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3285 storiesPPO-EAL: Exact Augmented Lagrangian Proximal Policy Optimization for Safe Robotic Control
arXiv:2606.27861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising solution to accomplish complex robotic control tasks; how…
AI-Driven Synthesis for High-Tech System Design: Automating Innovation
arXiv:2606.28126v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This article addresses the combinatorial complexity inherent in modern high-tech system design by presenting a…
FailSafe: Reasoning and Recovery from Failures in Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2510.01642v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in robotic manipulation have integrated low-level robotic control into Vision-Language Model…
Translation as a Bridging Action: Transferring Manipulation Skills from Humans to Robots
arXiv:2606.28133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study whether we can learn novel manipulation skills from human actions to a bi-manual robot with parallel gr…
CWI: Composite Humanoid Whole-Body Imitation System for Loco-manipulation
arXiv:2606.27676v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Achieving everyday tasks with humanoid robots requires coordinating stable locomotion with versatile manipulatio…
KISS-IMU: Self-supervised Inertial Odometry with Motion-balanced Learning and Uncertainty-aware Inference
arXiv:2603.06205v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Inertial measurement units (IMUs), which provide high-frequency linear acceleration and angular velocity mea…
Unleashing Infinite Motion: Scaling Expressive Quadrupedal Motion via Generative Video Priors
arXiv:2606.28237v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quadruped robots have achieved remarkable locomotion, yet their behavioral repertoire remains confined to a few …
Data Scaling Laws in Imitation Learning for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2410.18647v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Data scaling has revolutionized fields like natural language processing and computer vision, providing model…
MobileManiBench: Simplifying Model Verification for Mobile Manipulation
arXiv:2602.05233v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-language-action models have advanced robotic manipulation but remain constrained by reliance on the l…
Drop-Then-Recovery: How Redundant Are Vision-Language-Action Models?
arXiv:2606.27755v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models enable instruction-driven robotic manipulation, but they inherit oversized l…
S$^2$-VLA: State-Space Guided Vision-Language-Action Models for Long-Horizon Manipulation
arXiv:2606.27872v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated strong capabilities in robotic manipulation, but their per…
DIM-WAM: World-Action Modeling with Diverse Historical Event Memory
arXiv:2606.27677v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World-action models have shown promising robot-manipulation performance by jointly predicting future visual stat…
PhysisForcing: Physics Reinforced World Simulator for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2606.28128v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video generation models have emerged as a promising paradigm for embodied world simulation. However, both gene…
Spacecraft Fiducial Marker for Autonomous Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Docking
arXiv:2606.27566v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic operations in space are challenging due to the harsh environment and the high cost of failure. Fiducial …
VLM-Guided Visual Place Recognition for Planet-Scale Geo-Localization
arXiv:2507.17455v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Geo-localization from a single image at planet scale (essentially an advanced or extreme version of th…
DIVER: Reinforced Diffusion Breaks Imitation Bottlenecks in End-to-End Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2507.04049v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Most end-to-end autonomous driving methods rely on imitation learning from single expert demonstration…
Image-based Geo-localization for Robotics: Are Black-box Vision-Language Models there yet?
arXiv:2501.16947v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The advances in Vision-Language models (VLMs) offer exciting opportunities for robotic applications in…
Learn Structure, Adapt on the Fly: Multi-Scale Residual Learning and Online Adaptation for Aerial Manipulators
arXiv:2603.11638v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous Aerial Manipulators (AAMs) are inherently coupled, nonlinear systems that exhibit nonstationary a…
PA-BiCoop: A Primary-Auxiliary Cooperative Framework for General Bimanual Manipulation
arXiv:2606.28192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bimanual manipulation is essential for advanced robotic systems because it offers higher efficiency and flexibil…
Physics-Guided Robotic Radiation Source Localization along Arbitrary Measurement Paths in Unstructured Environments
arXiv:2606.27624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Using robots to estimate the location of the radiation source is an effective way to improve efficiency and safe…
LXD-SLAM: LiDAR+X Dense SLAM with $\sum_{i=0}^{5}C_5^i$ Configurable Sensor Combinations
arXiv:2606.27811v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is essential for autonomous systems, yet achieving reliable, global…
When Multi-Robot Systems Meet Agentic AI:Towards Embodied Collective Intelligence
arXiv:2606.27929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied AI is increasingly becoming agentic, shifting robots from perception--control pipelines towards closed-…
SceneBot: Contact-Prompted General Humanoid Whole Body Tracking with Scene-Interaction
arXiv:2606.27581v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current humanoid reinforcement-learning policies excel at free-space motions but struggle with contact-rich task…
Point of View: How Perspective Affects Perceived Robot Sociability
arXiv:2603.28272v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Ensuring that robot navigation is safe and socially acceptable is crucial for comfortable human-robot intera…
Booster Lab: A Data-Centric Pipeline for Learning Deployable Humanoid Locomotion Policies
arXiv:2606.27813v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robot motion learning requires not only task-oriented control policies but also physically feasible and…
A Primer on SO(3) Action Representations in Deep Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2510.11103v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many robotic control tasks require policies to act on orientations, yet the geometry of SO(3) makes this non…
P-ARC: Exploiting Subproblem Independence for Parallel Multi-Robot Motion Planning
arXiv:2606.27625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents Parallel ARC (P-ARC), a parallel variant of the Adaptive Robot Coordination (ARC) approach t…
Characterizing Driver Interactions with Autonomous Vehicles via Response Maps
arXiv:2606.27656v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding human responses to autonomous vehicle (AV) behaviors is essential for socially aware interaction…
LocalNav: Distilling Frontier VLMs and Embodied RL for On-Device Object Goal Navigation
arXiv:2606.27871v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision Language Models (VLMs) have emerged in the robotic domain as a powerful tool that enables environmental p…
AO-ARC: Almost-Surely Asymptotically Optimal Multi-Robot Motion Planning with ARC
arXiv:2606.27495v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present AO-ARC, an anytime multi-robot motion planning (MRMP) method that achieves initial solution times on …