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Walden Robotics launches at $1.1B valuation for general-purpose robots
Leading technology companies have invested in Walden Robotics, which emerged from stealth as it develops full-stack physical AI. The post Walden Robotics launch…
Practical Judgment, Virtue, and Intuition in the Use of Opaque AI-Enabled Systems
arXiv:2607.12755v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI-enabled systems are seeing increasing deployment across numerous domains, with many being "black boxes" wit…
Contract-Grounded Behavior Tree Synthesis via Coding Agents
arXiv:2607.12220v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthesizing deployable robot behavior trees (BTs) from natural language (NL) requires grounding to ensure every…
FlowWAM: Optical Flow as a Unified Action Representation for World Action Models
arXiv:2607.13017v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) are able to leverage pretrained video generators for both world modeling and action p…
Autonomous Tracking and Terminal Guidance of Moving Targets for Fixed-Wing UAVs
arXiv:2607.12801v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study introduces a unified control framework for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) fitted with a p…
SegDiff: Segmented Trajectory Diffusion for Consistent and Adaptive Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2607.11027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitation learning enables robots to acquire manipulation skills from demonstrations by mapping observations to …
Runtime Safety Filtering for Learned Small UAS Separation Policies under GNSS Degradation
arXiv:2607.10014v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning-based separation assurance for small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) achieves near-zero collision rate…
IBPA: Real-time Free-form Manifold Mesh Reconstruction via Incremental Ball Pivoting with Integrated Hole Detection
arXiv:2607.11627v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Both Remotely Operated underwater Vehicles (ROVs) and Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are frequently dep…
Can we Trust Unreliable Voxels? Exploring 3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction under Label Noise
arXiv:2603.06279v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: 3D semantic occupancy prediction is a cornerstone of robotic perception, yet real-world voxel annotati…
From Non-Rigid to Rigid: Safe Acquisition of Rigid Communication Graphs under Limited Sensing
arXiv:2607.10170v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Communication graph rigidity is a fundamental requirement in many multi robot formation control approaches. Howe…
Soft Swing-up: Benchmarking Model-Based Optimal Control for Rigid-Soft Underactuated Systems
arXiv:2602.03435v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Continuum soft robots are inherently underactuated and subject to intrinsic input constraints, making dynami…
Ondas acquires DZYNE for $875.8M, expanding its defense capabilities
DZYNE Technologies specializes in long-endurance autonomous aircraft, counter-drone systems, and autonomous effects. The post Ondas acquires DZYNE for $875.8M, …
AI² Robotics raises $735M at $3B valuation for wheeled humanoid robots
Shenzhen’s Ai2 Robotics raised $735 million at a $2.8 billion valuation, backed by state, corporate, and financial giants. The post AI² Robotics raises $735M at…
FastTrack: GPU-Accelerated Tracking for Visual SLAM
arXiv:2509.10757v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The tracking module of a visual-inertial SLAM system processes incoming image frames and IMU data to estimat…
Rollon launches two telescopic rails with integrated magnets
Rollon said the magnets deliver improved load management, smoother extension, and increased durability, even under intensive operating conditions. The post Roll…
Calling all robotics startups: apply to RoboBusiness Startup Alley
We're looking for robotics startups that are creating a full system, component, or software system to show off their work at RoboBusiness. The post Calling all …
LIPP: Load-Aware Informative Path Planning with Physical Sampling
arXiv:2603.06924v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In classical Informative Path Planning (C-IPP), robots are typically modeled as mobile sensors that acquire …
Worldscape-MoE: A Unified Mixture-of-Experts World Model for Scalable Heterogeneous Action Control
arXiv:2607.03964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models are rapidly becoming a core infrastructure for embodied intelligence and interactive agents: they p…
Anytime Plug-and-Play Control with Contract-Based Distributed MPC
arXiv:2607.04215v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central challenge in many mobile multi-robot applications is that communication topologies are inherently ti…
AnchorDream: Repurposing Video Diffusion for Embodiment-Aware Robot Data Synthesis
arXiv:2512.11797v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The collection of large-scale and diverse robot demonstrations remains a major bottleneck for imitation lear…
GDPR-Aware Trajectory Sharing for ISAC-Assisted Robot Navigation: A Case Study on FID-Constrained Collision Prediction
arXiv:2607.03254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) enables intelligent wireless infrastructure but raises growing regul…
Look Before You Leap: Distilling Tree Search into Action Evaluation for Frozen VLA Models
arXiv:2607.03751v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models acquire broad embodied capabilities through large-scale pretraining, yet the…
WinTA-GIL: Windowed Trajectory Alignment for GNSS-IMU-LiDAR Heading Refinement in Intermittent Signal Environments
arXiv:2607.04879v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although multi-source fusion positioning systems have achieved significant progress, accurate and reliable headi…
A User-driven Design Framework for Robotaxi
arXiv:2602.19107v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotaxis are emerging as a promising form of urban mobility, but removing human drivers fundamentally resha…
Kraken Robotics acquires Covelya Group for $615M
Covelya Group expands Kraken Robotics' product offerings and total addressable market in subsea technology. The post Kraken Robotics acquires Covelya Group for …
Quantum Systems raises $1.2B to expand drone production and deployments
Quantum plans to use the proceeds to expand production capacity, strengthen supply chain resilience, and more. The post Quantum Systems raises $1.2B to expand d…
Embodied.cpp: A Portable Inference Runtime of Embodied AI Models on Heterogeneous Robots
arXiv:2607.02501v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied AI models now span vision-language-action (VLA) models and world-action models (WAMs), but practical de…
Regression Test Selection for Updated Capability Modules in Compositional ML Systems via Atomic-Quality Probes
arXiv:2604.26689v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Compositional machine-learning (ML) systems assemble runtime behavior from libraries of independently re-tra…
Imagining the Sense of Touch: Touch-Informed Manipulation via Imagined Tactile Representations
arXiv:2607.01684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tactile sensing can substantially improve contact-rich robotic manipulation, yet its practical deployment remain…
HEFT: Heavy-Payload Full-size Humanoid Teleoperation with Privileged Motion Guidance and Windowed Payload Curriculum
arXiv:2607.02332v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General motion tracking and teleoperation offer a promising path to scalable humanoid skill acquisition, yet mos…