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Frontier robotics research: arXiv cs.RO papers, embodied AI, VLA models, manipulation, navigation and learning systems.
Frontier robotics research: arXiv cs.RO papers, embodied AI, VLA models, manipulation, navigation and learning systems.
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4787 storiesAGRICAM: A Track-Mounted Crop Pollination Monitoring Robot
arXiv:2608.29237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Insect pollination is critical for global food production, yet monitoring pollinators at commercial farm scale…
Fully Distributed GNE Algorithms for Multi-Robot Placement without Consensus on Multipliers
arXiv:2608.29388v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent machine learning research has increasingly focused on equilibrium analysis in non-cooperative games rat…
Feelium: A Touchable Blimp Body for Aerial Telepresence
arXiv:2608.29391v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Floating things invite touch. We present Feelium, a blimp-based telepresence platform that enables visual embo…
Calibration and Comparative Analysis of Forward-Looking Sonar and 3D Sonar for Enhanced Underwater Object Recognition
arXiv:2608.29433v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sonars generate a significant amount of noise. With the advent of new technology capable of producing full 3D …
Event-triggered Control and Online Learning for Networked Systems under Computational Delays
arXiv:2608.29576v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Online learning-based control is a promising approach to control uncertain systems, where unknown components a…
Skild AI unveils S1 flagship robot foundation model
Skild AI says its S1 robot foundation model enables robots to learn new tasks just by seeing a video of it being performed. The post Skild AI unveils S1 flagshi…
When expressive humanoid robots are awkward, people become wary – new brain study
Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash. By Hasan Ayaz, Drexel University; Ewart J. de Visser, United States Air Force Academy; Frank Krueger, George Mason University,…
Beyond Relative Geometry: Metric-Aware Geometry Perception for Robotics
arXiv:2608.27497v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent embodied models increasingly leverage geometric representations to improve spatial reasoning and robotic …
Remote Human and Robot Interaction for Greenhouse Gardening Using Virtual Reality
arXiv:2608.27545v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study evaluates the effectiveness of remote human-robot interaction using virtual reality for leaf inspecti…
Beyond Data Scaling: Representation-Centric Continued Pre-training for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2608.27550v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling robot data is crucial for building generalist Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, yet robot trajectorie…
Distributed Model-Based Diffusion: Finite Horizon Contraction under Bounded Delay
arXiv:2608.27685v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simultaneously optimizing the trajectories of multiple agents is a challenging problem plagued by nonlinearity, …
Plan Along the Way: Event-Triggered Foundation-Model Planning for TAMP Execution in Partially Observable Manipulation
arXiv:2608.28075v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Manipulation in partially observable environments requires planning under incomplete scene information. In such …
Stay Seated: Learning Omnidirectional Humanoid Locomotion on a Passive Mobile Chair with Casters
arXiv:2608.28090v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots with quasi-direct-drive actuators continuously generate joint torque while standing, whereas sea…
Contact-Guided Exploration for Non-Prehensile Locomanipulation with Multi-Critic RL
arXiv:2608.28140v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Non-prehensile manipulation offers versatile skills for moving and rearranging heavy or bulky objects, particula…
Picking Bins Empty: A Hierarchical Hybrid Approach with Online Self-Learning of Grasp Points for Reliable Industrial Bin-Picking
arXiv:2608.28175v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bin-picking is a cornerstone of modern manufacturing, yet achieving complete bin clearance without manual interv…
Probabilistic Multi-Robot Gas Source Localization with Uncalibrated Sensors: A Distributed Estimation Approach
arXiv:2608.28214v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Estimating environmental states with multi-robot systems becomes particularly challenging when robots are equipp…
Training-free Suction Grasp Detection for Deformed Aseptic Cartons Using Vision-Language Models and Geometric Surface Scoring
arXiv:2608.28246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic sorting of recyclable waste is challenging due to the deformable and geometrically inconsistent nature o…
MaCoPlanner: LLM-Assisted Manual-Compiled Task Planning with Proactive Safety Verification for Robotic Industrial Panel Operation
arXiv:2608.28300v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic industrial panel operation requires not only accurate control localization but also compliance with oper…
ChainSplat: A Physics-Inspired Screw-Theoretic Model for Learning Deformable Linear Object Dynamics from Multi-View RGB Videos
arXiv:2608.28570v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Identifying the underlying dynamics and 3D geometry of deformable linear objects (DLOs), such as cables, ropes, …
Aero Hand Open: A Simulation-Ready Tendon-Driven Hand for Dexterous Manipulation Learning
arXiv:2608.28578v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tendon-driven hands are anthropomorphic, and moving the actuators off the joints is what makes a hand of this ca…
CARDINAL Predicts Cardiovascular Risk From Non-contrast Cardiac CT
arXiv:2608.27690v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cardiovascular risk prediction remains limited by incomplete clinical data and imaging biomarkers that reduce …
LUCID: An Agentic AI Framework on Digital-Twin in the Loop for QoS-Guaranteeing Robotic Control
arXiv:2608.28437v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cloud robotics relies on the timely uplink of high-volume sensing streams, yet dynamic environments continuall…
AcrossVAM1.0: Particle World Modeling for Text-Assisted Robot Video Prediction
arXiv:2608.28491v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting robot videos requires both precise motion reasoning and preservation of high-frequency appearance, …
When Robots Mishear Us: Mapping the Safety Risks of Voice-Controlled Embodied AI
arXiv:2608.28518v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We investigate whether automatic speech recognition (ASR) errors in user input can lead to unsafe outputs from…
SIMPNet: Spatial-Informed Motion Planning Network
arXiv:2408.12831v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current robotic manipulators require fast and efficient motion-planning algorithms to operate in cluttered e…
Differentiable Dynamics and Fast Simulation of Continuous Elastic Robotic Fish
arXiv:2509.16145v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Body flexibility plays a critical role in fish-like swimming, as the spatial distribution of stiffness gover…
FlowCorrect: Efficient Interactive Correction of Generative Flow Policies for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2602.22056v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generative manipulation policies can fail catastrophically under deployment-time distribution shift, yet man…
Benefits of Low-Cost Bio-Inspiration in the Age of Overparametrization
arXiv:2604.20365v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While Central Pattern Generators (CPGs) and Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP) are widely used paradigms in robot…
Ethical Asymmetry in Human-Robot Interaction - An Empirical Test of Sparrow's Hypothesis
arXiv:2602.02745v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The ethics of human-robot interaction (HRI) have been discussed extensively based on three traditional…
Linear Temporal Logic Translation via Human-Inspired Self-Constrained Reasoning for Robot Task Specification
arXiv:2608.28435v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many robotic tasks are temporally extended and demand precise specifications of subgoals, constraints, and their…