arXiv:2606. 01478v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-quality, large-scale synthetic data from simulations is becoming a cornerstone for pushing the capabilities of robot algorithms.
By Martin Schuck, Marcel P. Rath, Yufei Hua, AbhisheK Goudar, SiQi Zhou, Angela P. Schoellig
arXiv:2606. 00104v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models are increasingly used to drive autonomous systems, yet existing approaches either keep the model in a tight control loop, raising latency and hallucination risk, or compile natural language into opaque end-to-end policies that are hard to explain, constraint and require domain-specific datasets and fine-tuning.
By Erdem Uysal, Timo Kehrer, Sebastiano Panichella
arXiv:2606. 00090v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physical AI systems increasingly map multimodal observations, language instructions, and learned world representations into physically consequential actions.
By Barak Or
arXiv:2503. 15371v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robotic manipulation of unfamiliar objects in new environments is challenging due to limited generalisation capabilities.
By Cristiana de Farias, Luis Figueredo, Riddhiman Laha, Maxime Adjigble, Brahim Tamadazte, Rustam Stolkin, Sami Haddadin, Naresh Marturi
arXiv:2606. 02463v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In 3D environments, Embodied Agents answer spatially relevant questions through reasoning from a mixture of modalities including natural language, RGB images, point clouds, depth maps and camera poses.
By Hilton Raj, Vishnuram AV
arXiv:2603. 11653v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Continual Reinforcement Learning (CRL) for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models is a promising direction toward self-improving embodied agents that can adapt in openended, evolving environments.
By Jiaheng Hu, Jay Shim, Chen Tang, Yoonchang Sung, Bo Liu, Peter Stone, Roberto Martin-Martin
arXiv:2606. 01810v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current benchmarks for embodied vision-language planning often favor linguistic next-token prediction over physically grounded next-state reasoning.
By Zheng Lu, Mingqi Gao, Qinlei Xie, Wanqi Zhong, Hanwen Cui, Heng Cao, Zirui Song, Yifan Yang, Chong Luo, Bei Liu, Yiming Li
arXiv:2605. 05220v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Steering intermediate representations has emerged as a powerful strategy for controlling generative models, particularly in post-deployment alignment and safety settings.
By Tatiana Gaintseva, Andrew Stepanov, Ziquan Liu, Martin Benning, Gregory Slabaugh, Jiankang Deng, Ismail Elezi
arXiv:2606. 01520v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A single action-conditioned latent predictive architecture can in principle be trained on the structured state of a driving scene, a robot workspace, or a financial order book.
By Shayan Shokri
arXiv:2606. 01316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific discovery demands intelligence, perseverance, and serendipity across vast search spaces.
By Zhe Zhao, Haibin Wen, Yingcheng Wu, Jiaming Ma, Yifan Wen, Jinglin Jian, Jiacheng Ge, Xiangru Tang, Bo An, Ming Yin, Sanfeng Wu, Mengdi Wang, Le Cong
arXiv:2606. 02562v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous robots that interact with people must make safe and efficient decisions under human-induced uncertainty, such as their preferences, goals, competency, and willingness to cooperate.
By Haimin Hu
arXiv:2606. 00857v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate and reliable vehicle trajectory prediction is essential for safe autonomous driving.
By Xinyi Ning, Zilin Bian, Dachuan Zuo, Semiha Ergan, Kaan Ozbay
arXiv:2512. 09065v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Many indoor workspaces are quasi-static: their global geometric layout is stable, but local semantics change continually, producing repetitive geometry, dynamic clutter, and perceptual noise that defeat standard vision-based localization.
By Shivendra Agrawal, Jake Brawer, Ashutosh Naik, Alessandro Roncone, Bradley Hayes
arXiv:2601. 03309v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, which integrate pretrained large Vision-Language Models (VLM) into their policy backbone, are gaining significant attention for their promising generalization capabilities.
By Jianke Zhang, Xiaoyu Chen, Qiuyue Wang, Mingsheng Li, Yanjiang Guo, Yucheng Hu, Jiajun Zhang, Shuai Bai, Junyang Lin, Jianyu Chen
arXiv:2602. 08236v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite rapid progress in MLLMs, visual spatial reasoning remains unreliable when correct answers depend on how a scene would appear under unseen or alternative viewpoints.
By Shoubin Yu, Yue Zhang, Zun Wang, Jaehong Yoon, Huaxiu Yao, Mingyu Ding, Mohit Bansal
arXiv:2602. 23694v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Human operators are still frequently exposed to hazardous environments such as disaster zones and industrial facilities, where intuitive and reliable teleoperation of mobile robots and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is essential.
By Seungyeol Baek, Jaspreet Singh, Lala Shakti Swarup Ray, Hymalai Bello, Paul Lukowicz, Sungho Suh
arXiv:2606. 01691v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial Internet systems face increasing threats from sophisticated industrial control system (ICS) attacks, resulting in critical safety incidents.
By Yuchen Zhang, Ning Xi, Pengbin Feng, Shigang Liu, Jianfeng Ma, Yulong Shen, Yanan Sun, Xiaolin Zhou
arXiv:2604. 09063v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Human action recognition is pivotal in computer vision, with applications ranging from surveillance to human-robot interaction.
By Yuxi Zhou, Zhengbo Zhang, Jingyu Pan, Zhiyu Lin, Zhigang Tu
arXiv:2606. 02027v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot learning must produce policies that generalize to new combinations of constraints, teammates, and environments.
By Eduardo Sebasti\'an, Adrian Pfisterer, Vito Mengers, Oliver Brock, Amanda Prorok
arXiv:2605. 13548v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing robotic foundation models, while powerful, are predicated on an implicit assumption of temporal homogeneity: treating all actions as equally informative during optimization.
By Daojie Peng, Fulong Ma, Jiahang Cao, Qiang Zhang, Xupeng Xie, Jian Guo, Ping Luo, Andrew F. Luo, Boyu Zhou, Jun Ma