arXiv:2607. 00272v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditional robot programming is challenging: it requires orchestrating multimodal perception, managing physical contact dynamics, and handling diverse configurations and execution failures.
By Runyu Lu, Yubo Wu, Ethan Kou, Letian Fu, Wenli Xiao, Ajay Mandlekar, Yinzhen Xu, Guanya Shi, Ken Goldberg, Ang Chen, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Yuke Zhu, Linxi "Jim" Fan, Guanzhi Wang
arXiv:2606. 19980v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Achieving dexterous robotic manipulation in the real world heavily relies on human supervision and algorithm engineering, which becomes a central bottleneck in the pursuit of general physical intelligence.
By Wenli Xiao, Jia Xie, Tonghe Zhang, Haotian Lin, Letian "Max" Fu, Haoru Xue, Jalen Lu, Yi Yang, Cunxi Dai, Zi Wang, Jimmy Wu, Guanzhi Wang, S. Shankar Sastry, Ken Goldberg, Linxi "Jim" Fan, Yuke Zhu, Guanya Shi
arXiv:2609.37089v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Real-world videos provide rich demonstrations of manipulation, but turning them into reusable robot skills requires visually aligned environments, exec...
By Kerui Ren, Yingxiang Xu, Kaiwen Song, Linning Xu, Bo Dai, Mulin Yu, Tao Lu
arXiv:2607. 04434v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generalist robot manipulation policies have advanced rapidly, yet existing benchmarks remain limited in systematically evaluating their capabilities.
By Tianxing Chen, Yue Chen, Zixuan Li, Junyuan Tang, Kailun Su, Weijie Wan, Baijun Chen, Haoran Lu, Haowen Yan, Honghao Su, Zhiyang Dou, Kaixuan Wang, Dandan Zhang, Yunze Liu, Yan Qin, Qiwei Liang, Qiwei Wu, Zijian Lin, Wenwei Lin, Yuran Wang, Minghua He, Tianshu Wu, Ruihai Wu, Jingquan Zhou, Kai-Chong Lei, Haibao Yu, Yuanfeng Ji, Weiyang Jin, Guanyu Lin, Xiaofan Li, Qi Xiong, Renjing Xu, Zhongyu Li, Wenhao Chai, Enze Xie, Ziwei Wang, Yao Mu, Hao Dong, Wojciech Matusik, Mingyu Ding, Wenbo Ding, Ping Luo, Masayoshi Tomizuka
arXiv:2607. 11119v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot manipulation is a complex task that requires visual understanding, physical reasoning, planning, and closed-loop control.
By Hengyuan Hu, Priya Sundaresan, Jensen Gao, Dorsa Sadigh
arXiv:2606. 12936v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Wet-lab robots can improve the reproducibility, throughput, and safety of biomedical experiments, but scaling their learning requires customizable simulators for safe and reproducible task generation, open editable laboratory assets, and efficient pipelines that turn limited demonstrations into usable training data.
By Zhe Liu, Huanbo Jin, Zhaohui Du, Zhe Wang, Dongzhan Zhou, Minting Pan, He Xu, Peijia Li, Jiaming Gu, Quan Lu, Qi Wang, Bin Ji, Ting Xiao
arXiv:2606. 12936v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wet-lab robots can improve the reproducibility, throughput, and safety of biomedical experiments, but scaling their learning requires customizable simulators for safe and reproducible task generation, open editable laboratory assets, and efficient pipelines that turn limited demonstrations into usable training data.
By Zhe Liu, Huanbo Jin, Zhaohui Du, Zhe Wang, He Xu, Peijia Li, Jiaming Gu, Quan Lu, Qi Wang, Bin Ji, Ting Xiao
RoboCousin is an extensible simulation platform that transforms user-provided observations into reusable assets, scenes, and expert trajectories for bimanual robotic manipulation. It converts object images into simulation-ready models with visual, collision, semantic, and physical metadata, automatically generates grasp candidates, and builds digital cousins that vary objects, backgrounds, layouts, and language instructions while preserving task-relevant affordances. The platform supports both tabletop and room-level scene construction, and the authors release RoboCousin-OBD with over 3,000 annotated objects and 50 backgrounds, generating more than one million expert trajectories across 50 tasks, with simulation and real-robot experiments demonstrating comparable annotation quality and effective sim-to-real transfer.
By Jingxuan Zhu, Jingyi Li, LiangLiang Chen, Zhiyuan Jing, Jidong Zhang, Hongming Li
arXiv:2506. 04147v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Building capable household and industrial robots requires mastering the control of versatile, high-degree-of-freedom (DoF) systems such as mobile manipulators.
By Jiaheng Hu, Peter Stone, Roberto Mart\'in-Mart\'in
RAPID is a system that automatically generates, verifies, and refines robot programs from a single visual human demonstration. It infers a testable task specification, action primitives, and an interactive environment, using an object-centric relational program representation to enable reuse beyond the demonstration. The approach was evaluated in simulation on eight contact-rich manipulation tasks and successfully deployed on a real Franka arm, showing strong generalization across object pose, shape, material, and environment.
By Yuyao Liu, Jiayuan Mao, David Hsu, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Tom\'as Lozano-P\'erez
arXiv:2606. 08729v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Simulation plays a key role in automated robotics research supported by large language models (LLMs).
By Ruihua Han, Shuai Wang, Chengyang Li, Rui Gao, Xinyi Wang, Zhe Liu, Guoliang Li, Yupu Lu, Qi Hao, Jia Pan, Hengshuang Zhao
arXiv:2601. 20334v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robotic manipulation has increasingly adopted vision-language-action (VLA) models, which achieve strong performance but typically require task-specific demonstrations and fine-tuning, and often generalize poorly under domain shift.
By Brian Y. Tsui, Alan Y. Fang, Tiffany J. Hwu