arXiv:2606. 12334v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-precision robotic manipulation requires fine-grained spatial reasoning that is often difficult to achieve with RGB-only policies due to depth ambiguity and perspective scale issues.
By Bal\'azs Gyenes, Emiliyan Gospodinov, Jan Frieling, Enrico Krohmer, Nicolas Schreiber, Xiaogang Jia, Niklas Freymuth, Gerhard Neumann
arXiv:2509. 11594v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: GBPP is a fast learning based scorer that selects a robot base pose for grasping from a single RGB-D snapshot.
By Jizhuo Chen, Diwen Liu, Jiaming Wang, Harold Soh
arXiv:2606. 31329v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models decouple high-level planning from low-level control to improve generalization in robot manipulation.
By Dongyoon Hwang, Byungkun Lee, Dongjin Kim, Hyojin Jang, Hoiyeong Jin, Jueun Mun, Minho Park, Hojoon Lee, Hyunseung Kim, Jaegul Choo
arXiv:2604. 04690v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bin picking in real industrial environments remains challenging due to severe clutter, occlusions, and the high cost of traditional 3D sensing setups.
By Alessandro Tarsi, Matteo Mastrogiuseppe, Saverio Taliani, Simone Cortinovis, Ugo Pattacini
arXiv:2607. 07885v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dynamic obstacle avoidance in unstructured outdoor environments remains a critical challenge for autonomous mobile robots, particularly when large-scale robot-specific training data and simulation-based policies are impractical.
By Erik Jagnandan, Mulugeta Haile, Gregory Barber, Pratik Chaudhari
arXiv:2606. 17054v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans can grasp objects effortlessly, whereas multi-fingered robots are far from this level of generality.
By Kevin Yuanbo Wu, Tianxing Zhou, Isaac Tu, Billy Yan, Irmak Guzey, David Fouhey, Dandan Shan, Lerrel Pinto
arXiv:2607. 04714v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning motion latents for robotic manipulation heavily relies on extracting motion patterns from visual sequences, yet effective action abstractions require understanding three-dimensional geometric transformations.
By Yunchao Zhang, Yijia Weng, Ruizhe Liu, Ming Hu, Leonidas Guibas, Yanchao Yang
Predicting object dynamics (i. e.
arXiv:2510. 11014v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous robots often view rooms only partially, through a doorway, where the walls and scene structure hide the geometry and task-relevant semantics needed for safe navigation and goal-directed action.
By Subhransu S. Bhattacharjee, Hao Lu, Dylan Campbell, Rahul Shome
arXiv:2607. 14341v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust robotic grasping remains a fundamental challenge for complex real-world applications.
By Hanyi Zhang, Khang Nguyen, Charith Munasinghe, Basu Hela, Tianyu Li, Zihong Luo, Hoan Nguyen, Hans Wernher van de Venn, Yalin Zheng, Ravi Prakash, Tung D. Ta, Anh Nguyen, Baoru Huang
arXiv:2606. 10614v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic foundation models pre-trained on human demonstration videos have shown promise, but a significant embodiment gap remains when the resulting policies are deployed on real robots.
By Beomjun Kim, Seong Hyeon Park, Seunghoon Sim, Seungjun Moon, Sanghyeok Lee, Jinwoo Shin
arXiv:2606. 20246v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models pre-trained on massive video-robot datasets have revolutionized robotic manipulation, yet their multi-billion parameter architectures impose prohibitive computational burdens during downstream fine-tuning and real-time inference.
By Gia-Binh Nguyen, Trong-Bao Ho, Thien-Loc Ha, Khoa Vo, Philip Lund M{\o}ller, Quang T. Nguyen, Long Dinh, Tuan Dam, Vu Duong, Tung M. Luu, Trung Le, Tran Nguyen Le, Minh Vu, An Thai Le, Ngan Le, Daniel Sonntag, James Zou, Jan Peters, Duy M. H. Nguyen, Ngo Anh Vien