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3285 storiesScaling Behavior Foundation Model for Humanoid Robots
arXiv:2607.15163v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid control requires natural whole-body coordination, precise real-time responses to control signals, and r…
Mixed-Agent Museum Tour Guide Design Improves Gendered Learning Outcomes and Visitor Preferences
arXiv:2607.14468v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots are increasingly integrated into everyday contexts, including museums, where they can both entertain and …
An offline approach to fNIRS-guided reinforcement learning for robot behavior
arXiv:2607.14393v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-in-the-loop Reinforcement Learning has become a popular approach to training, finetuning, and aligning rob…
BadWAM: When World-Action Models Dream Right but Act Wrong
arXiv:2607.15207v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World-action models (WAMs) are emerging as a promising foundation for embodied control: rather than predicting…
ConFlow: Constraints-Guided Learning with Flow Matching for Motion Generation
arXiv:2607.14424v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In recent years Flow Matching has become a prominent method for generative modeling robot motion generation. In …
Active Real-World Factor-Based Evaluation for Generalist Robot Policies
arXiv:2607.14439v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generalist robot manipulation policies trained on large, diverse datasets have shown remarkable promise across…
Curvature-Constrained and Constant-Speed Distributed Simultaneous Arrival Control for Multi-Robot Systems
arXiv:2607.14781v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The simultaneous arrival of multiple mobile robots at a target point is crucial for cooperation tasks such as co…
Beyond Visual Grasping: Benchmarking Complex Grasping from Detection to Execution
arXiv:2607.14341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust robotic grasping remains a fundamental challenge for complex real-world applications. Recent advances in …
Stochastic Filtering for Quorum Sensing in Robot Swarms under Anonymous Communication
arXiv:2607.14262v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quorum Sensing (QS) is a key capability for robot swarms, useful for coordination of activities at the group lev…
DiMaS: Distribution Matching for Steering Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2607.14280v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow-matching-based vision-language-action (VLA) models have emerged as powerful policies for robotic manipulati…
Octopus-inspired Distributed Control for Soft Robotic Arms: A Graph Neural Network-Based Attention Policy with Environmental Interaction
arXiv:2603.10198v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper proposes SoftGM, an octopus-inspired distributed control architecture for segmented soft robotic …
Bringing Network Coding into Multi-Robot Systems: Interplay Study for Autonomous Systems over Wireless Communications
arXiv:2603.17472v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Communication is a core enabler for multi-robot systems (MRS), providing the mechanism through which robots …
Human-Robot Interaction in GenAI Architectures via the Agent-Client Protocol
arXiv:2607.14919v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), are dr…
An Intelligent-Cloud Edge Multimodal Interaction System for Robots
arXiv:2607.14675v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust human-robot interaction in complex environments requires accurate gesture perception, semantic scene unde…
Open-AoE: An Open Egocentric Manipulation Dataset and Toolchain for Embodied Learning
arXiv:2607.14183v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Egocentric videos of human manipulation provide scalable supervision for embodied intelligence, yet existing res…
Interventional Causal Circuits for Safe Robot Action Testing and Failure Recovery
arXiv:2607.14826v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe physical AI for robot actions are required not only likely to succeed but tested to be safe before executio…
Image-to-Point Cloud Registration Made Easy with Rectified Flow-based LiDAR Upsampling
arXiv:2607.14639v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Image-to-Point Cloud Registration (I2P) is essential for integrating camera and LiDAR in perception and autonomo…
MEMORA: Embodied Action Memory from Egocentric Videos for Reasoning and Planning
arXiv:2607.14252v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon robot planning requires more than predicting what actions will do next; it also requires memory of …
VQ-Touch: A Data-Efficient Tactile Generation Framework Across Sensors and Scenarios
arXiv:2607.14728v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tactile image generation significantly reduces the dependency on expensive and wear-prone sensors by synthesiz…
AHEAD: Anticipatory Hand-Driven Teleoperation via Human Intent Prediction
arXiv:2607.15172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Direct hand-driven teleoperation maps an operator's hand motion to robot end-effector commands at every frame, e…
Communication-Efficient Relative Pose Estimation with Vision Foundation Models for Ephemeral Collaborative Perception
arXiv:2607.14539v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Relative pose estimation is a fundamental capability for collaborative perception and coordination in multi-robo…
Safe Execution of RL Policies Via Acceleration-Based CBF-QP Constraint Enforcement for Real-World Robotic Deployments
arXiv:2607.14488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has demonstrated remarkable capabilities for solving complex robotic control problem…
Observability-Aware Control for Quadrotor Formation Flight with Range-only Measurement
arXiv:2411.03747v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Cooperative Localization is a promising approach to achieving safe quadrotor formation flight through precis…
Motion Planning with Model-Based Diffusion via Constraint Optimization and Adaptive Scheduling
arXiv:2607.14455v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Single-Robot Motion Planning (SRMP) in highly non-convex constrained environments, where robots must satisfy col…
Representation-Aligned Tactile Grounding for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.14609v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tactile-enhanced vision-language-action (VLA) policies have been introduced for contact-rich manipulation, where…
OASIS-Map: Object-Level Change Detection in Multi-Session Mapping using Semantic Correspondence Matching
arXiv:2607.14899v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Map representations which are consistent across repeated visits to a real-world semi-static environment are very…
Risk-Aware Belief Control Barrier Functions over Random Finite Sets
arXiv:2607.15016v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ensuring robot safety in unknown, dynamic environments is a fundamental requirement. It involves inferring the s…
TerraFirma raises $115M to build robotic infrastructure for construction
TerraFirma has developed a platform that combines AI-enabled software, a remote command-and-control center, and retrofitted heavy machinery. The post TerraFirma…
Lockheed Martin taps Machina’s robots for mission-critical missile parts
Machina Labs secured a Lockheed Martin contract to qualify robotically formed metal components for the JASSM missile program. The post Lockheed Martin taps Mach…
Xpanner rolls out X1 Panel Lift for automated solar panel installation
X1 Panel Lift uses existing excavators and a single workflow so solar installation crews can focus on alignment, fastening, and quality. The post Xpanner rolls …