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734 storiesReal-time Rendering-based Surgical Instrument Tracking via Evolutionary Optimization
arXiv:2603.11404v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate and efficient tracking of surgical instruments is fundamental for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive…
WoVR: World Models as Reliable Simulators for Post-Training VLA Policies with RL
arXiv:2602.13977v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) promises to unlock capabilities beyond imitation learning for Vision--Language--…
GaRLILEO: Gravity-aligned Radar-Leg-Inertial Enhanced Odometry
arXiv:2511.13216v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deployment of legged robots for navigating challenging terrains (e.g., stairs, slopes, and unstructured envi…
Critical Interval MSE: Toward Reliable Offline Validation for Robot Manipulation Policies
arXiv:2606.29898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world evaluation is the gold standard for robot policies because it tests them against the physical conditi…
Auditing LLM-Governed Social Robots with Culture-Specific Moral Gradients
arXiv:2606.28345v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-governed social robots increasingly decide who receives real-world assistance first. As prioritization norms…
Trajectory Optimization for Collision-Aware Redundant Robotic Multi-Axis Additive Manufacturing by Constrained Gradient Projection
arXiv:2606.29766v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Redundant robotic multi-axis additive manufacturing (MAAM) enables support-free and conformal fabrication, but t…
DRIVE-Nav: Directional Reasoning, Inspection, and Verification for Efficient Open-Vocabulary Navigation
arXiv:2603.28691v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Open-Vocabulary Object Navigation (OVON) requires an embodied agent to locate a language-specified target in…
BioProVLA-Agent: An Affordable, Protocol-Driven, Vision-Enhanced VLA-Enabled Embodied Multi-Agent System with Closed-Loop-Capable Reasoning for Biological Laboratory Manipulation
arXiv:2605.07306v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Biological laboratory automation can reduce repetitive manual work and improve reproducibility, but reliable…
AERIS: Aerial-Edge Role-Driven Intelligence at Runtime via Orchestrated Language-Model Swarm
arXiv:2606.30151v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Integrating large language models into robotic systems holds promise for enhancing autonomy, yet practical deplo…
CSAR: Containerized System Architecture for Robotics
arXiv:2606.30293v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic applications increasingly rely on distributed computational infrastructures that combine embedded device…
Vision-Language-Action Models: Experimental Insights from a Real-World UR5 Platform
arXiv:2606.30456v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This project investigates whether recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models can be transferred from controlled …
Learning from Mistakes: Rollout-Retrieval Lifelong Policy Learning for Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2606.30537v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving policies should be able to improve continually as deployment exposes them to increasingly div…
LNN-Fly: Continuous-Time UAV Navigation for Robust Obstacle Avoidance under Timing Mismatch
arXiv:2606.28827v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation can achieve impressive agility in simulation, yet its obstac…
MOAR Planner: Multi-Objective and Adaptive Risk-Aware Path Planning for Infrastructure Inspection with a UAV
arXiv:2606.30575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The problem of autonomous navigation for UAV inspection remains challenging as it requires effectively navigatin…
He3-Seeker: Robotic Information Planning for Lunar Helium-3 Distribution Mapping
arXiv:2606.28746v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Lunar helium-3 is a highly valuable strategic resource, pivotal to the advancement of both deep-space exploratio…
AsyncMDE: Real-Time Monocular Depth Estimation via Asynchronous Spatial Memory
arXiv:2603.10438v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Foundation-model-based monocular depth estimation offers a viable alternative to active sensors for robot pe…
Learning to Throw: Agile and Accurate Cable-Suspended Payload Delivery with a Quadrotor
arXiv:2606.27603v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quadrotors offer the agility needed to rapidly transport suspended payloads during time-critical applications, i…
AI-Driven Synthesis for High-Tech System Design: Automating Innovation
arXiv:2606.28126v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This article addresses the combinatorial complexity inherent in modern high-tech system design by presenting a…
Drifting in the Future: Stabilizing Path Following Drifting on High-Latency Vehicle Systems
arXiv:2606.27914v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomously controlling and handling a vehicle at and beyond its stability limit is a mathematically and comput…
MobileManiBench: Simplifying Model Verification for Mobile Manipulation
arXiv:2602.05233v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-language-action models have advanced robotic manipulation but remain constrained by reliance on the l…
SpikeVLA: Vision-Language-Action Models with Spiking Neural Networks
arXiv:2606.27807v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become a dominant paradigm for embodied intelligence. However, most exi…
Driver-WM: A Driver-Centric Traffic-Conditioned Latent World Model for In-Cabin Dynamics Rollout
arXiv:2605.05092v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Safe L2/L3 driving automation requires anticipating human-in-the-loop reactions during shared-control transi…
LocalNav: Distilling Frontier VLMs and Embodied RL for On-Device Object Goal Navigation
arXiv:2606.27871v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision Language Models (VLMs) have emerged in the robotic domain as a powerful tool that enables environmental p…
SimFoundry: Modular and Automated Scene Generation for Policy Learning and Evaluation
arXiv:2606.28276v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training and evaluating robot policies in the real world is costly and difficult to scale. We introduce SimFound…
AGIBOT produces 15,000th robot, marking a milestone in embodied AI deployment
AGIBOT has rolled out 15,000 wheeled semi-humanoid robots as it moves from embodied AI from development and production to deployment. The post AGIBOT produces 1…
How compact cobot integration enhances autonomous mobile robot applications
Cobots are quickly shaping the future of warehousing, with their use rising 10-fold from 2018 to 2025, Kassow said. The post How compact cobot integration enhan…
We know how to build smarter robots. Now, we need to learn smarter ways to test them
Atharv Kolhar, a staff test automation engineer at Figure AI, says the robotics industry needs a testing philosophy that scales alongside autonomy. The post We …
Orbbec shows AI-powered vision systems at Automate 2026
Orbbec presented industrial-grade 3D cameras for challenging automation scenarios, as well as AI integration for enhanced robotic perception. The post Orbbec sh…
Robot Talk Episode 162 – The robot doctor will see you now
Since the first robot-assisted surgery was performed, over 40 years ago, major advances in robotics, computer vision and artificial intelligence have fundamenta…
Play2Perfect: What Matters in Dexterous Play Pretraining for Precise Assembly?
arXiv:2606.26428v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-fingered robots promise the speed and dexterity of human hands, yet challenging problems such as precise a…