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Robot Talk Episode 160 – Robotic blacksmiths, with Edward Mehr

Claire chatted to Edward Mehr from Machina Labs about their RoboCraftsman that shapes complex metal parts for the aerospace, defence, and automotive industries.…

2026-06-12

Robotics

EWAM: An Enhanced World Action Model for Closed-Loop Online Adaptation in Embodied Intelligence

arXiv:2606.12690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we propose the Enhanced World Action Model (EWAM), a closed-loop online adaptation architecture b…

2026-06-12

Robotics

EmbodiSteer: Steering Embodiment-Agnostic Visuomotor Policies with Joint-Space Guidance for Zero-Shot Cross-Embodiment Deployment

arXiv:2606.12965v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scalable robot imitation learning relies on large-scale heterogeneous data from diverse robots or body-free data…

2026-06-12

Robotics

Y-BotFrame: An Extensible Embodied Agent Framework for Quadruped Robot Assistants

arXiv:2606.13049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quadruped robots are capable of traversing a wide range of complex terrains with high flexibility. As highly mob…

2026-06-12

Robotics

Comparing Commercial Depth Sensor Accuracy for Medical Applications

arXiv:2606.13028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Depth estimation has numerous medical and surgical applications. We benchmark four depth sensors on a porcine bo…

2026-06-12

Robotics

SCALE: Self-uncertainty Conditioned Adaptive Looking and Execution for Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2602.04208v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising paradigm for general-purpose robotic control…

2026-06-12

Robotics

Adaptive-Horizon Conflict-Based Search for Closed-Loop Multi-Agent Path Finding

arXiv:2602.12024v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: MAPF is a core coordination problem for large robot fleets in automated warehouses and logistics. Existing a…

2026-06-12

Robotics

AssemLM: A Spatial Reasoning Multimodal Large Language Model for Robotic Assembly

arXiv:2604.08983v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Spatial reasoning is a fundamental capability for embodied intelligence, especially for fine-grained manipul…

2026-06-12

Robotics

From Digital to Physical: Digital Agents as Autonomous Coaches for Physical Intelligence

arXiv:2601.21570v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The field of Embodied AI is witnessing a rapid evolution toward general-purpose robotic systems, fuele…

2026-06-12

Robotics

Low cost, easily manufactured, highly flexible strain and touch sensitive fiber for robotics applications

arXiv:2606.13352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing stretch and touch sensors for robots are generally expensive with respect to at least one of material c…

2026-06-12

Robotics

EMG-Based Adaptation of Anisotropic Virtual Fixtures for Robot-Assisted Surgical Resection and Dissection

arXiv:2606.13340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we address the development of an adaptive assistance system for robot-assisted laparoscopic surge…

2026-06-12

Robotics

From Imitation to Alignment: Human-Preference Flow Policies for Long-Horizon Sidewalk Navigation

arXiv:2606.12603v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous long-horizon sidewalk navigation is essential for micro-mobility applications such as robotic food de…

2026-06-12

Robotics

PLUME: Probabilistic Latent Unified World Modeling and Parameter Estimation for Multi-Finger Manipulation

arXiv:2606.11396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous manipulation with multi-finger hands can be sensitive to physical parameters such as object shape, pos…

2026-06-11

Robotics

A Modular Dual-Camera Pipeline for Micro-Inspection Using Aerial Robots

arXiv:2606.11419v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most existing drone-based inspection systems require the drone to fly dangerously close to the target or follow …

2026-06-11

Robotics

Adversarial Attacks on Learned Policies for Surgical Robotic Tasks

arXiv:2606.11535v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning-based policies are being considered to augment the dexterity of human surgeons in robot-assisted surger…

2026-06-11

Robotics

Point Cloud Segmentation for Autonomous Clip Positioning in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy on a Phantom

arXiv:2606.12048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-risk applications in robotics, such as robot-assisted surgery, present unique challenges. These systems mus…

2026-06-11

Robotics

iPack: Intuitive Bin Packing with Large Language Models

arXiv:2503.08445v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotics and automation are increasingly influential in logistics but remain largely confined to traditional…

2026-06-11

Robotics

SR-LIO++: LiDAR-Inertial Odometry and Quantized Mapping with Caching-Aware Sweep Reconstruction

arXiv:2503.22926v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Addressing the inherent low acquisition frequency limitation of 3D LiDAR to achieve high-frequency output ha…

2026-06-11

Robotics

Learning Ordinal Response Policies in Rank-Based Stochastic Prize-Collecting Games

arXiv:2510.24515v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The Team Orienteering Problem (TOP) generalizes many real-world multi-agent scheduling and routing tasks tha…

2026-06-11

Robotics

GEAR-VLA: Learning Geometry-Aware Action Representations for Generalizable Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2606.08530v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve strong benchmark performance but still struggle in real-world de…

2026-06-11

Robotics

CHORUS: Decentralized Multi-Embodiment Collaboration with One VLA Policy

arXiv:2606.12352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot collaboration allows robots to efficiently take on a wide range of tasks, from moving a couch throug…

2026-06-11

Robotics

AerialClaw: An Open-Source Framework for LLM-Driven Autonomous Aerial Agents

arXiv:2606.12142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used in inspection, search and rescue, environmental monitoring…

2026-06-11

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KinematicRL: A Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning Framework For Social Navigation With Kinodynamic Feasibility

arXiv:2606.12042v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has shown promise for social navigation, yet its real-world deployment remains…

2026-06-11

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Embodied-R1.5: Evolving Physical Intelligence via Embodied Foundation Models

arXiv:2606.11324v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Embodied-R1.5, a unified Embodied Foundation Model (EFM) that integrates comprehensive embodied rea…

2026-06-11

Robotics

Intelligent Automation for Embodied Benchmark Construction: Pipelines, Embodiments, Simulators, and Trends

arXiv:2606.12207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied intelligence now spans navigation, household assistance, manipulation, autonomous driving, aerial agent…

2026-06-11

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Explore From Sketch: Accelerating UAV Exploration in Large-scale Environments with Prior Maps

arXiv:2606.11708v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous exploration with UAVs in large-scale, topologically complex environments often suffers from low effic…

2026-06-11

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SAFER-Nav: Enhancing Safety for Visual Robot Navigation via Segmentation-Aware Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2606.11636v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-based navigation models, particularly foundation models, generate viable trajectories from RGB observatio…

2026-06-11

Robotics

Robot Talk Episode 142 – Collaborative robot arms, with Mark Gray

Claire chatted to Mark Gray from Universal Robots about their lightweight robotic arms that work alongside humans. Mark Gray has worked in automation for the la…

2026-06-10

Robotics

Robot Talk Episode 145 – Robotics and automation in manufacturing, with Agata Suwala

Claire chatted to Agata Suwala from the Manufacturing Technology Centre about leveraging robotics to make manufacturing systems more sustainable. Agata Suwala i…

2026-06-10

Robotics

Generative AI analyzes medical data faster than human research teams

Researchers tested whether generative AI could handle complex medical datasets as well as human experts. In some cases, the AI matched or outperformed teams tha…

2026-06-10