Research

Understanding and Mitigating the Video-Action Generalization Gap via Temporal Ratio

arXiv:2607.08127v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative video foundation models exhibit strong compositional priors, yet world-action models (WAMs) and vid…

A New Human-Likeness and Comfort Index for Robot Movements Along Prescribed Paths

arXiv:2607.08620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As human-robot interaction rapidly spreads in numerous fields, the subject of robot acceptance gains increasing …

FSD-VLN: Fast-Slow Dual-System Modeling for Aerial Long-Horizon Vision-Language Navigation

arXiv:2607.08359v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) enables UAV autonomous navigation in unknown environments by mapping language i…

Harness VLA: Steering Frozen VLAs into Reliable Manipulation Primitives via Memory-Guided Agents

arXiv:2607.08448v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language-conditioned manipulation requires both precise contact-rich control and robust reasoning over language,…

Learning Adaptive Solvers for Distributed Factor Graph Optimization on Matrix Lie Groups

arXiv:2607.08735v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern robotic perception increasingly involves large-scale geometric optimization problems distributed across m…

Large-Language-Models-as-a-Judge in Theory-Agnostic Adaptive Metric-Alignment for Prototypical Networks in Personality Recognition

arXiv:2607.08374v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Personality recognition has traditionally been constrained by theory-dependent formulations, where models are …

Post-Training in End-to-End Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2607.08072v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end models that map multimodal inputs directly to future trajectories/maneuvers have emerged as an incr…

D-CLIPSE: Distributed Consensus-based Localization with Passive Listening on Shared State Exchange

arXiv:2607.07995v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot localization that is accurate and consistent is imperative for downstream tasks such as planning and…

X-ACTA: eXtended Analytic Center Tension distribution Algorithm for fixed and mobile cable-driven-parallel-robot

arXiv:2607.08265v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Steering Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (CDPRs) beyond their Wrench-Feasible Workspace (WFW) augments their capabi…

Simulator Ensembles for Trustworthy Autonomous Driving Systems Testing

arXiv:2503.08936v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scenario-based testing with driving simulators is extensively used to identify failing conditions of a…

On Exploring Input Resolution Scaling For Anytime LiDAR Object Detection

arXiv:2607.08391v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Making tradeoffs between execution latency and result utility (i.e., anytime computing) for adapting to dynamic …

Shift & Drift: A Zero-Shot Benchmark for Generalizable and Robust Autonomous Driving Motion Planning

arXiv:2607.07844v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While closed-loop motion planners trained on large-scale, object-level datasets, e.g., nuPlan, demonstrate stron…

Time-to-Collision Based Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance Using Pretrained Vision Models for Robots in Unstructured Environments

arXiv:2607.07885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dynamic obstacle avoidance in unstructured outdoor environments remains a critical challenge for autonomous mobi…

Swapping Faces, Saving Features: A Dual-Purpose Pipeline for Pedestrian Privacy in ITS

arXiv:2607.08402v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-scale and diverse datasets are needed to train AI models to take real-time decisions for autonomous vehi…

FabriVLA: A Lightweight Vision-Language-Action Model for Precise Multi-Task Manipulation

arXiv:2607.08575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present FabriVLA, a lightweight Vision-Language-Action model for Precise Multi-Task Manipulation. FabriVLA co…

DexVerse: A Modular Benchmark for Multi-Task, Multi-Embodiment Dexterous Manipulation

arXiv:2607.08751v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building general-purpose dexterous manipulation policies requires benchmarks that go beyond isolated tasks to sy…

Soft Robotic Exogloves for Dexterous Mobility -- Towards Personalized Rehabilitation

arXiv:2607.07968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft robotic exogloves can provide hand rehabilitation and assistance. Fitting these gloves often relies on stan…

STEMbot: A Compliant Robot for Under-Canopy Plant Navigation

arXiv:2607.07873v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The scalability of organic agriculture is partially limited by the labor costs associated with monitoring for pe…

RadLoc: Radar-based 3-DoF Global Localization via Fast, Robust, and Lightweight Spatial Descriptor Across Diverse Environmental Scenarios

arXiv:2607.08115v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While global localization using spinning radar has gained attention for its robustness to adverse weather and ch…

BiasBench: A reproducible benchmark for tuning the biases of event cameras

arXiv:2504.18235v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Event-based cameras are bio-inspired sensors that detect light changes asynchronously for each pixel. …

Graph-Loc: Robust Graph-Based LiDAR Pose Tracking with Compact Structural Map Priors under Low Observability and Occlusion

arXiv:2602.08417v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Map-based LiDAR pose tracking is essential for long-term autonomous operation, where onboard map priors need…

Physics-Guided Biomechanical Gait Adaptation for Humanoid Locomotion on Extreme Sloped Terrains

arXiv:2607.07830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model-free reinforcement learning has enabled impressive humanoid locomotion; however, control on steep slopes r…

Open-Vocabulary Object-Goal Navigation by Generalizing Semantic Mapping with Dense CLIP

arXiv:2407.09016v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Object-oriented embodied navigation tasks require agents to locate specific objects, either defined by categ…

Robotics Research Pulse: What 1732 arXiv Robotics Papers Say Researchers Are Working On (2026-06-10 → 2026-07-09)

Disturbance-aware Motion Planning for Over-actuated Underwater Vehicles Exploiting Actuation Redundancy for High-fidelity 3D Reconstruction

arXiv:2607.07139v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Underwater robots often operate near delicate targets where high-power thrusters resuspend sediments and induce …

A Closed-Loop Multi-Agent Framework for Robust Multi-Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2607.06990v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot systems provide the parallelism and redundancy necessary for long-horizon tasks, while Large Languag…

Multi-Agent Robotic Control with Onboard Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2607.07403v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision Language Models (VLMs) and Vision Language Action (VLA) models have shown promise in robotic control. Y…

Compositional Motion Generation from Demonstration with Object-Centric Neural Fields

arXiv:2607.07129v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compositionality, by organizing complex behavior as combinations of simpler elements, enables robot learning tha…

Towards Reliable Aerial Ground Vehicle Collaboration: An Integrated Planning and Autonomy Framework for Field Deployment

arXiv:2607.07350v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Limited flight endurance significantly restricts the operational range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in lon…

CILC: Cryptographically-secure Inter-agent Loop Closure Candidate Detection for Multi-Agent Collaborative SLAM

arXiv:2607.06700v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) and collaborative SLAM (CSLAM) require robots to contin…