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Frontier robotics research: arXiv cs.RO papers, embodied AI, VLA models, manipulation, navigation and learning systems.
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2771 storiesCompact Latent Coordination for Autonomous Vehicles at Unsignalized Intersections
arXiv:2607.21488v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Coordinating autonomous vehicles at unsignalized intersections remains a critical challenge for multi-agent re…
TransBiolab: A Real-World Multi-View Dataset of Cluttered Transparent Biomedical Objects
arXiv:2607.21071v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous biomedical laboratories increasingly rely on visual perception to recognize, localize, and manipula…
i2Nav-Robot: A Large-Scale Indoor-Outdoor Robot Dataset for Multi-Sensor Fusion Navigation
arXiv:2508.11485v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate and reliable navigation is crucial for autonomous unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). However, current…
Socially Consistent Multi-Robot Navigation Using Decoupled Planning and Trajectory Coordination
arXiv:2607.20772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The successful integration of mobile robots in human-centric environments requires navigation that is not only s…
Self-Supervised Bio-Inspired Robotic Trajectory Planning with Obstacle Avoidance
arXiv:2607.20743v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trajectory planning is a fundamental problem in robotics, requiring the generation of collision-free and efficie…
FELT: Generating Tactile Signals from Vision for Visuo-Tactile Manipulation
arXiv:2607.20683v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The sense of touch is central to manipulation, especially when vision is occluded or ambiguous. Although combini…
Deep Reinforcement-Learning-Guided Model Predictive Control for Preventing Overtakes in Autonomous Racing
arXiv:2607.20973v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses defensive blocking in autonomous racing, where a vehicle must prevent a faster opponent fro…
Holiday Robotics raises $105M for its FRIDAY wheeled humanoid
Holiday's robot features a wheel-based mobile base, an upper body for dexterous manipulation, and hot-swappable batteries. The post Holiday Robotics raises $105…
Pressure-free growing robots for soft medical robotics
Researchers at the University of Leeds and collaborators from the University of California San Diego won the Best Paper Award at RoboSoft, the leading internati…
ReferTrack: Referring Then Tracking for Embodied Visual Tracking
arXiv:2607.20061v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied visual tracking (EVT) requires a mobile agent to continuously follow a specific target described in nat…
Optimal Placement of Docking Stations and Resident AUVs for Subsea Pipeline Inspection
arXiv:2607.19944v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A two-stage mixed-integer linear programming framework is introduced for subsea pipeline incident response pla…
Extreme-RGMT: Continual Learning of Highly Dynamic Skills for Robust Generalist Humanoid Control
arXiv:2607.20110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans can progressively acquire highly dynamic motor skills while preserving reliable everyday motor abilities.…
Distributed Acoustic Localization Array Deployed Using a Soft Everting Vine Robot
arXiv:2607.20392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft robot exteroception is increasingly being explored for a variety of field applications. In this work, we pr…
SOPD-SocialNav: Selective On-Policy Distillation for Vision-Language Social Navigation
arXiv:2607.19850v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models have shown strong potential for social robot navigation by leveraging rich semantic under…
CRB-Driven Beamforming and Trajectory Optimization for UAV-assisted ISAC System
arXiv:2607.19609v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) …
Towards Miniature Humanoid Tele-Loco-Manipulation Using Virtual Reality and Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607.20399v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Full-sized humanoid robot capabilities have grown exponentially in recent years, aiming towards general-purpose …
Effort-Based Criticality Metrics for Evaluating 3D Perception Errors in Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2603.28029v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Criticality metrics such as time-to-collision (TTC) quantify collision urgency but do not distinguish …
Directional Mollification for Knot-Preserving $C^{\infty}$ Smoothing of Polygonal Chains with Explicit Curvature Bounds
arXiv:2603.21831v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce the \textit{directional mollification} operator, which acts on polygonal chains to produce $C^{…
Counterfactual Reasoning and Environment Design for Active Preference Learning
arXiv:2507.05458v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: For effective real-world deployment, robots should adapt to human preferences, such as balancing distance, t…
SeededGrasp: Language-Guided Grasping in Complex Scenes with Multiple Embodiments
arXiv:2607.20207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Practical robotic grasping in complex scenes requires both 3D spatial reasoning and alignment with task-specific…
Koopman Dreamer: Spectrally Constrained Latent Dynamics for Stable World-Model Imagination
arXiv:2607.19719v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Latent world models improve sample efficiency in continuous control by optimizing policies over imagined laten…
V2F: Vision-Informed Grasp Force Prediction for Damage-Aware Robotic Handling of Date Fruits
arXiv:2607.19804v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a vision-informed grasp force prediction framework for robotic handling of date fruits. Addr…
Morphing MILR: Design and control of a cable-driven limbless robot with rolling joints for maneuvering in complex environments
arXiv:2607.19714v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Limbless robots offer exceptional mobility in confined and cluttered environments due to their slender bodies an…
A Splitting Architecture for Exact Reduced Coulomb Friction
arXiv:2607.19599v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing approaches to frictional contact dynamics typically either modify the Coulomb law to improve numerica…
Defer to Plan: Adaptive Multi-Agent Fusion for End-to-End V2X Driving
arXiv:2607.19774v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vehicle-to-everything-aided autonomous driving (V2X-AD) significantly enhances driving performance through infor…
What Matters in Humanoid General Motion Tracking? An Empirical Study
arXiv:2607.19903v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid general motion tracking requires policies that can follow diverse whole-body references while maintaini…
Distributed Motion Planning with Safety Guarantees for Self-Reconfiguring Robotic Boats
arXiv:2607.20352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aquatic self-reconfigurable robots must assemble into desired shapes while ensuring safe interactions among mult…
EgoRecovery: Acquiring Failure Recovery Ability Through Human Recovery Demonstration
arXiv:2607.19745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust embodied robots should be able to recover from failures and retry tasks in order to operate reliably in u…
EA-Nav: Learning Safe Visual Navigation Policies with Embodiment Awareness
arXiv:2607.19880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-embodiment navigation is a key challenge in embodied intelligence. Due to differences in embodiment, the s…
Unified Prediction and Planning via Conflict-Aware Disjoint Parameter Training
arXiv:2607.19971v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate motion prediction of surrounding agents and safe motion planning are two closely coupled key tasks for …