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Act3D: 3D Feature Field Transformers for Multi-Task Robotic Manipulation
Theophile Gervet, Zhou Xian, Nikolaos Gkanatsios +1
cs.ROcs.AIcs.LGarXiv:2306.17817v22023
SMILE: Smooth Motion for Improved Long-Horizon VLA Execution
Jongwoo Park, E-Ro Nguyen, Kanchana Ranasinghe +3
cs.ROarXiv:2608.29432v12026
DexMachina: Functional Retargeting for Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation
Zhao Mandi, Yifan Hou, Dieter Fox +3
cs.ROcs.AIcs.LGarXiv:2505.24853v12025
GeoVLA: Empowering 3D Representations in Vision-Language-Action Models
Lin Sun, Bin Xie, Yingfei Liu +3
cs.ROarXiv:2508.09071v22025
ResMimic: From General Motion Tracking to Humanoid Whole-body Loco-Manipulation via Residual Learning
Siheng Zhao, Yanjie Ze, Yue Wang +4
cs.ROcs.LGarXiv:2510.05070v22025
Training-Free Action Correction for VLA Model Failures via Language Feedback
Owen Kwon, Pablo Ortega-Kral, Arthur Bucker +1
cs.ROcs.AIarXiv:2608.29967v12026
ROI-based Robotic Grasp Detection for Object Overlapping Scenes
Hanbo Zhang, Xuguang Lan, Site Bai +3
cs.ROarXiv:1808.10313v62018
JoyAI-RA 0.1: A Foundation Model for Robotic Autonomy
Tianle Zhang, Zhihao Yuan, Dafeng Chi +59
cs.ROarXiv:2604.20100v22026
GelSight Wedge: Measuring High-Resolution 3D Contact Geometry with a Compact Robot Finger
Shaoxiong Wang, Yu She, Branden Romero +1
cs.ROcs.CVarXiv:2106.08851v12021
Asynchronous Cooperative Online Learning for Multi-Robot Control under Computational Delays
Xiaobing Dai, Zewen Yang, Wei Ren +1
cs.LGcs.MAcs.ROarXiv:2608.29562v12026
Real2Render2Real: Scaling Robot Data Without Dynamics Simulation or Robot Hardware
Justin Yu, Letian Fu, Huang Huang +5
cs.ROarXiv:2505.09601v12025
AnyTouch: Learning Unified Static-Dynamic Representation across Multiple Visuo-tactile Sensors
Ruoxuan Feng, Jiangyu Hu, Wenke Xia +5
cs.LGcs.CVcs.ROarXiv:2502.12191v32025
VLA-RFT: Vision-Language-Action Reinforcement Fine-tuning with Verified Rewards in World Simulators
Hengtao Li, Pengxiang Ding, Runze Suo +8
cs.ROcs.CVarXiv:2510.00406v12025
Learning Robust Autonomous Navigation and Locomotion for Wheeled-Legged Robots
Joonho Lee, Marko Bjelonic, Alexander Reske +3
cs.ROcs.LGeess.SYarXiv:2405.01792v12024
DiffVLA: Vision-Language Guided Diffusion Planning for Autonomous Driving
Anqing Jiang, Yu Gao, Zhigang Sun +11
cs.AIcs.CVcs.ROarXiv:2505.19381v42025
Blind Dexterity: Whole-Body Humanoid Manipulation via Pure Proprioception
Aditya Bhatt, Oleg Kaidanov, Puze Liu +1
cs.ROarXiv:2608.29487v12026
Efficient Continuous-Time SLAM for 3D Lidar-Based Online Mapping
David Droeschel, Sven Behnke
cs.ROarXiv:1810.06802v12018
VTLA: Vision-Tactile-Language-Action Model with Preference Learning for Insertion Manipulation
Chaofan Zhang, Peng Hao, Xiaoge Cao +3
cs.ROarXiv:2505.09577v12025
Confidence Regularized Self-Training
Yang Zou, Zhiding Yu, Xiaofeng Liu +2
cs.CVcs.LGcs.MMarXiv:1908.09822v32019
SeedPolicy: Horizon Scaling via Self-Evolving Diffusion Policy for Robot Manipulation
Youqiang Gui, Yuxuan Zhou, Shen Cheng +4
cs.ROarXiv:2603.05117v42026
Risk-Aware Decision-Making for Autonomous Overtaking: A World Model-Based Mixture-of-Experts Framework
Yongzhi Liu, Sunan Zhang, Jinchang Xu +4
cs.ROcs.AIcs.LGarXiv:2609.00385v12026
Hume: Introducing System-2 Thinking in Visual-Language-Action Model
Haoming Song, Delin Qu, Yuanqi Yao +9
cs.ROcs.AIarXiv:2505.21432v42025
CLARE: Continual Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models via Autonomous Adapter Routing and Expansion
Ralf Römer, Yi Zhang, Yuming Li +1
cs.ROcs.LGarXiv:2601.09512v22026
A Survey on Active Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: State of the Art and New Frontiers
Julio A. Placed, Jared Strader, Henry Carrillo +4
cs.ROarXiv:2207.00254v22022
Can We Detect Failures Without Failure Data? Uncertainty-Aware Runtime Failure Detection for Imitation Learning Policies
Chen Xu, Tony Khuong Nguyen, Emma Dixon +7
cs.ROcs.AIcs.LGarXiv:2503.08558v32025
Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based Dexterous Manipulation on Humanoids
Toru Lin, Kartik Sachdev, Linxi Fan +2
cs.ROcs.AIcs.CVarXiv:2502.20396v22025
HITTER: A HumanoId Table TEnnis Robot via Hierarchical Planning and Learning
Zhi Su, Bike Zhang, Nima Rahmanian +5
cs.ROarXiv:2508.21043v22025
CIG-RL: Curiosity-Driven Information-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Source Term Estimation in Uncertain Environments
Junhee Lee, Seunghwan Kim, Hongro Jang +4
cs.ROarXiv:2608.30673v12026
Humanoid Locomotion and Manipulation: Current Progress and Challenges in Control, Planning, and Learning
Zhaoyuan Gu, Junheng Li, Wenlan Shen +15
cs.ROarXiv:2501.02116v22025
InstructVLA: Vision-Language-Action Instruction Tuning from Understanding to Manipulation
Shuai Yang, Hao Li, Bin Wang +7
cs.ROcs.CVarXiv:2507.17520v22025
Any6D: Model-free 6D Pose Estimation of Novel Objects
Taeyeop Lee, Bowen Wen, Minjun Kang +3
cs.CVcs.AIcs.ROarXiv:2503.18673v22025
Integrating Traffic Noise Emission Modelling into Variable Speed Limit Control
Jiawen Meng, John Pravin Arockiasamy, Alexey Vinel
cs.ROarXiv:2609.01339v12026
Mimic Intent, Not Just Trajectories
Renming Huang, Chendong Zeng, Wenjing Tang +3
cs.ROarXiv:2602.08602v32026
Point Policy: Unifying Observations and Actions with Key Points for Robot Manipulation
Siddhant Haldar, Lerrel Pinto
cs.ROarXiv:2502.20391v12025
Monocular Semantic Occupancy Grid Mapping with Convolutional Variational Encoder-Decoder Networks
Chenyang Lu, Marinus Jacobus Gerardus van de Molengraft, Gijs Dubbelman
cs.ROcs.CVarXiv:1804.02176v32018
Context-Aware Intelligent Vehicles
Liangkai Liu, Shuyao Shi, Mingke Wang +4
cs.ROcs.ETeess.SYarXiv:2609.00682v12026
Robust Autonomy Emerges from Self-Play
Marco Cusumano-Towner, David Hafner, Alex Hertzberg +9
cs.LGcs.AIcs.ROarXiv:2502.03349v12025
Keep Rollin' - Whole-Body Motion Control and Planning for Wheeled Quadrupedal Robots
Marko Bjelonic, C. Dario Bellicoso, Yvain de Viragh +4
cs.ROarXiv:1809.03557v22018
A Review of Surface Haptics:Enabling Tactile Effects on Touch Surfaces
Cagatay Basdogan, Frederic Giraud, Vincent Levesque +1
cs.HCcs.ROarXiv:2004.13864v12020
CLONE: Closed-Loop Whole-Body Humanoid Teleoperation for Long-Horizon Tasks
Yixuan Li, Yutang Lin, Jieming Cui +4
cs.ROarXiv:2506.08931v22025
PD-VLA: Accelerating Vision-Language-Action Model Integrated with Action Chunking via Parallel Decoding
Wenxuan Song, Jiayi Chen, Pengxiang Ding +9
cs.ROcs.CVarXiv:2503.02310v22025
Efficient Optical flow and Stereo Vision for Velocity Estimation and Obstacle Avoidance on an Autonomous Pocket Drone
Kimberly McGuire, Guido de Croon, Christophe De Wagter +2
cs.ROarXiv:1612.06702v22016
DexGrasp Anything: Towards Universal Robotic Dexterous Grasping with Physics Awareness
Yiming Zhong, Qi Jiang, Jingyi Yu +1
cs.CVcs.AIcs.ROarXiv:2503.08257v22025
BridgeVLA: Input-Output Alignment for Efficient 3D Manipulation Learning with Vision-Language Models
Peiyan Li, Yixiang Chen, Hongtao Wu +6
cs.ROcs.AIarXiv:2506.07961v22025
VGGT-SLAM 2.0: Real-time Dense Feed-forward Scene Reconstruction
Dominic Maggio, Luca Carlone
cs.CVcs.ROarXiv:2601.19887v22026
Learning Generalizable Robotic Reward Functions from "In-The-Wild" Human Videos
Annie S. Chen, Suraj Nair, Chelsea Finn
cs.ROcs.AIcs.CVarXiv:2103.16817v12021
An informative path planning framework for UAV-based terrain monitoring
Marija Popovic, Teresa Vidal-Calleja, Gregory Hitz +4
cs.ROarXiv:1809.03870v32018
VQ-VLA: Improving Vision-Language-Action Models via Scaling Vector-Quantized Action Tokenizers
Yating Wang, Haoyi Zhu, Mingyu Liu +3
cs.ROcs.CVarXiv:2507.01016v12025
TrackVLA: Embodied Visual Tracking in the Wild
Shaoan Wang, Jiazhao Zhang, Minghan Li +7
cs.ROcs.CVarXiv:2505.23189v12025
DriftingVLA: Native One-Step Vision-Language-Action Generation via Per-Dimension Temporal Drifting
Yuxuan Gao, Shiqi Zhang, Yedong Shen +6
cs.ROarXiv:2608.29749v12026
Generalized Trajectory Scoring for End-to-end Multimodal Planning
Zhenxin Li, Wenhao Yao, Zi Wang +7
cs.ROcs.CVarXiv:2506.06664v12025
Large VLM-based Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation: A Survey
Rui Shao, Wei Li, Lingsen Zhang +4
cs.ROcs.CVarXiv:2508.13073v32025
Module Number Adaptive Visual Shape Control for Serial Modular Soft Robots
Kyohei Akamine, Takato Horii, Yusuke Sakaue +1
cs.ROarXiv:2608.29547v12026
Urban Driver: Learning to Drive from Real-world Demonstrations Using Policy Gradients
Oliver Scheel, Luca Bergamini, Maciej Wołczyk +2
cs.ROcs.AIcs.CVarXiv:2109.13333v12021
Text2Reward: Reward Shaping with Language Models for Reinforcement Learning
Tianbao Xie, Siheng Zhao, Chen Henry Wu +5
cs.LGcs.AIcs.CLarXiv:2309.11489v32023
ApexNav: An Adaptive Exploration Strategy for Zero-Shot Object Navigation with Target-centric Semantic Fusion
Mingjie Zhang, Yuheng Du, Chengkai Wu +4
cs.ROarXiv:2504.14478v32025
A Survey on Vision-Language-Action Models for Autonomous Driving
Sicong Jiang, Zilin Huang, Kangan Qian +17
cs.CVcs.AIcs.ROarXiv:2506.24044v12025
Motubrain: An Advanced World Action Model for Robot Control
Motubrain Team, Chendong Xiang, Fan Bao +17
cs.ROarXiv:2604.27792v52026
UAVs Meet LLMs: Overviews and Perspectives Toward Agentic Low-Altitude Mobility
Yonglin Tian, Fei Lin, Yiduo Li +11
cs.ROcs.AIarXiv:2501.02341v22025
Humanoid Policy ~ Human Policy
Ri-Zhao Qiu, Shiqi Yang, Xuxin Cheng +12
cs.ROcs.AIcs.CVarXiv:2503.13441v32025

Robotics

Act3D: 3D Feature Field Transformers for Multi-Task Robotic Manipulation

SMILE: Smooth Motion for Improved Long-Horizon VLA Execution

DexMachina: Functional Retargeting for Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation

GeoVLA: Empowering 3D Representations in Vision-Language-Action Models

ResMimic: From General Motion Tracking to Humanoid Whole-body Loco-Manipulation via Residual Learning

Training-Free Action Correction for VLA Model Failures via Language Feedback

ROI-based Robotic Grasp Detection for Object Overlapping Scenes

JoyAI-RA 0.1: A Foundation Model for Robotic Autonomy

GelSight Wedge: Measuring High-Resolution 3D Contact Geometry with a Compact Robot Finger

Asynchronous Cooperative Online Learning for Multi-Robot Control under Computational Delays

Real2Render2Real: Scaling Robot Data Without Dynamics Simulation or Robot Hardware

AnyTouch: Learning Unified Static-Dynamic Representation across Multiple Visuo-tactile Sensors

VLA-RFT: Vision-Language-Action Reinforcement Fine-tuning with Verified Rewards in World Simulators

Learning Robust Autonomous Navigation and Locomotion for Wheeled-Legged Robots

DiffVLA: Vision-Language Guided Diffusion Planning for Autonomous Driving

Blind Dexterity: Whole-Body Humanoid Manipulation via Pure Proprioception

Efficient Continuous-Time SLAM for 3D Lidar-Based Online Mapping

VTLA: Vision-Tactile-Language-Action Model with Preference Learning for Insertion Manipulation

Confidence Regularized Self-Training

SeedPolicy: Horizon Scaling via Self-Evolving Diffusion Policy for Robot Manipulation

Risk-Aware Decision-Making for Autonomous Overtaking: A World Model-Based Mixture-of-Experts Framework

Hume: Introducing System-2 Thinking in Visual-Language-Action Model

CLARE: Continual Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models via Autonomous Adapter Routing and Expansion

A Survey on Active Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: State of the Art and New Frontiers

Can We Detect Failures Without Failure Data? Uncertainty-Aware Runtime Failure Detection for Imitation Learning Policies

Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based Dexterous Manipulation on Humanoids

HITTER: A HumanoId Table TEnnis Robot via Hierarchical Planning and Learning

CIG-RL: Curiosity-Driven Information-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Source Term Estimation in Uncertain Environments

Humanoid Locomotion and Manipulation: Current Progress and Challenges in Control, Planning, and Learning

InstructVLA: Vision-Language-Action Instruction Tuning from Understanding to Manipulation

Any6D: Model-free 6D Pose Estimation of Novel Objects

Integrating Traffic Noise Emission Modelling into Variable Speed Limit Control

Mimic Intent, Not Just Trajectories

Point Policy: Unifying Observations and Actions with Key Points for Robot Manipulation

Monocular Semantic Occupancy Grid Mapping with Convolutional Variational Encoder-Decoder Networks

Context-Aware Intelligent Vehicles

Robust Autonomy Emerges from Self-Play

Keep Rollin' - Whole-Body Motion Control and Planning for Wheeled Quadrupedal Robots

A Review of Surface Haptics:Enabling Tactile Effects on Touch Surfaces

CLONE: Closed-Loop Whole-Body Humanoid Teleoperation for Long-Horizon Tasks

PD-VLA: Accelerating Vision-Language-Action Model Integrated with Action Chunking via Parallel Decoding

Efficient Optical flow and Stereo Vision for Velocity Estimation and Obstacle Avoidance on an Autonomous Pocket Drone

DexGrasp Anything: Towards Universal Robotic Dexterous Grasping with Physics Awareness

BridgeVLA: Input-Output Alignment for Efficient 3D Manipulation Learning with Vision-Language Models

VGGT-SLAM 2.0: Real-time Dense Feed-forward Scene Reconstruction

Learning Generalizable Robotic Reward Functions from "In-The-Wild" Human Videos

An informative path planning framework for UAV-based terrain monitoring

VQ-VLA: Improving Vision-Language-Action Models via Scaling Vector-Quantized Action Tokenizers

TrackVLA: Embodied Visual Tracking in the Wild

DriftingVLA: Native One-Step Vision-Language-Action Generation via Per-Dimension Temporal Drifting

Generalized Trajectory Scoring for End-to-end Multimodal Planning

Large VLM-based Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation: A Survey

Module Number Adaptive Visual Shape Control for Serial Modular Soft Robots

Urban Driver: Learning to Drive from Real-world Demonstrations Using Policy Gradients

Text2Reward: Reward Shaping with Language Models for Reinforcement Learning

ApexNav: An Adaptive Exploration Strategy for Zero-Shot Object Navigation with Target-centric Semantic Fusion

A Survey on Vision-Language-Action Models for Autonomous Driving

Motubrain: An Advanced World Action Model for Robot Control

UAVs Meet LLMs: Overviews and Perspectives Toward Agentic Low-Altitude Mobility

Humanoid Policy ~ Human Policy