arXiv AI

PerceptTwin: Semantic Scene Reconstruction for Iterative LLM Planning and Verification

arXiv:2606. 04226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Simulation environments are useful for both robot policy learning and planning verification and validation.

arXiv AI

Jul 2

What's Hidden Matters: Identifying Planning-Critical Occluded Agents using Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2607. 00283v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous vehicles must safely navigate complex environments where planning-critical agents may be hidden from view.

By Amirhosein Chahe, Tyler Naes, Jovin D'sa, Faizan M. Tariq, Sangjae Bae, Lifeng Zhou, David Isele

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

RoboGaze: Evaluating Robot World Models via Structured Vision-Language Analysis

arXiv:2606. 28385v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in robot world models enable synthetic video generation for embodied prediction and planning.

By Minh-Loi Nguyen, Nghiem Tuong Diep, Hung Khang Nguyen, Minh Le, Doanh Le Thien, Hoang H. Tran, Dung D. Le, Vu N. Duong, Daniel Sonntag, An Thai Le, Duy Minh Ho Nguyen, Vien Anh Ngo, Tran Van Nhiem

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arXiv AI

Jun 12

Foresight: Iterative Reasoning About Clues that Matter for Navigation

arXiv:2606. 12550v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-world mapless navigation from sparse language instructions requires resolving underspecified goals and inferring which environmental cues are relevant for reaching the goal.

By Arthur Zhang, Carl Qi, Donne Su, Xiangyun Meng, Amy Zhang, Joydeep Biswas

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 15

APPLV: Adaptive Planner Parameter Learning from Vision-Language-Action Model

arXiv:2603. 08862v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous navigation in highly constrained environments remains challenging for mobile robots.

By Yuanjie Lu, Beichen Wang, Zhengqi Wu, Yang Li, Xiaomin Lin, Chengzhi Mao, Xuesu Xiao

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 5

What Objects Enable, Not What They Are: Functional Latent Spaces for Affordance Reasoning

arXiv:2606. 05533v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing robot planning systems rely on appearance-based reasoning, where visual observations are encoded into latent spaces organized around object appearances (e.

By Rohan Siva, Neel P. Bhatt, Yunhao Yang, Seoyoung Lee, Nishant Gadde, Christian Ellis, Alvaro Velasquez, Zhangyang Wang, Ufuk Topcu

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arXiv AI

Jul 24

Vision-Language-Policy Model for Dynamic Robot Task Planning

arXiv:2512. 19178v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bridging the gap between natural language commands and autonomous execution in unstructured environments remains an open challenge for robotics.

By Jin Wang, Kim Tien Ly, Jacques Cloete, Jin Jin, Nikos Tsagarakis, Ioannis Havoutis

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arXiv AI

Jun 10

RoboGPT-R1: Enhancing Robot Task Planning with Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2510. 14828v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Improving the reasoning capabilities of embodied agents is crucial for robots to complete complex human instructions in long-view manipulation tasks successfully.

By Jinrui Liu, Bingyan Nie, Boyu Li, Yaran Chen, Yuze Wang, Shunsen He, Haoran Li

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arXiv AI

Jun 2

StressDream: Steering Video World Models for Robust Policy Evaluation and Improvement

arXiv:2606. 00267v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video world models (WMs) have shown promise for policy evaluation and improvement by imagining realistic future observations conditioned on ego-robot actions.

By Junwon Seo, Sushant Veer, Ran Tian, Wenhao Ding, Apoorva Sharma, Karen Leung, Edward Schmerling, Marco Pavone, Andrea Bajcsy

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arXiv AI

Jun 12

From Imitation to Alignment: Human-Preference Flow Policies for Long-Horizon Sidewalk Navigation

arXiv:2606. 12603v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous long-horizon sidewalk navigation is essential for micro-mobility applications such as robotic food delivery and assistive electronic wheelchairs.

By Honglin He, Zhizheng Liu, Yukai Ma, Bolei Zhou

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

LaWAM: Latent World Action Models for Efficient Dynamics-Aware Robot Policies

arXiv:2606. 15768v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) leverage large-scale vision-language pretraining for semantic robot control, but often lack explicit foresight into how robot actions change the scene.

By Jialei Chen, Kai Wang, Kang Chen, Shuaihang Chen, Feng Gao, Wenhao Tang, Zhiyuan Li, Weilin Liu, Zhuyu Yao, Boxun Li, Yuanbo Xu, Chao Yu

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arXiv AI

Jul 10

APIVOT: Adaptive Planning with Interleaved Vision-Language Thoughts

arXiv:2607. 08024v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon robot planning requires jointly reasoning over semantic task structure and geometric feasibility.

By Emily Jin, Joy Hsu, Yiqing Xu, Weiyu Liu, Nick Haber, Jiajun Wu

robotics multimodal

arXiv AI

Jun 15

Schr\"odinger's Navigator: Imagining an Ensemble of Futures for Zero-Shot Object Navigation

arXiv:2512. 21201v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Zero-shot object navigation (ZSON) requires robots to find target objects in unseen environments without task-specific fine-tuning or pre-built maps, a key capability for general-purpose service robots.

By Yu He, Da Huang, Zhenyang Liu, Zixiao Gu, Qiang Sun, Guangnan Ye, Yanwei Fu, Yu-Gang Jiang

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