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3285 storiesHumAIN: Human-Aware Implicit Social Robot Navigation
arXiv:2607.07357v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective social robot navigation requires sensitivity to human behavior, often revealed through subtle skeletal…
SPECTRA: Context-Conditioned Spectral Movement Primitives for Robot Skill Generalization
arXiv:2607.06978v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot imitation learning for manipulation should preserve demonstrated task geometry while producing dynamically…
Initiation Safety: A Missing Dimension in Generalist-Robot Safety
arXiv:2607.07420v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety for generalist robots is usually discussed in terms of motion or dialogue. We argue a third question is m…
GeoProp: Grounding Robot State in Vision for Generalist Manipulation
arXiv:2607.07101v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Proprioception is fundamental to robotic manipulation, yet standard fusion methods often treat it as an isolated…
Context-Aware Force Estimation for Deformable Tool Manipulation in Robotic Environmental Swabbing via Few-Shot Continual Adaptation
arXiv:2607.07574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic surface swabbing requires sustained interaction between a compliant tool and heterogeneous environments,…
SPEAR: A Simulator for Photorealistic Embodied AI Research
arXiv:2607.06701v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Interactive simulators have become powerful tools for training embodied agents and generating synthetic visual…
GrandTour: A Legged Robotics Dataset in the Wild for Multi-Modal Perception and State Estimation
arXiv:2602.18164v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate state estimation and multi-modal perception are prerequisites for autonomous legged robots in compl…
RoboLight: A Dataset with Linearly Composable Illumination for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2603.04249v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this paper, we introduce RoboLight, the first real-world robotic manipulation dataset capturing synchroni…
Let the Dynamics Flow: Stable Flow Matching Dynamical Systems
arXiv:2606.03834v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Flow matching has recently emerged as a powerful approach for imitation learning, enabling scalable, express…
Behavior Foundations for Quadruped Robots: ABot-C0 Technical Report
arXiv:2607.07370v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In embodied intelligence systems, the motion controller serves as the critical bridge between semantic reasoning…
LHM-Humanoid: Long-Horizon Human Motion Control for Continuous Object Transport in Cluttered Scenes
arXiv:2508.16943v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Physics-based human motion control can make a simulated character walk, sit, and manipulate objects with hig…
CaLiSym: Learning Symplectic Dynamics of Real-World Systems through Structured Canonical Lifts
arXiv:2607.06824v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physics-informed learning promises data-efficient and stable dynamics prediction, yet its strongest geometric gu…
RoboSnap: One-Shot Real-to-Sim Scene Generation for Generalizable Robot Learning and Evaluation
arXiv:2607.06699v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recovering real-world scenes as interactive simulation environments can enable generalizable robot learning and …
NativeMEM: Native Memory Compression for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.06678v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How can pretrained Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models retain long-horizon visual histories with high-frequency …
Rapidly Learning Soft Robot Control via Implicit Time-Stepping
arXiv:2511.06667v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With the explosive growth of rigid-body simulators, policy learning in simulation has become the de facto st…
Ace! Motion Planning of Professional-Level Table Tennis Serves with a Robot Arm
arXiv:2607.06989v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Table tennis, a dynamic, compact, and popular sport, has received significant attention as a robotics benchmark …
EvoPlan: Evolutionary Neuro-Symbolic Robot Planning with Spatio-Temporal Guarantees
arXiv:2607.06724v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based robot planners are fluent but cannot guarantee that their plans are executable or safe. Classical PDDL…
Immersive Social Interaction with VR and LLM-Assisted Humanoids
arXiv:2607.07430v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots can extend human presence to remote, constrained, or hazardous environments, but existing teleop…
Vision Language Action (VLA) Models for Unmanned Aerial Robotics and Bimanual Manipulation: A Review
arXiv:2607.06706v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision Language Action (VLA) models unify visual perception, natural-language understanding, and action generati…
Multimodal Voice Activity Projection for Turn-Taking in Social Robots with Voice-Activity-Related Pretrained Encoders
arXiv:2607.07294v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Turn-taking prediction is a key requirement for social robots involved in human-human interaction, particularly …
Event-Centric World Modeling with Memory-Augmented Retrieval for Embodied Decision-Making
arXiv:2604.07392v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous agents operating in dynamic environments increasingly demand decision-making systems that a…
BifrostUMI: Bridging Robot-Free Demonstrations and Humanoid Whole-Body Manipulation
arXiv:2605.03452v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-quality demonstration data are essential for humanoid robot skill learning, especially for whole-body b…
TouchWorld: A Predictive and Reactive Tactile Foundation Model for Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv:2607.07287v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous manipulation in everyday environments requires both anticipation and reaction: a robot must predict ho…
Humanoid Whole-Body Manipulation via Active Spatial Brain and Generalizable Action Cerebellum
arXiv:2605.21133v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this paper, we explore spatial-aware humanoid whole-body manipulation task. Compared with tabletop settin…
WAM-TTT: Steering World-Action Models by Watching Human Play at Test Time
arXiv:2607.06988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Steering robot foundation models (RFMs) toward new task variants or user-preferred behaviors remains challenging…
GeoGS-SLAM: Geometry-Only Gaussian Splatting for Dense Monocular SLAM
arXiv:2607.07452v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dense visual SLAM is a fundamental problem in robotics. Recent advances in 3DGS have demonstrated its potential …
End-to-End LLM Flight Planning with RAG-based Memory and Multi-modal Coach Agent
arXiv:2607.06964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bridging the gap between human pilot intent and autonomous flight operation is critical for real-world electric …
VOTE: Vision-Language-Action Optimization with Trajectory Ensemble Voting
arXiv:2507.05116v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent large-scale Vision Language Action (VLA) models have shown superior performance in robotic mani…
Communicative Efficiency of Single vs. Multi-Axis Robot Neck Motion
arXiv:2607.07390v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Nonverbal communication through head and neck movement is fundamental to human social signalling, yet how roboti…
GemNav: Discrete-Token Visual Robot Navigation using a Multimodal Large Language Model
arXiv:2607.06882v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual navigation policies built on large pretrained models have so far followed a common recipe: a dedicated vi…