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Robots at work: warehouses, factories, farms, hospitals, construction sites and the automation reshaping them.
Robots at work: warehouses, factories, farms, hospitals, construction sites and the automation reshaping them.
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734 storiesContinual Field-Adaptive Models (CFAMs) for Post-Deployment Physical AI
arXiv:2609.04552v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unattended interactive autonomy - machines that step into danger in place of humans and complete tasks with huma…
RedVLA: Physical Red Teaming for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2604.22591v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The real-world deployment of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models remains limited by the risk of unpredictabl…
CoFreeVLA: Short-Horizon Collision-Free Dual-Arm Manipulation via Vision-Language-Action Model and Risk Estimation
arXiv:2601.21712v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision Language Action (VLA) models enable instruction-following manipulation, yet their deployment on coord…
Reasoning Without Inference Cost: Latent Semantic Scaffolding for Robot VLA Policies
arXiv:2609.04893v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models are trained by imitation and capture what action to take but not why; adding…
FailureSpot: Label-Efficient Timestamp-Level Failure Detection for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2609.04277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies have shown strong potential for general-purpose robotic manipulation, but …
ARM Institute gets $90M for 10 projects to modernize military manufacturing
Fifteen member organizations will deliver viable working solutions within a two-year timeframe, the ARM Institute said. The post ARM Institute gets $90M for 10 …
Robot.com partners with Sodexo to roll out more sidewalk delivery robots
Robot.com says college campuses will continue to be an important part of its strategy as it scales sidewalk delivery robots. The post Robot.com partners with So…
Programming and execution of skill-based human-robot-crane collaborative tasks
arXiv:2609.03392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Highly varying production sets increasing challenges for robotic manufacturing and indoor logistics. New capabil…
A comparative study on the accuracy & repeatability of mobile robotic platforms for the delivery of precision NDE measurement
arXiv:2609.03794v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile robotic platforms offer a flexible alternative to fixed manipulators for non-destructive evaluation (NDE)…
Understanding Autonomous Driving Datasets by Describing Differences between Image Subsets in Natural Language
arXiv:2609.03677v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding the composition of large-scale autonomous driving datasets is essential for safety, robustness, …
Learning-based Adaptive Safety-Critical Control With Evolving Unsafe Regions
arXiv:2503.16551v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Control barrier functions (CBFs) provide a principled framework for safety-critical control, but their const…
Decentralized Vision-Based Autonomous Aerial Wildlife Monitoring
arXiv:2508.15038v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Wildlife field operations demand efficient parallel deployment methods to identify and interact with specifi…
Learning Terrain-Aware Whole-Body Control for Perceptive Legged Loco-Manipulation
arXiv:2605.31343v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Legged manipulators integrate exceptional terrain adaptability along with mobile manipulation capabilities, …
ASIP-Planner: Adaptive Planning for UAV Surface Inspection in Partially Known Indoor Environments
arXiv:2605.11119v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Indoor infrastructure inspection, such as tunnels and industrial facilities, requires systematic surface cov…
A Multi-Vine Soft Robot Enabling Accessible Working Channel and Steering
arXiv:2609.03758v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft eversion robots, also known as vine robots, have attracted growing interest for navigation and inspection t…
Vision-Based Tactile Sensing for the Perception of the Object's Compliance and Hardness
arXiv:2510.12528v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Object compliance perception enables the identification of soft materials, supporting tasks such as fruit de…
SV-WAM: An Efficient Surround-View World-Action Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2609.03602v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models (WMs) have demonstrated strong potential for end-to-end autonomous driving by learning predictive…
Automated Weld Seam Recognition and 3D Mapping for Robotic Post Processing Using Photogrammetry and Semantic Segmentation
arXiv:2609.03970v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate identification of weld seam geometries is essential for automated robotic post processing operations su…
Robot Aware Computational Design of Object Specific Passive Grippers for Additive Manufacturing
arXiv:2609.03761v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an end-to-end computational pipeline that converts a selected object mesh, a measured object…
ARTiS: An Adaptive Robotic Gripper for Enhanced Tool Manipulation in Disassembly Applications
arXiv:2609.03362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Grasping and holding tools while using them presents a considerable challenge not only for robots but also for h…
Autonomous robotic bridging using distributed swarm control without inter-agent communication
arXiv:2609.01394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We describe SCARAB--Swarm-Capable Autonomous Robotic Aquatic Bridging. Using distributed swarm control and multi…
DSG: Dynamic 3D Scene Graph Construction for Embodied Agents in Changing Indoor Environments
arXiv:2609.00619v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In indoor environments, object positions frequently change due to human activities or embodied-agent interaction…
Optimal UGV-UAV Cooperative Partitioning and Inspection of Shortest Paths
arXiv:2604.25284v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study cooperative shortest path planning for an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) assisted by an unmanned aer…
Deploying and Evaluating a Smart-Agriculture Agentic Engine for Full-Season Soybean Farm Operations
arXiv:2609.00106v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents FAIRY, a full-stack smart-agriculture agent system developed for and deployed to an operat…
Federated Trust for Embodied Robot Capability Marketplaces
arXiv:2609.00404v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot capability marketplaces, the "app store for robot skills," are emerging as the deployment vector for LLM…
Facet-0: A Robotic Foundation Model for Contact-Rich Precise Manipulation
arXiv:2609.01596v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world robotic assembly at sub-millimeter tolerances demands spatial precision, compliant interaction, and r…
Learn how physical AI is being used to do real work at RoboBusiness
Leaders at Amazon Robotics, Teradyne Robotics, and Cobot will discuss how they're applying physical AI to robots operating in customer environments. The post Le…
HowToRobot and Robotics Australia Group partner on platform to encourage robot adoption
The initiative is intended to help businesses in Australia identify automation opportunities, test them, and connect with local suppliers. The post HowToRobot a…
From spreadsheets to AI: Deere gives farmers new features in Operations Center, JD
John Deere has launched JD, an AI tool that turns historical farm data into actionable insights to boost profitability. The post From spreadsheets to AI: Deere …
Open-Source Autonomous Driving System Analysis and Multi-Disciplinary Hardware-in-the-Loop Research Paradigm with Reinforcement-Learning Testing and Large Language Models
arXiv:2608.30179v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-source autonomous driving systems provide an inspectable software foundation for intelligent vehicle rese…