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Robots at work: warehouses, factories, farms, hospitals, construction sites and the automation reshaping them.
Robots at work: warehouses, factories, farms, hospitals, construction sites and the automation reshaping them.
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734 storiesFARM: Reading Failure Signals from the Internal Predictive States of a Frozen Robotic World Model
arXiv:2609.11445v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable robot deployment requires online failure monitoring, yet existing monitors mainly derive risk from prox…
CMoE: Contrastive Mixture of Experts for Motion Control and Terrain Adaptation of Humanoid Robots
arXiv:2603.03067v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: For effective deployment in real-world environments, humanoid robots must autonomously navigate a diverse ra…
CAP: Continuously Adaptive Perception-Blind Humanoid Locomotion via Learned Denoising
arXiv:2609.11553v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid locomotion across complex terrain demands forward-looking exteroception to anticipate obstacles, yet th…
Modular Kinematic Reduction of Closed-Chain Mechanisms Using Path Assembly and Defect Homotopy
arXiv:2609.11338v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Closed kinematic chains complicate modular modeling by coupling active and passive coordinates through nonlinear…
Harness Robotic OS: A Unified Embodied-Agent Runtime for Closed-Loop Quadruped Inspection
arXiv:2609.11225v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous property inspection requires more than robust robot navigation: a deployable system must connect hete…
Lie-Algebraic Bell Recurrences for Arbitrary-Order Twist Jets and Parallel-Mechanism Closure
arXiv:2609.10748v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper develops an arbitrary-order kinematic construction that links serial propagation, parallel-mechanism …
ActSafeGuard: Differentiable and Training-Aligned Constraint Enforcement for Flow-Matching Policies
arXiv:2609.11697v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) and World-Action Models (WAMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in general-pur…
Comau automates picking, handling, and palletizing for Decathlon
Comau's system incorporates its MyCo cobot, ROS2 software architecture, AI-powered vision systems, and a modular gripper. The post Comau automates picking, hand…
Design and Attitude Control of an Underwater Quadruped Robot
arXiv:2609.09217v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Legged robots are versatile on land, but their use in underwater environments remains limited. Extending quadrup…
Coastal Environment Generation with HoloOcean
arXiv:2609.10484v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Marine robotic simulation provides a safe and inexpensive method of developing and testing algorithms for unmann…
Agentic AI-enabled Semantic Commissioning of a Cognitive Digital Twin for Reconfigurable Manufacturing
arXiv:2609.09503v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rapid bespoke commissioning of the Cognitive Digital Twin (CDT) is a major challenge in reconfigurable manufactu…
Posterior-driven Heuristic Support Adaptation in a Probabilistic Treatment of Real2Sim2Real for Vision-Driven Deformable Linear Object Manipulation
arXiv:2510.26656v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Likelihood-free inference (LFI) enables system identification in complex tasks via black-box modelling, abst…
A traffic management system for large and heterogeneous vehicles in narrow industrial environments
arXiv:2609.10400v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The coordination of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) in high-density industrial environments represents a critic…
HiRAD: A Flexible Large-Scale AGV Routing System
arXiv:2609.09752v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs) substantially boost warehouse throughput, but routing large-scale AGV fleets re…
AXON: A ROS 2 RMW with Shared-Memory/QUIC Transport and QKD/ML-KEM Key Establishment
arXiv:2609.10024v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2) standardizes application code against a middleware interface (RMW) whose refere…
Proxy Policy Steering
arXiv:2609.09148v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generalist robot policies carry broad manipulation priors from large-scale data, but specializing them to a …
Frame-Coded Legged Locomotion over Noisy Terrain
arXiv:2609.10273v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-loop multilegged locomotion over rough terrain has been interpreted as matter transport over a noisy chan…
Assembling Two Parts in One Hand
arXiv:2609.10137v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A hallmark of human dexterity is the cooperative use of fingers, where different fingers take on distinct yet co…
A Risk-Sensitive and Uncertainty-Aware Decision-Making and Control Framework for Safe and Robust Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2609.09650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated considerable potential for autonomous driving decision-making. Howe…
What bricklaying has taught Monumental about robots in construction
The construction industry is rife with opportunity for robotics, but the technology hasn't broken in at scale yet. The post What bricklaying has taught Monument…
Vention opens Physical AI Lab for manufacturing in Montreal
Vention's new Physical AI Lab will focus on advancing robotic manipulation from research to scalable production-line deployment. The post Vention opens Physical…
Inbolt to discuss physical AI’s deployment problem at RoboBusiness
Rudy Cohen, the co-founder and CEO of Inbolt, will reframe where physical AI pays off at RoboBusiness this fall. The post Inbolt to discuss physical AI’s …
APEX-RBD: Mixed-Precision Exploration Framework for Hardware-Efficient Robot Dynamics Accelerator Design
arXiv:2609.05161v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Rigid Body Dynamics (RBD) forms the computational core of real-time robotic control, but its immense computati…
NavArena: Automated Construction of Goal-Oriented Navigation Benchmarks from 3D Gaussian Splatting Reconstructions
arXiv:2609.04602v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fixed 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) reconstructions provide realistic novel views but lack the traversability con…
ToPos: Automated Optimal Positioning on Topographic Manifolds using Constrained Geodesic Voronoi Decomposition
arXiv:2609.05084v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable autonomous mapping, environmental sampling, last-mile logistics, and infrastructure deployment depend o…
Where Appearance Fails, Geometry Recognizes: A CAD-Free 3D Shape Prior That Complements Vision Foundation Models
arXiv:2609.04381v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recognizing specific objects onboarded without a labeled training set recurs across manufacturing and service …
LIBERO-RECOVER: Beyond Task Success Towards Failure Recovery in Robotic Manipulation Models
arXiv:2609.05178v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) or World Action (WAM) models have recently demonstrated remarkable performance in r…
AquaBEV: Monocular Underwater BEV Occupancy with 3D Sonar Supervision
arXiv:2609.04411v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous underwater robots are widely used for exploration, monitoring, and inspection, where safe navigation …
Octopus Protocol: One-Shot Hardware Discovery and Control for AI Agents via Infrastructure-as-Prompts
arXiv:2605.09055v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Bringing a previously unintegrated device under the control of an AI agent still requires device-specific en…
Pack It My Way: Triadic Human-Robot Collaboration for Personalized Autonomous Packing
arXiv:2609.04620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalized autonomous packing requires robots to account for resident preferences that cannot be inferred from…