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  1. GlassGuard: Verified Glass Plane Mapping for Robot Navigation

    Oct 1, 2026Hanwen Guo, Zhengzhi Lin, Yusen Xie +1Simultaneous Localization And MappingRobot Navigation

    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  2. Robot Learning on Discrete Surfaces: Theory and Applications

    Oct 1, 2026Matteo Dalle Vedove, Fares J. Abu-Dakka, Luigi Palopoli +2Scalable Robot LearningSurface Representation

    Department of Industrial Engineering, Universit`a di Trento, Trento, Italy. · DRIM, Ph.D. of national interest in Robotics and Intelligent Machines. · Mechanical Engineering Program, Division of Engineering, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. +1

  3. ChunkVLA-AM: Parallel Action Chunking for Vision-Language-Action Robot Control in Additive Manufacturing

    Oct 1, 2026Zhugang Liu, Kaichuang Zhang, Jinman Zhang +7Vision-Language-Action FrameworkRobot Systems

    Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley · Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida · Department of Computer Science, San Diego State University +1

  4. Query-Conditioned Articulation Estimation from a Single Image

    Oct 1, 2026Abdelrhman Werby, Fabio Scaparro, Kai O. ArraCategory-Level Object Pose EstimationArticulated Kinematics

    Socially Intelligent Robotics Lab, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of Stuttgart, Germany

  5. NarrativeFlow: Flow-Based Vision-Language-Action Model Using Robot Velocity Fields

    Oct 1, 2026Shota Kobayashi, Koki Seno, Daichi Yashima +1Flow-Matching Vision-Language-ActionGoal-Conditioned Dynamic Manipulation

    Keio University, Japan

  6. TRACE: Privacy-Preserving Next-Best-View Selection over Distributed 3D Gaussian-Splat Maps

    Sep 30, 2026Amirhossein Mollaei Khass, Athanasios Cosse, Qiyu Sun +1Gaussian Splatting Simultaneous Localization And Mapping Systems3D Mapping

    Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, 18015, USA

  7. ECoMEM: Explicit Concept Memory for Memory-Dependent Robot Control

    Sep 30, 2026Yize Liu, Ke Wang, Mac Schwager +2Robot StateRobot Systems

    Stanford University

  8. Toward Humanoid Robots in Construction: A Teleoperation Feasibility Study

    Sep 30, 2026Parastoo Ali Pour, David R. Martin, Chang Min Hur +6TeleoperationHumanoid Robotics

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 USA · Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 USA · Professional Master of Embedded and Cyber-physical Systems Program, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 USA

  9. Ego4WAM: What Matters When Scaling Egocentric Human Data for Robot Learning?

    Sep 30, 2026Zhihao Sun, Liu Liu, Xinjiang Wang +6Egocentric DatasetRobot Systems

    Institute of Trustworthy Embodied AI, Fudan University · Horizon Robotics · Huazhong University of Science & Technology +1

  10. DynaHarness: A Dynamic Physical Harness for Self-Evolving Robot Agents

    Sep 30, 2026Haoyuan Deng, Jiebin Liu, Tengxiao Zhang +3Robot PoliciesAgent Harness

    Nanyang Technological University · Nanjing University

  11. Social-WM: Safety-Aware Latent World Models for Robot Social Navigation

    Sep 30, 2026Zhihao Zheng, Mooi Choo ChuahRobot NavigationSafe Navigation

    Computer Science and Engineering department, P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA.

  12. Tactile Curiosity Drives Robot Interaction

    Sep 30, 2026Klemens Iten, Alexander Proshkin, Bhavya Sukhija +4TactileRobot Systems

    University of California, Berkeley United States · The University of Texas at Austin United States

  13. PhasePlan: Ordered Future-Phase Planning for Robot Brain Models

    Sep 30, 2026Xiaoyu Yang, Yafei Zhang, Wensheng Li +2Action PredictionPlanning

  14. Magnetic based In-situ Self 3D Pose Estimation for a Modular Soft Tendon-Driven Continuum Robot via IMU-Fusion

    Sep 30, 2026Zheng Cao, Guo Ning Sue, Xiangyun Bu +3Soft RoboticsInertial Measurement Units

    Carnegie Mellon University

  15. Experience-Driven Continual Learning of Terrain Traversability for Quadruped Robots

    Sep 30, 2026Luca Bricarello, João Carlos Virgolino Soares, Alberto Sanchez-Delgado +2Legged RobotsTraversability

    Dynamic Legged Systems Lab, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy. · Universit`a degli Studi di Genova, Genoa, Italy.

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

    Sep 30, 2026Fanding Huang, Jingyan Jiang, Shifeng Bao +13Robot PoliciesAction Chunks

    Tsinghua University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) · Shenzhen Technology University +5

  17. Beyond Policy Alignment: Closing the Planning-Learning Loop for Robot Control with Learned World Models

    Sep 30, 2026Kowndinya Boyalakuntla, Yuhan Liu, Abdeslam BoulariasWorld Model PlanningModel Predictive Control

    Rutgers University

  18. RoboCoach: World Models as Active Coaches for Compositional Robot Skills

    Sep 30, 2026Jiajun Liu, Yifan Chen, Yichao Liu +7Robot SystemsRobocasa

    Renmin University of China · Tsinghua University · Shanghai Qizhi Institute +2

  19. Neuro-Symbolic Predicate Learning for Semantic Safe Robot Control

    Sep 30, 2026Zihan Ye, Jiayi Liu, Puze Liu +4Neuro-Symbolic FrameworkScalable Robot Learning

    TU Darmstadt · AIML group · Hessian AI +5

  20. A Biophysically Detailed C. elegans Circuit as a Task-Agnostic Dynamical Core for Visually Robust Robot Manipulation

    Sep 30, 2026Linrui Qian, Jiajia Zhang, Gan He +7Visuomotor PolicySensorimotor Experience

    CogLeap.AI Space Intelligence (Wuxi) Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing 100080, China · School of Mathematics and Computational Science, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, China · Institute for Brain and Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China. +1

  21. Scale and Selection: What Makes Automatic Harness Evolution Work for Visual-Interface Robot Agents

    Sep 30, 2026Zhijie Wei, Ferris Tan, Jinghui WangAgentic OptimizationRobot Policies

    Novaxbot

  22. Linear Recurrent Memory Suffices to Distil a World-Model Policy for Robot Air Hockey

    Sep 30, 2026F. Olivia Fan, Oliver ObstRecurrent ModelState-Tracking

    UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia

  23. Looking Back to Move Forward: Temporal Verification for Generative Robot Policies

    Sep 30, 2026Haoxuan Wang, Wayne Wu, Yan Yan +1Robot PoliciesImitation Learning

    University of Illinois Chicago · University of California, Los Angeles

  24. EmbodiRSI: Recursive Self-Improvement for Data-Efficient Robot Adaptation

    Sep 30, 2026Haoran Lang, Haotao Lu, Shiyu Sang +6Scalable Robot LearningRobotic Manipulation Policies

    InstAdapt · ShanghaiTech University

  25. BIND: Binding 3D Robot Actions to 2D Image Features

    Sep 29, 2026Cameron Smith, Arsh Tangri, Vitor Guizilini +3Robot Systems

    University of Southern California · Toyota Research Institute

  26. Draft: A Parametric Tool for Robot Design Exploration

    Sep 29, 2026David Nguyen, Marcelo Coelho, Sangbae KimRobot AutonomyRobot Systems

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  27. Memorize, Adapt, Ignore: Diagnosing Robot Learning Mechanisms under Training Data Variation

    Sep 29, 2026Ke Zhang, Danica J. Sutherland, Chao LiuScalable Robot LearningImitation Learning

    PRIME Robotics Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of British Columbia · Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia · Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute

  28. GestAdapt: Workspace-Conditioned Co-Speech Gesture Generation for Humanoid Robots

    Sep 29, 2026Bosong Ding, Xianglin Zhang, Miao Xin +2Co-Speech Gesture GenerationWorkspaces

    Department of Intelligent Systems, Tilburg University, The Netherlands. · TU-Dresden, Dresden, Germany. · School of Artificial Intelligence, China University of Mining and Technology-Beijing (CUMTB), Beijing, China.

  29. Skill-Space Shooting for Autonomous Robot Policy Improvement

    Sep 29, 2026Zihang Rui, Renhao Wang, Haoxu Huang +1Self-Improving AgentsRobot Systems

    Tsinghua University · UC Berkeley · Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute

  30. In-context Robot Learning Made Simple: A Democratized Recipe for Manipulation Tasks

    Sep 29, 2026Minxing Li, Minghao Han, Weizhi Zhao +10Scalable Robot LearningRobot Systems

    NLPR, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) · Amap, Alibaba Group

  31. FORM: Robot Manipulation through Direct Material Law Identification

    Sep 29, 2026Stepan Tretiakov, Ruihan Zhao, Cheng-Hsi Hsiao +6Deformable Linear ObjectsRobotic Manipulation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. · Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering · Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering +2

  32. EVO-WAM: Evolving World Action Models through Video-Action Verification

    Sep 29, 2026Shiyang Zhou, Xionghao Wu, Wenbo Li +11Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

    HITSZ · SLAI · THU +9

  33. Risk-Aware Semantic Grounding for Trustworthy LLM-Based Robot Planning

    Sep 29, 2026Łukasz Sobczak, Nur Keleşoğlu, Sławomir Piotr NowakRobot PlanningLarge Language Model Planning

    Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Gliwice 44-100, Poland

  34. Wrench-ACT: Enhancing Robot Policies for Contact Rich Behavior Using Direct Wrench Control

    Sep 29, 2026Johannes Hechtl, Yannik Blei, Simon Ball +5Robotic Manipulation PoliciesContact Wrench Estimation

    Siemens Research and Predevelopment · Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany

  35. Video2STL: Grounding VLM-Generated Temporal Specifications for Robot Learning

    Sep 29, 2026Merve Atasever, Keyan Azbijari, Cagan Bakirci +6Visuomotor PolicyRobot Systems

    Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA · University of Florida Gainesville, FL, USA

  36. Towards Spatial Perception for Heterogeneous Robot Collaboration in Subterranean Mining Environments

    Sep 29, 2026Mario Alberto Valdes Saucedo, Akash Patel, Christoforos Kanellakis +1Underground MinesCollaborative Perception

    Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Group, Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, 971 87 Luleå, Sweden

  37. Taming VLAs under Robot Execution Errors: Self-Compensation and Stress Testing

    Sep 29, 2026Sohyun Lee, Yoonjae Baek, Jaesang Won +5Generalizable Vision-Language-Action PoliciesRobot Systems

    POSTECH · MBZUAI

  38. Recovering the View: Benchmarking Physical Active Vision for Occlusion Recovery in Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 29, 2026Kaijun Luo, Yudi Huang, Qijun Zhong +3Viewpoint-Dependent Active PerceptionRobotic Manipulation

    Sun Yat-sen University · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · X-Era AI Lab +1

  39. Real2Gym: Building Gyms from Videos, Bringing Skills to Robots

    Sep 29, 2026Kerui Ren, Yingxiang Xu, Kaiwen Song +4Robotic SystemsRobot Systems

    Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Zhejiang University +3

  40. From Sky to Soil: A Morphing Aerial-Ground Robot for Seed Deployment

    Sep 29, 2026Namai Chandra, Lining YaoAerial RobotsSoil

    Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India · Morphing Matter Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

  41. PreferenceFlow: Test-Time Guidance of Flow-Matching Robot Policies from Human Interventions

    Sep 29, 2026Yiqi Tang, Diyuan Shi, Runze Li +1Flow PoliciesRobot Policies

    Westlake University

  42. RoboChrono: A Real Robot Benchmark for Streaming Task Understanding

    Sep 29, 2026Yuzhou Wu, Longteng Fan, Zimeng Li +22Robotic ManipulationRobot Systems

    Tianji Tec. · Shenzhen University · General Intelligence Machine +7

  43. OTRetarget: Joint Robot and Object Motion Retargeting via Optimal Transport

    Sep 29, 2026Guillaume Besset, Erwann Carn, Timothée Carecchio +5Cross-Embodiment RetargetingMotion Model

    Inria, Département d’Informatique de l’École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, Paris, France

  44. Simple Agentic Memory for Generalist Robot Policies

    Sep 29, 2026Yuyou Zhang, Yunbei Zhang, Miao Li +4Agentic MemoryRobot Policies

    Carnegie Mellon University · Tulane University · New York University +2

  45. Inferring Soil Friction Angle from Robot Foot-Ground Force Histories: A Bayesian Inverse Approach to Proprioceptive Soil Sensing

    Sep 29, 2026Dawei Xu, Zhijie WangGround Reaction ForcesFriction

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164, USA

  46. Asymmetric Scout-Worker Reconnaissance for Route Validation in Unknown Environments

    Sep 29, 2026Kashif Khurshid Noori, Jaskrit Singh, Athanasios Ch. Kapoutsis +2Dynamic EnvironmentsRobot Systems

    Robotics Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece

  47. LIBERO-MAX: Do Robot Policies Adapt When the World Changes?

    Sep 29, 2026Yunbei Zhang, Zijian Jin, Yuanzhe Liu +14Robot PoliciesLibero Manipulation Benchmark

    Tulane University · New York University · UIUC +6

  48. Closed-Form Cartesian Forward Kinetostatics for Spatial Multi-Segment Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots

    Sep 29, 2026Ke Wu, Fangju Yang, Xiaohui Zhang +4Cosserat Rod TheorySoft Robotics

  49. DORA: Divergence-Oriented Data-Relay Algorithm for Partially Connected Robot Teams

    Sep 28, 2026Jonathan Diller, Fernando Cladera, Camillo Jose Taylor +1Multi-UavHuman-Centric Mission Planning

    GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

  50. SkillWeaver: Agentic Exploration over Neural Interaction Skills for Scalable Robot Data Generation

    Sep 28, 2026He Zhu, Lusen Zhao, Kwan Man Cheng +2Human-To-Robot TransferRobot Systems

    Carnegie Mellon University · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  51. In-Context Learning for Robots: Methods and Applications

    Sep 28, 2026Haojian Huang, Zexi Li, Junhao Guo +36In-Context LearningRobot Systems

    Knowin AI · HKUST(GZ) · The Chinese University of Hong Kong +5

  52. RoboCompiler: Graph-Native Compilation of Closed-Chain Robots for Consistent Modeling, Control, and Simulation

    Sep 28, 2026Mehdi Heydari Shahna, Joongheon Kim, Jouni MattilaRobot AutonomyRobot Systems

    Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

  53. Agent Priors-guided Policy Learning

    Sep 28, 2026Puming Jiang, Tianrun Hu, Haozhe Du +4Unsupervised Skill DiscoveryRobot Systems

    National University of Singapore

  54. Robot Tool Design from Scratch via Behavior-Aware Hierarchical Optimization

    Sep 28, 2026Yinghan Chen, Xiyao Tian, Yizan Dai +2Robot Systems

    Institute for AI, Peking University. · School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University. · Yuanpei College, Peking University. +4

  55. Spatial Grafting: Grounding 3D Features for Flow-Matching Robot Policies

    Sep 28, 2026Dingsheng Liu, Yangzheng Wu, Mahboubeh Asadi +5Robotic Manipulation PoliciesRobot Policies

    University of Toronto · Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab · Department of Foundation Model, 2012 Labs

  56. Zero-Shot Reactive Obstacle Avoidance for Generative Robot Policies

    Sep 28, 2026Weihang Guo, Lydia E. KavrakiObstacle AvoidanceRobot Policies

    Department of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA · Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice University

  57. Natural State-Prediction Accuracy can Hide Weak Controlled Responsiveness in VLA Readouts

    Sep 28, 2026Hyungjoon Kim, Wonbin Son, Mi Young Lee +2ReadoutRobot Systems

    Changwon National University · Chung-Ang University

  58. ARS: Agentic Reward System for Robot Learning

    Sep 28, 2026Sheng Hu, Weiyi Lu, Lingbing Zeng +5Scalable Robot LearningProgress Reward Modeling

    AIRC, Midea Group

  59. RLE-Bench: A Qualifying Exam for Coding Agents as Robot Learning Engineers

    Sep 28, 2026Haitong Ma, Chenxiao Gao, Rushi Qiang +2Coding AgentsRobot Systems

    Harvard University · Georgia Institute of Technology

  60. Robot-GST: geometry-aware spatial-temporal robot policy representation and evaluation

    Sep 27, 2026Sichao Liu, Zekun Wang, Lixuan Tang +6Robotic Manipulation PoliciesRobot Systems

    KTH · EPFL · Idiap Research Institute +3