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cs.RO2026

ReForesight: Occlusion-Robust Re-Identification and Future Occupancy Forecasting for Dynamic Semantic Mapping

Didar Seyidov, Faith Ogunwoye, Hajira Amjad +3

Robots sharing walkways need to know where people will be, yet semantic occupancy maps show only where they are. We present ReForesight, an open-source ROS 2 toolkit that adds inst…

cs.RO2026

AutodidactWAM: Cross-Modal Self-Distillation from Generated Video to Robot Actions

Sergei Kurchev, Iaroslav Kolomiets, Miguel Altamirano Cabrera +2

World-action models (WAMs) such as Cosmos 3 jointly generate future video and robot actions from an observation and instruction. Adapting one such model with a lightweight LoRA fin…

cs.RO2026

AgenticTactileVLA: Contact-Guided Execution-Time Supervision for Generalizable Dexterous Manipulation without VLA Retraining

Elizaveta Semenyakina, Ivan Snegirev, Mikhail Kiselev +4

Vision-language-action policies may predict a transferable manipulation strategy yet fail to realize it reliably on the encountered object: objects compatible with the same grasp d…

cs.RO2026

SocialVLA: A Social Perception Gateway for Human-Reaction-Based Failure Detection and Recovery in VLA Manipulation

Sofya Konstantinova, Miguel Altamirano Cabrera, Artem Lykov +1

Vision-language-action (VLA) policies enable diverse robotic manipulation but can fail during execution without recognizing their own errors. Human observers provide complementary…

cs.RO2026

CognitiveReality: Robot-Agnostic Semantic Gaussian Mapping with an LLM Agent for Immersive Collaborative VR Teleoperation

Timofei Kozlov, Dmitrii Maliukov, Andrey Marchenko +3

A photorealistic 3D view tells a teleoperator where a robot is, but not what the scene contains, how well each object has been observed, or how to turn pointing and speech into rob…

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Kintsugi-VLA: Turning Failed Robot Rollouts into Recovery Data through Interventional Recoverability

Ivan Snegirev, Elizaveta Semenyakina, Dmitrii Maliukov +2

Simulation enables scalable training of Vision-Language-Action policies by using privileged experts to generate visual demonstrations without requiring every trajectory to be colle…

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HapticWAM: Distilling Imagined Touch into a World-Action Model without Inference-Time Tactile Sensing

Mikhail Sannikov, Ilya Mikhalchuk, Konstantin Gubernatorov +3

Contact-rich manipulation requires estimating forces, slip and contact geometry that can remain ambiguous in scene images. Optical tactile sensors provide both visual observations…

cs.RO2026

FlockDiffusion: Assignment-Conditioned Diffusion for Multi-Drone Task Allocation and Completion

Iana Zhura, Satenik Akopyan, Roohan Ahmed Khan +3

Autonomous multi-drone navigation requires fleets to service distributed objectives in cluttered environments under tight computational budgets. Efficient coordination depends on t…

cs.RO2026

AcousticDiffusion: Semantically Conditioned Audio-Guided Diffusion Policy for Search-and-Rescue Assistance

Iana Zhura, Didar Seyidov, Dmitrii Plotnikov +3

Navigating toward human callers is an important capability for rescue robots operating where visual contact is degraded or occluded. We present AcousticDiffusion, a semantically co…

cs.RO2026

ZeroTouch: Tactile-Supervised Visual Contact Estimation for Contact-Rich Manipulation

Dmitriy Kosenkov, Daniia Zinniatullina, Miguel Altamirano Cabrera +3

Reliable robotic grasping benefits from estimating the evolving physical interaction and selecting a grasp-dependent compression target. Tactile sensors provide direct interaction…

cs.RO2026

AgenticSwarm: Semantic Perception and Adaptive Task Allocation for Heterogeneous Multi-UAV Missions

Muhammad Ahsan Mustafa, Yasheerah Yaqoot, Faryal Batool +3

Multi UAV missions in complex environments require the system to understand both the surrounding scene and the intent of a human operator while maintaining feasible task allocation…

cs.RO2026

SmellDiffusion: Diffusion-Based Quadruped Navigation with Olfactory Scene Graphs

Faith Ogunwoye, Iana Zhura, Hajira Amjad +5

A robot sent to a named gas leak must preserve gas identity, estimate the source, and navigate to the resulting goal. We present SmellDiffusion, a simulation pipeline that represen…

cs.RO2026

GeminiPainter's sequence-formed pipeline comprised of perception, cognition, planning, and action stages

Miguel Altamirano Cabrera, Aleksey Fedoseev, Iana Zhura +1

We present an autonomous robotic portrait-generation system combining real-time face detection, AI-based sketch generation, and robotic drawing. The system captures video frames, e…

cs.RO2026

ORCESTRA: VLM-driven Visual Robot programming in Mixed Reality

Ivan Snegirev, Elizaveta Semenyakina, Mikhail Konenkov +3

ORCESTRA is a mixed-reality system for programming robot digital twins through no-code waypoint teaching and language-guided control. In a passthrough mixed-reality workspace, user…

cs.RO2026

OmniAI: A Surface-Adaptive Aerial Projection Interface for Human--Drone Interaction

Nikita Kuzmin, Yuhua Jin, Georgii Demianchuk +6

Drones in human environments often lack spatially grounded in- terfaces for situated communication. We present OmniAI, an em- bodied aerial agent that supports surface-adaptive int…

cs.RO2026

AgenticFocus: Object-Preserving Mixed Reality Synthesis from Human FPV Video for Dexterous Humanoid Learning

Iaroslav Kolomiets, Miguel Altamirano Cabrera, Artem Lykov +6

Human egocentric video is a scalable supervision source for humanoid policy learning, but current pipelines struggle with hand-object occlusion, oversimplified motion, or specializ…

cs.RO2026

DIFF-IPPO: Diffusion-Based Informative Path Planning with Open-Vocabulary Belief Maps

Sausar Karaf, Oleg Sautenkov, Mikhail Martynov +1

Exploration and object search require robots to perceive their environment, identify regions of interest, and plan trajectories that improve target-detection likelihood or maximize…

cs.RO2026

Guided Diffusion with Distilled Vision-Language Reliability for Aerial Navigation

Ivan Valuev, Iana Zhura, Valerii Serpiva +2

Autonomous UAV navigation is conventionally solved by pipelines that separate perception, mapping, and planning into distinct stages, which propagates errors, accumulates latency,…

cs.RO2026

AnyGoal: Vision-Language Guided Multi-Agent Exploration for Training-Free Lifelong Navigation

MoniJesu James, Marcelino Julio Fernando, Miguel Altamirano Cabrera +1

End-to-end navigation policies trained on large simulation corpora degrade sharply when transferred to out-of-distribution scenes, categories, or goal modalities. Modular pipelines…

cs.RO2026

AgenticRL: Agentic Reinforcement Learning with Self-Refinement for Complex UAV Navigation

Roohan Ahmed Khan, Yasheerah Yaqoot, Amir Atef Habel +2

Deep reinforcement learning enables autonomous robots to learn complex navigation tasks, but still relies heavily on time consuming manual reward design and fine tuning. Existing a…

cs.RO2026

AgenticDiffusion: Multi-View Reasoning with View-Conditioned Diffusion Planning for Vision-Based UAV Navigation

Faryal Batool, Muhammad Ahsan Mustafa, Fawad Mehboob +2

Vision-based UAV navigation becomes challenging when navigation targets are distributed across complementary camera views and cannot be reliably observed from a single viewpoint. W…

cs.RO2026

Output-Level Regularization Eliminates the Seed Lottery in Single-GPU VLA Fine-Tuning

Jeffrin Sam, Dzmitry Tsetserukou

Fine-tuning a vision-language-action model (VLA-JEPA) on a single GPU should be simple: load a pretrained checkpoint, run training, deploy. There is a hidden danger. Run the same f…

cs.RO2026

GSDrive: Reinforcing Driving Policies by Multi-mode Future Trajectory Probing with 3D Gaussian Splatting Environment

Ziang Guo, Chen Min, Xuefeng Zhang +5

End-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving aims to directly map sensory observations to driving actions, but its real-world deployment is hindered by evolving data distributions and the h…

cs.RO2026

Action Agent: Agentic Video Generation Meets Flow-Constrained Diffusion

Jeffrin Sam, Nguyen Khang, Yara Mahmoud +2

We present Action Agent, a two-stage framework that unifies agentic navigation video generation with flow-constrained diffusion control for multi-embodiment robot navigation. In St…