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3285 storiesGrounding Generative Policies in Physics: Optimization-Guided Diffusion for Robot Control
arXiv:2606.24208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models sample effectively from high-dimensional, multimodal distributions, but their outputs may viola…
Varying Bundle Size Reactive Multi-Task Assignment using Selective Cost Estimation for Multi-Agent Systems
arXiv:2606.24462v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a scalable framework for multi-robot task allocation in complex environments where estimatin…
Supervise What Survives: Geometry-Guided VLA Adaptation from Synthetic Robot Videos
arXiv:2606.24448v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models require large-scale video-action pairs, yet real teleoperation remains scarc…
G$^3$VLA: Geometric inductive bias for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2606.24472v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have made rapid progress in generalist robot manipulation by harnessing sema…
Explaining Failures of Cyber-Physical Systems with Actual Causality
arXiv:2606.24546v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), such as self-driving cars, face increasingly complex demands, a…
Flow as Flow: Modeling Robot Velocity Fields as Probability Velocity Fields for Flow-Based Object Manipulation
arXiv:2606.23090v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Cross-embodiment data have become central to training robotic foundation models. To leverage such heterogene…
PanoVine: Whole-Body Visuomotor Control for Soft Growing Vine Robot
arXiv:2606.22923v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vine robots, a class of soft, growing robots, are suitable for navigating complex and confined environments …
Wh0: Generative World Models as Scalable Sources of Egocentric Human Hand Manipulation Data
arXiv:2606.22136v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scaling dexterous manipulation requires generalization across objects, scenes, and tasks, yet existing data …
Beyond Monotonic Progress: Retry-Supervised Value Learning for Robot Imitation
arXiv:2606.24633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human demonstrations for robot imitation learning often contain mistakes and corrective behaviors, such as impre…
TACTFUL: Tactile-Driven Exploration For Object Localization and Identification in Confined Environments
arXiv:2606.24712v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans effortlessly locate and identify objects by touch alone, even without vision. In contrast, robotic system…
Critique of Agent Model
arXiv:2606.23991v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: What is an agent? What constitutes agency? With the rise of Large Language Model (LLM) systems marketed as ``c…
MuTRAP: Multi-trigger Trojans Attacking Robot Task Planning Systems
arXiv:2504.17070v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robots need task planning methods to achieve goals that require more than one action. Recently, large pretra…
MILE: A Mechanically Isomorphic Hand Exoskeleton and Visuotactile Robotic Hand for Data Collection in Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv:2512.00324v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Dexterous robotic hands are expected to perform complex, contact-rich object manipulation, but learning such…
Face versus Body Tracking for Human-Robot Interaction: An Egocentric Dataset
arXiv:2606.03694v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Meaningful human-robot interaction (HRI) requires a robot to continuously assess user engagement through per…
SkyJEPA: Learning Long-Horizon World Models for Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Control of Quadrotors
arXiv:2606.23444v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate dynamics models are critical for informed decision-making in robotic systems, particularly for agil…
TEXEDO : Test Time Scaling for Controller-aware Language-conditioned Humanoid Motion Generation
arXiv:2606.22998v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Text-conditioned motion generation is a promising interface for programming humanoid robots, yet current gen…
A Pairwise Human-Human Interaction Detection and Recognition Framework for Mobile Service Robots
arXiv:2602.22346v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous mobile service robots, such as lawnmowers or cleaning robots, operating in human-populated enviro…
Debate2Create: Robot Co-design via Multi-Agent LLM Debate
arXiv:2510.25850v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce Debate2Create (D2C), a multi-agent LLM framework that formulates robot co-design as structured,…
Reward-Centered ReST-MCTS: A Robust Decision-Making Framework for Robotic Manipulation in High Uncertainty Environments
arXiv:2503.05226v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Monte Carlo tree search is attractive for robotic manipulation because it can improve action selection throu…
From Open Waters to Enclosed Cabins: ProteusVPR for Cross-Scene Visual Place Recognition in Maritime Perception and Cabin Inspection
arXiv:2606.24234v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous robotic inspection in maritime environments presents unique challenges for Visual Place Recognition…
Vision-Language Model Reasoning for Contextual Semantic Mapping in Intralogistics
arXiv:2606.24814v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous mobile robots operating in intralogistics environments rely on geometric maps for localization and na…
Optimization-based Safe Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Ground Vehicle in Multi-Floor Scenarios
arXiv:2606.24631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The development of trajectory planning strategies for autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs) represents a prevailing …
Decentralized Pose Graph Riemannian Optimization for Object-based Multi-Robot SLAM
arXiv:2606.24489v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pose graph optimization (PGO) is a key back-end component for state estimation in networked multi-robot simultan…
FT-WBC: Learning Fault-Tolerant Whole-Body Control for Legged Loco-Manipulation
arXiv:2606.24466v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Legged manipulators combine the mobility of legged platforms with the manipulation capability of robotic arms. H…
NoContactNoWorries: Estimating Contact through Vision and Proprioception for In-Hand Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv:2606.24450v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Perceiving physical contact is fundamental to dexterous manipulation. While robots often rely on dedicated hardw…
Legible and Intuitive Multi-modal Robot State and Intent Communication Validated in Online and Real-world Studies
arXiv:2606.24445v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective robot-to-human communication can increase transparency and trust, reduce uncertainty, and contribute t…
The Evaluation Cost of Task Specialization in Evolutionary Multi-Robot Systems
arXiv:2606.24191v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Task specialization can improve the efficiency of multi-robot systems (MRSs). Previous works have investigated t…
Sim-to-Real Betting on the E-Process: Bringing "simulators" to anytime-valid confidence sequences
arXiv:2606.24038v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This note describes an integration of the sim-to-real performance estimate with betting (from Chen et al.) and t…
Self-CriTeach: LLM Self-Teaching and Self-Critiquing for Improving Robotic Planning via Automated Domain Generation
arXiv:2509.21543v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown strong promise for robotic task planning, particularly thro…
RTFF: Random-to-Target Fabric Flattening Policy using Dual-Arm Manipulator
arXiv:2510.00814v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic fabric manipulation remains challenging due to fabric deformability and occlusions from wrinkles and…