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  1. Capability-Aware Arbitration for Semantic Intent-Based Shared Control

    Sep 21, 2026Zhaoda Du, Michael Bowman, Xiaoli ZhangExecutable Robot Behavior

  2. X-Planner: Event-Structured Task Planning for Embodied Intelligence

    Sep 21, 2026Howard Lu, Shalfun Li, Porter Pan +29Embodied AgentsExecutable Robot Behavior

  3. Cognitive Action Reasoning for Proactive Robots from Human-Centered Multimodal Observations

    Sep 20, 2026Zhihao Gu, Kechao Zhu, Yuanfeng Wu +7Multimodal AgentsExecutable Robot Behavior

  4. Coding Agents with an Obstacle-Aware Harness for Safe Robot Manipulation

    Sep 17, 2026Bingxin Xu, Yuzhang Shang, Zhen Dong +1Generalizable Robotic ManipulationsObstacle Avoidance

  5. StageGuard: Learning Stage Transitions for Long-Horizon Robot Tasks via Agentic Distillation

    Sep 17, 2026Jinbang Huang, Yuanzhao Hu, Zhiyuan Li +6Long-Horizon PlanningTrajectory-Level Credit

  6. Agile-WAM: An Agile Tactile World Action Model for Contact-Rich Robot Control

    Sep 17, 2026Hanchu Zhou, Brendan Lynch, Raman Goyal +4Tactile World ModelGeneralizable Robotic Manipulations

  7. SkipVLA: Skipping VLA Steps with Classical Planning for Fast Robot Manipulation

    Sep 17, 2026Kaivalya Agrawal, Md Ashiqur Rahman, Raymond A. Yeh +1Vision-Language-Action ModelsRobot Policies

  8. TraceFlow: Guiding Frozen Flow-Matching Robot Policies with Success and Failure Traces

    Sep 17, 2026Jiaxuan Zhang, Ruizhe Liu, Yu Zhang +1Flow-Matching Vision-Language-ActionFlow-Based Policy

  9. INSPECT: Learning Robot View Selection from Assistant Use

    Sep 17, 2026Di Wen, Kailun Yang, Wenhao Guo +7Robotic PerceptionInspection

  10. Bayesian Continuum Robot Dynamics and State Estimation

    Sep 17, 2026James M. Ferguson, Tucker Hermans, Alan KuntzState EstimationSoft Robots

  11. Resilient Motion Planning for Free-Flying Space Robots under Actuator Failures

    Sep 17, 2026Nicolas de Maddalena, Joris Verhagen, Jana TumovaMotion PlannersRobot Systems

  12. RoboFind: Multi-Agent Personalized Object Search for People Who Are Blind or Have Low Vision

    Sep 17, 2026Ruiping Liu, Shaofang Quan, Qian Yin +10Robocasa

  13. Universal Navigation Interface: Robot-Free Data for Wheeled Robot Navigation

    Sep 17, 2026Sarvesh Prajapati, Ananya Trivedi, Lorena Maria Genua +3Social Robot NavigationScalable Robot Data Synthesis

  14. Mechanical Precision Weeding with a Quadruped Robot

    Sep 17, 2026Ruben Beumer, Tom Janssen, René van de Molengraft +1Agricultural RobotsLegged Robots

  15. Compliance for Free: Learning Identifiable Impedance via Bilateral Teleoperation

    Sep 17, 2026Harsha Guda, Adrià Colomé, Carme TorrasTeleoperationImpedance Control

  16. MaskHarness-WAM: Instance-Grounded Harnessing for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation

    Sep 17, 2026Zitai Huang, Taiyi Su, Jian Zhu +6Long-Horizon PlanningVisuomotor Control

  17. Learning and Transferring Closed-Loop Robot Software

    Sep 17, 2026So Kuroki, Yujin TangRobot PoliciesRobot Systems

  18. WorldContact: A Contact-Centric World Model for Scalable Robot Learning

    Sep 17, 2026Caoliwen Wang, Mengdi Wang, Heng Zhang +7Tactile World ModelScalable Robot Learning

  19. Quantifying Mechanical Intelligence in Legged Robots with Information Theory

    Sep 17, 2026Zach J. PattersonLegged RobotsRobot Systems

  20. OmniCalib: Target-Free, Task-Structured Self-Calibration for Humanoid Robots

    Sep 17, 2026Kaixiang Lu, Haiyu Lan, Chunxiao Qiao +6Camera IntrinsicsSelf-Synchronized Multi-View Joint Angle Monitoring

  21. Recovering Aggressively Pruned Vision-Language-Action Models with Offline Hidden-State Distillation

    Sep 17, 2026Chiyoung Kim, Sanghyuk Roy Choi, Minhyeok LeeVision-Language-Action ModelsPruning

  22. Tele-Traversability: Rethinking Traversability for Teleoperated Ground Robots in Terrain Navigation

    Sep 17, 2026Lewei Feng, Qi Chen, Wenshuo Wang +6TraversabilityTeleoperation

  23. CoreSense: Traceable Failure Recall and Conflict-Aware Belief Gating for Auditable Robot Decisions

    Sep 17, 2026Zoe LiSafety-Critical ScenariosRobot Systems

  24. Winning a Won Game: Strict Reach-Avoid-Stay Control Barrier Functions for High-Dimensional Black-Box Systems

    Sep 16, 2026Donggeon David Oh, Duy P. Nguyen, Gongkai Yuan +3Control Barrier FunctionsObstacle Avoidance

  25. From Wizard-of-Oz Human-Robot Dialogue Collection to a Taxonomy of Robot Response Decisions: A Retrospective Analysis of Assistive Pilot Interactions

    Sep 16, 2026Guangping Liu, Nicholas Hawkins, Tipu Sultan +2Executable Robot BehaviorDialogue

  26. From Rollout to Reset: A Graph-Based Harness for Autonomous Long-Horizon Manipulation Evaluation

    Sep 16, 2026Jing Jiang, Yue Yang, Xinkai Jiang +3Long-Horizon PlanningLong-Horizon Tasks

  27. Design and Experimental Validation of a 3D Printed Torsional Series Elastic Actuator for Safe Human Robot Interaction

    Sep 16, 2026Joel Hidalgo Pisco, Melissa Cobos Condo, Luigi Miranda +1Soft Pneumatic ActuatorsHuman-Robot Interaction

  28. In-Context Robot Learning with VLM Agents

    Sep 16, 2026Dongzhou Cheng, Taoran Yi, Ye Fang +12Robot SystemsIntelligence

  29. ElastiQP: An Always-Feasible QP Solver for Constrained Robot Control

    Sep 16, 2026Daniel Morton, Jon Arrizabalaga, Zachary Manchester +1Quadratic ProgramsClassical Solvers

  30. CaSCo: Cascade-Aware Soft-Collision Motion Planning

    Sep 16, 2026Shivaram Kumar, Gaoyuan Liu, Yoonchang SungCollision-Free TrajectoriesObstacle Avoidance

  31. ActiveScale: Scaling Active Perception for Robots across Model, Data, and Hardware

    Sep 16, 2026Shuai Zhou, Kaisheng Pang, Wenxuan Song +3Viewpoint-Dependent Active PerceptionActive Perception

  32. WetRobo: A Reproducible Robot Kit for Coding Agents in Biological Laboratories

    Sep 16, 2026Yuna Oikawa, Kei Endo, Takanori Uzawa +5Robot SystemsEmbodied Agents

  33. UMI-Bridge: Action-Anchored Latent Alignment across Human and Robot Manipulation Data

    Sep 16, 2026Haiyi Liu, Jingming Ma, Ke Rui +12Human-To-Robot TransferScalable Robot Learning

  34. WAVE-Go: World-Model Navigation with Adaptive Execution for Wheel-Legged Robots

    Sep 16, 2026Mingyi Li, Ji Li, Zhihao Ouyang +2Object Goal NavigationLegged Robots

  35. Characterizing Replay Retention Under Dynamics Shift in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 16, 2026Everest Yang, Skye Thompson, George D. KonidarisJoint Reinforcement LearningRobot Systems

  36. Teaching AI, Robotics, & Community: A Hubs-Based K-12 Education Framework for Reaching Rural Schools

    Sep 16, 2026Maxwell J. Jacobson, Gustavo Rodriguez-Rivera, Petros Drineas +1ClassroomsEducation

  37. An Efficient Algorithm for Minimum-Pressure Growth Planning of Vine Robots

    Sep 16, 2026Andres C. Torres, Tobia Marcucci, Elliot W. HawkesObstacle AvoidanceAgricultural Robots

  38. Timely Activation of Safety Filters via One-Step Reachability Expansion

    Sep 15, 2026Javier BorquezSafety FiltersHamilton-Jacobi Reachability

  39. RoboVAD: A Large Cross-Domain Evaluation Benchmark for Anomaly Detection in Robotic Arm Manipulation Videos

    Sep 15, 2026Alexandru-Bogdan Dura, Sebastian Balmus, Radu Tudor IonescuVideo Anomaly UnderstandingAnomaly Detection

  40. SPROUT: The Open-Source Soft Growing Robot for Search and Rescue

    Sep 15, 2026Antonio Alvarez Valdivia, Ciera McFarland, Robert Reeve +5Soft RobotsRescue

  41. HINT-Plan: Human Intention-Aware Robot Task Planning in Context-Rich Environments using Vision Language Models

    Sep 15, 2026Yuchen Liu, Luigi Palmieri, Lujun Li +3Executable Robot BehaviorRobot Planning

  42. Gaussian Processes for Modelling Spatial Fields with Robot Swarms

    Sep 15, 2026Guillermo Legarda Herranz, Gianpiero Francesca, Mauro BirattariSwarmsGaussian Process

  43. Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability for Hybrid Systems: Unified Goal-Driven Control with Safety Guarantees

    Sep 15, 2026Javier Borquez, Shuang Peng, Somil BansalHamilton-Jacobi ReachabilityRobotics

  44. Intrinsic Robot Rewarding: Reusing VLA Representations for Autonomous Evaluation and Policy Improvement

    Sep 15, 2026Tobias Schaffer, Mohab Elkhayat, Daniela Nicklas +2External Reward ModelsVision-Language-Action Models

  45. Motion planning in high dimensional spaces hybridizing RRT and HAR via position-direction decoupling

    Sep 15, 2026Frederic Cazals, Nelson FeyeuxMulti-Robot Motion PlanningRobot Systems

  46. The Robot Data Factory

    Sep 15, 2026Sami Haddadin, Ivan Laptev, Ian Reid +18Robot SystemsArtificial Intelligence Systems

  47. Predictive Varanus: Combining CSP Conformance Monitoring with Predictive LTL Runtime Verification

    Sep 15, 2026Angelo Ferrando, Matt Luckcuck, Pedro RibeiroLinear Temporal LogicsRuntime Enforcement

  48. Tendon-Driven Continuum Robot with Modular Stiffness and In-Situ Self Pose Estimation

    Sep 14, 2026Guo Ning, Sue, Zheng Cao +6Soft RobotsProprioception

  49. StereoPatch: Patch-Aligned RGB-Depth Fusion for Spatial Perception in Robot Manipulation

    Sep 14, 2026Yanan Zhou, Zhaoyan Qian, James Zhao +1Robotic PerceptionVisuomotor Policy

  50. Structure-Preserving Quantum Circuit Architectures for Robot Kinematics

    Sep 14, 2026Andrea Morghen, Pierluigi Arpenti, Roberto Schiattarella +2QubitQuantum Error Correction

  51. Understanding User Preferences of a Slope-Aware Variable-Admittance Filter for a Robot Guide Dog

    Sep 14, 2026Federico Esposito, Mario Selvaggio, Aaron Link +1Robot Systems

  52. A Vision Based Framework Integrating Attention and Action Cues for Interpretable Cognitive Workload Assessment in Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly

    Sep 14, 2026Junyan Xiong, Naiyi Feng, Xingke Xia +3Human-Robot CollaborationRobot Systems

  53. Legislating World-Model-Based Planning with Legal Reasoning

    Sep 14, 2026Dylan Waldner, Yiannis Kantaros, Guido Governatori +2Executable Robot BehaviorSocial Norms

  54. Steering Generative Robot Policies with Lexicographic Preferences

    Sep 14, 2026Yixuan Jia, Jonathan P. HowRobot PoliciesInference-Time Control

  55. Pelican-Sim 1.0: A General World Model Simulator for Embodied Intelligence

    Sep 14, 2026Shilong Zou, Shilin Zhang, Yingji Zhang +8Efficient World-Action ModelAction Space

  56. A Hierarchical Coverage Path Planning Algorithm for Unknown Environments

    Sep 14, 2026Zongyuan Shen, Haodong Liu, Gao Wang +4Coverage Path PlanningUnknown Environments

  57. A Robot Among People:From Social Imitation to the Social Becoming of Human Groups

    Sep 14, 2026Victor Tuan Vu Pham, Judith Dörrenbächer, Thomas H. Weisswange +1Social DynamicsRobot Systems

  58. Understanding Whole-Body Robot Teleoperation Strategies Under Diverse Task Objectives and Constraints

    Sep 14, 2026Tsung-Chi Lin, Juo-Tung Chen, Chien-Ming HuangTeleoperationBimanual Manipulation

  59. From Transportation to Manipulation: Enabling Grasping in Magnetic Robotics

    Sep 14, 2026Lara Bergmann, Noah Greis, Cedric Grothues +2GripperRobotic Arms

  60. Breaking the Vision-Action Shortcut: Latent Interface Training for Generalizable Robotics Foundation Models

    Sep 14, 2026Jianman Lin, Shailesh Shailesh, Zhongyi Luo +1Vision-Language-Action ModelsEnd-Effector Pose