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Point Bridge: 3D Representations for Cross Domain Policy Learning
Siddhant Haldar, Lars Johannsmeier, Lerrel Pinto +4
cs.ROarXiv:2601.16212v42026
NORA: A Small Open-Sourced Generalist Vision Language Action Model for Embodied Tasks
Chia-Yu Hung, Qi Sun, Pengfei Hong +5
cs.ROcs.AIcs.CVarXiv:2504.19854v12025
TrackVLA: Embodied Visual Tracking in the Wild
Shaoan Wang, Jiazhao Zhang, Minghan Li +7
cs.ROcs.CVarXiv:2505.23189v12025
Safe Task Planning with Long-Term Graph Memory for Embodied Agents
Siyuan Li, Taiyan Lang, Aoqi Yan +6
cs.ROarXiv:2609.08444v12026
Spatial Forcing: Implicit Spatial Representation Alignment for Vision-language-action Model
Fuhao Li, Wenxuan Song, Han Zhao +5
cs.ROarXiv:2510.12276v22025
TONAV: Task-Oriented Navigation and Action-Velocity Chunk Learning for Articulated Object Quadrupedal Mobile Manipulation
Haoran Lin, Mingyu Yang, Pengfei Qi +6
cs.ROcs.CVarXiv:2608.22296v12026
Learning to Jump from Pixels
Gabriel B. Margolis, Tao Chen, Kartik Paigwar +4
cs.ROcs.AIarXiv:2110.15344v12021
Beyond Data Scaling: Representation-Centric Continued Pre-training for Vision-Language-Action Models
Senqiao Yang, Chengyao Wang, Yuxin Chen +13
cs.ROcs.CVarXiv:2608.27550v12026
Learning Athletic Humanoid Tennis Skills from Imperfect Human Motion Data
Zhikai Zhang, Haofei Lu, Yunrui Lian +12
cs.ROarXiv:2603.12686v12026
An informative path planning framework for UAV-based terrain monitoring
Marija Popovic, Teresa Vidal-Calleja, Gregory Hitz +4
cs.ROarXiv:1809.03870v32018
GaussianWAM: Distilling Geometry and Semantics from 3D Gaussian Fields into World-Action Models
Zijian Zhang, Yuqing Jiang, Weitao Zhou +6
cs.ROarXiv:2608.24714v12026
NavGen: Visual Generative Models as a Scalable Data Engine for Embodied 3D Navigation
Xijie Huang, Yongyang Wan, Chengbin Dong +7
cs.ROcs.AIarXiv:2609.30770v12026
A Simple Gripper Interface for Simulator-Agnostic Cloth Manipulation
Abhilash Nayak, Franco Coltraro, Maria Alberich-Carramiñana +1
cs.ROarXiv:2609.29340v12026
Robust Stereo Visual Inertial Odometry for Fast Autonomous Flight
Ke Sun, Kartik Mohta, Bernd Pfrommer +5
cs.ROarXiv:1712.00036v32017
Any3D-VLA: Enhancing VLA Robustness via Diverse Point Clouds
Xianzhe Fan, Shengliang Deng, Xiaoyang Wu +7
cs.CVcs.ROarXiv:2602.00807v22026
PhyScene: Physically Interactable 3D Scene Synthesis for Embodied AI
Yandan Yang, Baoxiong Jia, Peiyuan Zhi +1
cs.CVcs.AIcs.LGarXiv:2404.09465v22024
Stair Climbing Stabilization of the HRP-4 Humanoid Robot using Whole-body Admittance Control
Stéphane Caron, Abderrahmane Kheddar, Olivier Tempier
cs.ROarXiv:1809.07073v72018
X-MULTI: VLM-based Imaging Factor Disentanglement for Factor-Aware Image Synthesis
Sonali Godavarthy, Matthias Neuwirth-Trapp, Tim-Felix Faasch +4
cs.CVcs.ROarXiv:2608.24563v12026
TrAct: Bridging Robot Control and Visual Prediction with Visual Tracks
Zhi Cao, Howard Ji, Kevin Zhang +4
cs.ROarXiv:2608.24101v12026
Mimic Intent, Not Just Trajectories
Renming Huang, Chendong Zeng, Wenjing Tang +3
cs.ROarXiv:2602.08602v32026
Structured World Models from Human Videos
Russell Mendonca, Shikhar Bahl, Deepak Pathak
cs.ROcs.AIcs.CVarXiv:2308.10901v12023
Closing the Loop on the Poppy Humanoid: Bipedal Locomotion with Linear-Quadratic Control and Learned Cost Functions
Xulin Chen, Borui He, Ruipeng Liu +3
cs.ROarXiv:2608.26505v12026
DCReg: Decoupled Characterization for Efficient Degenerate LiDAR Registration
Xiangcheng Hu, Xieyuanli Chen, Mingkai Jia +3
cs.ROcs.CVarXiv:2509.06285v22025
Act2Goal: From World Model To General Goal-conditioned Policy
Pengfei Zhou, Liliang Chen, Shengcong Chen +5
cs.ROcs.AIarXiv:2512.23541v12025
Learning Generalizable Robotic Reward Functions from "In-The-Wild" Human Videos
Annie S. Chen, Suraj Nair, Chelsea Finn
cs.ROcs.AIcs.CVarXiv:2103.16817v12021
SceneFactory-3D: Lifting 2D Traffic Scenes into 3D Physical Counterfactuals for Scalable Physically Grounded Safety Evaluation
Yicheng Zhu, Linfeng Tian, Tianmu Zhao +4
cs.ROcs.MAarXiv:2610.02874v12026
VideoDex: Learning Dexterity from Internet Videos
Kenneth Shaw, Shikhar Bahl, Deepak Pathak
cs.ROcs.AIcs.CVarXiv:2212.04498v12022
General, Single-shot, Target-less, and Automatic LiDAR-Camera Extrinsic Calibration Toolbox
Kenji Koide, Shuji Oishi, Masashi Yokozuka +1
cs.ROarXiv:2302.05094v12023
Evaluating Multimodal LLMs as Generalist Vision-Language-Action Agents for Drone Control: Commanding, Approaching, Tracking and Searching
Jaewoo Park, Minyoung Lee, Sukmin Seo +11
cs.ROcs.AIarXiv:2609.01404v12026
ChunkTrust: Adapting Execution Horizons for Robot Policies with Action-Expert Evidence
Fanding Huang, Jingyan Jiang, Shifeng Bao +13
cs.ROarXiv:2609.39754v12026
Skill2Real: Agentic Skill Learning for Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Robot Manipulation
Xincheng He, Siyu Ma, Chang Yu +5
cs.ROarXiv:2610.02788v12026
AnyTouch 2: General Optical Tactile Representation Learning For Dynamic Tactile Perception
Ruoxuan Feng, Yuxuan Zhou, Siyu Mei +6
cs.ROcs.AIcs.CVarXiv:2602.09617v12026
Multi-Objective Human-in-the-Loop Bayesian Optimization of a Lower-Limb Exoskeleton
Neil Janwani, Matthew T. Lerner, Aaron J. Young +1
cs.ROcs.HCarXiv:2609.30695v12026
Evolving embodied intelligence from materials to machines
David Howard, Agoston E. Eiben, Danielle Frances Kennedy +3
cs.ROcond-mat.mtrl-scics.LGarXiv:1901.05704v12019
PIN-WM: Learning Physics-INformed World Models for Non-Prehensile Manipulation
Wenxuan Li, Hang Zhao, Zhiyuan Yu +4
cs.LGcs.ROarXiv:2504.16693v22025
Ego-Pose Estimation and Forecasting as Real-Time PD Control
Ye Yuan, Kris Kitani
cs.CVcs.AIcs.LGarXiv:1906.03173v22019
A Persistent Spatial Semantic Representation for High-level Natural Language Instruction Execution
Valts Blukis, Chris Paxton, Dieter Fox +2
cs.ROcs.AIcs.CLarXiv:2107.05612v32021
Cue the Flow: Steering Flow-Matching Policies for Open-World Delivery Manipulation
Haoxuan Wang, Griffin Galimi, Junhua Huang +4
cs.ROarXiv:2609.38989v12026
RoboNet: Large-Scale Multi-Robot Learning
Sudeep Dasari, Frederik Ebert, Stephen Tian +6
cs.ROcs.CVcs.LGarXiv:1910.11215v22019
Human-Like Decision Making for Autonomous Driving: A Noncooperative Game Theoretic Approach
Peng Hang, Chen Lv, Yang Xing +2
cs.ROeess.SYarXiv:2005.11064v22020
Risk-Aware World Model Predictive Control for Generalizable End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Jiangxin Sun, Feng Xue, Teng Long +4
cs.CVcs.AIcs.ROarXiv:2602.23259v12026
UniWAM: Unified World-Action Model
Jiayi Chen, Wenxuan Song, Jingbo Wang +13
cs.ROarXiv:2610.02054v12026
In-Context Learning for Robots: Methods and Applications
Haojian Huang, Zexi Li, Junhao Guo +36
cs.ROcs.LGarXiv:2609.36012v12026
Learning Modular Neural Network Policies for Multi-Task and Multi-Robot Transfer
Coline Devin, Abhishek Gupta, Trevor Darrell +2
cs.LGcs.ROarXiv:1609.07088v12016
CounterAlign: Counterfactual Supervision for Vision-Language-Action Models
Haru Kondoh, Kei Ota, Asako Kanezaki +1
cs.ROarXiv:2608.21740v12026
Controlling Assistive Robots with Learned Latent Actions
Dylan P. Losey, Krishnan Srinivasan, Ajay Mandlekar +2
cs.ROarXiv:1909.09674v32019
Bridging Semantics and Physics with Constrained LLMs for Safe and Trustworthy Robotic Manipulation
Wenhao Hong, Lan Wei, Dandan Zhang
cs.ROarXiv:2608.29379v12026
ThriftyDAgger: Budget-Aware Novelty and Risk Gating for Interactive Imitation Learning
Ryan Hoque, Ashwin Balakrishna, Ellen Novoseller +3
cs.ROcs.AIarXiv:2109.08273v12021
EgoScale: Scaling Dexterous Manipulation with Diverse Egocentric Human Data
Ruijie Zheng, Dantong Niu, Yuqi Xie +12
cs.ROarXiv:2602.16710v12026
hint$^2$: Hierarchical World Models for Inference-Time Temporal Logic Guidance
Moritz Zoellner, Anastasios Manganaris, Ahmed H. Qureshi +1
cs.ROcs.LGarXiv:2608.13678v12026
In-Hand Object Rotation via Rapid Motor Adaptation
Haozhi Qi, Ashish Kumar, Roberto Calandra +2
cs.ROcs.AIcs.CVarXiv:2210.04887v12022
Towards Generalization and Simplicity in Continuous Control
Aravind Rajeswaran, Kendall Lowrey, Emanuel Todorov +1
cs.LGcs.AIcs.ROarXiv:1703.02660v22017
Recurrent-Depth VLA: Implicit Test-Time Compute Scaling of Vision-Language-Action Models via Latent Iterative Reasoning
Yalcin Tur, Jalal Naghiyev, Haoquan Fang +4
cs.ROarXiv:2602.07845v12026
DiT4DiT: Jointly Modeling Video Dynamics and Actions for Generalizable Robot Control
Teli Ma, Jia Zheng, Zifan Wang +4
cs.ROarXiv:2603.10448v22026
Robust Adversarial Reinforcement Learning
Lerrel Pinto, James Davidson, Rahul Sukthankar +1
cs.LGcs.AIcs.MAarXiv:1703.02702v12017
Distributed Relative Localization for Homogeneous Multi-Robot Systems through UWB Ranging and Limited Communications
Zhiqiang Cao, Ran Liu, Billy Pik Lik Lau +2
cs.ROarXiv:2610.11308v12026
VLAW: Iterative Co-Improvement of Vision-Language-Action Policy and World Model
Yanjiang Guo, Tony Lee, Lucy Xiaoyang Shi +3
cs.ROarXiv:2602.12063v22026
MotionVLA: Vision-Language-Action Model for Humanoid Motion
Nonghai Zhang, Siyu Zhai, Yanjun Li +5
cs.CVcs.ROarXiv:2606.15142v12026
Learning to Collide: An Adaptive Safety-Critical Scenarios Generating Method
Wenhao Ding, Baiming Chen, Minjun Xu +1
cs.ROcs.LGarXiv:2003.01197v32020
Learning 6-DOF Grasping Interaction via Deep Geometry-aware 3D Representations
Xinchen Yan, Jasmine Hsu, Mohi Khansari +5
cs.ROcs.AIcs.CVarXiv:1708.07303v42017

Robotics

Point Bridge: 3D Representations for Cross Domain Policy Learning

NORA: A Small Open-Sourced Generalist Vision Language Action Model for Embodied Tasks

TrackVLA: Embodied Visual Tracking in the Wild

Safe Task Planning with Long-Term Graph Memory for Embodied Agents

Spatial Forcing: Implicit Spatial Representation Alignment for Vision-language-action Model

TONAV: Task-Oriented Navigation and Action-Velocity Chunk Learning for Articulated Object Quadrupedal Mobile Manipulation

Learning to Jump from Pixels

Beyond Data Scaling: Representation-Centric Continued Pre-training for Vision-Language-Action Models

Learning Athletic Humanoid Tennis Skills from Imperfect Human Motion Data

An informative path planning framework for UAV-based terrain monitoring

GaussianWAM: Distilling Geometry and Semantics from 3D Gaussian Fields into World-Action Models

NavGen: Visual Generative Models as a Scalable Data Engine for Embodied 3D Navigation

A Simple Gripper Interface for Simulator-Agnostic Cloth Manipulation

Robust Stereo Visual Inertial Odometry for Fast Autonomous Flight

Any3D-VLA: Enhancing VLA Robustness via Diverse Point Clouds

PhyScene: Physically Interactable 3D Scene Synthesis for Embodied AI

Stair Climbing Stabilization of the HRP-4 Humanoid Robot using Whole-body Admittance Control

X-MULTI: VLM-based Imaging Factor Disentanglement for Factor-Aware Image Synthesis

TrAct: Bridging Robot Control and Visual Prediction with Visual Tracks

Mimic Intent, Not Just Trajectories

Structured World Models from Human Videos

Closing the Loop on the Poppy Humanoid: Bipedal Locomotion with Linear-Quadratic Control and Learned Cost Functions

DCReg: Decoupled Characterization for Efficient Degenerate LiDAR Registration

Act2Goal: From World Model To General Goal-conditioned Policy

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

SceneFactory-3D: Lifting 2D Traffic Scenes into 3D Physical Counterfactuals for Scalable Physically Grounded Safety Evaluation

VideoDex: Learning Dexterity from Internet Videos

General, Single-shot, Target-less, and Automatic LiDAR-Camera Extrinsic Calibration Toolbox

Evaluating Multimodal LLMs as Generalist Vision-Language-Action Agents for Drone Control: Commanding, Approaching, Tracking and Searching

ChunkTrust: Adapting Execution Horizons for Robot Policies with Action-Expert Evidence

Skill2Real: Agentic Skill Learning for Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Robot Manipulation

AnyTouch 2: General Optical Tactile Representation Learning For Dynamic Tactile Perception

Multi-Objective Human-in-the-Loop Bayesian Optimization of a Lower-Limb Exoskeleton

Evolving embodied intelligence from materials to machines

PIN-WM: Learning Physics-INformed World Models for Non-Prehensile Manipulation

Ego-Pose Estimation and Forecasting as Real-Time PD Control

A Persistent Spatial Semantic Representation for High-level Natural Language Instruction Execution

Cue the Flow: Steering Flow-Matching Policies for Open-World Delivery Manipulation

RoboNet: Large-Scale Multi-Robot Learning

Human-Like Decision Making for Autonomous Driving: A Noncooperative Game Theoretic Approach

Risk-Aware World Model Predictive Control for Generalizable End-to-End Autonomous Driving

UniWAM: Unified World-Action Model

In-Context Learning for Robots: Methods and Applications

Learning Modular Neural Network Policies for Multi-Task and Multi-Robot Transfer

CounterAlign: Counterfactual Supervision for Vision-Language-Action Models

Controlling Assistive Robots with Learned Latent Actions

Bridging Semantics and Physics with Constrained LLMs for Safe and Trustworthy Robotic Manipulation

ThriftyDAgger: Budget-Aware Novelty and Risk Gating for Interactive Imitation Learning

EgoScale: Scaling Dexterous Manipulation with Diverse Egocentric Human Data

hint$^2$: Hierarchical World Models for Inference-Time Temporal Logic Guidance

In-Hand Object Rotation via Rapid Motor Adaptation

Towards Generalization and Simplicity in Continuous Control

Recurrent-Depth VLA: Implicit Test-Time Compute Scaling of Vision-Language-Action Models via Latent Iterative Reasoning

DiT4DiT: Jointly Modeling Video Dynamics and Actions for Generalizable Robot Control

Robust Adversarial Reinforcement Learning

Distributed Relative Localization for Homogeneous Multi-Robot Systems through UWB Ranging and Limited Communications

VLAW: Iterative Co-Improvement of Vision-Language-Action Policy and World Model

MotionVLA: Vision-Language-Action Model for Humanoid Motion

Learning to Collide: An Adaptive Safety-Critical Scenarios Generating Method

Learning 6-DOF Grasping Interaction via Deep Geometry-aware 3D Representations