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3285 storiesJoint Discovery of Object and Action Symbols through Effect Prediction for Robotic Manipulation Planning
arXiv:2607.00031v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To perform complex manipulation planning, autonomous robots are required to abstract continuous, high-dimensiona…
FAR: Failure-Aware Retry for Test-Time Recovery and Continual Policy Improvement
arXiv:2607.01111v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot policies inevitably encounter failures when deployed in real environments. Naive retries often repeat the …
Invariant Stochastic Filtering on SE(3) for Inertial-Encoder State Estimation of Serial Rigid Manipulators
arXiv:2607.00026v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An invariant extended Kalman filter (IEKF) is developed for state estimation of serial rigid manipulators with a…
A Unified Benchmark for RCM-Constrained Visual Servoing: Modeling-Controller Interaction and Robustness Analysis in Laparoscopic Robots
arXiv:2607.00030v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In robot-assisted laparoscopic minimally invasive surgery (MIS), accurate enforcement of the remote center of mo…
From Technical Metrics to User Perception: A User Study of a Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction System for Object Detection and Grasping
arXiv:2607.00530v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Improvements in the technical performance of human--robot interaction (HRI) systems do not automatically transla…
Iterated Invariant EKF for 3D Landmark-Aided Inertial Navigation
arXiv:2607.00145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inertial navigation systems aided by three-dimensional landmark measurements constitute a fundamental problem in…
PhyPush: One Push is All You Need for Sensorless Physical Property Estimation with Physics-Guided Transformers
arXiv:2605.26284v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurately estimating object mass and friction is fundamental to reliable robotic manipulation. While intera…
HydraCollab: Adaptive Collaborative-Perception for Distributed Autonomous Systems
arXiv:2607.00191v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collaborative-perception enables multi-robot systems to enhance situational awareness by sharing perceptual info…
From Prior to Pro: Efficient Skill Mastery via Distribution Contractive RL Finetuning
arXiv:2603.10263v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce Distribution Contractive Reinforcement Learning (DICE-RL), a framework that uses reinforcement …
Top 10 robotics developments of June 2026
Humanoid robots made many headlines in June 2026, whether it be for companies going public, new deployments, or hitting production milestones. The post Top 10 r…
Apptronik unveils Apollo 2 and a flagship data collection and training facility
Built as a data collection and training platform, Apollo 2 enables continuous learning through deployment, Apptronik said. The post Apptronik unveils Apollo 2 a…
OopsieVerse: A Safety Benchmark with Damage-Aware Simulation for Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2606.31993v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While robotic manipulation capabilities have advanced rapidly, physical safety remains a major barrier to deploy…
Multi-Robot Coordination for Planning under Context Uncertainty
arXiv:2603.13748v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-world robots often operate in settings where objective priorities depend on the underlying context of o…
HABIT: Human-Aware Behavior and Interaction Training Dataset for Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2606.31682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale demonstration datasets have been central to recent progress in general-purpose robot policies. Howev…
StemVLA:An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model with Future 3D Spatial Geometry Knowledge and 4D Historical Representation
arXiv:2602.23721v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models integrate visual observations and language instructions to predict robot…
Efficient Sim-to-Real Transfer of World-Action Models from Synthetic Priors
arXiv:2606.31101v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bridging the sim-to-real gap is a core challenge in deploying learned manipulation policies. Sim-to-real learnin…
Stage-Transition Dense Reward Modeling for Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2606.31377v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning for long-horizon robotic manipulation is often limited by sparse and delayed rewards, whi…
RhinoVLA Technical Report
arXiv:2606.07383v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong potential for robotic manipulation, but real-time depl…
LLM-Powered Interactive Robotic Action Synthesis from Multimodal Speech, Gestures, and Music
arXiv:2606.31158v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The quest for intuitive and natural human-robot interaction (HRI) remains a significant challenge in robotics. T…
Off the Rails: Hijacking the Scoring Head in Generative End-to-End Driving Planners with Safety-Violating Adversarial Perturbations
arXiv:2606.30807v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative models have recently seen rapid adoption in End-to-End (E2E) autonomous driving (AD), with diffusion-…
Early-Terminable Energy-Safe Iterative Coupling for Parallel Simulation of Partitioned Port-Hamiltonian Systems
arXiv:2603.16424v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Parallel simulation of robotic systems requires partitioning the dynamics into coupled subsystems. Finite-it…
Position: Vision-Language-Action Models Cannot Be Verified to Perform Physical Reasoning
arXiv:2606.30686v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) systems, built on pretrained vision-language models (VLMs), have shown rapidly impr…
Designing Privacy-Preserving Visual Perception for Robot Navigation Based on User Privacy Preferences
arXiv:2604.06382v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual navigation is a fundamental capability of mobile service robots, yet the onboard cameras required for…
Learning Locomotion on Discrete Terrain via Minimal Proximity Sensing
arXiv:2606.31912v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning-based control has revolutionized dynamic locomotion, yet navigating unstructured terrain remains limite…
RCT: A Robot-Collected Touch-Vision-Language Dataset for Tactile Generalization
arXiv:2606.31694v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For robots manipulating open-world objects, tactile representations must generalize to unseen materials. We intr…
ShapeGrasp: Simultaneous Visuo-Haptic Shape Completion and Grasping for Improved Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2605.02347v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humans grasp unfamiliar objects by combining an initial visual estimate with tactile and proprioceptive feed…
Robustness of Robotic Manipulation: Foundations and Frontiers
arXiv:2606.31494v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans and animals exhibit remarkable robustness in physical manipulation, yet robots remain far behind. Progres…
Learn Weightlessness: Imitate Non-Self-Stabilizing Motions on Humanoid Robot
arXiv:2604.21351v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The integration of imitation and reinforcement learning has enabled remarkable advances in humanoid whole-bo…
Genie Sim 3.0 : A High-Fidelity Comprehensive Simulation Platform for Humanoid Robot
arXiv:2601.02078v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The development of robust and generalizable robot learning models is critically contingent upon the availabi…
RPG: Robust Policy Gating for Smooth Multi-Skill Transitions in Humanoid Fighting
arXiv:2604.21355v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humanoid robots have demonstrated impressive motor skills in a wide range of tasks, yet whole-body control f…