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2,889 papers from arXiv cs.RO, 34 of them presented at a reading club and carrying a six-slide kit. Sorted newest first. Filter, then open the kit.

2026-09-09

Programmable World Model

Zheng-Hui Huang, Guixu Lin, Jiacheng Lin +8

2026-09-09

Show-Harness: Just a VLM Agent Can Play Robots

Yanzhe Chen, Zechen Bai, Zhijun Cao +7

Vision-language-action Foundation models & pretraining

2026-09-09

DUET-DINO: Simultaneous Cross-View World Modeling for Latent Planning in Robot Manipulation

Nisarga Nilavadi, Ralf Römer, Moritz Reuss +5

World models Dexterous manipulation

2026-09-09

Coastal Environment Generation with HoloOcean

Abigail Austin, Brady Moon, Joshua G. Mangelson

2026-09-09

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous UAV Exploration in Wildfire Response

Caden Chandra, Jerry Ng

Reinforcement learning & control Navigation & mobility

2026-09-09

Frequency-Conditioned Flow Matching for Vision-Language-Action Models

Haochen Niu, Shengye Dong, Hao Liu +2

Vision-language-action

2026-09-09

A traffic management system for large and heterogeneous vehicles in narrow industrial environments

Alessandro Bonetti, Silvia Proia, Simone Guidetti +1

2026-09-09

Data-Driven Risk Fields for Safer End-to-End Autonomous Driving

Yuanxin Tian, Zhiyuan Liu, Jinhao Li +3

3D & spatial reasoning Navigation & mobility

2026-09-09

PACE: Perceived-Latency-Aware Cascading Service Routing and Filler Control for QoE-Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Dialogue Serving

Lin Huang, Yujuan Tan, Weisheng Li +3

Humanoids & locomotion Safety & evaluation

2026-09-09

A Confidence-Aware Multimodal Fusion Framework for Industrial Human-Robot Collaboration

Xinyu Liu, Qiqi Dong, Boya Jia +2

Human-robot interaction

2026-09-09

Odometer-Agnostic Drift Correction Using OpenStreetMap Lane Geometry

Joaquin Caballero, Emilio Garcia-Fidalgo, Alberto Ortiz +1

2026-09-09

Deformable Object Manipulation under Partial Observability via Real-Time Full-Shape Estimation

Kosar Behnia, Ville Kyrki, Gokhan Alcan

2026-09-09

Learning Terrain-Adaptive Humanoid Locomotion on Granular Terrain

Junnosuke Kamohara, Feiyang Wu, Andy Ningan Zong +4

Humanoids & locomotion Reinforcement learning & control

2026-09-09

SwingBot: Learning Whole-Body Brachiation for Humanoid Robots

Yujie Xiong, Peng Zhai, Taixian Hou +6

Humanoids & locomotion Navigation & mobility

2026-09-09

Frame-Coded Legged Locomotion over Noisy Terrain

Lav R. Varshney

Humanoids & locomotion Hardware & morphology co-design

2026-09-09

FolDeX: A Physical-World Benchmark for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects

Chenhuan Liu, Yi Xu, Feng Wu +7

Vision-language-action Data collection & teleoperation

2026-09-09

CougarTail & CUB: A General-Purpose Mast and Central Utility Board for Cylindrical Underwater Enclosures

Ben Washburn, Clayton Smith, Eli Gaskin +4

2026-09-09

Adaptive Shared Control with Online Bounded-Rational Human Behavior Estimation

Henry Ascencio Trejo, Roel Pieters, Gokhan Alcan

2026-09-09

IMU-Centric Moving Horizon Estimation for Lateral Dynamics Estimation Across Vehicles and Grip Conditions

Seuffo Akouan ha Ngoune, Alessandro Toschi, Paolo Burgio +1

2026-09-09

Multi-Robot Scanner for Automated Full-Body Dermoscopic Imaging

Valerio Franchi, Rafael Garcia, Nuno Gracias +7

2026-09-09

Future-Aware Flow Planning for Safe UAV Target Following

Boning Feng, Haoran Zhang, Xiaowen Bi +2

Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks Navigation & mobility

2026-09-09

Assembling Two Parts in One Hand

Liuao Pei, Tianyue Wu, Hui Zhang +2

CoRL 2026Dexterous manipulation Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks

2026-09-09

Automatic Reproducible Camera Intrinsic Calibration

Xiangcheng Hu

2026-09-09

Grounding Generated Video Plans in Simulation Towards Versatile Dexterous Controllers

Tianyue Wu, Boyuan An, Shuqi Zhao +6

Dexterous manipulation

2026-09-09

Belief-State Engine: Augmenting LLMs for Principled Planning Under Partial Observability

Arnab Chattopadhayay, Debdipta Halder

2026-09-09

What Symmetry Buys a Learned Motion Planner

Andrea Emir Sevincel

2026-09-09

AXON: A ROS 2 RMW with Shared-Memory/QUIC Transport and QKD/ML-KEM Key Establishment

Sergio Sánchez de la Fuente, Miguel Ángel González-Santamarta, Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Lera +2

2026-09-09

RoboDrop: Curating VLA Post-Training Data via Local Gradient Compatibility

Runze Xu, Yuanfan Xu, Cuijie Xu +4

Vision-language-action Foundation models & pretraining

2026-09-09

HaWMPO: Hallucination-Aware World Model-based Policy Optimization for Generalist Robot Policy

Zengjue Chen, Peidong Liu, Jiawei Li +1

World models Vision-language-action

2026-09-09

Time-Frequency Geometric Cross-Attention for Chunked Vision-Language-Action Models

Shengye Dong, Haochen Niu, Hao Liu +3

Vision-language-action Dexterous manipulation

2026-09-09

ViBe: Visual Behavior Adaptation for Perceptive Humanoid Whole-Body Control

Lokesh Krishna, Sarvesh Venkatesan, An Zhang +1

Humanoids & locomotion Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks

2026-09-09

Decision Transformer for UAV-Mounted RIS-Assisted Dynamic D2D Communications

Yaxuan Liu

Reinforcement learning & control Navigation & mobility

2026-09-09

CLFTv2: Efficient Camera-LiDAR Fusion for Semantic Segmentation via Hierarchical Feature Pyramids

Toomas Tahves, Mauro Bellone, Raivo Sell

Navigation & mobility

2026-09-09

RealSimLoop: Online Real-to-Sim Adaptation via Differentiable Reduced-Order Simulation with Vision Feedback

Zhihao Cen, Chuhua Xian, Hailin Sun +6

3D & spatial reasoning

2026-09-09

InstantMimic: A High Performance System for Learning Physics-based Skills in Seconds

Ikjun Choi, Geonho Leem, Jungdam Won

SIGGRAPH 2026Imitation & diffusion policies

2026-09-09

GTA-2: A Multi-VLM Framework for Synthesizing Robot Manipulation Skills via Grounded Task Axes

M. Yunus Seker, Shobhit Aggarwal, Ruwan Wickramarachchi +2

Vision-language-action

2026-09-09

HiRAD: A Flexible Large-Scale AGV Routing System

Yunjie Huang, Ruizhong Wu, Mengxuan Zhang +3

Reinforcement learning & control

2026-09-09

PccDiffuser: Multi-solution Motion Planning for Continuum Robots

Ke Qiu, Sifan Chen, Si Wang +3

Humanoids & locomotion Navigation & mobility

2026-09-09

CT-SAFR: Safe and Interpretable Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Autonomous Robots: A Multi-Layered Verification Framework for Trustworthy AI-Driven Robotic Decision Making

Cagri Temel

Safety & evaluation

2026-09-09

Why Learning Rediscovers the Closed-Form Diagonal Regularizer

Jeahn Han, Pyojin Kim

2026-09-09

A Risk-Sensitive and Uncertainty-Aware Decision-Making and Control Framework for Safe and Robust Autonomous Driving

Zhuoren Li, Ran Yu, Weiqi Zhang +4

Reinforcement learning & control Navigation & mobility

2026-09-09

JEPA Policy: Diffusion-Free Imitation Learning via Paired Action and Future Representation Prediction

Jie Xu, Kangjin Yu, Ziyi Jin +5

World models Imitation & diffusion policies

2026-09-09

MuJoCable: Reduced-Order Surface-Routed Cable Transmission for Tendon-Driven Robots

Yi Zhang, Qi Shao, Yicong Lin +3

Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks Hardware & morphology co-design

2026-09-09

Compact Visuotactile World Models for Lifting: Prediction, Reward Alignment, and Force Constraints

Qinzhen Ma, Sida Peng

World models Tactile & force sensing

2026-09-08

Agentic AI-enabled Semantic Commissioning of a Cognitive Digital Twin for Reconfigurable Manufacturing

Yangyang Liu, Xun Xu, Jan Polzer

2026-09-08

Actuator Dynamics Curricula for Narrow-Viability Tasks in Legged Robot Learning

Kousheek Chakraborty, Chandan K. Rajendra, Ayham Alharbat +1

CoRL 2026Humanoids & locomotion Reinforcement learning & control

2026-09-08

Unthrottling the Tanh Jacobian in SAC: A Negative Result on Bang-Bang Control and MetaDrive

Faiq Shamass

Reinforcement learning & control

2026-09-08

Fast Constraint Extraction for Corrective Control under STL Specifications via Logical Dependency Tracking

Antoine Besset, Joris Tillet, Chuchu Fan +1

2026-09-08

Decision-Focused Active Learning for Scale-Aware Critical-Materials Recovery

Niranjan Srinivas, Debajyoti Ray, Elias Nakouzi

Safety & evaluation

2026-09-08

A Decade of Bayesian Optimization for Controller Tuning and Robot Learning: Tutorial, Review, and Future Prospects

David Stenger, Paul Brunzema, Johanna Menn +3

Reinforcement learning & control

2026-09-08

Networked Admissibility-Preserving Control for Directed Safe Coordination

Abhinav Sinha, Lohitvel Gopikannan, Shashi Ranjan Kumar

Hardware & morphology co-design Safety & evaluation

2026-09-08

AccelMPC: High-Rate, Low-Power FPGA-Accelerated Model Predictive Control for Tiny Drones

Andrea Grillo, Brian Plancher

Reinforcement learning & control Navigation & mobility

2026-09-08

No Free Checker: A Survey of Verifiers for Robot Policies

Yang Wan, Xihang Yue, Zhirui Liu +7

World models Vision-language-action

2026-09-08

TANGO: Humanoid Navigation in Cluttered Environments with a Whole-Body Vision-Language-Action Model

Anqi Li, Yuxin Chen, Zhaobo Li +4

Vision-language-action Humanoids & locomotion

2026-09-08

Proxy Policy Steering

Chuanruo Ning, Tianrui Wang, Wei-Chiu Ma +1

2026-09-08

DeCAL: Towards Physically-Grounded Dexterous Vision-Language-Action Models via Contact-Aware Latent Co-Imagination

Yankai Fu, Ning Chen, Junkai Zhao +5

Vision-language-action Dexterous manipulation

2026-09-08

Online, Reachability-Aware, Sampling-Based Motion Planning

Brendan Gould, Zhiyuan Zhang, Panagiotis Tsiotras +1

Navigation & mobility Safety & evaluation

2026-09-08

Rethinking Learned Occupancy in Autonomous Active Mapping with Observation-Gated Filtering

Jiahui Zhang, Bonian Han, Gongbo Liang +1

IROS 20263D & spatial reasoning Navigation & mobility

2026-09-08

A Distributed Consensus Particle Filter for Target Tracking using Autonomous Surface Vessels

Carter Noh, Kyle Crandall, Connor Yates +1

2026-09-08

DYAD: A Multimodal Dataset of Co-Located Human Assistance

Akhil Ajikumar, Mahya Qorbani, Sakib Reza +2

Egocentric & human data Data collection & teleoperation

2026-09-08

Spheriverse: 3D Scene Understanding from Spherical Observations in the Wild

Fei Teng, Sheng Wu, Mengfei Duan +7

3D & spatial reasoning Data collection & teleoperation

2026-09-08

PlannerForge: LLM Agents for Scenario-Based Testing of Motion Planners in Autonomous Driving

Yuan Gao, Sebastian Müller, Mattia Piccinini +5

Navigation & mobility Safety & evaluation

2026-09-08

Model Predictive Control of Tensegrity Robots via Contact-Aware Graph Neural Dynamics Model

Nelson Chen, Patrick Meng, Charles Tang +5

Tactile & force sensing Reinforcement learning & control

2026-09-08

Remotely Detectable Keyed Communication through Motion

Benjamin Chang, Michael Amir, Manon Flageat +1

Egocentric & human data Safety & evaluation

2026-09-08

Visible-Reachable Workspace for Perception-Aware Humanoid Design

Boxi Xia, Zijiang Yang, Ryan Shin +5

Dexterous manipulation Humanoids & locomotion

2026-09-08

FRAME: Factored Retrieval via Attribute Readouts for Object-Centric Scene Memory

Woosang Jeon, Sanghyeok Choi, Minwoo Kim +2

Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks Data collection & teleoperation

2026-09-08

CAST: Alternating State-Value Targets and Expanded Policy Gradients for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

Pietro Noah Crestaz, Mohamed Yassine Kabouri, Nicolas Mansard +1

Humanoids & locomotion Reinforcement learning & control

2026-09-08

FIRE3D: Feed-forward Interactive 3D Scene Reconstruction Within A Minute

Hongchi Xia, Tianhang Cheng, Wei-Chiu Ma +1

3D & spatial reasoning

2026-09-08

Real-time Puncture Detection and Recovery for Pneumatic Soft Actuators

Tejonidhi R. Deshpande, Tingyu Cheng, Josiah Hester

ICRA 2026Hardware & morphology co-design Safety & evaluation

2026-09-08

Graph-Based Safe Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent Systems with Time-Varying Topology

Xiao Sizhe, Dong Lijing, Bai Rui +1

Reinforcement learning & control Navigation & mobility

2026-09-08

Ostrich: Taking Large Strides Through Stiff Contact in Differentiable Dynamics

Aleš Kučera, Karel Zimmermann

Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks

2026-09-08

A Controlled Comparison of Manual and Teleoperated Intraocular Instrument Motion for an Input Device

Korab Hoxha, Mirza Imamovic, Angelo Henriques +1

Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks Navigation & mobility

2026-09-08

FOCI Policy: Focus on Object-Centric Interactions for Relational Manipulation Policies

Ze Fu, Pinhao Song, Yutong Hu +1

CoRL 2026

2026-09-08

DCLP++: Learning to Navigate with Footprint Clearance and Relative Motion

Shanze Wang, Wei Zhang

Navigation & mobility

2026-09-08

HiBRIDGE: A Hierarchical Bayesian Neural Network Framework for Interpretable Dialogue Management in Group-Robot Interaction

Massimiliano Nigro, Hatice Gunes, Micol Spitale +1

Human-robot interaction

2026-09-08

BIFTA: Brain-Inspired Few-Shot Tactile Adaptation for Unknown Sensors

Boheng Liu, Ziyu Li, Xia Wu

Tactile & force sensing

2026-09-08

Learning to build covering structures with continuous adjustments

Gabriel Vallat, Maryam Kamgarpour, Stefana Parascho

IROS 2026Reinforcement learning & control Navigation & mobility

2026-09-08

SUN: Reaching for Novelty in Reinforcement Learning

Wenyan Yang, Arsenii Mustafin, Dominik Baumann +2

Reinforcement learning & control Navigation & mobility

2026-09-08

CASD: Chunk-Aligned Semantic Distillation for Multi-StageRobot Manipulation

Tinghe Ding, Jiahao Li, He Wang

3D & spatial reasoning

2026-09-08

MFVINS: Multiple Fisheye Camera-Based Visual Inertial System

Eunseong Jang, YuJin Chung, Sang Jun Lee +2

3D & spatial reasoning Data collection & teleoperation

2026-09-08

Estimating Semantic Ambiguity via Gaussian Context Distributions for VLM-Driven Traversability Analysis

Ramona Häuselmann, Mario A. V. Saucedo, Christoforos Kanellakis +1

Navigation & mobility Video & generative modeling

2026-09-08

TASG-Explore: Traversability-Aware Sector-Guided Exploration for Ground Robot on Uneven Terrain

Shaocong Wang, Shiliang Shao, Ting Wang +2

Navigation & mobility Safety & evaluation

2026-09-08

PGMT: Perceptive General Motion Tracking for Humanoid Robots

Hongyi Li, Li Peizhuo, Yucheng Tao +9

Humanoids & locomotion Data collection & teleoperation

2026-09-08

AURORA: Active Uncertainty-Driven Re-Orientation for In-Hand Reconstruction

Feiyu Zhao, Yuetong Li, Chenxi Xiao

CoRL 2026Dexterous manipulation 3D & spatial reasoning

2026-09-08

Multi-bounce Drum Roll with Optimized Active Tricks to Leverage Soft Embodiment

Naoto Yamanaka, Takanori Jin, Taisuke Kobayashi

Hardware & morphology co-design

2026-09-08

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

Siyuan Li, Taiyan Lang, Aoqi Yan +6

CoRL 2026Egocentric & human data Video & generative modeling

2026-09-08

AirAnchor: Bridging Local and Global Spatial Information for Zero-Shot Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation

Shanwei Fan, Bin Zhang, Zhiwei Xu +4

Navigation & mobility

2026-09-08

Coverage Path Planning for Redundant Manipulators using Generalized Spanning Trees

Raksi Kopo, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos

IROS 2026Navigation & mobility

2026-09-08

Localized Visual Feature Aggregation via Focus Pooling for Visuomotor Policies

Ruiyu Wang, Zheyu Zhuang, Danica Kragic +1

CoRL 2026

2026-09-08

GALoc: Gravity Aligned Wireframes for Depth-Free Monocular Floorplan Localization

Jeahn Han, Minji Kim, Jeongbin Sohn +3

2026-09-08

RoboCousin: Build Your Own Simulation Playground for Robust Bimanual Robotic Manipulation

Jingxuan Zhu, Jingyi Li, LiangLiang Chen +3

Dexterous manipulation Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks

2026-09-08

A Multi-Modal Perception Pipeline for Object Detection and Tracking in Autonomous Racing

Davide Malvezzi, Michele Pestarino, Vittoria Cavicchioli +9

Navigation & mobility Safety & evaluation

2026-09-08

EvoNav-Bench: Benchmarking Lifelong Navigation in Evolving Environments

Xilin Wang, Guoxi Zhang, Hongming Xu +3

3D & spatial reasoning Navigation & mobility

2026-09-08

Seeing is Not Believing: Breaking the Physical-to-Digital Trust Boundary in Robotics

Leming Shen, Shikai Geng, Yuanqing Zheng +1

2026-09-08

CALIPER: Clean Scenes Cannot Rank Physical Inference in Pretrained Visual Representations

Aman Mehta, Riya Baviskar

World models Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks

2026-09-08

3DWay: Generalizing Robot Manipulation via 3D Consistent Waypoints

Ziqin Huang, Yingyue Li, Chenyangguang Zhang +6

ECCV 2026Vision-language-action Video & generative modeling

2026-09-08

Bridging Language and Physics: Automated Design of Continuum Robots with Large Language Models

Jingyi Chen, Mohan Zhang, Laura Yao +5

RoboticsDexterous manipulation Humanoids & locomotion

2026-09-08

Drive by Hindsight and Foresight: Tool-Grounded Synergistic Reasoning over Hierarchical Memory for Autonomous Driving

Baojie Chen, Zijun Jia, Jing Zhong

Navigation & mobility

2026-09-08

TacClip: a clip-on sensor measures dynamic contact forces without covering the fingerpads

Yuqian Ye, Hao Li, Jingxi Xu +3

2026-09-08

Monkey See, Can Monkey Do? A Benchmark for Evaluating Robot Skill Learning by Observation

Weiwei Gu, Anmol Gupta, Anant Sah +5

CoRL 2026Vision-language-action Egocentric & human data

2026-09-08

Dual-Layer Semantic-Spatial Belief Mapping for Aerial Object Goal Navigation

Jianqiang Xiao, Xiang Deng, Yuexuan Sun +3

Egocentric & human data Navigation & mobility

2026-09-08

OmniNav: Robust Long-Horizon Target Navigation in Dynamic Environments

Yujie Tang, Meiling Wang, Jinhao Jiang +4

3D & spatial reasoning Navigation & mobility

2026-09-08

Observe Before You Alert: Adaptive Driver Alerting with Vision-Language Models

Yuhang Wang, Lingyao Li, Hao Zhou

CoRL 2026Video & generative modeling Safety & evaluation

2026-09-08

DISEIL: Demonstration Distillation for Sample-Efficient Imitation Learning

Suyog Khanal, Arun Kumar A, Santu Rana

Imitation & diffusion policies Video & generative modeling

2026-09-08

Marigold V2: Revisiting Diffusion Transformers for Monocular Depth Estimation

Igor Pavlovic, Thiemo Wandel, Anton Obukhov +6

SIGGRAPH 20263D & spatial reasoning Video & generative modeling

2026-09-07

Learning to Fly: Stable Vision-Guided UAV Servoing with Compact Target-Centric Cues and Reinforcement Learning

Saurbh Singh Jamwal, Nived Chebrolu

Reinforcement learning & control Navigation & mobility

2026-09-07

mjorbit: A Simulation Framework for Space Robotics

John Z. Zhang, Joris Verhagen, Fausto Vega +2

Reinforcement learning & control Hardware & morphology co-design

2026-09-07

SPOT: Spatial Perception-Oriented Long-Horizon Humanoid Teleoperation

Lixing Fang, Ziyan Xiong, Sunli Chen +2

Humanoids & locomotion Egocentric & human data

2026-09-07

A Multimodal Label Forecasting Method for Aperiodic Visuo-Motor Time Series

Borui He, Garrett E Katz

Humanoids & locomotion Egocentric & human data

2026-09-07

Conditional Timed Partial Orders: An Expressive and Interpretable Framework for Robot Task Specification and Planning

Sebastian Escobar, Morteza Lahijanian

2026-09-07

M3-Tele: A Unified Multimodal Teleoperational Framework for Compliant Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation

Hengxiang Chen, Shenwen Deng, Yujian Ma +3

Humanoids & locomotion Tactile & force sensing

2026-09-07

Scene Graph-Driven Haptic Feedback for Safety Enhancement in Robotic Ophthalmic Surgery via Physically Simulated iOCT

Danial Arbabi, Korab Hoxha, Angelo Henriques +2

Tactile & force sensing Safety & evaluation

2026-09-07

Foundation Models for Generalizable Semantic and Goal-Oriented Communication

Boliang Liu, Wint Yi Poe, Riccardo Trivisonno +1 · 2 citations

Foundation models & pretraining Video & generative modeling

2026-09-07

ComVLA: Communication-Aware Split Inference for VLA Models in 6G-Connected Robotics

Boliang Liu, Wint Yi Poe, Jingyun Di +2

Vision-language-action Hardware & morphology co-design

2026-09-07

Dex-X: Learning Visual-Tactile Dexterous Manipulation From Human Videos with Simulated Interaction

Ruoqu Chen, Feixiang Ruan, Liu Cao +9 · 1 citation

Dexterous manipulation Egocentric & human data

2026-09-07

Harnessing CLIP and DINO: An Uncertainty-Aware Cascaded Fusion Network for Generalizable Deepfake Image Detection

Xuechao Zou, Yi Zhou, Kai Li +4

Foundation models & pretraining

2026-09-07

Decentralized Safe Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Predictive Shielding

Yacine El Yamani, Hanna Krasowski, Elena Vanneaux

Reinforcement learning & control Safety & evaluation

2026-09-07

ICI-VLA: In-Context Imitation with Spatiotemporally Aligned Demonstrations for Vision-Language-Action Models

Songhua Yang, Ziyu Liu, Xuetao Li +3

Vision-language-action

2026-09-07

Anti-Gravity Walking by a Flying Humanoid Robot via Thrust-Rate Input Whole-Body Model Predictive Control

Kazuki Sugihara, Kei Okada

Humanoids & locomotion Reinforcement learning & control

2026-09-07

Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Contact-Rich Assembly via Proprioception-Anchored Cross-Modal Pretraining

Yuhan Wang, Yurou Chen, Hongye Jiang +1

Tactile & force sensing Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks

2026-09-07

PhysReal: Learning Real-World Deformable Object Physics via Hybrid Constitutive Modeling

Yinan Deng, Jianqiao Song, Yisi Zhang +3

World models Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks

2026-09-07

P$^2$Calib: Utilizing Pattern Priors for LiDAR-Camera Extrinsic Calibration

Xiangcheng Hu

2026-09-07

Generation of Vectorized Maps Beyond Vehicle View

Clara Gomez, Alberto Jaenal, Antonio Artuñedo +2

Navigation & mobility

2026-09-07

CosmoH2G: A Hand-to-Gripper Transfer Dataset and Baseline Method for Object Manipulation with Complex Spatial Movements

Hongxiang Zhao, Mutian Xu, Zeyu Jin +3

SIGGRAPH 2026Dexterous manipulation

2026-09-07

Functional-SLAM: Interaction-Aware Mapping with Online Functional Scene Graphs

Xinggang Hu, Chenyangguang Zhang, Zihan Zhu +3

3D & spatial reasoning Navigation & mobility

2026-09-07

Wearable Multimodal Human-Machine Interface for Integrated Hand Intentions Decoding in Dynamic Teleoperation

Jiaxuan Li, Yinshi Wu, Xiao Zhang +4

Dexterous manipulation Data collection & teleoperation

2026-09-07

Measuring Language Transfer in Robot Policies: Adding Greek to a Cosmos3 Vision-Language-Action Policy

Ayoub Kirouane, Georgios Giaples, Christos Petrocheilos

World models Vision-language-action

2026-09-07

SMaRT-Tug: Structured Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Physics-Based Tugboat-Barge Collaborative Manipulation

Junkai Lu, Jiadong Zhao, Jiacheng Zhang +8

Tactile & force sensing Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks

2026-09-07

Open-Set Ego-Noise Separation for Legged-Robot Audition via Annotation-Free Adaptation and Pretrained-Model Transfer

Koki Shoda, Jun Younes Louhi Kasahara, Aoba Koyanagi +2

Humanoids & locomotion Data collection & teleoperation

2026-09-07

CALM: Configuration-Aware Human Intervention Boundaries During Robot Approach

Xinting Gao, Sipu Zhu, Weimin Zhuang

Humanoids & locomotion Safety & evaluation

2026-09-07

OpenWAM: An Open, Modular Exploration Towards Systematic World-Action Model Pretraining

Yuran Wang, Siqiao Huang, Mingleyang Li +21

Dexterous manipulation Egocentric & human data

2026-09-07

D3ARC: Time-Critical Distributed Disaster Detection for Asynchronous Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems

Nikolaos Koursioumpas, Lina Magoula, Nancy Alonistioti +1

Navigation & mobility Safety & evaluation

2026-09-07

PV-WM: A Heterogeneous Micro-Macro World Model for Articulated Pedestrian-Vehicle Co-Rollout

Haozhuang Chi, Jingsong Liang, Ziying Song +4

World models Humanoids & locomotion

2026-09-07

How Long Until Your Robot Ignores You? A Safety Benchmark for LLM Orchestrators in Human-Humanoid Collaboration

Aulon Bajrami, Mohamed Elshamouty, Werner Kraus

Humanoids & locomotion Hardware & morphology co-design

2026-09-07

LightSplat: Real-Time High-Fidelity 3D Gaussian SLAM with Loop Closure

Junze Bao, Ye Gao, Yiming Huang +5

IROS 20263D & spatial reasoning

2026-09-07

Singularity-Free Guiding Vector Fields on SO(3) with Designer-Specified Progression Behavior

Jesus Bautista, Hector Garcia de Marina

2026-09-07

Generalizable 6D Pose Estimation of Textureless Objects with Planar-based Gaussian Splatting

Jie Lu, Hengtan Zhang, Li Gong +7

IROS 2026Dexterous manipulation 3D & spatial reasoning

2026-09-07

Phase-and-First-Arrival VLM Feedback for Sparse-Reward Reinforcement Learning in Surgical Manipulation

Wanli Liuchen, Fangyuan Wang, Bin Li +4

Dexterous manipulation Reinforcement learning & control

2026-09-07

State-of-the-Art in Learning-by-Demonstration with Passive Observation for Industrial Assembly Automation

David Koetter, Oliver Petrovic, Christian Brecher

2026-09-07

EquiGQNet: Fast Grasp Quality Evaluation via Shared Equivariant Point Cloud Encoding

Sungwon Seo, Jaeseog Won, Jiyou Shin +5

Dexterous manipulation 3D & spatial reasoning

2026-09-07

Beyond Task Success: Stage-Wise Reliability of World Model Planning under Sensing Degradation

Geonmyeong Lee, Byoung-Tak Zhang

World models Safety & evaluation

2026-09-07

MAC-I$^2$: Learned Metrics-Aware Covariance for Robust Visual-Inertial Fusion in Initialization and Calibration

Xiang Fei, Yuheng Qiu, Can Xu +5

Data collection & teleoperation

2026-09-07

From LLM-Generated Specifications to Learned Quadruped Locomotion

Merve Atasever, Keyan Azbijari, Cagan Bakirci +5

Humanoids & locomotion Reinforcement learning & control

2026-09-07

Eventually Optimal and Scalable Multi-Agent Planning for Block Cave Mining

Christopher Leet, Paolo Forte, Uwe Köckemann +2

Navigation & mobility Safety & evaluation

2026-09-07

RoboDreamer: Anticipatory Humanoid Locomotion with Predictive State-Space Models

Zhe Li, Yangyang Wei, Xichen Yuan +4

World models Humanoids & locomotion

2026-09-07

Human-Aware Target Tracking and Navigation: Fusing Kinematic State Estimation with Structural Map Constraints

Sagar Gupta, Don Gideon, Seng W. Loke +2

3D & spatial reasoning Navigation & mobility

2026-09-07

Large Discrete Policy: Advancing Explicit Behavior Modeling with Stochastic Iterative Scoring

Zhenxin Li, Nadine Chang, Xinglong Sun +8

Vision-language-action Navigation & mobility

2026-09-07

MEMOBench: A Process Level Memory Benchmark for Robotic Manipulation

Haiyang Sun, Haoxiao Wang, Junming Chen +6

Vision-language-action Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks

2026-09-07

GIFT: Goal-Injected Fine-Tuning for Efficient Manipulation Policy Adaptation

Xiaoyuan Fang, Shuo Feng, Yuxuan Wang +3

Vision-language-action Foundation models & pretraining

2026-09-07

WM-Craftnet: World Synesthesia Model for Generalizable and Robust Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation

Jie Yin, Zeyuan Zhao, Xiaojing Tan +3

World models Dexterous manipulation

2026-09-07

Mind the Phase: Effective Rank and Representation Health in Legged Locomotion

Felipe Tommaselli, Thiago H. Segreto, Juliano D. Negri +2

CoRL 2026Humanoids & locomotion Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks

2026-09-07

Joint-Conditioned Stereo Surface Reasoning for Interaction Field Estimation

Yanlin Jin, Yifan Yang, Bowen Yang +1

2026-09-07

Deception in Reach-Avoid Game with Unknown Heterogeneous Attackers Speed Information

Xiangkai Wu, Shaolin Tan, Wei Wang +1

2026-09-07

Distributed Dexterous Manipulation with Spatially Conditioned Multi-Agent Transformers

Sarvesh Patil

Dexterous manipulation Imitation & diffusion policies

2026-09-07

DriftParking: Trajectory Modeling via Drifting Field for End-to-End Automated Parking

Ziyan Wang, Dong Li, Weibo Wang +4

2026-09-07

Distributed Secure Learning Control for Large-scale Multirobots under Stealthy Actuator Attacks

Xinglong Zhang, Qingwen Ma, Cong Li +5

Reinforcement learning & control Hardware & morphology co-design

2026-09-07

Predictive-Coding-Based Autonomous Regulation of Internally Generated and Externally Coupled Processing in Human-Robot Interaction

Henrique Oyama, Hiroki Sawada, Jun Tani

Human-robot interaction

2026-09-07

Noisy-Space Policy Gradient for Diffusion Policies in Offline Reinforcement Learning

Mahmoud Selim, Cristina Cipriani, Karl H. Johansson

ICML 2026Reinforcement learning & control

2026-09-07

Contextual Observer Grounding: Evaluating Situated Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

Mimo Shirasaka, Haochen Zhang, Yonatan Bisk

3D & spatial reasoning Video & generative modeling

2026-09-06

Design and Attitude Control of an Underwater Quadruped Robot

Davide Molinaroli, Mohit Singh, Kostas Alexis

Humanoids & locomotion

2026-09-06

Geometry Conditioning in an Embodied SLM: Training Controls and Robustness Diagnostics in a 0.8B Hybrid Model

Hao Li, Haofei Sun, Lin He

Safety & evaluation

2026-09-06

Identifying Habit, Physics, and Nuisance in Robot World Models

Jinting Hang, Zhenhui Cai

World models Video & generative modeling

2026-09-06

ContextFlow: In-Context Flow Matching for Robot Manipulation

Jian Ding, Xianjie Dai, Roei Herzig +5

ECCV 2026Vision-language-action Imitation & diffusion policies

2026-09-06

Diagnosing and Dynamically Filtering Occupancy World Models for Active Mapping

Jiahui Zhang, Gongbo Liang, Yu Zhang

IROS 2026World models 3D & spatial reasoning

2026-09-06

RoboSense: Leveraging Robotaxi Fleets as Drive-by Sensors for Urban Traffic Monitoring

Yilin Wang, Yiheng Feng

Safety & evaluation

2026-09-06

OCTN: Neural OCT Representations for Robot-Guided Precision Intervention

Ravi Prakash, Ryan P. McNabb, Patrick J. Codd +1

Navigation & mobility

2026-09-06

SkillX: Unified Multi-Skill Policy Learning for Humanoid Soccer

Zhangchen Ye, Enxuan Ruan, Yifei Bao +10

CoRL 2026Humanoids & locomotion Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks

2026-09-06

Physico-Geospatial Grounded Scene Interpretation for Mobile Robotics

Nicolas Schuler, Janik Kurtz, Lea Dewald +3

2026-09-06

CAVEAT: Recurrent Multimodal Diffusion Planning for Mapless Aerial Exploration

Steven Visch, Nicolò Botteghi, Antonio Franchi +1

Imitation & diffusion policies Navigation & mobility

2026-09-06

MemCorr-DP: Counterfactual Correspondence Conditioning for a Diffusion Policy Guided by a Reference

Tan Su, Haoxiang Yang, Ruxin Wang +1

Imitation & diffusion policies

2026-09-06

Unifying Physics-Based Humanoid Interaction with a Context-Conditioned Interaction Prior

Jianan Li, Xiao Chen, Tien-Tsin Wong

SIGGRAPH 2026Humanoids & locomotion Tactile & force sensing

2026-09-06

SHIFT: Surface-aware High-speed Integration For TSDFs

Ayaan Choudhury, Lokender Tiwari

Navigation & mobility

2026-09-06

Knowledge-Guided Hierarchical Policy Learning for High-Precision Cylindrical Assembly under Tight Tolerances

Binbin Lian, Xinyu Liu, Tao Sun

Imitation & diffusion policies Safety & evaluation

2026-09-06

Dynamic System Emulation: Fixed Wing Dynamics on a Multicopter

Abdelhakim Amer, Andriy Sarabakha

2026-09-06

VLA-Corrector: Stage-Aware Observable State Understanding for Prompt-Based Closed-Loop Recovery of Vision-Language-Action Policies

Chang Song, Bin Qian, Yan Feng +1

Vision-language-action Dexterous manipulation

2026-09-06

\textbf{PLATO}: \emph{Preintegration Learning from Accurate Trajectory Observations} for Neural Inertial Odometry

Haoying Li, Qihang Liu, Yifan Peng +2

2026-09-06

Can People Distinguish Human and AI Agency in Humanoid Teleoperation? A Preliminary Study of Agency Perception

Xiang Li, Koya Dendo, Keigo Minamida +3

Humanoids & locomotion Data collection & teleoperation

2026-09-06

Collision Snapshot Guided Time-Reversed Safety-Critical Scenario Generation

Taehyung Kim, Jongeun Choi

Safety & evaluation

2026-09-06

OVMAN: A Task and Benchmark for Open-Vocabulary Motion-Aware Navigation

Dibyendu Ghosh

Navigation & mobility

2026-09-06

LANTERN: A Closed-Loop Benchmark for VLM-Based Cooperative Driving with Temporally Grounded Warnings

Yongshuo Liu, Xu Gao, Morui Zhu +5

Safety & evaluation

2026-09-06

OcclusionCBF: Backup Control Barrier Functions for Safe Navigation Among Hidden Dynamic Obstacles

Taekyung Kim, Hun Kuk Park, Renya Wada +3

Reinforcement learning & control 3D & spatial reasoning

2026-09-06

Geometric Distributional Control: Learning Progress with Partial Structural Knowledge

Tong Wu

Reinforcement learning & control Navigation & mobility

2026-09-06

Rethinking Safety for Generalist Robots

Rohan Sinha, Anushri Dixit, Ran Tian +2

Safety & evaluation

2026-09-05

CST-WM: A Causally Structured World Model for Embodied Visual Tracking

Junyi Hu, Shuaihang Yuan, Yi Fang

World models Safety & evaluation

2026-09-05

IM-ENGINE: Image Editing for Embodied Data Generation

Yian Wang, Junyi Cao, Xiaowen Qiu +1

Dexterous manipulation Egocentric & human data

2026-09-05

Bundle Length Tradeoffs in Decentralized Multi-Robot Task Allocation Under Degraded Communications

James Lott, Vahraz Honary

2026-09-05

GloVLA: Let Geometry Move and Local VLA Interact for Robust Object-Centric Manipulation in Unstructured Environments

Truong Thanh Nguyen, Huy Hoang Nguyen, Ha Anh Nguyen +5

Vision-language-action Tactile & force sensing

2026-09-05

MobileVLA-R1 2.0: RL-Enhanced Reasoning for Mobile Robot Control

Ting Huang, Yue Huang, Zeyu Zhang +2

Vision-language-action Humanoids & locomotion

2026-09-05

RefGuard: Identity-Aware Language-Guided Robot Manipulation via Joint Target-Anchor-Frame Grounding

Lan Wei, Kangyi Lu, Yongchen Wang +5

Vision-language-action

2026-09-05

EgoNeMo: Transferable Map of Pedestrian Dynamics via Egocentric LiDAR Scan

Azusa Sawada, Allan Wang, Hideo Saito +1

Egocentric & human data 3D & spatial reasoning

2026-09-05

Where Success Breaks: Failure-Boundary Learning for Robust Vision-Language-Action Models

Yanzhe Chen, Zhijun Cao, Mike Zheng Shou

Vision-language-action Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks

2026-09-05

SCoCaT: Success Conditioned Constrained Reinforcement Learning for Spacecraft Docking

Aman Arora, Ricard Marsal I Castan, Matteo El-Hariry +1

CoRL 2026Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks Reinforcement learning & control

2026-09-05

FALCON-S: Fixed-wing ground-effect Aerodynamics Simulator and Flight Control Learning Suite

Matteo El Hariry, Pedro Lima, Andrej Orsula +2

Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks Reinforcement learning & control

2026-09-05

How to Learn from What a Human Would Avoid? Intervention-Aware World Models with Real-World RL for Dexterous Manipulation

Jiaju Yin, Zhenhui Zhang, Lixin Xu +5

CoRL 2026World models Dexterous manipulation

2026-09-05

GLoRI: Closed-Loop Whole-Body Tracking with Global-Local Reference Interaction for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

Qingyao Xu, Sheng Yin, Zibo Zhou +3

Humanoids & locomotion Data collection & teleoperation

2026-09-05

A Brain-inspired Hierarchical Framework for Zero-Shot Robot Task Reasoning and Execution

Guangming Wang, Pengfei Ye, Qizhen Ying +7

Vision-language-action Safety & evaluation

2026-09-05

Observation Design for Certified Control Authority: Projection--Estimability Separation and Active-Face Equivalence

Guangxi Wan, Hualong Du, Yuqi Liu +4 · 1 citation

2026-09-05

Moment-Matching Probabilistic Data Association for Optimization-Based SLAM

Khoa Nguyen, Mitchell Turton, Florian Meyer

3D & spatial reasoning Navigation & mobility

2026-09-05

GIF: Agentic Generation of Interactive and Functional Object Compositions for Robot Learning

Long Xu, Zhiqi Zhang, Mi Yan +8

Foundation models & pretraining

2026-09-05

A4A: Cross-Embodiment Transfer of Action-Oriented 4D Affordances from Human Demonstrations

Yifan Han, Litao Liu, Yuqi Gu +7

Vision-language-action Egocentric & human data

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