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3285 storiesParkingTransformer: LLM-Enhanced End-to-End Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Parking
arXiv:2606.17082v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end autonomous parking has emerged as a critical task within the realm of autonomous driving. However, ex…
MagicSim: A Unified Infrastructure for Executable Embodied Interaction
arXiv:2606.17511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot learning and embodied agents now require simulation to serve as a shared execution substrate linking contr…
MuseVLA: An Adaptive Multimodal Sensing Vision-Language-Action Model for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2606.17598v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans naturally leverage diverse sensing modalities to interact with the physical world, while most Vision-Lang…
Transformer-Based Warm-Starting for Feasible and Optimal Terminal Approach to Tumbling Objects with Space Manipulators
arXiv:2606.17317v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time trajectory generation for on-orbit robotic servicing is challenging due to the nonlinear coupling betw…
Abstention-Aware Personalized Object Rearrangement via Uncertainty-Guided LLM Assistance
arXiv:2606.17309v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic assistance in household environments requires not only predicting where objects should be placed, but al…
Qwen-RobotNav Technical Report: A Scalable Navigation Model Designed for an Agentic Navigation System
arXiv:2606.18112v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic navigation systems require a base navigation model whose observation strategy can be externally reconfig…
Pegasus Tech Ventures launches $60M fund for physical AI startups
Pegasus and CYBERDYNE will invest in startups developing robotics, physical AI, healthcare, automation, and intelligent systems. The post Pegasus Tech Ventures …
Genesis AI launches Eno general-purpose robot
Genesis plans to begin Eno’s production and targeted customer deployments by the end of 2026, with home deployments coming later. The post Genesis AI launches E…
Kawasaki Robotics to debut RL030N physical AI platform at Automate
Kawasaki Robotics says its 8-DoF robot, Pulseboard inspection tech, and other systems will show its vision for intelligent automation. The post Kawasaki Robotic…
Built Robotics, Penn xLAB to develop physical AI for construction
xLAB and Built Robotics partner to capture additional data, advancing AI models to improve construction site safety. The post Built Robotics, Penn xLAB to devel…
Human Universal Grasping
arXiv:2606.17054v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans can grasp objects effortlessly, whereas multi-fingered robots are far from this level of generality. We a…
Task-Error Residual Learning for Real-Robot Five-Ball Juggling
arXiv:2606.16978v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For residual learning that refines existing behavior, sample efficiency depends on two things: how much informat…
Unified Motion-Action Modeling for Heterogeneous Robot Learning
arXiv:2606.16917v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Unified Motion-Action (UMA) Model, an approach that uses 3D object motion trajectories as a shared in…
SGM-SLAM: Scene Graph Matching for Data-Efficient Distributed SLAM
arXiv:2606.16881v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce a data-efficient distributed Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) framework designed for a …
Elastic ODYN: Differentiable Optimization for Infeasible Control and Learning in Robotics
arXiv:2606.16564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic systems routinely encounter conflicting objectives, modeling errors, and degenerate contact conditions t…
HATS: A Human-Agent Teleoperation System for Multi-Arm Data Collection
arXiv:2606.16491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many real-world manipulation scenarios, such as handling complex collaborative tasks and dealing with large work…
Agile Fall Recovery for Quadrotors with Bidirectional Thrust via Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2606.16513v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous fall recovery is a critical capability for quadrotors operating in real-world environments, where col…
Training and Evaluating Diffusion Policies with Long Context Lengths
arXiv:2606.16447v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitation learning has enabled highly-dexterous robotic manipulation from RGB observations. Policies trained wit…
Is Your Trajectory Displacement Safe in Long-tail?
arXiv:2606.16313v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-tail scenarios remain a major bottleneck for autonomous driving evaluation, even as datasets grow by orders…
ATHENA: Accelerated Multi-Task Heterogeneous Influence Functions for Robot Data Curation
arXiv:2606.16208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In robot imitation learning, influence functions provide a principled approach to quantify each demonstration's …
A Deployment Case Study in Robotic Apparel Automation: Digital Twin Integration, Interoperability, and Workforce Enablement
arXiv:2606.16078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite steady advances in flexible automation in sectors such as electronics and automotive manufacturing, appa…
Energy-Efficient Arm Reaching for a Humanoid Robot via Deep Reinforcement Learning with Identified Power Models
arXiv:2606.15918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots performing in-field manipulation tasks, such as robotic apple harvesting, face severe energy con…
GeoTLM: Geometry-aware Tactile-Language Models for Contact Motion Orientation Reasoning of Dynamic Objects
arXiv:2606.15909v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern tactile-language models (TLMs) have shown potential for robot learning tasks, such as material and textur…
Can Causal Models Enhance Robot Navigation? Online Causal Adaptation for Real-Robot Navigation
arXiv:2606.15691v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Causality in robotics aims to produce more interpretable and flexible robot behaviours by enabling robots to pre…
FD-SLAM: Fast Dense Radar-Inertial SLAM with Frequency-Domain Loop Closure and Pose Graph Optimization
arXiv:2606.15491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Radar SLAM is attractive for autonomous ground vehicles operating in visually degraded environments, however, sc…
Acting While Understanding: Asynchronous Semantic-Action Decoupling for Real-Time Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2606.15285v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) have demonstrated strong task understanding and generalization in robotic m…
Co-Creating Buildable and Open Social Robot Study Companions with University Students
arXiv:2606.15239v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-source social robots offer accessibility, repairability, and student empowerment, yet the build itself ofte…
Rethinking Implicit Spatial Representation in Visuomotor Policy Learning
arXiv:2606.15232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative model-based imitation learning has become a widely adopted paradigm for robotic manipulation, where p…
Task-Aware Environment Augmentation for Reliable Navigation via Shielded Conditional Diffusion
arXiv:2606.15154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable trajectory planning under partial observability depends not only on computing a feasible geometric path…
MimicIK: Real-Time Generative Inverse Kinematics from Teleoperation with FK Consistency
arXiv:2606.15148v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inverse kinematics (IK) remains a critical bottleneck for real-time robot manipulation. Classical numerical solv…