arXiv AI

HygieneRoboBench: Benchmarking Hygiene-Aware Planning for Household Robots

arXiv AI
Jun 3

RobotValues: Evaluating Household Robots When Human Values Conflict

arXiv:2606. 03312v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While household robots are often evaluated based on task completion, everyday domestic environments involve value-conflicting situations in which robots are expected to choose actions that prioritize other values than task success, such as human autonomy, efficiency, or social appropriateness.

By Jongwook Han, Hyeongjin Kim, Yohan Jo
arXiv AI
6d ago

Constant-Time Planning for Chaining Collision-free Motion to Manipulation Behaviors

The paper introduces the Behavioral Constant-Time Motion Planner (B-CTMP), an extension of Constant-Time Motion Planning that handles two-step manipulation tasks in semi-structured environments. B-CTMP constructs neighborhoods in object-pose space and uses statistical certification to ensure a user-specified success rate, caching plans only when repeated rollouts meet this threshold. The method is evaluated on shelf picking, plug insertion, and wheel replacement, showing consistent success where baseline planners fail and rejecting infeasible poses in constant time.

By Nayesha Gandotra, Itamar Mishani, Lai Yuan, Oren Salzman, Maxim Likhachev
arXiv AI
Sep 30

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

arXiv:2609.36518v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robots must often continue a task after a target moves, the viewpoint shifts, or an obstacle appears, even though their earlier observations and comm...

By Yunbei Zhang, Zijian Jin, Yuanzhe Liu, Janet Wang, Xilun Zhang, Yuyou Zhang, Zhenyu Zhang, Daoan Zhang, Shuaicheng Niu, Gen Li, Jianfei Yang, Jihun Hamm, Ismini Lourentzou, Weirui Ye, Bo Liu, Peter Stone, Marco Pavone
arXiv AI
Oct 1

Make Code as Policy Great Again: Frontier Agents Write, Call, and Evolve Robot Tools

The paper introduces URAI, a Universal Robot‑Agent Interface that separates robot control into two roles: a programming agent that writes reusable, task‑specific tools from intent, and an execution agent that calls these tools in a feedback loop. This design keeps high‑level decision making in the model while delegating low‑level motion to code, allowing tool revisions to persist across episodes without retraining the foundation model. Experiments on RoboDojo and AgileX tasks show significant gains in success rate, speed, and token efficiency compared to direct fingertip control and pre‑written programs.

By Shijia Ge, Alex Zhou, Jianshu Zeng, Yexing Wan, Di Wu, Zelin Zheng, Yazhe Wang, Zhiqi Jia, Xuan Shangguan, Jay Zhu, Yijun Liu, Lingyu He, Sihang Wu, Xiao He, Hongcheng Gao
arXiv AI
Sep 18

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

The paper introduces HALTER, a graph-based system that automates the reset and evaluation of long-horizon robot manipulation tasks. HALTER constructs a spatial scene graph from point clouds and vision models, uses an LLM to score rollouts, plan resets, and verify success, all without labeled success images. In experiments on a Franka arm, HALTER restores scenes in 76% of episodes, improves skill completion estimation, and reduces operator time by 72% compared to manual reset.

By Jing Jiang, Yue Yang, Xinkai Jiang, Gedas Bertasius, Daniel J. Szafir, Rudolf Lioutikov