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Robots at work: warehouses, factories, farms, hospitals, construction sites and the automation reshaping them.
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413 storiesFrom Rubble Simulation to Active Magnetic Mapping: Quantum Sensing for Disaster Response
arXiv:2606.25957v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Locating survivors of building collapses within the first 72 hours is a critical challenge in disaster response,…
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,…
Grounding Generative Policies in Physics: Optimization-Guided Diffusion for Robot Control
arXiv:2606.24208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models sample effectively from high-dimensional, multimodal distributions, but their outputs may viola…
Explaining Failures of Cyber-Physical Systems with Actual Causality
arXiv:2606.24546v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), such as self-driving cars, face increasingly complex demands, a…
Wh0: Generative World Models as Scalable Sources of Egocentric Human Hand Manipulation Data
arXiv:2606.22136v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scaling dexterous manipulation requires generalization across objects, scenes, and tasks, yet existing data …
Critique of Agent Model
arXiv:2606.23991v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: What is an agent? What constitutes agency? With the rise of Large Language Model (LLM) systems marketed as ``c…
From Open Waters to Enclosed Cabins: ProteusVPR for Cross-Scene Visual Place Recognition in Maritime Perception and Cabin Inspection
arXiv:2606.24234v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous robotic inspection in maritime environments presents unique challenges for Visual Place Recognition…
Sim-to-Real Betting on the E-Process: Bringing "simulators" to anytime-valid confidence sequences
arXiv:2606.24038v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This note describes an integration of the sim-to-real performance estimate with betting (from Chen et al.) and t…
ExRobotics launches UL-certified inspection robot for hazardous environments
ExRobotics says its ExR-2.5 inspection robot is certified for safe operations in explosive environments in North America. The post ExRobotics launches UL-certif…
Vention collaborates with FANUC and Universal Robots on software-defined automation
Vention is working with partners to make design and deployment of industrial and collaborative robots easier for manufacturers. The post Vention collaborates wi…
Eclipse Automation launches RealitySync simulation platform
Eclipse said its new RealitySync platform allows manufacturers to step into their future factory before it’s built. The post Eclipse Automation launches Reality…
How Intrinsic eliminates manual robot coding
Alphabet’s Intrinsic has debuted its AI-powered "Intelligence Cell" to simplify factory automation and eliminate complex robot programming. The post How Intrins…
Cobot’s Proxie Gen 2 robot adds autotasking, mobile manipulation
Cobot founder and CEO Brad Porter said Proxie Gen 2 can determine when materials are ready to move, identify destinations, and create tasks without human interv…
NVIDIA releases Halos, a full-stack safety system for robotics
NVIDIA said Halos connects AI compute, system software, sensor data, safety applications, and inspection for robotic systems. The post NVIDIA releases Halos, a …
Defense manufacturing readiness hinges on autonomous finishing, says GrayMatter Robotics
The Navy's industrial base review identified a projected need for 174,000 new workers. GrayMatter says robotics can fill this gap. The post Defense manufacturin…
Robot Talk Episode 161 – Collaborative haptic systems, with Allison Okamura
Claire chatted to Allison Okamura from Stanford University about developing advanced robotic systems for haptic (touch) interaction. Allison Okamura is the Rich…
U.S. robotics industry saw double-digit growth in 2025, says IFR
The IFR said robust growth in the food industry and other non-manufacturing sectors drove this recovery in the U.S. robotics industry. The post U.S. robotics in…
Dual-Agent Framework for Cross-Model Verified Translation of Natural-Language Protocols into Robotic Laboratory Platform
arXiv:2606.20120v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biological experiment protocols are written in natural language, whereas automation systems rely on predefined c…
WorkBenchMark: A LEGO-Based Assembly Benchmark with an Assembly-by-Disassembly Baseline for the Smart Manufacturing League
arXiv:2606.19358v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduceWorkBenchMark, a LEGO Duplo-based robotic assembly benchmark motivated by the RoboCup Smart Manufact…
Formal Verification of Learned Multi-Agent Communication Policies via Decision Tree Distillation
arXiv:2606.19632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) enables agents to develop coordination strategies through emergent com…
GroundControl: Anticipating Navigation Failures in Vision-Language Agents via Trajectory-Consistent Uncertainty Estimates
arXiv:2606.20479v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language navigation agents achieve competitive average success on benchmark tasks, yet failures often ari…
Robust Assembly State Reasoning from Action Recognition for Human-Robot Collaboration
arXiv:2606.20150v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human Action Recognition (HAR) is frequently investigated in Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) research to underst…
CoLI: A Reproducible Platform for Continuum Robot Learning via Monolithic 3D Printing and Isomorphic Teleoperation
arXiv:2606.20389v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuum robots offer strong potential for manipulation tasks due to their high degrees of freedom, compliant s…
Bistable Quad-Nets Composed of Four-Bar Linkages
arXiv:2604.00527v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study a novel type of mechanical structures, composed of spatial four-bar linkages, that are bistab…
The Token Is a Group Element: On Lie-Algebra Attention over Matrix Lie Groups
arXiv:2606.20547v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We place the attention token on the group: a token is an element $g_i$ of a matrix Lie group $G$ -- a bare tra…
RoboSSM: Scalable In-context Imitation Learning via State-Space Models
arXiv:2509.19658v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In-context imitation learning (ICIL) enables robots to learn tasks from prompts consisting of just a handful…
BIM Informed Visual SLAM for Construction Environments
arXiv:2509.13972v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Monitoring building construction sites requires comparing the as-planned design with the as-built state, whi…
Fail-RAG : A Retrieval Augmented Generation Informed Framework for Robot Failure Identification
arXiv:2606.19598v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industry automation is witnessing an evolution in robotics driven by both technological breakthroughs and societ…
Microbot Medical to expand veteran access to robotic surgery with LIBERTY
Lovell Government Services will become Microbot's service-disabled veteran-owned small business vendor to supply federal programs. The post Microbot Medical to …
Kinova launches KIMA medical robotic arm
Instead of adapting the robot from industrial technology, Kinova said it designed KIMA from the ground up for clinical use. The post Kinova launches KIMA medica…