arXiv:2608. 01452v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dynamic manipulation is a critical capability for robots operating in complex and dynamic environments, where robots must interact with objects that are moving or require rapid adjustments.
By Haoran Liao, Pengyue Wang, Shuoyu Chen, Kehan Cheng, Xuhang Chen, Yuhao Lin, Mu Lin, Zhizhao Liang, Xiaoyi Fan, Chengyi Xing, Dan Niu, Yi-Lin Wei, Wei-Shi Zheng
arXiv:2604. 20348v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful reasoning engines for embodied control.
By Alessio Palma, Indro Spinelli, Vignesh Prasad, Luca Scofano, Yufeng Jin, Georgia Chalvatzaki, Fabio Galasso
arXiv:2608. 14379v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently achieved promising performance in robotic manipulation.
By Yuxuan Chen, Wanruo Zhang, Xiao Li
arXiv:2602. 09580v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-world fine-tuning of dexterous manipulation policies remains challenging due to limited real-world interaction budgets and highly multimodal action distributions.
By Chenyu Yang, Denis Tarasov, Davide Liconti, Romain Guntz, Hehui Zheng, Robert K. Katzschmann
arXiv:2606. 12352v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-robot collaboration allows robots to efficiently take on a wide range of tasks, from moving a couch through a doorway to assembling structures on a construction site.
By Ria Doshi, Tian Gao, Annie Chen, Chelsea Finn, Jeannette Bohg
arXiv:2505. 03296v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present Mixture of Discrete-time Gaussian Processes (MiDiGap), a novel approach for flexible policy representation and imitation learning in robot manipulation.
By Jan Ole von Hartz, Adrian R\"ofer, Joschka Boedecker, Abhinav Valada
arXiv:2607. 15641v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans combine reasoning and motor control to solve complex manipulation tasks under diverse constraints.
By Anurag Maurya, Sukhvansh Jain, Prajwal Avhad, Gautham Balachandran, Ziyi Zhou, Atharva Kshirsagar, Satyam Singh, Bowen Li. Rishabh Mukund, Ritul Singh, Jatin Vira, Suvonil Chatterjee, Devesh K. Jha
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:2609.39388v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Mobile manipulation requires precise navigation to a manipulation-ready pose followed by reliable object interaction. These two stages differ in acti...
By Wei Xue, Keliang Liu, Mingzhang Cui, Jinhua Xie, Jinjie Wei, Jianan Hou, Jingcheng Lu, Lintao Wang, Kaixiang Qiu, Yizhou Liu, Xinghai Ye, Jinghang Han, Mingcheng Li, Jie Gu, Shunli Wang, Lihua Zhang, Dingkang Yang
arXiv:2512. 00062v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robotic policy learning for complex real-world manipulation tasks has seen rapid recent progress, enabled in large part by the ability to collect demonstrations through human operation.
By Taewook Nam, Junmo Cho, Youngsoo Jang, Sung Ju Hwang
HIL-UMI is a policy-guided Universal Manipulation Interface that enables robot‑free, human‑in‑the‑loop post‑training of vision‑language‑action models. By querying the current policy during handheld demonstrations and using an Energy Score to detect out‑of‑distribution states, it selectively collects new data and refines a progress‑based advantage estimator. The updated estimator then drives advantage‑conditioned behavioral cloning, improving performance on long‑horizon and precise manipulation tasks while reducing per‑frame collection time compared to HG‑DAgger.
By Zimu Han, Yiming Zeng, Jiyao Zhang, Zihao Zhao, Yuanfei Wang, Yixiang Jin, Shiqi Li, Shuangben Chen, Wei Huang, Ruodai Li, Hui Shen, Hao Dong
arXiv:2609.16864v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have achieved impressive performance in quasi-static manipulation, but struggle in dynamic manipulation tasks bec...
By Zhenyang Feng, Jimin Heo, Erik B. Sudderth, Unnat Jain