arXiv AI

Task and Skill Planning: Hierarchical Robot Planning with Black-Box Skills

arXiv:2504. 17901v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Task and motion planning (TAMP) is a well-established approach for solving long-horizon robot planning problems.

arXiv AI
Jul 2

ASPIRE: Agentic /Skills Discovery for Robotics

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 Computer Vision
Aug 25

TONAV: Task-Oriented Navigation and Action-Velocity Chunk Learning for Articulated Object Quadrupedal Mobile Manipulation

arXiv:2608.22296v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quadruped mobile manipulation requires two tightly coupled capabilities: reaching manipulation-ready configurations and maintaining stable contact th...

By Haoran Lin, Mingyu Yang, Pengfei Qi, Kehan Chen, Qiang Diao, Liangji Zeng, Wenrui Chen, Yaonan Wang, Kailun Yang
arXiv AI
Jun 8

Neuro-Symbolic Learning for Long-Horizon Task Planning Under Complex Logical Constraints

arXiv:2606. 06877v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Task planning often suffers from severe efficiency bottlenecks when robots must reason over long-horizon action sequences under complex logical constraints, including object affordances, spatial relationships, and sequential action dependencies.

By Qiwei Du, Zitong Zhan, Shaoshu Su, Bowen Li, Yi Du, Zhipeng Zhao, Taimeng Fu, Sebastian Scherer, Jiaoyang Li, Chen Wang
arXiv AI
Jul 28

A Few Words Go a Long Way: Language Guided Robot Policy Synthesis

arXiv:2607. 23784v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While vision-language-action models have demonstrated impressive zero-shot manipulation capabilities, they remain fundamentally black box policies that are difficult to interpret, adapt, or correct when they inevitably fail.

By Daphne Chen, Archit Ritesh Jain, Eric Goossen, Emma Romig, Michael Murray, Nick Walker, Maya Cakmak
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 14

Agent as Policy for Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2609.12541v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We demonstrate that a general-purpose agent can directly drive a physical robot throughout task execution without any task-specific or environment-spec...

By Mengzhao Jia, Yang Lin, Xixin Zhang, Zhihan Zhang, Xiaobai Liu, Meng Jiang
arXiv AI
Aug 11

REMAC: Self-Reflective and Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Collaboration for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2503. 22122v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in robotic planning, particularly for long-horizon tasks that require a holistic understanding of the environment for task decomposition.

By Puzhen Yuan, Angyuan Ma, Yunchao Yao, Huaxiu Yao, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Mingyu Ding
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Dual Process Motion Planning

The paper introduces a dual‑process architecture for nonlinear motion planning that blends fast, learning‑based intuition (System‑1) with slow, robust symbolic reasoning (System‑2). A metacognitive controller decides when to use each component, aiming to balance speed, precision, and adaptability. Experiments on diverse benchmark environments show consistent improvements in planning efficiency, accuracy, and generalization, highlighting the benefits of integrating learning with structured reasoning.

By Jiayi Yan, Francesco Fabiano, Alessandro Abate