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3285 storiesCoReLIN: Constraint-based Reasoning for Zero-shot Lifelong Interactive Navigation
arXiv:2602.20055v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robot navigation typically assumes an obstacle-free path exists between start and goal. In real environments…
Multimodal Benchmark for Safety Assessment in Industrial Inspection Scenarios
arXiv:2601.21173v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With the rapid development of industrial intelligence and unmanned inspection, reliable perception and safet…
PriorEye: Geospatial Visual Priors for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2606.31830v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most end-to-end autonomous driving methods rely solely on instantaneous sensor observations, limiting them to …
From Grasps to Dexterity: Large-Scale Grasp Pretraining for Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv:2606.30749v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale dexterous grasp datasets encode rich priors over hand-object interaction, but their use has largely …
LARA: Latent Action Representation Alignment for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2606.07100v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual-language action (VLA) models enable robots to predict actions directly from observations and la…
Neural Control: Adjoint Learning Through Equilibrium Constraints
arXiv:2605.03288v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many physical AI tasks require sequential implicit computation: at each step, boundary controls are applied,…
Learning All-Terrain Locomotion for a Planetary Rover with Actively Articulated Suspension
arXiv:2606.06790v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents ERNEST, a four-wheeled planetary rover concept equipped with a two-degree-of-freedom Act…
Multisensory Continual Learning: Adapting Pretrained Visuomotor Policies to Force
arXiv:2606.30988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot manipulation often relies on sensory feedback beyond vision, particularly in contact-rich settings where f…
TAPE: Tether-Aware Path Planning for Autonomous Exploration of Unknown 3D Cavities Using a Tangle-Compatible Tethered Aerial Robot
arXiv:2606.30817v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This letter presents the first method for autonomous exploration of unknown cavities in three dimensions (3D) th…
High-Speed Vision-Based Flight in Clutter with Safety-Shielded Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2602.08653v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed in complex missions that demand reliable…
Reinforcement Learning-Based Control for an Inline Skating Humanoid Robot
arXiv:2606.31807v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As humanoid robots become increasingly dynamic, coupling them with reinforcement learning offers a promising app…
Prompting Robot Teams with Natural Language
arXiv:2509.24575v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents a framework to prompt multi-robot teams with high-level tasks using natural language exp…
Locker-based Truck-Drone Routing with Integrated Considerations of Pickups, Deliveries, and No-Fly Zones
arXiv:2606.30680v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Truck-drone delivery is an emerging last-mile logistics mode combining the long-haul capacity of trucks with the…
Registering the 4D Millimeter Wave Radar Point Clouds Via Generalized Method of Moments
arXiv:2508.02187v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 4D millimeter wave radars (4D radars) are new emerging sensors that provide point clouds of objects with bot…
Unified Structural-Hydrodynamic Modeling of Underwater Underactuated Mechanisms and Soft Robots
arXiv:2603.07939v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Underwater robots are widely deployed for ocean exploration and manipulation. Underactuated mechanisms are a…
Verification-Gated Agentic Mission-State Governance for Intelligent Industrial Multi-Robot Systems
arXiv:2606.31339v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic artificial intelligence is increasingly used to decompose industrial tasks, propose robot actions, and a…
Labimus: A Simulation and Benchmark for Humanoid Dexterous Manipulation in Chemical Laboratory
arXiv:2606.31037v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Laboratory automation has made remarkable progress through robotic platforms and AI-driven scientific reasoning.…
Long-term Traffic Simulation via Structured Autoregressive Modeling
arXiv:2606.31209v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Interactive traffic simulation is a vital world model for autonomous driving. A central challenge in long-hori…
VertiAdaptor: Online Kinodynamics Adaptation for Vertically Challenging Terrain
arXiv:2603.06887v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous driving in off-road environments presents significant challenges due to the dynamic and unpredict…
Z-1: Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2606.31846v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models offer a promising framework for robotic manipulation by connecting language …
MIRTH: Mutual-Information Reasoning with Temporal Hubs for Vision-Language-Action Agents
arXiv:2606.31167v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: VLA models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for transferring semantic knowledge from web-scale data to physic…
Sampling-Based Coordination-Informed Multi-Objective Multi-Robot Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2606.30893v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot systems must simultaneously optimize competing objectives while maintaining coordinated behavior. Ex…
Autonomous UAV Navigation for Individual Wildlife Re-Identification
arXiv:2606.31772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable individual re-identification (re-ID) of wildlife is essential for population monitoring, behavioral tra…
Towards Generalizable Robotic Manipulation in Dynamic Environments
arXiv:2603.15620v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models excel in static manipulation but struggle in dynamic environments …
ELASTIC: Efficiently Learning to Adaptively Scale Test-Time Compute for Generative Control Policies
arXiv:2606.31132v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative control policies (GCPs), such as diffusion policies and flow-based vision-language-action models, ena…
3D HAMSTER: Bridging Planning and Control in Hierarchical Vision Language Action Models through 3D Trajectory Guidance
arXiv:2606.31329v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models decouple high-level planning from low-level control to improve …
FastDSAC: Enhancing Policy Plasticity via Constrained Exploration for Scalable Humanoid Locomotion
arXiv:2606.31691v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scalable reinforcement learning has popularized high-throughput sampling architectures, which significantly comp…
GaussLite: Online Task-Conditioned 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Robotic Mapping
arXiv:2606.30809v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) systems distribute representation capacity uniformly across a scene, ign…
Robust Autonomous UAV Landing on Maritime Platforms via Multimodal Agentic AI and Active Wave Compensation
arXiv:2606.31613v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous aerial inspection of marine infrastructure is frequently compromised by stochastic sea states, intr…
The Quadruped Soft Tail: Compliant Grasping and Swabbing for Contamination Surveys in Harsh Environments
arXiv:2606.30900v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Beryllium contamination surveys in radioactive areas are challenging for robots in environments cluttered with c…