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3285 storiesThe Open Ant: A Robot Platform for Reinforcement Learning Research
arXiv:2607.18488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) research has demonstrated success in both physical and simulated domains; however, t…
Recti-Q: Feature-Space Rectification for Out-of-Distribution-Robust Quantized Perception in Edge Robotics
arXiv:2607.18540v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic perception pipelines increasingly rely on large vision backbones deployed on SWaP-constrained edge pla…
Cognitive Dual-Process Planning for Autonomous Driving with Structured Scene Knowledge and Verifiable Reasoning-Action Consistency
arXiv:2607.19194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-level planning for autonomous driving is a knowledge-intensive engineering decision task that requires accu…
Strategizing at Speed: A Learned Model Predictive Game for Multi-Agent Drone Racing
arXiv:2602.06925v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous drone racing pushes the boundaries of high-speed motion planning and multi-agent strategic decisi…
Correct-by-Construction Behavior Tree Synthesis from Signal Temporal Logic Specifications with Application to Robotic Missions
arXiv:2607.18731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Behavior Trees (BTs) are widely adopted for complex task execution in robotics, providing modular, reactive cont…
Training and Simulation of Quadrupedal Robot in Adaptive Stair Climbing and Descending for Indoor Firefighting: An End-to-End Reinforcement Learning Approach
arXiv:2602.03087v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Quadruped robots are used for primary searches during the early stages of indoor fires. A typical primary se…
WHU-PCPR: A cross-platform heterogeneous point cloud dataset for place recognition in complex urban scenes
arXiv:2601.06442v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Point Cloud-based Place Recognition (PCPR) demonstrates considerable potential in applications such as…
Robust Co-design Optimisation for Agile Fixed-Wing UAVs
arXiv:2603.11130v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Co-design optimisation of autonomous systems has emerged as a powerful alternative to sequential approaches …
End-to-end Conditional Diffusion for Realistic and Controllable Visual Traffic Scenario Generation
arXiv:2607.18637v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating closed-loop traffic scenarios that are both realistic and controllable is crucial for evaluating auto…
Uncertainty-Aware Multi-Robot Task Allocation With Strongly Coupled Inter-Robot Rewards
arXiv:2509.22469v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Allocating tasks to heterogeneous robot teams in environments with uncertain task requirements is a fundamen…
From Distances to Trajectories: Real-Time Signed Distance Function Mapping and Distance-Accelerated Motion Planning for UAVs
arXiv:2607.19306v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous flight in cluttered environments requires a robot to build a geometric map of its surroundings and pl…
RAPT: Model-Predictive Out-of-Distribution Detection and Failure Diagnosis for Sim-to-Real Humanoid Deployment
arXiv:2602.01515v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deploying learned control policies is risky because policies that appear robust in simulation can confidentl…
Fly, Track, Land: Infrastructure-less Magnetic Localization for Heterogeneous UAV-UGV Teaming
arXiv:2603.08926v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Persistent air ground robot teams require nano UAVs that can leave a mobile UGV, perform short scouting or i…
Masked Visual Actions for Unified World Modeling
arXiv:2607.19343v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video models absorb rich priors over how the visual world moves, interacts, and responds to contact, making th…
CONTACT: CONtact-aware TACTile Learning for Robotic Disassembly
arXiv:2603.08560v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic disassembly involves contact-rich interactions in which successful manipulation depends not only on …
WorldScape Policy 2.0: Empowering Steerable World Action Modeling with Reasoning-Augmented Memory
arXiv:2607.18840v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) offer a promising paradigm for robotic manipulation by jointly modeling visual state …
RoboInspector: Unveiling the Unreliability of Policy Code for LLM-enabled Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2508.21378v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities in reasoning and code generation, enabling …
VOFA: Visual Object Goal Pushing with Force-Adaptive Control for Humanoids
arXiv:2605.01518v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The ability to push large objects in a goal-directed manner using onboard egocentric perception is an essent…
Motion Primitive Discovery in a Humanoid Robot via Self-Organising Maps for Phase Recognition
arXiv:2607.18737v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding the computational basis of action recognition is a central challenge in social cognition as well a…
FARO: Feasibility-Aware Robot Motion Optimization
arXiv:2607.18362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fast planning of novel behaviors in unseen scenarios remains a fundamental challenge in robotics. The high-dimen…
Guide, Think, Act: Interactive Embodied Reasoning in Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2605.13632v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this paper, we propose GTA-VLA(Guide, Think, Act), an interactive Vision-Language-Action (VLA) framework …
Hazard or Anomaly? Evaluating VLMs for Understanding Dangers and Discrepancies
arXiv:2607.18325v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern safety-critical systems increasingly rely on human-robot interaction to reduce disaster risk and suppor…
MVP-Tac: A Miniaturized Dual-Modal Vision and Photoelastic Tactile Sensor for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery
arXiv:2607.18660v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS) offers major benefits over open and conventional laparoscopic p…
DASH Robot: Minimalistic Design and Optimal Aerial-Terrestrial Locomotion via Contact-Implicit Control
arXiv:2607.18527v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a novel and minimalistic design of an aerial-terrestrial robot DASH: Ducted Aerial Spring Hopper. The…
EquiBim: Learning Symmetry-Equivariant Policy for Bimanual Manipulation
arXiv:2603.08541v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic imitation learning has achieved impressive success in learning complex manipulation behaviors from d…
Eversion-based robots can enable safe access,steering and endoscopic imaging within the spinal subarachnoid space
arXiv:2607.19274v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe navigation within the spinal subarachnoid space is constrained by its narrow, compliant, and delicate anato…
Beyond Fixed Goal Delivery: Online POMDP Planning for Target Interception in Crowds
arXiv:2607.18517v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Target interception in crowded environments requires reaching a moving objective while navigating among multiple…
Design and stability analysis of an underactuated hand with passively rotating fingers
arXiv:2607.18950v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an innovative design and stability analysis of an underactuated robotic finger with spatial …
Teaching Robots to Interpret Social Interactions through Lexically-guided Dynamic Graph Learning
arXiv:2604.10895v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: For a robot to be called socially intelligent, it must be able to infer users internal states from the…
Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap under Real-Time Constraints in Autonomous Racing
arXiv:2607.18586v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous racing exposes the sim-to-real gap under extreme operating conditions characterized by high speed, ti…