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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 storiesMulDP: Multimodal Diffusion Policy for Autonomous Quadruped Parkour Navigation across Complex Terrains
arXiv:2609.03984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quadruped robots have demonstrated impressive agility in parkour locomotion across complex terrains. However, mo…
Automated Weld Seam Recognition and 3D Mapping for Robotic Post Processing Using Photogrammetry and Semantic Segmentation
arXiv:2609.03970v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate identification of weld seam geometries is essential for automated robotic post processing operations su…
Robot Aware Computational Design of Object Specific Passive Grippers for Additive Manufacturing
arXiv:2609.03761v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an end-to-end computational pipeline that converts a selected object mesh, a measured object…
Predictive Zonotope Reduction: Precise Runtime Monitoring under Uncertainty
arXiv:2609.03699v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots operating in physical environments make control decisions based on uncertain sensor measurements, which c…
FailBench: How Reliable are VLMs at Judging Robot Task Success?
arXiv:2609.03611v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly used to evaluate robot manipulation outcomes, but existing benchm…
Toward Physically Grounded JEPA World Models for Goal-Conditioned Robotic Planning
arXiv:2609.03565v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action-conditioned JEPA world models enable planning toward visually specified goals without reconstructing futu…
TRaIL-Odom: Tightly Coupled Continuous Time Radar-IMU-LiDAR Odometry with Adaptive Doppler Weighting
arXiv:2609.03561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing radar-LiDAR fusion methods rely on fixed residual weights, even though the informativeness of radar Dop…
ARTiS: An Adaptive Robotic Gripper for Enhanced Tool Manipulation in Disassembly Applications
arXiv:2609.03362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Grasping and holding tools while using them presents a considerable challenge not only for robots but also for h…
Following a Unique Path: A Fast Certifier Applied to Outlier-Robust Pose Registration
arXiv:2609.03222v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Certifiable methods have arisen as a means to guarantee global optimality of solutions to non-convex problems us…
Seeing Less Is Not Seeing Safely: Privacy Leakage from Task-Scoped Robot Perception Exports
arXiv:2609.03055v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Domestic robots rely on rich perception to operate in private homes, but privacy risk persists even when raw sen…
NVIDIA plans to acquire Hugging Face and keep AI development platform open
NVIDIA is already a major model contributor to Hugging Face, which recently surpassed 1 million datasets. The post NVIDIA plans to acquire Hugging Face and keep…
Learn why food is physical AI’s hardest problem at RoboBusiness
Rajat Bhageria, the founder and CEO of Chef Robotics, will explore what makes food such a demanding benchmark for physical AI. The post Learn why food is physic…
Surviving the paper deluge: Notes from an ICRA panel on publishing, LLMs, and the future of peer review
A recent ICRA panel titled “Surviving the Paper Deluge” brought together leading robotics researchers who have grappled with the overwhelming number of robotics…
Scene Graph-based Driving Scenario Extraction for Automotive Egocentric Datasets
arXiv:2609.00333v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Extracting scenarios from unlabelled real-world sensor data streams is a critical but challenging task in the de…
ProxPI: Proximal Prior Injection for Sampling-Based MPC under Learned-Prior Mismatch
arXiv:2609.00941v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Combining learned policies with model predictive control can leverage learned task priors while retaining online…
Accelerating Reinforcement Learning via MPC Solver-Gradient Guidance for Weights-varying MPC
arXiv:2609.01061v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Model Predictive Control (MPC), cost-function weights shape closed-loop behavior, yet changing conditions oft…
EmbodiedSkills: A Unified Framework for Orchestrating, Training, and Deploying VLA Agents
arXiv:2609.01281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models map visual observations and language instructions directly to robot actions,…
Autonomous robotic bridging using distributed swarm control without inter-agent communication
arXiv:2609.01394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We describe SCARAB--Swarm-Capable Autonomous Robotic Aquatic Bridging. Using distributed swarm control and multi…
SG-AMP: Scene-Graph-Guided Active Perception and Semantics-Aware Motion Planning for Pepper Plants
arXiv:2609.01579v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present SG-AMP, integrating robust depth completion with input-conditioned uncertainty, persistent panoptic m…
Counterfactual Closing-Acceleration Risk: An Anticipatory Surrogate Safety Measure for the Blind Region of Car-Following
arXiv:2609.00370v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Surrogate safety measures allow road-safety assessment from trajectory data in which crashes are absent, yet t…
Importance and methods to control, vary, and characterize mud strength for studying locomotion
arXiv:2609.00563v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Animals and robots encounter mud at the water-land interface. Like sand, mud can stay solid or flow like a flu…
MeRoPE: Metric Rotary Position Embedding for Camera-Controlled Video Generation
arXiv:2609.01252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In camera-controlled video generation, geometry-aware positional encodings condition tokens on camera extrinsi…
MarUco: A Markerless 6D Pose Estimation Framework for Closed-Loop Control of Surgical Continuum Manipulators
arXiv:2602.16365v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Flexible endoscopic continuum manipulators offer high dexterity and access to complex anatomy, but nonlinear…
BinWalker: Development and Field Evaluation of a Quadruped Manipulator Platform for Sustainable Litter Collection
arXiv:2603.10529v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Litter pollution represents a growing environmental problem affecting natural and urban ecosystems worldwide…
Spiking Patches: Asynchronous, Sparse, and Efficient Tokens for Event Cameras
arXiv:2510.26614v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose tokenization of events and present a tokenizer, Spiking Patches, specifically designed for …
Obstacle-Aware Autonomous Coverage and Navigation for Outdoor Robots
arXiv:2609.01384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-duration outdoor coverage with autonomous platforms remains challenging beyond classical planning: deployme…
Scalable Rao-Blackwellized Online Planning for High-Dimensional POMDPs
arXiv:2609.01351v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online planning under uncertainty remains a fundamental challenge for robotic systems operating in partially obs…
Integrating Traffic Noise Emission Modelling into Variable Speed Limit Control
arXiv:2609.01339v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Road traffic noise remains a major environmental challenge, yet most speed management strategies are static and …
DNC-IMM: Early Lane-Change Intention Recognition via Neural Calibration Based on Driving Context Information
arXiv:2609.01120v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Early recognition of lane-change intention is essential for proactive decision-making in autonomous driving and …
Adaptive Depth-Map-Guided Bundle Adjustment for Correspondence-Free Multi-View Point Cloud Registration
arXiv:2609.01089v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic processing of irregular steel scrap requires dense 3-D measurement to replace manual visual assessment i…