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3285 storiesMulti-Robot Motion Planning from Vision and Language using Heat-Inspired Diffusion
arXiv:2512.13090v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion models have recently emerged as powerful tools for robot motion planning by capturing the multi-mo…
Bayesian Optimization for Learning Nonlinear MPC in Autonomous Agent Navigation
arXiv:2606.14763v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time autonomous navigation in dynamic, unknown environments remains a fundamental challenge for mobile robo…
OmniVTLA: Vision-Tactile-Language-Action Models with Semantic-Aligned Tactile Sensing
arXiv:2508.08706v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent vision-language-action (VLA) models build upon vision-language foundations, and have achieved promisi…
MVOFormer: Flow-Semantic Transformer for Robust Monocular Visual Odometry
arXiv:2606.16474v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Monocular visual odometry (MVO) is foundational to autonomous navigation and robotic localization. However, ex…
Towards Next-Generation Healthcare: A Survey of Medical Embodied AI for Perception, Decision-Making, and Action
arXiv:2606.15647v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models have demonstrated impressive performance in enhancing healthcare efficiency across a wide ra…
VLALeaks: Membership Inference Attacks against Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2606.15165v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models enable end-to-end robot control and have garnered widespread attention. Ho…
Geometric Action Model for Robot Policy Learning
arXiv:2606.17046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalist robot policies must follow user instructions while reasoning about how objects, cameras, and robot ac…
R2RDreamer: 3D-aware Data Augmentation for Spatially-generalized 2D Manipulation Policies
arXiv:2606.17040v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial generalization is critical for imitation-learned manipulation policies, but achieving it typically requi…
ROVE: Unlocking Human Interventions for Humanoid Manipulation via Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2606.17011v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human interventions provide crucial corrective signals for post-training Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. Ho…
When Should a Robot Replan? Regret-Guided Update Scheduling in Time-Varying MDPs
arXiv:2606.16972v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots operating in non-stationary environments must continually adapt their policies as the dynamics drift, but…
Pride and Prejudice: Toward an Information-Theoretic Framework for Mutually Communicative Driver Behavior Modeling
arXiv:2606.16735v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixed autonomy driving becomes unsafe and inefficient when autonomous vehicles (AVs) and human-driven vehicles (…
VENOM: Versatile Embodied Network for Omni-bodied Motion tracking
arXiv:2606.16696v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Achieving expert-level expressive full-body motion tracking across multiple humanoids solely from demonstration …
WaveSync: Constrained Wavefront Optimization for Synchronized Co-Speech Gestures in Humanoid Robots
arXiv:2606.16600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Expressive co-speech gestures are crucial for natural human-robot interaction, but generating them on physical h…
Steering Generative Reinforcement Learning into Stable Robotic Controller
arXiv:2606.16572v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion and flow-based generative policies provide a powerful policy class for reinforcement learning by induc…
ADAPT: Analytical Disturbance-Aware Policy Training for Humanoid Locomotion
arXiv:2606.16542v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoids deployed in human-centered environments must handle force-interactive tasks, where external contacts i…
Scaling Short-Term Memory of Visuomotor Policies for Long-Horizon Tasks
arXiv:2606.16178v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many robotic tasks require short-term memory, whether it's retrieving an object that's no longer visible or turn…
Leveraging Deep Learning for Object and Position Recognition of Load Carriers for Autonomous Logistics Vehicles
arXiv:2606.16042v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work explores the use of artificial intelligence in mobile robotics to achieve autonomous detection and pos…
$\lambda$-Reachability: Geometric-Horizon Safety Bellman Equations for Humanoid Safety
arXiv:2606.16022v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce $\lambda$-Reachability, a scalable approach to Hamilton--Jacobi safety analysis for high-dimensiona…
Identification of a Physics-Based Electrical Power Consumption Model for the Unitree G1 Humanoid Arm
arXiv:2606.15915v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate prediction of electrical power consumption is essential for energy-aware motion planning, battery manag…
VL2Spike: Spike-driven Distillation from VLMs for Low-Power Visual Perception in Embodied AI
arXiv:2606.15898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are brain-inspired, event-driven models that compute with sparse spikes, which en…
FlashNav: Ultra-Fast Policy Training for Robot Navigation within 20 Seconds
arXiv:2606.15846v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning has shown strong potential for robot navigation, but its practical deployment is sti…
LaWAM: Latent World Action Models for Efficient Dynamics-Aware Robot Policies
arXiv:2606.15768v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) leverage large-scale vision-language pretraining for semantic robot control…
Perfect Demo Makes Poor Teacher: Learning Robust Alignment from Critical Motion Segments
arXiv:2606.15587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Expert demonstrations are widely assumed to be the gold standard for robot imitation learning. Yet for fine-grai…
SAPS: Shared Autonomy for Policy Steering by Blending Teleoperation with a Pretrained VLA
arXiv:2606.15568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advancements in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated impressive generalist capabilities …
A Bilateral Teleoperation Framework for Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv:2606.15434v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous teleoperation requires precise arm-hand coordination, low-latency feedback, and robust interaction in …
Raspi$^2$USBL: An open-source Raspberry Pi-Based Passive Inverted Ultra-Short Baseline Positioning System for Underwater Robotics
arXiv:2511.06998v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Precise underwater positioning remains a fundamental challenge for underwater robotics because global naviga…
SimCoachCorpus: A naturalistic dataset with language and trajectories for embodied teaching
arXiv:2509.14548v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-quality curated datasets are essential for training and evaluating AI approaches, but are often lacking…
One-Step Model Predictive Path Integral for Manipulator Motion Planning Using Configuration Space Distance Fields
arXiv:2509.00836v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Motion planning for robotic manipulators is a fundamental problem in robotics. Classical optimization-based …
Decoupled Object-Centric Video Understanding for Generating Robotic Manipulation Commands
arXiv:2606.16470v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Translating video demonstrations into executable robot commands remains challenging because existing methods o…
PSYONIC partners with ABB Robotics to apply human touch to robot dexterity
PSYONIC is combining its Ability Hand with ABB Robotics' GoFa cobot arm to apply data from prosthetics users to robotic grasping. The post PSYONIC partners with…