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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 storiesRoadside-Cooperative Autonomous Driving: From Data Platform to Vision-Language End-to-End Reasoning
arXiv:2608.21032v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) cooperation enables beyond-line-of-sight perception, mitigating occlusions in single…
Teaching is a Process: The TOSS Framework for Modeling Human Teaching Decisions in Human-Interactive Robot Learning
arXiv:2608.21083v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Successful Human-Robot Teaching assumes alignment between robot processing needs and human teaching intent. To b…
ForeTime-VLA: Causal Future-Token Distillation from a World Action Model for Conveyor-Belt Manipulation
arXiv:2608.20735v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Manipulating moving objects requires a policy to anticipate contact events, yet vision-language-action (VLA) p…
Rapid Manufacturing of Lightweight Drone Frames Using Single-Tow Architected Composites
arXiv:2509.09024v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The demand for lightweight and high-strength composite structures is rapidly growing in aerospace and roboti…
NeSAM: Neuro-Symbolic Kinodynamics with Soil Adaptation for Off-Road Mobility
arXiv:2608.21330v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate prediction of off-road vehicle motion over deformable terrain remains challenging because sinkage, slip…
The Coastline as a Structural Constraint: Harnessing Scene Geometry for Autonomous Surface Vessel Localization
arXiv:2608.21276v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coastal environments contain rich, largely unexploited geometric structure capable of providing globally referen…
PhysCaP: Grounding Code-as-Policy Agent with Physics-Informed Exploration
arXiv:2608.21031v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present PhysCaP, a Physics-Informed Code-as-Policy agent for active perception in robotic manipulation. While…
IMU-Free Body-Frame State Estimation with Sparse Scene Flow for Quadcopters
arXiv:2608.20891v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a vision-only state estimation system for X-configuration quadcopters equipped with a canonical stere…
Rethinking Demonstration Unlearning in Imitation Learning for Robotics
arXiv:2608.20784v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitation learning for robotics depends on human demonstrations, some of which people may later ask to remove. R…
Koala Gripper: Co-designing Robotic Grippers and Data-Capture Devices for Scaling Dexterous Manipulation Learning
arXiv:2608.20546v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As the demand for larger manipulation datasets grows, handheld robotic gripper data collection and the associate…
Humanoid Musical Robots as Experimental Interfaces for Music-Evoked Emotion
arXiv:2608.20433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advances in technology have led to increasingly sophisticated musical humanoid robots. However, their use has la…
A hidden “on switch” in human DNA has finally been decoded
Researchers have used AI to uncover the DNA signature of a key genetic “switch” involved in turning genes on. After analyzing about 500,000 DNA sequences, the m…
The technology that could bring robot mowers to one in two American lawns
Improvements in AI, satellite navigation, and machine vision are helping robotic lawn mowers spread in the U.S., writes Sunseeker's founder. The post The techno…
#AAMAS2026 blue sky award winner: Foundation world models for agents in changing environments
Florent Delgrange won the Best Blue Sky Paper Award at AAMAS 2026 for his work Foundation World Models for Agents that Learn, Verify, and Adapt Reliably Beyond …
FMT$^{\mathrm{X}}$: Lazy Wavefront Search for Dynamic Replanning
arXiv:2509.08521v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: FMT$^{*}$ plans efficiently in static worlds by expanding a cost-ordered wavefront and collision-checking la…
Towards Surgical World-Action Modeling: A Preliminary Joint Visual-Trajectory Forecasting for Surgical Motion Planning
arXiv:2608.20284v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable surgical planning requires models to anticipate not only how instruments will move, but also how the …
Wave-Based Bilateral Teleoperation between Nonlinear Manipulators with Direct Contact Force Feedback
arXiv:2608.20043v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study bilateral teleoperation between nonlinear, multi-DOF robotic manipulators in the presence of constant…
Learning Hierarchical Skill Policies with Offline Quality-Diversity Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2608.19684v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent studies investigate how to leverage pre-collected datasets to improve the policy performance and sample…
CVSD-Reg: Cross-Modal Visual Semantic Prior Distillation for Robust LiDAR Registration
arXiv:2608.19536v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning-based global point cloud registration has achieved remarkable progress, yet its reliance on geometric…
Multi-Tool Robotics Enables In-Situ Sample Manipulation for Time-Resolved Synchrotron Measurements
arXiv:2608.19280v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The high photon flux at synchrotron beamlines allows for the measurement of fast dynamical processes. However,…
Beyond Multimodal Alignment: Certifying Physical Language through Response Substitution and Ordered Execution
arXiv:2608.19492v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models increasingly treat compact multimodal representations as interfaces between perception and physic…
PVRA: A Pointwise Key-point Voting Framework for Robotic Assembly
arXiv:2608.19968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern computer vision has enabled partial autonomy in robotic assembly manipulation. However, performing autono…
Memory Centric Power Allocation for Multi-Agent Embodied Question Answering
arXiv:2604.17810v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper considers multi-agent embodied question answering (MA-EQA), which enables robot teams to answer q…
Model-Less Feedback Control of Space-based Continuum Manipulators using Backbone Tension Optimization
arXiv:2512.06754v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Continuum manipulators offer intrinsic dexterity and safe geometric compliance for navigation within confine…
Calming Robot Pitches? Exploring the Influence of Robot Voice Pitch on Children's Stress Levels
arXiv:2608.19826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study examined whether variations in robot speech pitch influence children's stress levels during a robot…
MILD: Tractable Terrain Modeling for Learning Improved Bipedal Locomotion on Deformable Surfaces
arXiv:2608.19955v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enabling robots to walk on yielding terrain is vital for applications ranging from disaster response to planetar…
World-Model-Grounded LLM Planning for AUV and ASV Navigation Near Offshore Wind Farms
arXiv:2608.19661v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models can turn a natural-language mission into a sequence of robot actions, but they do not have…
Keeping the Franka Emika Panda alive: a ROS 2 stack with a reliable position interface
arXiv:2608.19740v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an open-source software stack that restores ROS 2 support for the Franka Emika Panda robot w…
CoToGrasp: Contact-Topology-Conditioned Dexterous Grasp Synthesis via Canonical Workspace Learning
arXiv:2608.19776v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current dexterous grasp planners primarily optimize for physical stability, focusing on whether an object can be…
Learning Highly Dynamic Skills Transition for Quadruped Jumping Through Constrained Space
arXiv:2608.19977v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although legged animals are capable of performing explosive motions while traversing confined spaces, replicatin…