
arXiv:2606.15587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Expert demonstrations are widely assumed to be the gold standard for robot imitation learning. Yet for fine-grai…
SAPS: Shared Autonomy for Policy Steering by Blending Teleoperation with a Pretrained VLA
arXiv:2606.15568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advancements in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated impressive generalist capabilities …
A Bilateral Teleoperation Framework for Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv:2606.15434v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous teleoperation requires precise arm-hand coordination, low-latency feedback, and robust interaction in …
Raspi$^2$USBL: An open-source Raspberry Pi-Based Passive Inverted Ultra-Short Baseline Positioning System for Underwater Robotics
arXiv:2511.06998v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Precise underwater positioning remains a fundamental challenge for underwater robotics because global naviga…
SimCoachCorpus: A naturalistic dataset with language and trajectories for embodied teaching
arXiv:2509.14548v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-quality curated datasets are essential for training and evaluating AI approaches, but are often lacking…
One-Step Model Predictive Path Integral for Manipulator Motion Planning Using Configuration Space Distance Fields
arXiv:2509.00836v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Motion planning for robotic manipulators is a fundamental problem in robotics. Classical optimization-based …
Decoupled Object-Centric Video Understanding for Generating Robotic Manipulation Commands
arXiv:2606.16470v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Translating video demonstrations into executable robot commands remains challenging because existing methods o…
PSYONIC partners with ABB Robotics to apply human touch to robot dexterity
PSYONIC is combining its Ability Hand with ABB Robotics' GoFa cobot arm to apply data from prosthetics users to robotic grasping. The post PSYONIC partners with…
Autonomous freight developer Einride goes public via SPAC
Stockholm-based Einride operates a fleet of heavy-duty electric trucks servicing Global Fortune 500 companies across the U.S. and Europe. The post Autonomous fr…
A Pragmatic VLA Foundation Model
arXiv:2601.18692v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Offering great potential in robotic manipulation, a capable Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation model is…
Multi-Agent Embodied Autonomous Driving: From V2X Information Exchange to Shared World Models
arXiv:2606.13840v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving is shifting from isolated vehicle intelligence toward multi-agent embodied systems that share…
TRACE: Trajectory-Routed Causal Memory for Delayed-Evidence Visuomotor Imitation
arXiv:2606.14551v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots under autonomous operation may require decisions based on evidence that is no longer visible. We study \e…
The N2D Haptic Glove: A Multi-Finger Glove for 2D Directional Force Feedback for Contact Rich Manipulation
arXiv:2606.14083v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans rely on directional fingertip forces to probe and regulate contact during manipulation, yet most wearable…
ReactSim-Bench: Benchmarking Reactive Behavior World Model Simulation in Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2606.14058v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reactive capability is a key property of data-driven behavior world model simulators for autonomous driving simu…
Self-Improving VLA Policies: Selected Diffusion Noise for Spurious-Robust Action Smoothing
arXiv:2606.14084v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion-based Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies enable strong generalization in robotic manipulation, but …
A Modular Dual-Arm Apple Harvesting Robot with Enhanced Field Performance
arXiv:2606.14089v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic apple harvesting offers a promising solution to labor shortages in commercial orchards, but low throughp…
X-Loco: Towards Generalist Humanoid Locomotion Control via Synergetic Policy Distillation
arXiv:2603.03733v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While recent advances have demonstrated strong performance in individual humanoid skills such as upright loc…
Selective Agentic Recovery for UAV Autonomy with a Persistent Mission Runtime
arXiv:2606.14219v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI can support unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) autonomy by providing high-level recovery reasoning when lo…
$\mu_0$: A Scalable 3D Interaction-Trace World Model
arXiv:2606.13769v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models that capture how actions induce physical change enable scalable robot learning without reliance on …
ParkourFormer: Integrating Predictive Supervision and Sequence Modeling into Parkour Locomotion
arXiv:2605.25782v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humanoid parkour requires locomotion policies to coordinate whole-body dynamics across rapidly changing terr…
GAIT: Legged Robot Proprioceptive State Estimation with Attention over Inertial-Leg Tokens
arXiv:2606.14160v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we propose a method that applies Inertial-Leg (IL) tokenization to an attention-based network for…
SyLink Hand: A Synergy-Inspired Linkage-Driven Anthropomorphic Hand for Human-Like Dexterity
arXiv:2606.14250v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Designing anthropomorphic robotic hands that balance functional dexterity with mechanical simplicity remains a s…
An Attention-based Model for Robust Forecasting with Missing Modality
arXiv:2606.13970v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning with missing modalities is a fundamental challenge in multimodal robot learning, as real-world robotic …