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141 storiesRobotics Funding Tracker: Every VC Round, Acquisition & Launch (2024–2026)
Luxonis closes Series A round to scale physical AI perception layer
Luxonis said it plans to scale production of its OAK camera and refine its platform to support robotics and industrial automation. The post Luxonis closes Serie…
Blattner awards Built Robotics $75M contract for physical AI to help meet energy demand
Blattner has expanded its partnership with Built Robotics to scale autonomous systems for solar construction. The post Blattner awards Built Robotics $75M contr…
KungfuBot: Physics-Based Humanoid Whole-Body Control for Learning Highly-Dynamic Skills
arXiv:2506.12851v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humanoid robots are promising to acquire various skills by imitating human behaviors. However, existing algo…
FastBridge: Closing the Model-Based Realization Gap in Safety Filters on 3D Gaussian Splatting for Fast Quadrotor Flight
arXiv:2607.01200v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fast quadrotor flight requires safe obstacle avoidance under tight onboard compute limits. While 3D Gaussian Spl…
Apptronik unveils Apollo 2 and a flagship data collection and training facility
Built as a data collection and training platform, Apollo 2 enables continuous learning through deployment, Apptronik said. The post Apptronik unveils Apollo 2 a…
Designing Privacy-Preserving Visual Perception for Robot Navigation Based on User Privacy Preferences
arXiv:2604.06382v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual navigation is a fundamental capability of mobile service robots, yet the onboard cameras required for…
From Grasps to Dexterity: Large-Scale Grasp Pretraining for Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv:2606.30749v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale dexterous grasp datasets encode rich priors over hand-object interaction, but their use has largely …
X Square Robot brings its valuation to $2.8B with four consecutive funding rounds
X Square Robots' system combines foundation models, robotics hardware, a data pipeline system, and real-world deployments. The post X Square Robot brings its va…
Queue raises funding to build fully autonomous pharmacy
Queue is developing automated pharmacies to expand access to prescriptions in hospitals, retail sites, and underserved communities. The post Queue raises fundin…
An Overview of Formulae for the Higher-Order Kinematics of Lower-Pair Chains with Applications in Robotics and Mechanism Theory
arXiv:2309.05055v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The motions of mechanisms can be described in terms of screw coordinates by means of an exponential mapping.…
Vision-Language-Action Models: Experimental Insights from a Real-World UR5 Platform
arXiv:2606.30456v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This project investigates whether recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models can be transferred from controlled …
Insights behind Kinisi’s acquisition by Bear Robotics
Brennand Pierce, founder and CEO of Kinisi Robotics, discusses the company's approach to physical AI and its acquisition by Bear Robotics. The post Insights beh…
PPO-EAL: Exact Augmented Lagrangian Proximal Policy Optimization for Safe Robotic Control
arXiv:2606.27861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising solution to accomplish complex robotic control tasks; how…
Drop-Then-Recovery: How Redundant Are Vision-Language-Action Models?
arXiv:2606.27755v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models enable instruction-driven robotic manipulation, but they inherit oversized l…
General Intuition raises $320M to use video game data to train robots
General Intuition is using video game clips with embedded action labels to speed up AI training for robotics. The post General Intuition raises $320M to use vid…
UAV-MapFusion: RTK-Aligned Uncertainty-Aware Coarse-to-Fine Multi-Session UAV Mapping
arXiv:2606.26928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale point cloud maps are essential for robotics and spatial intelligence tasks. UAVs provide an efficien…
WatchAct: A Benchmark for Behavior-Grounded Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2606.26443v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A robot working alongside people must reason about what they have done, in what order, and with what intent. Vid…
HEART: Coordination of Heterogeneous Expert Agents for Physically Grounded Robotic Task Planning
arXiv:2606.25404v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) can reason over complex instructions but often fail to satisfy the physical and spa…
A Sensorised Lattice Footplate for a Semi-Active Prosthetic Foot
arXiv:2606.25966v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper investigates whether magnetic plantar sensing can be embedded directly inside the load-bearing compli…
1000 Rallies: An Event-Camera Dataset and Real-Time Learned Ball-State Estimation for Robotic Table Tennis
arXiv:2606.25620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic table tennis has emerged as a compelling benchmark for real-time robotic perception due to its fast ball…
Causality-Based Parametric Control Barrier Function for Safe Multi-Vehicle Interaction
arXiv:2606.25134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe control has been widely studied in various safety-critical applications, for instance, autonomous driving. …
DeformGen: Dynamics-Based Topology Augmentation for Deformable Manipulation Policy Learning
arXiv:2606.25939v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Demonstration augmentation is proposed for cost-efficient data acquisition, but existing methods are fundamental…
Reservoir acquires Contain to scale agtech startups
Reservoir has acquired agriculture finance platform Contain,, naming founder Nicola Kerslake general partner to help scale AI startups. The post Reservoir acqui…
Mantis Robotics launches dual-arm, fenceless robot
Mantis said the robot allows for new flexibility in how to configure automation in complex, real-world environments. The post Mantis Robotics launches dual-arm,…
Humanoid maker Agility Robotics to go public through SPAC merger
Agility Robotics will merge with Churchill Capital Corp XI, raising $620 million to advance Digit v5 and fulfill growing customer orders. The post Humanoid make…
ObsGraph: Hierarchical Observation Representation for Embodied Reasoning and Exploration
arXiv:2606.24068v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied reasoning and exploration are increasingly considered crucial abilities for robots operating in compl…
Verifiable Foundation Models for Robot Safety
arXiv:2606.23754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying foundation models for robot control raises a central challenge: the expressive power that enables rich…
MinInter: Minimizing Trajectory Interpolation During Data Augmentation for Imitation Learning
arXiv:2606.24078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitation learning enables robots to acquire complex manipulation skills from demonstrations, but its effectiven…
InSight: Self-Guided Skill Acquisition via Steerable VLAs
arXiv:2606.24884v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models can learn manipulation skills from demonstrations, but their capabilities ar…