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Contextrast++: Robust Multi-Scale Contextual Contrastive Learning for Semantic Segmentation
Changki Sung, Hyungtae Lim, Wanhee Kim +2
cs.CVcs.ROarXiv:2608.22679v12026
Mamba-based Selective State Space Modeling Improves the Accuracy-Complexity Tradeoff of SmolVLA Vision-Language-Action Experts
Farida Mohsen, Thowayba Elkaffash, Mohammad Reza Chalak Qazani +3
cs.ROcs.AIarXiv:2608.21407v12026
Evaluating Human and LLM-Generated Thematic Analysis in HRI for Vulnerable Populations: A Comparative and Ethical Analysis
Alva Markelius, Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Julie Bailey +1
cs.ROcs.HCarXiv:2608.21420v12026
KISS-ICP: In Defense of Point-to-Point ICP -- Simple, Accurate, and Robust Registration If Done the Right Way
Ignacio Vizzo, Tiziano Guadagnino, Benedikt Mersch +3
cs.ROarXiv:2209.15397v22022
Tolerance-Dependent Inspection Disagreement Between a Fixed CMM and a Portable Articulated-Arm CMM
Md Manjurul Ahsan, Hamidreza Samadi, Shivakumar Raman
cs.ROeess.SParXiv:2608.21404v12026
Position: Robot Privacy as Embodied Boundary Work. Connecting Capabilities, Contexts, and Design Responses in Everyday Robotics
Liwen He, Shuning Zhang, Chengwen Zhang +4
cs.ROcs.HCarXiv:2608.21410v12026
Selective Cross-View Consistency for World Action Models: Held-Out Viewpoint Robustness Without Test-Time Camera Information
Bingqi Huang, Bingchuan Wei, Yingkai Cai +1
cs.ROcs.CVarXiv:2608.21402v12026
Operational digital twin clinics enable task-based evaluation of embodied AI
Xinyuan Wu, Jingrao Zhang, Mengdi Xu +3
cs.ROcs.AIarXiv:2608.21416v12026
RiskWorld: Object-Centric Latent World Modeling for Autonomous Driving Risk Identification
Jingzheng Li, Yufei Ge, Qianren Mao +5
cs.ROcs.LGarXiv:2608.21414v12026
AI Visual Inspection for Garment Production
Ray Wai Man Kong, Ding Ning, Theodore Ho Tin Kong
cs.CVcs.ROarXiv:2608.21426v12026
Constructing Predictive Surgical Path for AI-based Capsulorhexis Skill Transfer
Mohammad Javad Ahmadi, Hamid D. Taghirad
cs.ROcs.AIcs.LGarXiv:2608.21441v12026
Geo-VLA: Geometry-Aware Vision-Language-Action Planning via Internalization of Map Semantics
Ran Chen, Jiaxing Ren, Zhikun Zhang +3
cs.ROcs.AIarXiv:2608.21440v12026
The Setting of IMU Parameters in Kalman Filtering-based Information Fusion
Qiang Hu, Yanhua Zou, Shuaiyi Huo +2
cs.ROeess.SYarXiv:2608.21433v22026
ExploreAI: Agentic Exploration Knowledge Bases for Reproducible Observable-Regression Testing of Black-Box VR and 3D Applications
Jiajie Wang, Kebin Peng, Wei Wang +3
cs.SEcs.ROarXiv:2608.21628v12026
Force/Torque-Based Kinematic Adaptation for Robotic Manipulation Tasks
Carl Glen Henshaw
cs.ROarXiv:2608.21592v12026
Macro-Operator Generation and Predicate Selection for TAMP Operator Learning
Can Emir Bora, Emre Ugur
cs.ROcs.AIarXiv:2608.23629v12026
Stereo R-CNN based 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving
Peiliang Li, Xiaozhi Chen, Shaojie Shen
cs.CVcs.ROarXiv:1902.09738v22019
Lifelong Robot Recomposition via Persistent Categorical Modeling for Unified Task-Driven Co-Design, Verification, and Planning
Steven Swanbeck, Mitch Pryor
cs.ROarXiv:2608.21676v12026
Relay Policy Learning: Solving Long-Horizon Tasks via Imitation and Reinforcement Learning
Abhishek Gupta, Vikash Kumar, Corey Lynch +2
cs.LGcs.ROstat.MLarXiv:1910.11956v12019
Why robots? A survey on the roles and benefits of social robots in the therapy of children with autism
John-John Cabibihan, Hifza Javed, Marcelo Ang +1
cs.ROcs.CYcs.HCarXiv:1311.0352v12013
Vision-Guided Morphing Quadcopter for Multi-Geometry Payload Transport through Narrow Passages
Aashish Sahu, Shriram Hari, R. Prasanth Kumar
cs.ROarXiv:2608.21879v12026
Learning to See by Moving
Pulkit Agrawal, Joao Carreira, Jitendra Malik
cs.CVcs.NEcs.ROarXiv:1505.01596v22015
Stakeholder Insights for Designing In-Home Social Robots for Dementia Disorientation Detection and Caregiver-Aware Intervention
Emmanuel Akinrintoyo, Nicole Salomons
cs.ROarXiv:2608.22008v22026
Unstructured Human Activity Detection from RGBD Images
Jaeyong Sung, Colin Ponce, Bart Selman +1
cs.ROcs.CVarXiv:1107.0169v22011
Design of a Human-Assistance Robot System with Contextual Action Recognition
Amanuel Ergogo, Teresa Zielińska
cs.ROarXiv:2608.22028v12026
An Interpretable Deep Learning Framework for Material Perception and Classification from Multisensory Tactile Data
Li Zou, Dave Hogendoorn, Yasemin Vardar
cs.ROcs.HCarXiv:2608.21894v12026
DreamLedger: Execution-Settled Credit Files for World-Model Imagination in Robot Decision Loops
Xianyao Li, Ruitong Tian, Rui Min +2
cs.ROarXiv:2608.23863v12026
Reducing the Barrier to Entry of Complex Robotic Software: a MoveIt! Case Study
David Coleman, Ioan Sucan, Sachin Chitta +1
cs.ROarXiv:1404.3785v12014
Control of a Quadrotor with Reinforcement Learning
Jemin Hwangbo, Inkyu Sa, Roland Siegwart +1
cs.ROarXiv:1707.05110v12017
Privileged Critic Training Enables Sensor-Free Thruster Fault Adaptation in End-to-End RL
Ricard Marsal I Castan, Miguel A. Olivares-Méndez
cs.ROarXiv:2608.22976v12026
MA-VLA: Multi-Arm Vision-Language-Action Model for Collaboration and Compositional Generalization
Zaibin Zhang, Junlan Xiao, Zhongbo Zhang +11
cs.ROarXiv:2608.25864v12026
Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation in Construction via Zero-Shot Learning: A Diffusion Policy-Guided Adaptive Control
Roman Ibrahimov, Salma Mozaffari, Arash Adel
cs.ROarXiv:2608.22100v12026
Motion Planning for Autonomous Driving: The State of the Art and Future Perspectives
Siyu Teng, Xuemin Hu, Peng Deng +8
cs.ROcs.AIarXiv:2303.09824v42023
CIDER: Continual Interactive Distillation for Embodied Reinforcement Learning
Houlin Li, Minghui Xu, Guo Xu +8
cs.ROarXiv:2608.21899v12026
Safety-Critical Bilateral Teleoperation for Omnidirectional Aerial Manipulation Using Force-Sensorless Haptic Feedback
Yubin Kim, Jinwoo Lee, Yongjun You +2
cs.ROarXiv:2608.21735v12026
A micro Lie theory for state estimation in robotics
Joan Solà, Jeremie Deray, Dinesh Atchuthan
cs.ROarXiv:1812.01537v92018
EndoNav: Semantic-to-Geometric Grounding for Language-Guided Robotic Endoscopic Examination
Jecia Z. Y. Mao, Hisashi Ishida, Kathryn Jung +3
cs.ROarXiv:2608.22093v12026
Betting for Sim-to-Real Performance Certificates
Yujia Chen, Bowen Weng
cs.ROarXiv:2608.21572v12026
Vision Guided Target Conditioned Control for Autonomous Excavation
Shuai Zhao, Ji-An Pan, Junwei Li +5
cs.ROarXiv:2608.21778v12026
Stochastic Variational Video Prediction
Mohammad Babaeizadeh, Chelsea Finn, Dumitru Erhan +2
cs.CVcs.ROarXiv:1710.11252v22017
Automatic Goal Generation for Reinforcement Learning Agents
Carlos Florensa, David Held, Xinyang Geng +1
cs.LGcs.AIcs.ROarXiv:1705.06366v52017
Optimization-Based Autonomous Racing of 1:43 Scale RC Cars
Alexander Liniger, Alexander Domahidi, Manfred Morari
math.OCcs.ROeess.SYarXiv:1711.07300v12017
Robust and Efficient Quadrotor Trajectory Generation for Fast Autonomous Flight
Boyu Zhou, Fei Gao, Luqi Wang +2
cs.ROarXiv:1907.01531v22019
INeRF: Inverting Neural Radiance Fields for Pose Estimation
Lin Yen-Chen, Pete Florence, Jonathan T. Barron +3
cs.CVcs.ROarXiv:2012.05877v32020
Why Personalization Matters: Cross-Subject Challenges in EMG-IMU-based HRI Activity Recognition
Ruan Rithelle Chagas de Faria Carminati, Giovanni Braglia, Luigi Biagiotti +4
cs.ROarXiv:2608.21620v12026
Transporter Networks: Rearranging the Visual World for Robotic Manipulation
Andy Zeng, Pete Florence, Jonathan Tompson +9
cs.ROarXiv:2010.14406v32020
Ludi${}_{\scriptscriptstyle 0.1}$: An Agentic System for Socially Intelligent Robots
Wooseong Chung, William Cong, Jakub Dworakowski +14
cs.ROarXiv:2608.22035v12026
In-Situ Reconstruction of the International Space Station Using 3D Gaussian Splatting and Astrobee
Hudson Kim, Ryan Soussan, Brian Coltin +1
cs.ROarXiv:2608.21685v12026
CORe50: a New Dataset and Benchmark for Continuous Object Recognition
Vincenzo Lomonaco, Davide Maltoni
cs.CVcs.AIcs.LGarXiv:1705.03550v12017
VIMA: General Robot Manipulation with Multimodal Prompts
Yunfan Jiang, Agrim Gupta, Zichen Zhang +7
cs.ROcs.AIcs.LGarXiv:2210.03094v22022
PonderPounce: A Pretrained MLLM as an Episode Context Engine for Robot Control
Suhwan Choi, Jaeyoon Jung, Sungkyung Kim +2
cs.ROcs.AIarXiv:2608.24115v12026
Brax -- A Differentiable Physics Engine for Large Scale Rigid Body Simulation
C. Daniel Freeman, Erik Frey, Anton Raichuk +3
cs.ROcs.AIarXiv:2106.13281v12021
WAM-OPD: On-Policy Distillation for World Action Models
Liuhaichen Yang, Zhuang Jiang, Chenchao Sheng +1
cs.AIcs.ROarXiv:2608.22364v12026
Progressively Learning Heterogeneous Skills in a Unified Latent Space
Yue-Yi Zhang, Ming Gong, Linpu He +2
cs.CVcs.AIcs.ROarXiv:2608.23258v12026
Maximum a Posteriori Policy Optimisation
Abbas Abdolmaleki, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Yuval Tassa +3
cs.LGcs.AIcs.ITarXiv:1806.06920v12018
T-LESS: An RGB-D Dataset for 6D Pose Estimation of Texture-less Objects
Tomas Hodan, Pavel Haluza, Stepan Obdrzalek +3
cs.CVcs.AIcs.ROarXiv:1701.05498v12017
Beyond Instance Slots: Semantically Rich World Models for Physical Interaction Planning
Juntao Cheng, Jingkai Wang, Yijun Shen +2
cs.ROarXiv:2608.22294v12026
Deep Spatial Autoencoders for Visuomotor Learning
Chelsea Finn, Xin Yu Tan, Yan Duan +3
cs.LGcs.CVcs.ROarXiv:1509.06113v32015
A Compliant, Underactuated Hand for Robust Manipulation
Lael U. Odhner, Leif P. Jentoft, Mark R. Claffee +7
cs.ROarXiv:1301.4394v12013
Modelling Uncertainty in Deep Learning for Camera Relocalization
Alex Kendall, Roberto Cipolla
cs.CVcs.ROarXiv:1509.05909v22015

Robotics

Contextrast++: Robust Multi-Scale Contextual Contrastive Learning for Semantic Segmentation

Mamba-based Selective State Space Modeling Improves the Accuracy-Complexity Tradeoff of SmolVLA Vision-Language-Action Experts

Evaluating Human and LLM-Generated Thematic Analysis in HRI for Vulnerable Populations: A Comparative and Ethical Analysis

KISS-ICP: In Defense of Point-to-Point ICP -- Simple, Accurate, and Robust Registration If Done the Right Way

Tolerance-Dependent Inspection Disagreement Between a Fixed CMM and a Portable Articulated-Arm CMM

Position: Robot Privacy as Embodied Boundary Work. Connecting Capabilities, Contexts, and Design Responses in Everyday Robotics

Selective Cross-View Consistency for World Action Models: Held-Out Viewpoint Robustness Without Test-Time Camera Information

Operational digital twin clinics enable task-based evaluation of embodied AI

RiskWorld: Object-Centric Latent World Modeling for Autonomous Driving Risk Identification

AI Visual Inspection for Garment Production

Constructing Predictive Surgical Path for AI-based Capsulorhexis Skill Transfer

Geo-VLA: Geometry-Aware Vision-Language-Action Planning via Internalization of Map Semantics

The Setting of IMU Parameters in Kalman Filtering-based Information Fusion

ExploreAI: Agentic Exploration Knowledge Bases for Reproducible Observable-Regression Testing of Black-Box VR and 3D Applications

Force/Torque-Based Kinematic Adaptation for Robotic Manipulation Tasks

Macro-Operator Generation and Predicate Selection for TAMP Operator Learning

Stereo R-CNN based 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving

Lifelong Robot Recomposition via Persistent Categorical Modeling for Unified Task-Driven Co-Design, Verification, and Planning

Relay Policy Learning: Solving Long-Horizon Tasks via Imitation and Reinforcement Learning

Why robots? A survey on the roles and benefits of social robots in the therapy of children with autism

Vision-Guided Morphing Quadcopter for Multi-Geometry Payload Transport through Narrow Passages

Learning to See by Moving

Stakeholder Insights for Designing In-Home Social Robots for Dementia Disorientation Detection and Caregiver-Aware Intervention

Unstructured Human Activity Detection from RGBD Images

Design of a Human-Assistance Robot System with Contextual Action Recognition

An Interpretable Deep Learning Framework for Material Perception and Classification from Multisensory Tactile Data

DreamLedger: Execution-Settled Credit Files for World-Model Imagination in Robot Decision Loops

Reducing the Barrier to Entry of Complex Robotic Software: a MoveIt! Case Study

Control of a Quadrotor with Reinforcement Learning

Privileged Critic Training Enables Sensor-Free Thruster Fault Adaptation in End-to-End RL

MA-VLA: Multi-Arm Vision-Language-Action Model for Collaboration and Compositional Generalization

Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation in Construction via Zero-Shot Learning: A Diffusion Policy-Guided Adaptive Control

Motion Planning for Autonomous Driving: The State of the Art and Future Perspectives

CIDER: Continual Interactive Distillation for Embodied Reinforcement Learning

Safety-Critical Bilateral Teleoperation for Omnidirectional Aerial Manipulation Using Force-Sensorless Haptic Feedback

A micro Lie theory for state estimation in robotics

EndoNav: Semantic-to-Geometric Grounding for Language-Guided Robotic Endoscopic Examination

Betting for Sim-to-Real Performance Certificates

Vision Guided Target Conditioned Control for Autonomous Excavation

Stochastic Variational Video Prediction

Automatic Goal Generation for Reinforcement Learning Agents

Optimization-Based Autonomous Racing of 1:43 Scale RC Cars

Robust and Efficient Quadrotor Trajectory Generation for Fast Autonomous Flight

INeRF: Inverting Neural Radiance Fields for Pose Estimation

Why Personalization Matters: Cross-Subject Challenges in EMG-IMU-based HRI Activity Recognition

Transporter Networks: Rearranging the Visual World for Robotic Manipulation

Ludi${}_{\scriptscriptstyle 0.1}$: An Agentic System for Socially Intelligent Robots

In-Situ Reconstruction of the International Space Station Using 3D Gaussian Splatting and Astrobee

CORe50: a New Dataset and Benchmark for Continuous Object Recognition

VIMA: General Robot Manipulation with Multimodal Prompts

PonderPounce: A Pretrained MLLM as an Episode Context Engine for Robot Control

Brax -- A Differentiable Physics Engine for Large Scale Rigid Body Simulation

WAM-OPD: On-Policy Distillation for World Action Models

Progressively Learning Heterogeneous Skills in a Unified Latent Space

Maximum a Posteriori Policy Optimisation

T-LESS: An RGB-D Dataset for 6D Pose Estimation of Texture-less Objects

Beyond Instance Slots: Semantically Rich World Models for Physical Interaction Planning

Deep Spatial Autoencoders for Visuomotor Learning

A Compliant, Underactuated Hand for Robust Manipulation

Modelling Uncertainty in Deep Learning for Camera Relocalization