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Autonomous freight developer Einride goes public via SPAC
Stockholm-based Einride operates a fleet of heavy-duty electric trucks servicing Global Fortune 500 companies across the U.S. and Europe. The post Autonomous fr…
A Pragmatic VLA Foundation Model
arXiv:2601.18692v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Offering great potential in robotic manipulation, a capable Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation model is…
Multi-Agent Embodied Autonomous Driving: From V2X Information Exchange to Shared World Models
arXiv:2606.13840v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving is shifting from isolated vehicle intelligence toward multi-agent embodied systems that share…
TRACE: Trajectory-Routed Causal Memory for Delayed-Evidence Visuomotor Imitation
arXiv:2606.14551v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots under autonomous operation may require decisions based on evidence that is no longer visible. We study \e…
The N2D Haptic Glove: A Multi-Finger Glove for 2D Directional Force Feedback for Contact Rich Manipulation
arXiv:2606.14083v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans rely on directional fingertip forces to probe and regulate contact during manipulation, yet most wearable…
ReactSim-Bench: Benchmarking Reactive Behavior World Model Simulation in Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2606.14058v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reactive capability is a key property of data-driven behavior world model simulators for autonomous driving simu…
Self-Improving VLA Policies: Selected Diffusion Noise for Spurious-Robust Action Smoothing
arXiv:2606.14084v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion-based Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies enable strong generalization in robotic manipulation, but …
A Modular Dual-Arm Apple Harvesting Robot with Enhanced Field Performance
arXiv:2606.14089v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic apple harvesting offers a promising solution to labor shortages in commercial orchards, but low throughp…
X-Loco: Towards Generalist Humanoid Locomotion Control via Synergetic Policy Distillation
arXiv:2603.03733v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While recent advances have demonstrated strong performance in individual humanoid skills such as upright loc…
Selective Agentic Recovery for UAV Autonomy with a Persistent Mission Runtime
arXiv:2606.14219v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI can support unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) autonomy by providing high-level recovery reasoning when lo…
$\mu_0$: A Scalable 3D Interaction-Trace World Model
arXiv:2606.13769v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models that capture how actions induce physical change enable scalable robot learning without reliance on …
ParkourFormer: Integrating Predictive Supervision and Sequence Modeling into Parkour Locomotion
arXiv:2605.25782v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humanoid parkour requires locomotion policies to coordinate whole-body dynamics across rapidly changing terr…
GAIT: Legged Robot Proprioceptive State Estimation with Attention over Inertial-Leg Tokens
arXiv:2606.14160v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we propose a method that applies Inertial-Leg (IL) tokenization to an attention-based network for…
SyLink Hand: A Synergy-Inspired Linkage-Driven Anthropomorphic Hand for Human-Like Dexterity
arXiv:2606.14250v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Designing anthropomorphic robotic hands that balance functional dexterity with mechanical simplicity remains a s…
An Attention-based Model for Robust Forecasting with Missing Modality
arXiv:2606.13970v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning with missing modalities is a fundamental challenge in multimodal robot learning, as real-world robotic …
Guided Diffusion with Distilled Vision-Language Reliability for Aerial Navigation
arXiv:2606.13883v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous UAV navigation is conventionally solved by pipelines that separate perception, mapping, and planning …
FlowMo-WM: A World Model with Object Momentum and Hidden Ambient Drift
arXiv:2606.13817v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models in robot learning predict future states from visual observations and actions, enabling agents to re…
Sensitivity Shaping for Latent Modeling
arXiv:2606.14585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative dynamics models enable planning in challenging robotic systems, but safe deployment requires reliably…
Impedance MPC with Disturbance Estimation for Dexterous Hand Control
arXiv:2606.14606v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous hands must simultaneously track precise finger trajectories and maintain safe, compliant contact -- ob…
Digital Twin Driven Textile Classification and Foreign Object Recognition in Automated Sorting Systems
arXiv:2603.05230v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The increasing demand for sustainable textile recycling requires robust automation solutions capable o…
EgoGuide: Egocentric Guidance for Efficient Robot-Free Demonstration Collection and Learning
arXiv:2606.14665v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot learning from real-world demonstrations is currently constrained by data scaling. Universal Manipulation I…
Micro-Swarm Locomotion Optimization in Dynamic Flow using Multi-Objective Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2605.25025v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Coordinating micro-robotic swarms in realistic, time-dependent fluid environments remains a major challenge …
Output-Level Regularization Eliminates the Seed Lottery in Single-GPU VLA Fine-Tuning
arXiv:2606.13856v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuning a vision-language-action model (VLA-JEPA) on a single GPU should be simple: load a pretrained checkp…
Low-Burden LLM-Based Preference Learning: Personalizing Assistive Robots from Natural Language Feedback for Users with Paralysis
arXiv:2604.01463v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Physically Assistive Robots require personalized behaviors to ensure user safety and comfort. However, tradi…
A Unified Control Architecture for Macro-Micro Manipulation using a Active Remote Center of Compliance for Manufacturing Applications
arXiv:2602.01948v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Macro-micro manipulators combine a macro manipulator with a large workspace, such as an industrial robot, wi…
Optimality-Preserving Decomposition for Scalable QAOA in Natural-Language-Guided Multi-Drone Assignment
arXiv:2606.14252v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As multi-drone fleets scale, zone assignment rapidly evolves into an intractable NP-hard combinatorial problem t…
PhysVLA: Towards Physically-Grounded VLA for Embodied Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2606.13886v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models excel at mapping visual inputs and natural language instructions directly to…
FAWAM: Force-Aware World Action Models for Closed-Loop Contact-Rich Manipulation
arXiv:2606.08555v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Force signals provide critical interaction cues for contact-rich robotic manipulation. However, existing met…
Semidefinite Relaxations for Collision-Free Motion Planning
arXiv:2606.14063v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study semidefinite relaxations for collision-free motion planning. We focus on a point robot moving from star…
Safe Reinforcement Learning of Autonomous Highway Driving: A Unified Framework for Safety and Efficiency
arXiv:2606.14609v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) offers a compelling route to decision-making for advanced autonomous vehicles …