arXiv:2608.22799v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present the NeuralNexus Arm, an open, low-cost 6-DOF robotic manipulator built by an undergraduate engineering team, together with the design deci...
arXiv:2606. 10244v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Yielding Universal Bidigital Interface (YUBI), a finger-aligned gripper designed to enable intuitive, ergonomic, and scalable data collection for bimanual dexterous manipulation.
arXiv:2608. 07154v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-source robotics and foundation models have lowered the barrier to embodied AI, yet language-guided laboratory automation still requires reliable alignment from instructions and observations to safe actions.
arXiv:2607. 11119v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot manipulation is a complex task that requires visual understanding, physical reasoning, planning, and closed-loop control.
The paper introduces MOMO, a framework that allows industrial robots to be adapted by non-experts using kinesthetic touch, natural language, and a graphical web interface. It combines energy‑based intention detection, a tool‑based LLM for safe language adaptation, Kernelized Movement Primitives for motion encoding, probabilistic Virtual Fixtures for guided demonstrations, and ergodic control for surface finishing. The authors validate the system on a 7‑DoF torque‑controlled robot at the Automatica 2025 trade fair, showing its practical applicability in industrial settings.
arXiv:2606. 08530v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve strong benchmark performance but still struggle in real-world deployment with unseen objects, background shifts, and different robot embodiments.
arXiv:2606. 14218v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For robots to work safely in household environments, they need to be compliant and react to torque and force feedback during contact.
arXiv:2606. 26423v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon, contact-rich complex manipulation tasks, such as seating a GPU into a PCIe slot, demand both millimeter high precision and out-of-the-box generalization to new tasks.
arXiv:2609.07534v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Contact-rich assembly remains challenging because it requires submillimeter spatial accuracy and reliable interpretation of forces during sus...
The paper introduces Self‑Adaptive VLA, a post‑training method that lets Vision‑Language‑Action policies self‑adapt to deployment‑time hardware shifts by using rollouts as context. It creates shift‑conditioned expert demonstrations, compresses visual, proprioceptive, and action data into a latent context token, and modulates the policy via adaptive layer normalization. Experiments on four precision‑critical manipulation tasks show the method recovers over 80 % of the base policy’s performance under actuation bias and encoder offsets, and improves robustness on new workstations.
arXiv:2609.01596v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world robotic assembly at sub-millimeter tolerances demands spatial precision, compliant interaction, and robustness to contact failures. We pre...
Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI) enables scalable real-world robot data collection without hardware-specific teleoperation, yet leveraging UMI data to train large-scale Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models remains fundamentally challenging. We identify two critical mismatches: wrist-mounted fisheye views, with severe radial distortion and local gripper-centric perspectives, are out-of-distribution for pretrained VLMs; and human-collected trajectories frequently violate kinematic limits, incur collisions, or exceed controller bandwidth, teaching VLA policies physically infeasible actions.