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  1. Pondering the Way: Spatial-perceiving World Action Model for Embodied Navigation

    Jun 29, 2026Hong Chen, Daqi Liu, Zehan Zhang +10Visual NavigationWorld Model-Based Planning

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China · Xiaomi EV, Beijing, China · Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  2. LAMP: Long-Horizon Adaptive Manipulation Planning for Multi-Robot Collaboration in Cluttered Space

    Jun 28, 2026Shuai Zhou, Yorai Shaoul, Jiaoyang LiLong-Horizon Robotic ManipulationRobotic Manipulation

    Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.

  3. A Unified Framework for Multi-Contact Path Planning in the Rolling Robot Systems

    Jun 27, 2026Qing Yu, Mikhail Svinin, Seyed Amir TafrishiConstrained Motion PlanningRobot Locomotion

    Geometric Mechanics and Mechatronics in Robotics (gm2R) Lab, School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Queen’s Buildings, The Parade, Cardiff, CF24 3AA · Information Science and Engineering Department, Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, Japan

  4. RoboNav-Arm: Agentic AI-Driven Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance for Robotic Manipulator in Cluttered Environments

    Jun 25, 2026Aachal Sharma, Narendra Kumar DharRoboticsRobotic Manipulation

    Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Himachal Pradesh 175005, India.

  5. FPAS: Frontier-Based Path Planning with Adaptive Sampling for Large-Scale Unknown Environments

    Jun 22, 2026Jinwoo Choi, Yeonkyu Lee, Jung-Taak Kim +2Robot NavigationAdaptive Sampling

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

  6. Physics-Informed Eikonal Caging for Whole-Arm Manipulation Planning

    Jun 20, 2026Yan Zhang, Yiming Li, Yifei Dong +2Contact-Rich Robotic ManipulationWhole-Body Robotic Manipulation

    Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland · Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland · KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  7. THREAD: Trajectory Planning for Hybrid Rigid-Soft Manipulators with Environment-Aware Diffusion

    Jun 19, 2026Shivani Kamtikar, Pranav Asthana, Naveen Kumar Uppalapati +2Constrained Motion PlanningTrajectory Generation

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · University of Maryland College Park

  8. Temporal logics and formal synthesis for robot planning and control

    Jun 19, 2026Jana Tumova, Joris Verhagen, Matti VahsRobotic ControlSignal Temporal Logic

    KTH Royal Institute of Technology

  9. Increasing Resilience of Continuum Robots via Motion Planning Algorithms

    Jun 18, 2026Oxana Shamilyan, Ievgen Kabin, Zoya Dyka +2Robot Motion PlanningGenetic Algorithms

    1* IHP – Leibniz-Institut für innovative Mikroelektronik, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany · BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus, Germany · Technical Center, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

  10. A Neuromorphic Reinforcement Learning Framework for Efficient Pathfinding in Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems

    Jun 18, 2026Junzhe Xu, Zecui Zeng, Lusong Li +2RL for RoboticsMobile Robotics

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China. · JD Explore Academy, Beijing, China.

  11. SCAN-Planner: Spatial Collision-Aware Local Planning for Route-Guided Long-Range Quadruped Navigation

    Jun 17, 2026Han Zheng, Zhe Chen, Yiwen Fu +2Collision AvoidanceRobot Navigation

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.

  12. Modeling Branches for Active Manipulation using Iterative Parameter Estimation

    Jun 17, 2026Madhav Rijal, Rashik Shrestha, Trevor Smith +1Deformable Object ManipulationRobotic Manipulation

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA

  13. Coupled Routing and Configuration Optimization for Multi-Viewpoint Robotic Inspection

    Jun 17, 2026Minh Nhat Vu, Khang Nguyen, Vu Trung Tran +1Constrained Motion PlanningTrajectory Optimization

    Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR), VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam · VinRobotics JSC, Hanoi, Vietnam · Division of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi, UAE.

  14. Space Is Intelligence: Neural Semigroup Superposition for Riemannian Metric Generation

    Jun 17, 2026Chenghao XuGeometric Representation LearningMetric Learning

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and National Engineering Research Center of Robot Visual Perception and Control Technology, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China

  15. Two-Phase Bilevel Search for the Moving-Target Traveling Salesman Problem with Moving Obstacles

    Jun 17, 2026Allen George Philip, Anoop Bhat, Sivakumar Rathinam +1Traveling Salesperson ProblemCombinatorial Optimization

    Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3123 · Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA · Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3123

  16. SemGeoNav:A Safety-Guided Visual Navigation Approach with Semantic Reasoning and Geometric Planning

    Jun 15, 2026Yu Liu, Zongyang Chen, Yan Guo +2Robot NavigationSafe Robot Navigation

    College of Intelligence Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China.

  17. Computing Smooth Geodesics under Two-Sided Curvature Bounds with Applications to Robotics and Image Analysis

    Jun 11, 2026Da Chen, Zhenjiang Li, Jean-Marie Mirebeau +4Motion PlanningRobot Motion Planning

    CEREMADE, University Paris Dauphine, University-PSL, CNRS, UMR 7534, Paris, 75775, France · Department of Radiation Oncology, Shandong Cancer Hospital and Institute, Shandong First Medical University, Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, 250117, China · Department of Mathematics, Centre Borelli, ENS Paris-Saclay, CNRS, University Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91190, France +2

  18. WT-UMI: Tactile-based Whole-Body Manipulation via Force-Supervised Contact-Aware Planning

    Jun 11, 2026Jaehwi Jang, Zhaoyuan Gu, Alfred Cueva +15Contact-Rich Robotic ManipulationWhole-Body Robotic Manipulation

    The Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Georgia Institute of Technology

  19. Foresight: Iterative Reasoning About Clues that Matter for Navigation

    Jun 10, 2026Arthur Zhang, Carl Qi, Donne Su +3Robot NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    UT Austin · FieldAI

  20. AgniNav: Configuration-Driven Cross-Embodiment Local Planning for Robot Navigation

    Jun 9, 2026Tianhao Zang, Siwei Cheng, Haidong Huang +2Robot NavigationSafe Robot Navigation

    Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China · University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK · College of Information Science and Technology, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, P. R. China. +3

  21. LieIPM: Lie Group Interior Point Method for Direct Trajectory Optimization of Rigid Bodies

    Jun 9, 2026Sangli Teng, Ruiqi Zhang, Tzu-Yuan Lin +5Trajectory OptimizationRiemannian Optimization

    University of California, Berkeley · MIT · Ohio University +1

  22. RAM: Reachability Across Morphologies

    Jun 8, 2026Tim Walter, Xinyu Chen, Jonathan Külz +1Reachability AnalysisImplicit Neural Representations

    Department of Computer Engineering Technical University Munich Germany · German Electron Synchrotron University of Hamburg Germany

  23. Sample-efficient Low-level Motion Planning for Robotic Manipulation Tasks via Zero-shot Transfer Learning

    Jun 4, 2026Yuanzhi He, Victor Romero-Cano, José J. Patiño +3Black-Box OptimizationRobotic Manipulation

    School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

  24. Neural Navigation Functions for Zero-Shot Generalizable Motion Planning

    Jun 2, 2026Benjamin D. Shaffer, Pei-An Hsieh, Brooks Kinch +2Zero-Shot LearningRoadmap-Based Motion Planning

    University of Pennsylvania, United States 1Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics · University of Pennsylvania, United States 2Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering

  25. SPADE: Sketch-guided Path Planning Augmented with Diffusion Experts

    Jun 2, 2026Charbel Abi Hana, Tatiana Ghantous, Mikael Khalil +1Data AugmentationRobot Navigation

    IDEALworks GmbH · IMT Atlantique · IDEALworks GmbH & Saint Joseph University of Beirut

  26. Grasp-Then-Plan with Failure Attribution: A Closed Two-Stage Framework for Precise and Generalizable Robotic Manipulation

    Jun 2, 2026Jiahao Xu, Peiyuan Wang, Hanzhuo Zhang +7Robotic GraspingLong-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, China

  27. Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments: A Survey from Classical to Modern Methods

    Jun 1, 2026Zongyuan Shen, Yaming Ou, Shalabh Gupta +6Model Predictive ControlMotion Planning

    College of Information Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China. · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China. · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA. +2

  28. FlipItRight: Stable Pose-Targeted Throw-Flip Across Diverse Objects

    Jun 1, 2026Axel Dawne, Shinkyu ParkNon-Prehensile ManipulationRobot Motion Generation

    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia

  29. Make Your VLA More Robust Without More Data By Interleaving Motion Planning

    May 31, 2026Dan BW Choe, Sundhar Vinodh Sangeetha, Samuel Coogan +1VLM RobustnessLong-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

  30. Bidirectional Incremental Generalized Hybrid A*

    May 28, 2026Sidharth Talia, Oren Salzman, Siddhartha SrinivasaKinodynamic Motion PlanningTree Search