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Medtronic to launch AI compute platform for the operating room
Touch Surgery bridges pre-operative planning and training, intra-operative tele-mentoring and tele-proctoring, and post-operative insights. The post Medtronic t…
Computing on the Fly: Navigating a Vision for the Future of Drone Computing
arXiv:2607.19213v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The report envisions a decade in which drones move goods, medical supplies, and information at a scale comparabl…
Recti-Q: Feature-Space Rectification for Out-of-Distribution-Robust Quantized Perception in Edge Robotics
arXiv:2607.18540v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic perception pipelines increasingly rely on large vision backbones deployed on SWaP-constrained edge pla…
Correct-by-Construction Behavior Tree Synthesis from Signal Temporal Logic Specifications with Application to Robotic Missions
arXiv:2607.18731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Behavior Trees (BTs) are widely adopted for complex task execution in robotics, providing modular, reactive cont…
TiBCLaG: Hybrid design approach for a trigger-induced bistable compliant laparoscopic grasper
arXiv:2603.18559v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Industrial laparoscopic graspers rely on multi-link rigid mechanisms manufactured to tight tolerances, resul…
RAPT: Model-Predictive Out-of-Distribution Detection and Failure Diagnosis for Sim-to-Real Humanoid Deployment
arXiv:2602.01515v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deploying learned control policies is risky because policies that appear robust in simulation can confidentl…
Fly, Track, Land: Infrastructure-less Magnetic Localization for Heterogeneous UAV-UGV Teaming
arXiv:2603.08926v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Persistent air ground robot teams require nano UAVs that can leave a mobile UGV, perform short scouting or i…
MVP-Tac: A Miniaturized Dual-Modal Vision and Photoelastic Tactile Sensor for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery
arXiv:2607.18660v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS) offers major benefits over open and conventional laparoscopic p…
Intelligent Multi-UAV Navigation in ITNTNs: A Hierarchical LLM Approach
arXiv:2607.18604v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The deployment of high-speed Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in 3D aerial highways necessitates robust coordinat…
Beyond Fixed Goal Delivery: Online POMDP Planning for Target Interception in Crowds
arXiv:2607.18517v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Target interception in crowded environments requires reaching a moving objective while navigating among multiple…
MISUMI Americas releases reshoring report, supports manufacturing training bill
MISUMI Americas has examined reshoring of U.S. manufacturing and supported legislation to send workers overseas for training. The post MISUMI Americas releases …
RobustVLA: On Robustness of Vision-Language-Action Model against Multi-Modal Perturbations
arXiv:2510.00037v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In Vision-Language-Actionf(VLA) models, robustness to real-world perturbations is critical for deploym…
UMCP: A Unified Multi-Task Collaborative Perception Network for Luggage Trolley Pose Estimation
arXiv:2607.17950v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In robotic autonomous luggage trolley collection, robots must continuously localize scattered luggage trolleys i…
Foresight Residual RL for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation with Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2607.16506v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies offer strong general-purpose manipulation priors, but often fail on tight-…
Manifold-Guided Motion Planning for Tight Assemblies
arXiv:2607.17898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motion planning for rigid-body assembly poses a fundamental challenge in robotics due to tight geometric constra…
SinD 2.0: A Multi-City UAV Dataset with Semantic Risk Annotations for SOTIF-Oriented Safety Validation at Signalized Intersections
arXiv:2607.16943v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety validation at signalized intersections remains a critical bottleneck for the deployment of autonomous dri…
GLidE-SLAM: GL-Accelerated Indirect-Direct Embedded SLAM
arXiv:2607.16897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the growing demand for robotics, autonomous drones, and wearable extended reality systems, the deployment o…
Unsupervised Discovery of Failure Taxonomies from Deployment Logs
arXiv:2506.06570v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As robotic systems become increasingly integrated into real-world environments, ranging from autonomous vehi…
Physically-Feasible Reactive Synthesis for Terrain-Adaptive Locomotion
arXiv:2509.23185v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present an integrated planning framework for quadrupedal locomotion over dynamically changing, unforeseen…
xperception -- Making Robotic Grasping Easier
arXiv:2607.16312v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The transition toward high-mix low-volume manufacturing demands flexibility in robotic manipulation. However, …
Multi-Resolution Voxelized Map-Based Stereo Visual-Inertial Odometry
arXiv:2607.17332v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Incorporating prior maps significantly enhances the accuracy and robustness of pose estimation in visual-inertia…
A BIM-enabled, Agent-based Discrete-event Simulation Platform for Robotic Studies: A Method based on Graph Theory
arXiv:2607.16920v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Indoor robots are increasingly employed for facility management tasks such as cleaning and inspection. These app…
Seeing Where to Deploy: Metric RGB-Based Traversability Analysis for Aerial-to-Ground Hidden Space Inspection
arXiv:2603.14639v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Inspection of confined infrastructure such as culverts often requires accessing hidden spaces whose entrance…
VersualRL: Closed-Loop Verbal Reinforcement Learning with Visual Execution Feedback for Task-Level Robot Planning
arXiv:2603.22169v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce VersualRL, a closed-loop framework for task-level robot planning that uses visual execution fee…
Lifelong Multi-Subsystem Pickup and Delivery with Buffer-Limited Handover Stations
arXiv:2607.17724v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coordinating payload transfers between subsystems is a critical challenge in lifelong Multi-Agent Pickup and Del…
Receiver-Centered Robot-to-Human Handover with Grasp-Aware Object Orientation
arXiv:2607.17839v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collaborative robots are increasingly sharing workspaces with human operators, making tool handover a frequent a…
Does Robust VIO Need More Learning? Geometry-Verified Visual Measurements under Distribution Shift
arXiv:2607.17956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning is increasingly introduced into visual-inertial odometry (VIO), ranging from learned feature front-ends…
Hybrid Machine Learning for Articulation Angle Estimation of Truck-Semitrailer Combinations
arXiv:2607.16758v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate articulation angle estimation of trucks with trailers is critical for autonomous driving and advanced…
Leveraging Two Robotic Arms for Tight Assembly Performance Gains
arXiv:2607.17876v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We provide a novel end-to-end framework for the execution of an assembly operation by two robotic arms, given th…
ContactFusion: Stochastic Poisson Surface Maps from Visual and Contact Sensing
arXiv:2503.16592v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robust and precise robotic assembly entails insertion of constituent components. Insertion success is hinder…