Robotics Research Papers — Page 23

How Instruct-Particulate Enables Fast 3D Object Articulation from Vision-Language Models

We scale feed-forward 3D object articulation by using vision-language models to pseudo-label synthetic 3D assets, enabling a transformer-based architecture t…

Ruining Li, Yuxin Yao, Matt Zhou, Chuanxia Zheng +4

RoboticsJun 14

Navigation World Action Model for Goal-Conditioned Visual Navigation

NavWAM learns a joint world-action prediction model that turns visual foresight into a closed-loop policy for goal-conditioned visual navigation.

Daichi Azuma, Taiki Miyanishi, Koya Sakamoto +6

RoboticsJun 14

SPARC: Reliable Spatial Annotations from Robot Demonstrations at Scale

Given a robot demonstration video, a language instruction, and gripper proprioceptive signal, SPARC produces object-centric spatial annotations for each inte…

Nils Blank, Paul Mattes, Maximilian Xiling Li +5

AIJun 14

Heterogeneous LiDAR Early Fusion and Learned Re-Ranking for Robust Long-Term Place Recognition

Judith Vilella-Cantos, Juan José Cabrera, Mónica Ballesta +2

AIJun 13

MaskWAM Teaches Robots to Predict What Matters for Better Manipulation

Hanyang Yu, Haitao Lin, Jingbo Zhang +4

AIJun 13

LabVLA Brings Vision-Language-Action Models to Lab Automation

LabVLA achieves high success rates in lab tasks using synthetic data from RoboGenesis and transfers to real robots, advancing lab automation.

Baochang Ren, Xinjie Liu, Xi Chen +15

RoboticsJun 13

MCR-Bionic Hand: How Anatomical Structure Unlocks Dexterous Robot Manipulation

Researchers have built MCR-Bionic, a musculoskeletal robotic hand that mimics key anatomical structures from the human hand—bones, ligaments, tendons, and in…

Haosen Yang, Guowu Wei

RoboticsJun 12

Weaver: A Fast and Scalable World Model for Robotic Manipulation

Arnav Kumar Jain, Yilin Wu, Jesse Farebrother +2

RoboticsJun 12

Flow Reversal Steering Makes Robot Generalists Better at Following High-Level Guidance

Andy Tang, William Chen, Andrew Wagenmaker +2

AIJun 12

Mana: A New System for Dexterous Robot Manipulation of Articulated Tools

Mana trains robot hands to manipulate articulated tools like syringes and scissors using only simulation data, achieving 86.7% real-world success with zero sim-to-real retraining.

Zhao-Heng Yin, Guanya Shi, Pieter Abbeel +1

AIJun 11

When and Where Should You Allocate Test-Time Compute in Embodied Planners?

Scaling test-time compute is not free in robotics: in a hierarchical stack the planner is invoked repeatedly, so per-call costs from chain-of-thought reasoni…

Jadelynn Dao, Milan Ganai, Yasmina Abukhadra +7

RoboticsJun 11

World Pilot Gives Vision-Language-Action Robots a World-Action Model Boost

Zefu Lin, Rongxu Cui, Junjia Xu +4

AIJun 11

New Method Gives Cheap Robot Arms Force Feedback Without Extra Sensors

Steven Oh, Jason Jingzhou Liu, Tony Tao +5

HumanoidJun 10

Embodied mmWave Radar on Humanoid Robots Enables 24/7 Fall Detection

Researchers have developed EM-Fall, a system that mounts mmWave radar on a humanoid robot to detect falls day and night, even in complete darkness. The robot…

Yanshuo Lu, Yuxuan Hu, Shenghai Yuan +5

RoboticsJun 10

Bimanual Joining System Lets Wheelchair Robots Call for Backup

Researchers at Northeastern University developed JOIN, a three-phase system that enables a mobile robot to autonomously join a wheelchair-mounted arm already…

Drake Moore, Matt Cheng, Xiang Zhi Tan +1