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3285 storiesA Dual-Cam Parallel Elastic Actuator with Shared Gas-Spring Compensation for Humanoid Ankles
arXiv:2608.30832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To improve torque capacity and energy efficiency of humanoid ankles, this paper proposes a 2-DoF parallel elasti…
Learning to infer and manipulate through distributed whole-arm interaction in a soft robot
arXiv:2608.30773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In animals such as elephants and octopuses, acquiring non-visual information about an object and physically enga…
PAVE: Predictive Alignment and Value-Guided Evolution for World-Action Policies
arXiv:2608.30378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Direct vision-language-action policies generate continuous robot actions efficiently, but standard behavior clon…
Contrast-Free Autonomous Navigation of Untethered Endovascular Microrobots Using Single-Plane Fluoroscopy
arXiv:2608.30220v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable three-dimensional (3D) navigation of magnetically actuated untethered microrobots remains a major barri…
Rethinking Language's Role in Efficient VLA for Autonomous Vehicles: Toward Smarter, Trustworthy Driving
arXiv:2608.30144v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are reshaping autonomous driving (AD) by unifying perception, reasoning, and…
SmoothRL: Online Reinforcement Learning During Asynchronous Execution
arXiv:2608.29768v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying robot policies in the physical world requires satisfying two fundamental desiderata: reliability and s…
DriftingVLA: Native One-Step Vision-Language-Action Generation via Per-Dimension Temporal Drifting
arXiv:2608.29749v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional flow-based vision-language-action (VLA) models support expressive continuous action generation but …
Task-Relevant Feature-Dynamics Fidelity Enables Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Transfer for Robotic Ultrasound Scanning
arXiv:2608.29516v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic ultrasound policies operating directly on B-mode images require extensive interaction data, whereas real…
Blind Dexterity: Whole-Body Humanoid Manipulation via Pure Proprioception
arXiv:2608.29487v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present blind, whole-body manipulation skills on a Unitree G1 humanoid using only onboard proprioception, wit…
AdaVLA: Adaptive Step Flow Matching for Training-free Acceleration of Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2608.29208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, built upon Vision-Language Models (VLMs), have significantly enhanced robot…
NGD-SLAM: Towards Real-Time Dynamic SLAM without GPU
arXiv:2405.07392v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many existing visual SLAM methods can achieve high localization accuracy in dynamic environments by leveragi…
The Potential of Haptic Foundation Models
arXiv:2608.28664v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite the success of foundation models in language and vision, their expansion into embodied AI is bottlenecke…
Cognitively-Grounded On-Device Runtime Learning for Ground Robots in Unknown Physical Environments
arXiv:2608.28677v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents \ul{CogRun}, a framework that enables safety-critical ground robots to perform cognitively-g…
Adversarial Calibration Attack on Autonomous Vehicles
arXiv:2608.28778v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous vehicles (AVs) rely on accurate camera-LiDAR calibration for multimodal sensor fusion. In practice, c…
Coding What Matters: A Semantic-Aware Memory Interface for Energy-Efficient Perception in Autonomous Vehicles
arXiv:2608.29000v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous vehicles stream high-resolution surround-camera frames into memory before perception runs. This senso…
Teaching Robot Policies to Humans Using Erroneous Examples
arXiv:2608.29023v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-robot collaboration describes the process of humans and autonomous agents working together to accomplish c…
On Adversarial Attacks In Acoustic Drone Localization
arXiv:2502.20325v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multi-rotor aerial autonomous vehicles (MAVs, more widely known as "drones") have been generating incr…
CIG-RL: Curiosity-Driven Information-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Source Term Estimation in Uncertain Environments
arXiv:2608.30673v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Source term estimation (STE), which aims to estimate key properties of the gas source, is essential for identify…
Zeva: In-Context Causal Learning for Generalizable Embodied Manipulation
arXiv:2608.30880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalizable embodied manipulation remains difficult to achieve through pretraining alone, due to unseen physic…
Autonomously Acquiring Robot Manipulation Skills with Language-Driven Quality-Diversity
arXiv:2608.30983v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quality-diversity (QD) algorithms have been gaining traction in robot learning, where diverse motion primitive l…
T-GMP: Terrain-conditioned Generative Motion Priors for Versatile and Natural Humanoid Locomotion
arXiv:2606.06944v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Achieving both anthropomorphic naturalness and rich motion diversity during terrain traversal remains a fund…
Perturbation-Based Epistemic Uncertainty for Failure Detection in Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2606.20754v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong performance in robotic manipulation, but reliable unce…
Module Number Adaptive Visual Shape Control for Serial Modular Soft Robots
arXiv:2608.29547v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Image based shape control provides a simple means of controlling the whole body configuration of soft robots. Ho…
LightNav-0: Eliciting VLM Spatial Intelligence for Generalist Embodied Navigation
arXiv:2608.30935v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied navigation requires agents to translate heterogeneous goals and visual observations into actions across…
SleepWalking: Privileged Representation Shaping for End-to-End Blind Locomotion in Legged Robots
arXiv:2608.30883v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Partially observable locomotion requires a policy to act when task-relevant properties of the robot--environment…
EMERGE-Policy: A Robot Mind Emerges Beyond a Single Policy
arXiv:2608.29896v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A robot's effective ``mind'' need not reside in a single policy. It can emerge when specialized components perce…
Self-Aware Active Learning Enables Continual Improvement in Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2608.29772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning-based autonomous driving (AD) systems can perform reliably in familiar conditions, yet rare distributio…
Bridging Semantics and Physics with Constrained LLMs for Safe and Trustworthy Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2608.29379v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A language-guided robot operating in a real kitchen must do more than produce a plan that appears correct. It mu…
AnyWorld: Factorized Egocentric World Models for Cross-Embodiment Generalization
arXiv:2608.29242v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collecting contact-rich robot experiences at scale remains a major bottleneck for generalizable manipulation. Be…
Driving on Memory
arXiv:2608.31029v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving models plan future trajectories from raw sensor input. While earlier driving ben…