Robotics Research Papers — Page 12

FlashVLA Streams Robot Actions for Faster Asynchronous VLA Control

Pretrained VLAs are trained to denoise each chunk from scratch in isolation and have never seen a partially populated buffer.

Zekai Li, Jiaming Tang, Zhijian Liu

AIAug 28

Cross-Embodiment Video World Models Enable Zero-Shot Physical Simulation

The defining breakthroughs in large language models were precipitated by web-scale training on diverse text datasets.

Kechen Liu, Ola Shorinwa

RoboticsAug 27

ROS 2 Unity Toolkit for Autonomous Mobile Robot Fleet Management

When real deployments are costly, risky, or difficult to access, high-fidelity simulation provides an effective complement to physical experiments.

Andrea Drudi, Lorenzo Pichierri, Andrea Testa +1

RoboticsAug 27

Fast Generative Grasping Uses Lie Groups for Faster Real Robot Control

S. Talha Bukhari, Yi Wei, Ruiqi Ni +2

RoboticsAug 27

Zero-WAM: Human Video Instructions for Open-Ended Robot Task Generalization

Jiaming Zhou, Qihang Zhang, Gangwei Xu +9

AIAug 26

ODEWorld Brings Continuous-Time World Modeling to Robot Manipulation

Continuous-time world model ODEWorld hits 83.2% task success on LIBERO-LONG and translates language instructions into visual goals.

Dongxiu Liu, Haoyi Niu, Peng Cheng +5

RoboticsAug 26

4D Radar Odometry That Holds Up in Fog, Rain, and Dust

RaDiVe makes 4D radar odometry robust by weighting points with Doppler velocity and aligning scans with distance-bounded NDT.

Sangwoo Jung, Dongjae Lee, Chiyun Noh +1

RoboticsAug 26

Underwater Robots Use Fiber Whiskers to Better Sense Flow and Wakes

Hao Li, Tianyu Tu, Siyue Yao +7

RoboticsAug 25

OptiSight Combines Vision-Language Reasoning With Geometric Robot Navigation

Alperen Avan, Jordi Sanchez-Riera

AIAug 25

Reward-Free Continual Adaptation Helps Resilient Space Robots Recover From Hardware Failures

This work introduces a framework for reward-free continual adaptation using world models.

Andrej Orsula, Miguel Olivares-Mendez, Carol Martinez

RoboticsAug 25

GeoWAM: Visual Geometry World Action Models for Autonomous Driving

Beyond video generation, occupancy-based world models forecast scene evolution in a voxelized three-dimensional space.

Yiren Lu, Xin Ye, Jiaming Liu +9

RoboticsAug 24

UniCross Unifies Four Dexterous Hand Skills Into One AI Policy

Hui Zhang, Julian Ferchow, Jie Song +1

RoboticsAug 24

Neuro-Symbolic Soil-Adaptive Kinodynamics for Off-Road Robot Mobility

Chenhui Pan, Tong Xu, Francesco Cancelliere +1

AIAug 24

Anatomy-Informed AI Maps Aortic Deformation for Surgical Robots

An anatomy-informed AI framework combines SE(3) mechanics and fluoroscopy to predict guidewire-driven aortic deformation for surgical robotics.

David P. Stonko

AIAug 23

Object-Agnostic Generative Grasp Planning for Dexterous Robotic Manipulation Tasks

Recent advancements in dexterous grasp planning have been largely propelled by data-driven approaches.

Julien Merand, Boris Meden, Mathieu Grossard +1

AIAug 23

Topology-Guided Dexterous Grasp Synthesis for Task-Aware Robot Hands

Julien Merand, Boris Meden, Liming Chen +1

HumanoidAug 23

How Bipedal Robots Learn to Walk Better on Soft, Shifting Terrain

Zeren Luo, Jiahui Zhang, Zhe Xu +6

RoboticsAug 22

Pointwise Keypoint Voting Enables Task-Aware Progressive Robotic Assembly

Assembling parts together to obtain a final product is a trivial task for humans, but remains a complex challenge for robots.

Kulunu Samarawickrama, Roel Pieters

RoboticsAug 22

Wave-Based Teleoperation Connects Nonlinear Robot Arms Through Delayed Contact Force Feedback

A wave-based controller stabilizes delayed bilateral teleoperation while preserving direct contact-force feedback between nonlinear robot arms.

G. Q. Bao Tran, Takanori Miyoshi, Ho Duc Tho

AIAug 22

Evidence-Gated Robot Planning Uses Visual Evidence Before Cooking Tasks Begin

Tsunehiko Tanaka, Matthew Stephenson, Alistair Macvicar +1