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Robots at work: warehouses, factories, farms, hospitals, construction sites and the automation reshaping them.
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734 storiesForbidden Region Dynamic Active Constraints in Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery
arXiv:2608.03010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In robot-assisted surgery, Forbidden Region Active Constraints (FRAC) represent a control strategy that helps ma…
Contact-Driven Localization in a Freeform Robotic Self-Assembled Structure
arXiv:2608.02895v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate localization remains a key challenge in swarm robotics, particularly for self-reconfigurable systems th…
On-the-fly hand-eye calibration for the da Vinci surgical robot
arXiv:2601.14871v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (RMIS), accurate tool localization is crucial to ensure patient…
Humanoids won’t scale on factory floors until costs drop
The race to commercialize humanoids is on. What’s left to prove is that humanoid robots can beat the economics of the automation manufacturers are already runni…
Grounded Vision-Language Interpreter for Long-Horizon Bimanual Task and Motion Planning
arXiv:2506.03270v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While recent advances in vision-language models have accelerated language-guided robot planning, their black…
Toward Geometry-Scalable Whole-Body Touch for Humanoids: A 3D-Printed Conformal EIT Skin
arXiv:2608.02080v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Whole-body tactile sensing is a prerequisite for humanoids that operate in contact-rich human environments, but …
World Action Models in Real Time: An Empirical Study of Smooth Execution via Asynchronous Deployment
arXiv:2608.01880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models generate fixed-horizon action chunks through iterative denoising, creating substantial infer…
SSTG-Nav: Metric-Grounded Spatial-Semantic Topological Graphs for Reusable Object Navigation
arXiv:2608.00527v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Service robots operating for months in the same homes, offices, and facilities should become more reliable with …
WAM-Diff2: Hierarchical AR-to-Diffusion Distillation for Highly Efficient Autonomous Driving VLA
arXiv:2608.01035v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a prominent paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving; howe…
CoNav-UAV: Cooperative Dual-Altitude Aerial Navigation via Stackelberg Learning
arXiv:2608.01802v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Target-oriented vision-and-language navigation (VLN) on aerial platforms is attracting growing attention for m…
Learning-Based Motion Planning for Dynamic Environments: From Foundational Algorithms to Emerging Paradigms
arXiv:2608.00625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motion planning in dynamic environments is a fundamental problem in robotics, aiming to generate safe and effici…
Towards General Language-Conditioned Latent Safety Filters
arXiv:2608.00315v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot policies are becoming increasingly general, with vision-language-action (VLA) models enabling a single pol…
Minute-Scale Training for Microrobot Navigation
arXiv:2608.00854v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Microrobots hold significant potential for various applications, where targeted navigation is a basic requiremen…
Stress-Relief Annealing: Polynomial-Time Simulation-Free Layout Optimization for Automated Warehouses
arXiv:2608.01024v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the problem of optimizing physical layouts for automated warehouses, where hundreds to thousands of r…
Perception-and-action system for humanoid robot task execution in construction
arXiv:2608.01600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots, with their human-like shape and multi-tasking capabilities, are well-aligned with human-dominat…
A Robotic System for Automated Manufacturing of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators
arXiv:2608.00369v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This letter presents an automated robotic manufacturing system for soft capacitors which operate as actuators an…
Long-Term Memory for VLA-based Agents in Open-World Task Execution
arXiv:2604.15671v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated significant potential for embodied decision-making; ho…
BWM: A Low-Cost High-Fidelity World Simulator for Robot Learning
arXiv:2607.29302v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable robot learning requires a world simulator that can predict action consequences before execution on phys…
Combining Large Language Models and Symbolic Reasoning for Multi-Robot Temporal Planning through Explainable Knowledge Bases
arXiv:2502.19135v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present PLANTOR, a framework for generating and executing multi-robot task plans from natural-langu…
Vision-based Goal-Reaching Control for Mobile Robots Using a Hierarchical Learning Framework
arXiv:2601.00610v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has strong potential in robotics, but exploration-based training complicates saf…
Vision-Based Agile Landing on Turbulent Waters
arXiv:2605.23717v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous landing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles on maritime vessels is challenging due to the coupled motion …
Receding-Horizon Next-Best-View Planner for Autonomous Leaf Surface Reconstruction
arXiv:2607.28995v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate plant leaf modeling is fundamental to downstream tasks such as plant growth monitoring, and phenotyping…
CLIFT: Turning Gemini Robotics On-Device into Humanoid Specialists via Non-Invasive Closed-Loop Iterative Fine-Tuning
arXiv:2607.29172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While robot foundation models are growing increasingly capable, the strongest models are typically trained on pr…
Bootstrapping Self-Supervised Learning of Binary Classification Using Error Bounds: A Case Study on a Robotic Insertion Task
arXiv:2607.29640v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flexible manufacturing requires rapid deployment of solutions and minimal setup time to remain competitive. An e…
RAPiD: Reward-Guided Consistency Distillation of Diffusion Planners for Real-Time Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2602.07339v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion-based trajectory planners can model multi-modal driving behavior, but their iterative denois…
Choose What to Manipulate: Revealing Data Scaling Laws in Bounding-Box Guided Policies for Semantic Manipulation
arXiv:2602.11885v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion-based policies generalize poorly in semantic manipulation, a key obstacle to real-world deployment…
KUKA deploys Automation Management Platform for North American automakers
KUKA has deployed its Automation Management Platform at KTPO, a major manufacturing facility in Ohio. The post KUKA deploys Automation Management Platform for N…
FCC robot ruling shines a spotlight on U.S. policy; how next-gen AI can help warehousing
Osaro’s Derek Pridmore says warehouse robots are advancing, but real-world safety and reliability still depend on specialized, layered AI systems. The post FCC …
Procore Technologies acquires DroneDeploy for $845M
Procore will integrate DroneDeploy's visual intelligence technology to link the digital world with physical construction sites. The post Procore Technologies ac…
PAC-MAN: Perception-Aware CBF-RL for Whole-Body Safety in Humanoid Dodgeball
arXiv:2607.28623v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present PAC-MAN, a perception-aware CBF-RL framework that couples control-barrier safety with deployment-real…