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Quantile Transfer for Reliable Operating Point Selection in Visual Place Recognition

arXiv:2602.04401v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a key component for localisation in Global Navigation Satellite System (GN…

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SRL: Combining SLIP Model and Reinforcement Learning for Agile Robotic Jumping

arXiv:2606.18625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic jumping is pivotal in applications such as search and rescue and logistics, where crossing obstacles and…

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Why Automate This? Exploring Correlations Between Desire for Robotic Automation, Invested Time and Well-Being

arXiv:2501.06348v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding the motivations underlying the human inclination to automate tasks is vital for developi…

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Enhancing Fatigue Detection through Heterogeneous Multi-Source Data Integration and Cross-Domain Modality Imputation

arXiv:2507.16859v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Fatigue detection for human operators is important in safety-related applications such as aviation, mining, …

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N(CO)$^2$: Neural Combinatorial Optimization with Chance Constraints to Solve Stochastic Orienteering

arXiv:2606.18514v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) offers a promising alternative to traditional heuristic-based methods fo…

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Monocular 3D Occupancy Perception for Robots on Sidewalks via Hybrid 2D-3D Learning

arXiv:2606.19122v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sidewalks in the real world are crowded, cluttered, and less structured than roads, making 3D occupancy predicti…

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Admittance-Based Surface Alignment for Human-in-the-Loop Robotic Visual Inspection

arXiv:2606.18601v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Precision visual inspection underpins quality assurance across aerospace, semiconductor, and medical manufacturi…

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ROBOSHACKLES: A Safety Dataset for Human-Injury Prevention in Embodied Foundation Models

arXiv:2606.18632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied Foundation Models (EFMs) integrate multimodal understanding, future-state reasoning, and executable rob…

Autonomique deploys semi-humanoid robots and AI at Canadian Tier 1
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Autonomique deploys semi-humanoid robots and AI at Canadian Tier 1

Autonomique has moved its AI-powered robots from pilot to production at F&P Mfg., with plans for deployment across F-tech's global network. The post Autono…

Evaluating humanoids for surface finishing applications
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Evaluating humanoids for surface finishing applications

Manufacturing processes such as sanding, polishing, blasting, grinding, coating, and painting are used in a wide variety of industries. These manufacturing task…

New research enables a robot to chart a better course
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New research enables a robot to chart a better course

By rapidly generating a smooth path plan that cuts travel time and avoids obstacles, the open-source “MIGHTY” system could streamline disaster recovery and parc…

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HRDX: A Large-Scale Vector HD-Map Dataset

arXiv:2606.17080v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable autonomous driving requires vectorized HD maps that are geometrically accurate, semantically rich, and …

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EgoInfinity: A Web-Scale 4D Hand-Object Interaction Data Engine for Any-View Robot Retargeting and Video-to-Action Robot Learning

arXiv:2606.17385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Internet videos constitute the largest reservoir of embodied human manipulation knowledge, yet converting arbitr…

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WireCraft: A Simulation Benchmark for Industrial DLO Manipulation

arXiv:2606.18097v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deformable Linear Objects (DLOs), such as wires and cables, are central to industrial assembly. Unlike rigid obj…

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Extracting Semantics: LLM-Guided Automatic Population of Robot Ontology from URDF

arXiv:2606.17073v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While commonsense knowledge may suffice for virtual agents, embodied robots interacting with humans require grou…

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Beyond Benchmarks: Continuous Edge Inference for Fine-Grained Roadside Perception

arXiv:2606.17241v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continuous AI inference on resource-constrained edge hardware introduces deployment effects that are largely i…

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OpenTie: Open-vocabulary Sequential Rebar Tying System

arXiv:2509.00064v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic practices on the construction site emerge as an attention-attracting manner owing to their capabilit…

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Can Vision Foundation Models Navigate? Zero-Shot Real-World Evaluation and Lessons Learned

arXiv:2603.25937v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual Navigation Models (VNMs) promise generalizable, robot navigation by learning from large-scale visual …

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SimTO: A two-stage, simulation-driven topology optimization framework for bespoke soft robotic grippers

arXiv:2601.19098v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Soft robotic grippers are essential for grasping delicate, geometrically complex objects in manufacturing, h…

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Contactless Respiratory Monitoring on Heterogeneous Mobile Robots: A Multimodal Edge-Computing Framework

arXiv:2606.17376v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Respiratory-rate (RR) monitoring is a critical component of remote triage and victim assessment in emergency res…

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Uncertainty Quantification for Flow-Based Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2606.18043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action models (VLAs) combine vision-language backbones with expressive generative action heads t…

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Any2Any: Efficient Cross-Embodiment Transfer for Humanoid Whole-Body Tracking

arXiv:2605.23733v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Whole-body tracking (WBT) models have become a key foundation for humanoid robots, enabling them to imitate …

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RLRC: Reinforcement Learning-based Recovery for Compressed Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2506.17639v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models (VLA) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities and strong potential in comple…

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VISTA: Scale-Aware Visual Navigation via Action History Conditioning

arXiv:2606.17294v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision Navigation Foundation Models (VNMs) promise end-to-end learned navigation policies capable of zero-shot d…

Pegasus Tech Ventures launches $60M fund for physical AI startups
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Pegasus Tech Ventures launches $60M fund for physical AI startups

Pegasus and CYBERDYNE will invest in startups developing robotics, physical AI, healthcare, automation, and intelligent systems. The post Pegasus Tech Ventures …

Kawasaki Robotics to debut RL030N physical AI platform at Automate
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Kawasaki Robotics to debut RL030N physical AI platform at Automate

Kawasaki Robotics says its 8-DoF robot, Pulseboard inspection tech, and other systems will show its vision for intelligent automation. The post Kawasaki Robotic…

Built Robotics, Penn xLAB to develop physical AI for construction
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Built Robotics, Penn xLAB to develop physical AI for construction

xLAB and Built Robotics partner to capture additional data, advancing AI models to improve construction site safety. The post Built Robotics, Penn xLAB to devel…

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Unified Motion-Action Modeling for Heterogeneous Robot Learning

arXiv:2606.16917v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Unified Motion-Action (UMA) Model, an approach that uses 3D object motion trajectories as a shared in…

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A Deployment Case Study in Robotic Apparel Automation: Digital Twin Integration, Interoperability, and Workforce Enablement

arXiv:2606.16078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite steady advances in flexible automation in sectors such as electronics and automotive manufacturing, appa…

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FARM: Find Anything using Relational Spatial Memory

arXiv:2606.15476v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots operating in homes, warehouses, and other object-rich environments need memory systems that can find spec…