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2,361 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.

Club-presented only

2026-08-27

Task-space model-based control of pneumatic soft actuators

Nithin S. Kumar, Joshua Gaston, D. Caleb Rucker +1

Dexterous manipulation Hardware & morphology co-design

2026-08-27

Planning a Shared Modular Fixture Layout Across Robotic Disassembly Stages

Haohui Pan, Takuya Kiyokawa, Kensuke Harada

2026-08-27

Active sensing to characterize the heterogeneity of plant stress

Ayman Laaroussi, Peter Hanappe, David Colliaux

2026-08-27

Pass the Bucket: Efficient, Robust, Local Load Balancing for Teams of Heterogeneous Robots

Tobias Wallner, Dominik Krupke, Arne Schmidt +1

IROS 2026Safety & evaluation

2026-08-27

GRAFT: Grounded and Efficient Online Reinforcement Adaptation for Fine-Grained Robot Manipulation

Yibo Qiu, Haoliang Ye, Shu'ang Sun +3

Vision-language-action

2026-08-27

SpatialCrafter: Single Image World Modeling with Generative 3D Proxies

Chuan Fang, Lingteng Qiu, Yixun Liang +8

World models 3D & spatial reasoning

2026-08-27

Riemann-1.0: An Embodied World Action Model for Physical AI

Haofeng Sun, Jiangbo Pei, Fei Kang +13

Egocentric & human data Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks

2026-08-27

Arbitrary-Order Hermite Interpolation of Rigid-Motion Jets via Hyper-Multidual Quaternions

Daniel Condurache

2026-08-27

4DSynth: Controllable Procedural World Synthesis for Dynamic Embodied Simulation

Zehao Qi, Haochen Luo, Jia-Wang Bian +2

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

2026-08-27

Dynamic Haven Selection for Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery in Constrained Warehouses

Taisei Hirayama, Kohei Yoshida, Hiroki Sakaji +1

Navigation & mobility

2026-08-27

Contact-Aided Factor-Graph Localization for Underwater Sampling

Michele Grimaldi, Yosaku Maeda, Hitoshi Kakami +3

Navigation & mobility

2026-08-27

Beyond Shallow-Water Photorealism: Physically and Sensor-Grounded Simulation for Deep-Sea Robotics

Michele Grimaldi, Enrico Di Maria, Ignacio Carlucho +1

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

2026-08-27

Active Surface-Driven Reconfigurable Gripper: Robust Grasping and Sequential Manipulation of Thin Objects

Ziyi Zheng, Keqi Zhu, Hao Wu +2

Dexterous manipulation Safety & evaluation

2026-08-27

CGS-SLAM: Collaborative Gaussian Splatting based SLAM for Multi-Agent Reconstruction

Jean-Daniel de Ambrogi, Aladine Chetouani, Vincent Nguyen +1

3D & spatial reasoning

2026-08-27

TemporalFlow-VLA: Learning Physically Grounded Execution History for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation

Jiarui Yang, Yehao Lu, Yuning Su +9

Vision-language-action

2026-08-27

CLIPPER: Replayable Shortlisted Optimization for Repeated Spatial Coverage Planning

Julian Teusch, Jörg Philipp Müller, Monika Sester

2026-08-27

Rapid On-Robot Learning for Dynamic Manipulation Skills: Robot Juggling

Taeyoon Lee, Chunpeng Wang, Christopher G. Atkeson +2

Dexterous manipulation Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks

2026-08-27

Online Joint Calibration of Steering Offset and Planar LiDAR Extrinsics for Wheeled Mobile Robots

Subodh Mishra, Arindam Dhar, Suprotim Majumdar +1

Safety & evaluation

2026-08-27

Decoupling Planning and Control for Instructable Agents

Zineng Tang, Kelsey R. Allen, Sjoerd van Steenkiste +2

World models Vision-language-action

2026-08-27

MeshPriorDiT: Hierarchical Modeling for Action-Conditioned Cloth Dynamics

Zihang Wang, Jianming Hu, Shang Su +4

Dexterous manipulation

2026-08-27

Fixed-Haven Reservation for Online Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery in Dense Warehouses

Taisei Hirayama, Kohei Yoshida, Hiroki Sakaji +1

Safety & evaluation

2026-08-27

Residual Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Computed Torque Control for a Cable-Driven Lower-Limb Rehabilitation Robot under Disturbances and Parametric Uncertainties

Mohammad-Hossein Fakouri, Ali Keymasi-Khalaji

Reinforcement learning & control Safety & evaluation

2026-08-27

Generative Semantic Scene Completion

Shi Chen, Weifeng Ge

2026-08-27

PredVLA: A Sub-Million-Parameter Predictive-Coding Policy for Robot Manipulation

Hiroki Sawada, Shunichi Kasahara

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

2026-08-27

Beyond the Proving Ground: Independent Public-Road Testing of Assisted Lane Change Systems using LiDAR

Marcello Cellina, Akos Kriston, Antonio Migneco +7

Navigation & mobility Safety & evaluation

2026-08-27

FLARE: A Failure-Aware Framework for Autonomous Correction and Recovery in Visual-Language Robotic Manipulation

Ganlong Zhao, Zijia Tang, Xingping Chen +3

CVPR 2026Vision-language-action Dexterous manipulation

2026-08-27

Relaxation-Aware Multimodal Sensing of Soft Gripper Driven by Structure-Perception-Learning

Yanzhe Wang, Hao Wu, Ziyi Zheng +1

RSS 2026Dexterous manipulation Hardware & morphology co-design

2026-08-27

SOLO: Stable Omni-terrain Long-Horizon Perceptive Humanoid Locomotion

Pihai Sun, Gang Han, Jingkai Sun +17

Humanoids & locomotion

2026-08-27

TrapVLA: Trapping Vision-Language-Action Models in Configured Failure Modes

Jun-Hui Liu, Kun-Yu Lin, Yi-Lin Wei +9

Vision-language-action Dexterous manipulation

2026-08-27

Arrive and Survive: Scaling Safe Goal-Conditioned Policy Learning from One-Bit Failure Signals

Guopeng Li, Yiyang Duan, Yiru Jiao +1

Humanoids & locomotion Reinforcement learning & control

2026-08-27

Memory Anchors for Continual Robot Learning

Maximilian Du, Zhanyi Sun, Chen Xu +3

2026-08-27

Barrier Function Conformal Safety Clearance Certification with CVaR for Driving Trajectory Selection

Pei Yu Chang, Qadeer Ahmed

Navigation & mobility Safety & evaluation

2026-08-27

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

Xulin Chen, Borui He, Ruipeng Liu +3

Humanoids & locomotion

2026-08-27

RTNav: Towards Real-Time Zero-Shot Object Navigation

Easop Lee, Lingyu Zhang, Boyuan Chen

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

2026-08-26

Cross-Platform Benchmark of Neural 3D Reconstruction for Autonomous Laboratory Robots

Yongho Kim, Mengjiao Han, Victor Mateevitsi +3

3D & spatial reasoning

2026-08-26

Dispersive Forward Tree Search for Optimal Control: Coverage, Complexity, and Computation

Shashank A. Deshpande, Jonathan P. How

2026-08-26

Constraint-Aware Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Static Shape Estimation of Co-Manipulative Continuum Robots

Rana Danesh, Pari Qarehdaghi, Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi

2026-08-26

WALL-SS: Scaling Long-horizon World Models via Next-Scale Autoregression

Maeve Zhang, Rain Sun, Xiang Wang +22

World models Safety & evaluation

2026-08-26

VBVR-Pro: A Scalable and Verifiable Suite for Native Visual Reasoning

Junxiang Xu, Ruisi Wang, Fanyi Pu +49

Reinforcement learning & control Video & generative modeling

2026-08-26

Zero-WAM: In-Context World-Action Modeling from Human Videos for Open-Ended Task Generalization

Jiaming Zhou, Qihang Zhang, Gangwei Xu +9

Egocentric & human data

2026-08-26

Fast Generative Grasping via Lie Group-Constrained MeanFlow

S. Talha Bukhari, Yi Wei, Ruiqi Ni +2

Dexterous manipulation

2026-08-26

Gating Before Commitment: Anticipating Intent Divergence to Prevent Post-Interaction Decision Failures in Autonomous Driving

Cong Xu, Ravi Sankar

IROS 2026Navigation & mobility

2026-08-26

VirTooS: A ROS 2 - Unity Virtualization Toolkit for Fleet Management of Autonomous Mobile Robots

Andrea Drudi, Lorenzo Pichierri, Andrea Testa +1

2026-08-26

One Policy, Many Embodiments: Unified Camera-Centric Action Geometry Pre-training for Heterogeneous Embodied Manipulation

Xiaomi Embodied Intelligence Team, University of Macau, : +21

Vision-language-action Humanoids & locomotion

2026-08-26

$R^3$: Training Robots to Reason in Natural Language via Reinforcement Learning

Lehong Wu, Yuxiao Qu, Zheyuan Hu +4

Imitation & diffusion policies Reinforcement learning & control

2026-08-26

When Obstacles Bend: Modeling Vegetation Deformation in the context of Field Robotics

Muhammad Hsaeeb Zaar Khizar, Tom Montagnon, Roland Lenain +2

Navigation & mobility

2026-08-26

Phantom Navigator: Stealthy and Precise Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Redirection with Real-Time Tracking and GPS Spoofing

Haocheng Meng, Shaocheng Luo, Songqiao Xie +1

Navigation & mobility Safety & evaluation

2026-08-26

DESCENT: Directed Edge Scene Encoding for Airport Surface Movement Prediction

Alexander Prutsch, David Schinagl, Horst Possegger

IROS 2026Navigation & mobility Safety & evaluation

2026-08-26

A Statistical Audit of Physical AI Benchmark Redundancy

Zaruhi Navasardyan, Hrant Davtyan

2026-08-26

Choose Your Game Wisely: Measuring Game-Theoretic Structures in Real-World Vehicle Interactions

Yueyuan Li, Rongcheng Nie, Weijie Xi +4

2026-08-26

Low-Resolution Perception for Robotic Packing

Giuseppe Fabio Preziosa, Federico Vignoni, Chiara Castellano +3

Dexterous manipulation

2026-08-26

VISTA: Visually Inferred Spatial ConTact Attention for Contact-Rich Manipulation

Jiayi Chen, Wenlong Dong, Yan Huang +5

Dexterous manipulation Tactile & force sensing

2026-08-26

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

Zaibin Zhang, Junlan Xiao, Zhongbo Zhang +11

ECCV 2026Vision-language-action

2026-08-26

Anytime Global Tensor Motion Planning

Sai Coumar, An T. Le, Zachary Kingston

Navigation & mobility

2026-08-26

AGRO-Nav: Autonomous Graph-based Orchard Navigation

Ho Young Yun, Jaemin Yu, Duksu Kim

3D & spatial reasoning Navigation & mobility

2026-08-26

TacForcing: Streaming Action Generation with Execution-Time Tactile Feedback

Jianbo Zhou, Boyuan Zhao, Yuzheng Zhang +8

Vision-language-action Tactile & force sensing

2026-08-26

LM-X: Explainable Action Modeling with Progress, Event, and Uncertainty Prediction for Generalist Robot Manipulation

Jin Lou, Zhiyuan Jing, Andong Chen +20

Foundation models & pretraining

2026-08-26

Trust-Aware Sequential Decision Making and Rollout Planning for Resilient Multi-Robot Systems

Roee M. Francos, Daniel Garces, Orhan Eren Akgün +2

2026-08-26

Opportunities of Self Supervised Learning for GNSS: Evaluation of a Deep Learning-Enhanced PVT Algorithm

Thomas Barbero, Bertrand Ekambi

World models Navigation & mobility

2026-08-26

PRISM: Projection-Integrated Sampling-Based MPC with Bayesian Cost Tuning for Bimanual Manipulation

Alinjar Dan, Iryna Hurova, Karl Kruusamäe +1

World models Tactile & force sensing

2026-08-26

GaussianDream++: Efficient 3D Gaussian World Modeling for Robotic Manipulation

Yuqing Jiang, Zijian Zhang, Weitao Zhou +8

World models Vision-language-action

2026-08-26

EgoNav: Bridging Learned Waypoints and Geometry-Aware Local Control for Robust Indoor Navigation

Jing Wang, Shiqi Zhao, Hairong Qu +1

Humanoids & locomotion Navigation & mobility

2026-08-26

Leveraging Inter-object Affordances for Efficient Planning in Contact-rich Tasks

Pouya P. Niaz, Justus Piater, Alejandro Agostini

Dexterous manipulation Tactile & force sensing

2026-08-26

Advantage-Driven Explicit Memory for Social Navigation

Yeonsoo Park, Mattia Racca, Guillaume Bono +4

Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks Imitation & diffusion policies

2026-08-26

RA-VLA: Retrieval-Augmented VLA for Test-Time Adaptation

Sanghwan Jang, Minjin Jeon, Minsoo Kim +3 · 1 citation

ICML 2026Vision-language-action Imitation & diffusion policies

2026-08-26

ConfAL-WM: Confidence-Guided Active Learning for Action-Conditioned World Models

Xiang Liu, Sen Cui, Changshui Zhang

2026-08-26

A Tendon-Driven Five-Fingered Hand with Distributed Tactile Perception for Dexterous Manipulation

Huayang Chen, Longhui Qin

Dexterous manipulation Tactile & force sensing

2026-08-26

Dynamic Modeling of a Welding Torch Umbilical and Its Impact on Robot Dynamics

Nicolas Gautier, Yves Guillermit, Mathieu Porez +2

Human-robot interaction

2026-08-26

Transient multimode heat transfer of an industrial automated tape laying process under rapidly changing conditions

Bernhard Rameder, Hubert Gattringer, Andreas Müller +1

2026-08-26

Towards safe and optimal flight: Viability Kernel MPC for Fully Actuated Multirotor

Massimiliano Bertoni, Alberto Piccina, Gianni Lunardi +4

Reinforcement learning & control Navigation & mobility

2026-08-26

Saliency-Depth Conditioning for Zero-Shot Segmentation of Communication-Tower Components in Cluttered UAV Imagery

Ali Lesani, Chul Min Yeum, Su-Min Kang

Navigation & mobility Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-26

SUPER ODOMETRY 2.0: Resilient Odometry via Hierarchical Adaptation

Shibo Zhao, Sifan Zhou, Yuchen Zhang +4 · 12 citations

Sci. RoboticsHumanoids & locomotion Safety & evaluation

2026-08-26

LAC: Linear and Angular Compliance for Humanoid Whole-body Control

Yang Liu, Zhongkai Gu, Wei Zhu +1

Humanoids & locomotion Reinforcement learning & control

2026-08-26

A Taxonomy of Construction Task Activities for Robot Workers

Sadman Sakib, Zhangyi None Peng, Yujie Pang +2

Vision-language-action Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-26

RAEM: Robust Autonomous Exploration for Multi-Floor Environments with a Quadruped Robot

Zikang Yuan, Yuan Ren, Yian Wang +10

Humanoids & locomotion Navigation & mobility

2026-08-26

Beyond Pairwise Feedback: Listwise Vision-Language Supervision for Preference-Based Reward Learning

Srivalli Katkuri, Maxwell Kawada, Juan Wachs

Reinforcement learning & control Video & generative modeling

2026-08-26

SonicNudge: Controlled Displacement of Hovering UAVs via Estimator-Controller Coupling

Shaocheng Luo, Ashir Raza, Haocheng Meng +2

Navigation & mobility

2026-08-26

Generative Action-Chunk Sampling for Adaptive Stiffness Control in Physical Human-Robot Collaboration

Aoi Otake, Ferdinand Hartmann, Ko Igari +1

Imitation & diffusion policies Human-robot interaction

2026-08-26

PhaseShift: Topology-Aware Data Harmonization and Model Consolidation Across Signalized Intersections

Yash Ranjan, Artur Kumik, Rahul Sengupta +2

2026-08-25

Development of a Voice-Controlled Tendon-Driven Bionic Hand

Urja Kohli, Shagata Chanda, Kritika Gandhi +3

Dexterous manipulation

2026-08-25

Longitudinal Robot Learning from Demonstration with Care Providers in a Home Environment

Nina Moorman, Julianna Schalkwyk, Vriksha Srihari +6

ICRA 2026Foundation models & pretraining Human-robot interaction

2026-08-25

CRESSim-Neo: A Batched GPU Simulation Engine for Surgical Robotics and Robot Learning

Yafei Ou, Ahnaf Naheen, Tleukhan Mussin +3

Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-25

Control-Oriented Learning for Dynamic Tracking and Stability Analysis of Soft Pneumatic Actuators

Nithin S. Kumar, Eric J. Barth

Navigation & mobility Hardware & morphology co-design

2026-08-25

Sequential Object Placement Optimization with Convex Decomposition

Yuezhe Zhang, Xiangyu Lyu, Sohan Rudra +2

2026-08-25

SkyDrive: Learning to Drive in a New City from Aerial Traffic Monitoring

Weijiang Xiong, Lan Feng, Alexandre Alahi +1

Egocentric & human data Imitation & diffusion policies

2026-08-25

Extending Ground-Constraint LiDAR-IMU Calibration to Tilted Surfaces in a Continuous-Time Framework

Vassili Korotkine, Pierre Chamoun, Mohammed Ayman Shalaby +1

2026-08-25

ROS2 Connect: A new ROS2 over WAN Solution

Daniel Schott, Lakshminarasimhan Srinivasan, Christian Herrmann +1

Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-25

GaussVLA: Geometry-Aware Spatial Reasoning for Vision-Language-Action Model

Md Selim Sarowar, Md Tanvir Islam, Sungho Kim +1

Vision-language-action 3D & spatial reasoning

2026-08-25

Do Robotic World Models Really Follow Actions? Diagnosing and Aligning Action-Conditioned Generation for Policy Learning

Sixiang Chen, Jiaming Liu, Jixian Wu +7

World models Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks

2026-08-25

Latent Action as Intention Enables Efficient Future Imagination for World Action Models

Xiang Li, Yupeng Zheng, Songen Gu +10

Foundation models & pretraining Video & generative modeling

2026-08-25

$(\text{DNN})^2$: Doubly Non-Negative Relaxations for Deep Neural Networks

Hanna Jiamei Zhang, Alan Papalia, Michael Everett +1

Safety & evaluation

2026-08-25

One-Shot Learning from Demonstration of Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation by Identifying Physical Interactions

A. H. G. Overbeek, H. van der Kooij, M. Vlutters

Tactile & force sensing Safety & evaluation

2026-08-25

Fiber Bragg Grating Whiskers for Bioinspired Hydrodynamic Perception on Underwater Robots

Hao Li, Tianyu Tu, Siyue Yao +7

2026-08-25

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

Zijian Zhang, Yuqing Jiang, Weitao Zhou +6

Foundation models & pretraining

2026-08-25

VIP: Variation-based Iterative-learning Planning for Robotic Navigation

Shuli Lv, Pengda Mao, Chen Min +4

Navigation & mobility

2026-08-25

Gripper-aware Vision Language Action Models

Hanyi Zhang, Zihong Luo, Tianyu Li +16

Vision-language-action Dexterous manipulation

2026-08-25

Fiber Optic Sensing Glove for High Performance Dexterous Manipulation Capture

J. D. Peiffer, Taylor Niehues, Li Guan +2

Dexterous manipulation Egocentric & human data

2026-08-25

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

Sonali Godavarthy, Matthias Neuwirth-Trapp, Tim-Felix Faasch +4

ECCV 2026Video & generative modeling

2026-08-25

RoG-DAgger: Rollout-Guided Post-Training for End-to-End Driving

Liangyu Zhong, Joachim Sicking, Fabian Hueger +1

Imitation & diffusion policies Safety & evaluation

2026-08-25

NeuralParker: A Reinforcement Learning Planner for Irregular Parking Environments

Zihan Wang, Bai Huang, Yang Guan +4

Reinforcement learning & control

2026-08-25

Variance-Guided Spatial Attention Fusion for Robust End-to-End Driving under Asymmetric Sensor Degradation

Weizhi Tao, Zengwang Jin, Xiao Wang +1

Data collection & teleoperation Safety & evaluation

2026-08-25

CARE: Camera-Residual Reserves for First Sightings in Adaptive LiDAR Sensing

Jiachen Gong, Yun Li, Ehsan Javanmardi +2

Navigation & mobility Safety & evaluation

2026-08-25

A Durable Vision-Based Tactile Fingertip for Robotic Manipulation

F. Richard Cottrell, Megha H. Tippur, Edward H. Adelson

Tactile & force sensing

2026-08-25

Event-Based Motion Estimation via Oriented Distance Fields

Lei Sun, Yuqin Ma, Weilun Li +5

Safety & evaluation

2026-08-25

CARO: Contact-Agnostic Residual Observation for Zero-Shot Robust Quadruped Locomotion

Zihan Yang, Shixuan Han, Kexin Guo +1

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

2026-08-25

NVIDIA Cosmos-H-Dreams: Real-Time Generative Physics Simulation for Surgical Robotics

Javier Gamazo Tejero, Lukas Zbinden, Keyur Sheth +7

World models Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks

2026-08-25

Robust Slip Detection and Material Classification via Spatiotemporal Transformers on a Uniformly-Illuminated Visuo-Tactile Sensor

Ziyang Ma, Yuhao Sun, Zichen Ai +2

IROS 2026Tactile & force sensing Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-25

Coverage Planning for Robotic Tooth Preparation in Densely Constrained Environments

Yunwen Li, Chen Chen, Xiangjie Yan +4

Navigation & mobility Safety & evaluation

2026-08-25

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

Suhwan Choi, Jaeyoon Jung, Sungkyung Kim +2

Vision-language-action Foundation models & pretraining

2026-08-25

Trajectory-Level Continuous Action Representation for Robotic Manipulation

Tong Yang, Jingkai Jia, Yuecheng Xu +3

2026-08-25

TrAct: Bridging Robot Control and Visual Prediction with Visual Tracks

Zhi Cao, Howard Ji, Kevin Zhang +4

World models Vision-language-action

2026-08-25

SIREN-Bench: Behavior-Driven Generation and Evaluation of Emergency-Vehicle Interactions

Yicheng Zhu, Tianmu Zhao, Haoxin Leng +3

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

2026-08-25

Hierarchical Skill Retrieval for Data-Efficient Adaptation of Vision-Language-Action Models

Haoran Hao, Shahram Najam Syed, Jeff Schneider +1

Vision-language-action Foundation models & pretraining

2026-08-25

Design-to-Plan: A Large Language Model-Based Multi-Agent Framework for Manufacturing Process Planning from 3D CAD Models and 2D Engineering Drawings

Muhammad Tayyab Khan, Lequn Chen, Wenhe Feng +1

2026-08-25

NeurRAFT: Robot Motion Planning via Anchor-Level Flow Matching with Clearance-Aware Preference Tuning

Sibo Tian, Chang Liu, Minghui Zheng +1

Imitation & diffusion policies

2026-08-25

Trusted Polytopic Action Sets for Fast Planning in Underactuated Systems

Akshay Jaitly, Siavash Farzan

2026-08-25

Bridging Teacher Expectations and Robot Learning via Coupling Dynamics

Evan Dallas, Sean Dallas, Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie

2026-08-25

Sensorless damage-safe grasping

Yusei Shuto, Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

Dexterous manipulation Tactile & force sensing

2026-08-25

Safety-aware Model Predictive Path Integral Control with Signal Temporal Logic

Yiqi Zhao, Taekyung Kim, Hideki Okamoto +4

Reinforcement learning & control Safety & evaluation

2026-08-25

CoDrift: Compositional Drifting for Offline Reinforcement Learning

Xiewei Ni, Ruofeng Mei, Xiangyu Xu

Imitation & diffusion policies Reinforcement learning & control

2026-08-25

Dynamical System-Based Imitation Learning and Neuroadaptive Control for Trajectory Recovery in Autonomous Ships

Yeyson A. Becerra-Mora, José Ángel Acosta

Egocentric & human data Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks

2026-08-24

Interpreting Control Latents for System Identification via Conditional Flow Matching

Dingqi Zhang, Ruiqi Zhang, Mark W. Mueller

Hardware & morphology co-design Safety & evaluation

2026-08-24

DreamLedger: Where to Refuse World-Model Imagination Using Execution-Settled Credit

Xianyao Li, Ruitong Tian, Rui Min +2

World models Safety & evaluation

2026-08-24

Resilience Matters for Embodied Agents System: New Metrics, Systematic Evaluation, and Optimization

Yapeng Liu, Yuanzhao Zhai, Xudong Gong +4

Safety & evaluation

2026-08-24

Learning to Act While Waiting: RL Finetuning of Generalist Robot Policies Under Inference Latency

Brian Zhu, Momen Khalil, E Harrison +17

Reinforcement learning & control

2026-08-24

Concept-Guided Exploration: Building Persistent, Actionable Scene Graphs

Noé Zapata, Gerardo Pérez, Alejandro Torrejón +2 · 6 citations

Applied SciencesNavigation & mobility

2026-08-24

GeoWAM: Visual Geometry World Action Models for Autonomous Driving

Yiren Lu, Xin Ye, Jiaming Liu +10

World models 3D & spatial reasoning

2026-08-24

Act with Intent: Distilling Behavior Intent for Vision-Language-Action Models

Sangoh Lee, Sangwoo Mo, Wook-Shin Han

Vision-language-action Imitation & diffusion policies

2026-08-24

Reward-Free Continual Adaptation for Resilient Space Robots

Andrej Orsula, Miguel Olivares-Mendez, Carol Martinez

World models Reinforcement learning & control

2026-08-24

MomADv2: Reliable Temporal Memory for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

Ziying Song, Shengkai Zhang, Lin Liu +8

Navigation & mobility

2026-08-24

OptiSight: Bridging Semantic Reasoning and Geometric Control for Embodied Navigation

Alperen Avan, Jordi Sanchez-Riera

Navigation & mobility Video & generative modeling

2026-08-24

ROS2SmolVLA: Enabling Small Vision-Language-Action Models for Integration into Industrial-Grade Lightweight Robots

Nils Mandischer, Noah Böckmann, Ludwig Holl +1

Vision-language-action

2026-08-24

Design of a Biomimetic Joint-Covering Skin with Tissue-Like Structure to Enhance Proprioception in a Musculoskeletal Humanoid

Akihiro Miki, Shun Hasegawa, Yoshimoto Ribayashi +2

IROS 2026Humanoids & locomotion

2026-08-24

Progressively Learning Heterogeneous Skills in a Unified Latent Space

Yue-Yi Zhang, Ming Gong, Linpu He +2

2026-08-24

Think Only When Needed: Prompt-Authority Control for Selective Slow-Path Intervention in Vision-Language-Action Manipulation

Zhiruo Zhou, Zelin Li, Xiwen Chen +4

Vision-language-action

2026-08-24

Guided Riemannian Optimization (GuRO): Bridging Model Predictive Control and Decision Transformers

Hossein Abdi, Satya Prakash Dash, Mingfei Sun

Humanoids & locomotion Reinforcement learning & control

2026-08-24

Spinning Quadrotor: Hover Thrust Augmentation with Passive Lifting Surfaces

Aniketh Parkala, Harikumar Kandath

2026-08-24

MIVIFI: Bridging Perspective and Fisheye Domains for Training Multi-View Fisheye Image Generation Models

Matthias Neuwirth-Trapp, Begüm Altunbas, Jiayi Wang +4

3D & spatial reasoning Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-24

Pointing-VLA: Typed Spatial Grounding Interfaces for Vision-Language-Action Manipulation

Xiwen Chen, Zelin Li, Zhiruo Zhou +3

Vision-language-action

2026-08-24

Shaping the Evolutionary Dynamics of Robot Morphology via Adaptive Control Learning

Junru Song, Yang Yang, Yaqing Xu +5

Navigation & mobility Hardware & morphology co-design

2026-08-24

Switched Turn-based Adaptive Source Seeking Strategy using Estimation and Information-driven Direction of Improvement

Shubhra Banerjee, Satadal Ghosh

2026-08-24

Macro-Action Topological Navigation under Noisy Localization using Reinforcement Learning

Simon Hakenes, Tobias Glasmachers

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

2026-08-24

RoboRacer Arena: Scaling High-Fidelity Autonomous Racing in Isaac Sim

Mihaela-Larisa Clement, Agnes Poks, Ezio Bartocci

ICRA 2027Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks 3D & spatial reasoning

2026-08-24

Free-Energy-Gated Plasticity for Real-Time Online Motor Learning in Physical Human-Robot Interaction

Hiroki Sawada, Jun Tani

Foundation models & pretraining Human-robot interaction

2026-08-24

InstructMove: A Text-Indispensable Benchmark for Instruction-Following Manipulation

Mengao Zhao, Ziang Li, Chaodong Huang +15

Vision-language-action 3D & spatial reasoning

2026-08-24

CSymPlan: Certified Symbolic Planning and Control for High-DOF Manipulators

Aditya Narendra, Ashok Kumar Saini, Mahathi Anand +3

Hardware & morphology co-design Safety & evaluation

2026-08-24

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

Ricard Marsal I Castan, Miguel A. Olivares-Méndez

Navigation & mobility

2026-08-24

SuperMap: A Spatio-Temporal SLAM System for Visual-Language Navigation

Shibo Zhao, Guofei Chen, Honghao Zhu +7 · 1 citation

3D & spatial reasoning Navigation & mobility

2026-08-24

UniMem: Unifying Multimodal Memory and Control for Vision-Language-Action Models

Lars Osterberg, Maggie Wang, Mac Schwager

Vision-language-action Foundation models & pretraining

2026-08-24

Triplet2Track: A Hierarchical System with Object-Centric Representations for Reliable Long-Horizon Manipulation

Jianxiang Liu, Gaojing Zhang, Chuan Wen +4

Vision-language-action Egocentric & human data

2026-08-24

Reproducible Vision-Guided 6-DoF Robotic Manipulator with a Mixed Stepper-Driver Architecture and Browser-Native Control

Lasan Perera, Deneth Priyadarshana, Dulana Pitiwaduge +2

Hardware & morphology co-design Safety & evaluation

2026-08-24

LLM-Based Selection of Incongruent Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior for Virtual Humans

Parisa Ghanad Torshizi, Stacy Marsella

2026-08-24

Physics Filtering Favors the Generalization of Robot Learning

Jindou Jia, Shixuan Han, Meng Wang +8 · 1 citation

Humanoids & locomotion Navigation & mobility

2026-08-24

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

Changki Sung, Hyungtae Lim, Wanhee Kim +2

2026-08-24

RACO: Reliability-Aware Coarse-Goal Optimization for Inspection-Oriented UAV Vision-Language Navigation

Sen Wang, Yiming Sun, Jiaxuan He +1

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

2026-08-24

VikPath: A Vision Kansformer Framework for Effective Obstacle Avoidance in Self-Supervised Pathfinding

Junyao Wang, Yulin Xu, Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

Navigation & mobility Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-24

Exact Finite-Length Theory of Uniform Car Parking: Spatial Laws, Absorption, and Aggregation

Ganesh P Kumar

2026-08-23

Macro-Operator Generation and Predicate Selection for TAMP Operator Learning

Can Emir Bora, Emre Ugur

2026-08-23

Physical Agentic AI: An Architecture for Orchestrating a Robot Crew with LLMs

Xinyuan Liu, Eren Sadikoglu, Riana Chatterjee +1

Humanoids & locomotion Navigation & mobility

2026-08-23

Enhancing Sim2Real Transfer for Torque-Controlled Robots through Real2Sim Dynamics Estimation and Reinforcement Learning

Davide Bargellini, Alex Pasquali, Andrea Govoni +2

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

2026-08-23

WorldToken: Time-First Sequence Modeling for Robotic Imitation Learning

Chunkai Yang, Andong Yang, Chao Gao

Imitation & diffusion policies

2026-08-23

What is the effect of running-specific prostheses on long jumps? Optimization-based prediction and analysis using biomechanical models

Anna Lena Emonds, Johannes Funken, Wolfgang Potthast +1

2026-08-23

A Unified Neural-Aided Alignment and Calibration Method for AUVs

Guy Damari, Zeev Yampolsky, Itzik Klein

Navigation & mobility Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-23

EMPIRE: Explicit Manipulation Planning as a Learnable Intermediate Representation for Egocentric Hand-Motion Forecasting

Wen Wang, Ruibing Hou, Hong Chang +2

Dexterous manipulation Egocentric & human data

2026-08-23

Robust Bimanual Vision-Language-Action Models via Embarrassingly Simple Modality Masking

Dongzhou Cheng, Ziang Li, Yixiao Zhou +6

Vision-language-action Foundation models & pretraining

2026-08-23

LD4WAM: Learning Latent Dynamics from Human Videos for World Action Models

Zhenhao Shen, Jiaqi Liang, Jasper Lu +11

World models Dexterous manipulation

2026-08-23

MotionDLO: Hybrid Event- and Frame-Based Tracking of Deformable Linear Objects

Annalena Hartmann, Priyamvada Ajithkumar, Patrick Bründl +1

Safety & evaluation

2026-08-23

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

Liuhaichen Yang, Zhuang Jiang, Chenchao Sheng +1

Reinforcement learning & control

2026-08-23

GCS-Bridging: Restoring Connectivity of Disconnected Convex Sets for Graph-of-Convex-Sets Motion Planning

Xiaokai Zhou, Baoshi Cao, Yang Liu +4

2026-08-23

The Imitator Game: Benchmarking Robot Imitative Ability Beyond Action Prediction

Xunzhe Zhou, Yiyang Cai, Fengyi Wang +9

Egocentric & human data Foundation models & pretraining

2026-08-23

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

Haoran Lin, Mingyu Yang, Pengfei Qi +6

Humanoids & locomotion Navigation & mobility

2026-08-23

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

Juntao Cheng, Jingkai Wang, Yijun Shen +2

World models Dexterous manipulation

2026-08-23

DreamMimic: Learning Visuomotor Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation via World Model

Jie Yin, Xingyu Lai

World models Humanoids & locomotion

2026-08-23

BehaviorWorldGen: Closing the Loop between Action Models and World Simulators via Controllable Behavior-Aware Structured World Generation

Jiaqi Wang, Zhuo Zhang, Haining Guan +15

Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks

2026-08-23

Meta-Ctrl: Guaranteed Plan Generation by Decoupling Syntactic and Semantic Constraints

Gwen Yidou-Weng, Edward Sun, Tianyi Ma +5

2026-08-22

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

Roman Ibrahimov, Salma Mozaffari, Arash Adel

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

2026-08-22

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

Jecia Z. Y. Mao, Hisashi Ishida, Kathryn Jung +3

3D & spatial reasoning

2026-08-22

DELE-w0.5: Inferring Action from Future Latent State for Robotic Manipulation

Fenghao Lei, Zhixiong Huang, Long Yang +5

World models Video & generative modeling

2026-08-22

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

Wooseong Chung, William Cong, Jakub Dworakowski +14

Navigation & mobility Foundation models & pretraining

2026-08-22

DELTA: Deformable Elevation-Based Local Terrain Attention Encoder for Sparse-Terrain Quadrupedal Locomotion

Sanghyun Park, Moonkyu Jung, Jemin Hwangbo

ICRA 2027Humanoids & locomotion Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks

2026-08-22

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

Amanuel Ergogo, Teresa Zielińska

2026-08-22

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

Emmanuel Akinrintoyo, Nicole Salomons

Human-robot interaction

2026-08-22

GuardianBench: A Same-Scene Instruction-Contrastive Benchmark for Latent Contextual Risk in Embodied AI

Zhesheng Zhang, Jiahao Lu, Wei Liu +8

Video & generative modeling Safety & evaluation

2026-08-22

CIDER: Continual Interactive Distillation for Embodied Reinforcement Learning

Houlin Li, Minghui Xu, Guo Xu +8

Reinforcement learning & control Human-robot interaction

2026-08-22

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

Li Zou, Dave Hogendoorn, Yasemin Vardar

Tactile & force sensing

2026-08-22

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

Aashish Sahu, Shriram Hari, R. Prasanth Kumar

Dexterous manipulation Tactile & force sensing

2026-08-22

Vision Guided Target Conditioned Control for Autonomous Excavation

Shuai Zhao, Ji-An Pan, Junwei Li +5

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

2026-08-22

CounterAlign: Counterfactual Supervision for Vision-Language-Action Models

Haru Kondoh, Kei Ota, Asako Kanezaki +1

Vision-language-action Imitation & diffusion policies

2026-08-22

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

Yubin Kim, Jinwoo Lee, Yongjun You +2

IROS 2026Reinforcement learning & control Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-22

Towards insect-like distributed proprioception in actuators and appendages for flapping-wing insect-scale aerial robots

Alexander Hedrick, Arvind Gupta, Kaushik Jayaram

Hardware & morphology co-design

2026-08-21

Why did My Robot Just Change Personality? Prompting Guidelines for a Grounded Robot Persona in LLM-Based HRI

Ashita Ashok, Franziska Babel, Patrick Holthaus +7

Human-robot interaction Safety & evaluation

2026-08-21

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

Hudson Kim, Ryan Soussan, Brian Coltin +1

3D & spatial reasoning Navigation & mobility

2026-08-21

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

Steven Swanbeck, Mitch Pryor

Hardware & morphology co-design Safety & evaluation

2026-08-21

OpenSCvx: An Open-Source Modular and Extensible Nonlinear Trajectory Planning Package

Christopher R. Hayner, Griffin J. Norris, Fabio Spada +4

2026-08-21

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

Jiajie Wang, Kebin Peng, Wei Wang +3

Navigation & mobility Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-21

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

Ruan Rithelle Chagas de Faria Carminati, Giovanni Braglia, Luigi Biagiotti +4

Data collection & teleoperation Human-robot interaction

2026-08-21

Force/Torque-Based Kinematic Adaptation for Robotic Manipulation Tasks

Carl Glen Henshaw

Dexterous manipulation Tactile & force sensing

2026-08-21

Betting for Sim-to-Real Performance Certificates

Yujia Chen, Bowen Weng

Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks Safety & evaluation

2026-08-21

Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Task Assignment Under Distribution Shifts

Daniel Garces, Sara Castro, Adrian Haimovich +2

Reinforcement learning & control Safety & evaluation

2026-08-21

GOLEM: Modular Humanoid Autonomy Towards Electric Vehicle Battery Disassembly

Max Conway, William Xie, Allen Devaraj +14

Dexterous manipulation Humanoids & locomotion

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