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Robots at work: warehouses, factories, farms, hospitals, construction sites and the automation reshaping them.
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734 storiesCycleRL: Sim-to-Real Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robust Autonomous Bicycle Control
arXiv:2603.15013v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous bicycles offer a promising agile solution for urban mobility and last-mile logistics. However, co…
Tactile-WAM: Touch-Aware World Action Model with Tactile Asymmetric Attention
arXiv:2606.26663v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) generate actions together with predicted futures, offering a powerful interface for r…
Continual Robot Policy Learning via Variational Neural Dynamics
arXiv:2606.27353v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots deployed in the real world rarely operate under a single fixed dynamics model: wind changes, payloads var…
Proposal-Conditioned Latent Diffusion for Closed-Loop Traffic Scenario Generation
arXiv:2606.27123v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Closed-loop traffic simulation remains challenging because it must generate interactive multi-agent behaviors th…
RouterVLA: Turning Smoke Tests into Supervision for Heterogeneous VLA Selection
arXiv:2606.27355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study whether pre-deployment evaluation rollouts can be reused to supervise policy selection. Robot teams rou…
RobOralScan: Learning Active Intraoral Scanning for Robotic Dental Reconstruction
arXiv:2606.26955v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Intraoral scanning is widely used for digital optical impressions in prosthodontic, implant, and orthodontic tre…
ForesightSafety-VLA: A Unified Diagnostic Safety Benchmark for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2606.27079v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In embodied intelligence, safety is a prerequisite for reliable robot deployment in the physical world. Current …
Real-Time Safety Evaluation of Human Arm Operations Using a Wrist-Mounted IMU with PSM System
arXiv:2502.09241v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach to real-time safety monitoring in human-robot collaborative manufacturi…
Reinforcement Learning Enables Autonomous Microrobot Navigation and Intervention in Simulated Blood Capillaries
arXiv:2606.26154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous microrobots navigating biological vasculature could enable targeted drug delivery and thrombolysis, y…
History-Conditioned Spatio-Temporal Visual Token Pruning for Efficient Vision-Language Navigation
arXiv:2603.06480v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) enables robots to follow natural-language instructions in visually grounded…
Hirebotics offers no-code, explosion-proof cobot for painting
Hirebotics' Cobot Painter supports stationary painting, with parts placed in a paint booth where robots perform all spraying operations. The post Hirebotics off…
Large-Scale Tunnel Air--Ground Collaboration With FLISP: Fast LiDAR-IMU Synchronized Path Planne
arXiv:2606.25393v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hydropower tunnel inspection is critical for infrastructure integrity yet remains inefficient and hazardous usin…
RigPI: Dynamic Parameter Identification of Rigid Body via VLM-Seeded Differentiable Simulation
arXiv:2606.25212v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate physical parameter identification of manipulated objects is fundamental to advanced robotic manipulatio…
An Integrated Hardware-Software Design for Low-Data Spatial Defect Detection in Robotic Visual Inspection with Hybrid Optoelectronic Neural Networks
arXiv:2606.25277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To address data overload and inefficient shape-level annotation in robotic visual inspection, this paper propose…
Stage-Aware and Roughness-Constrained Diffusion Policy for Multi-Stage Robotic Polishing
arXiv:2606.25754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Polishing is a critical finishing process in high-end manufacturing fields such as aerospace, where surface qual…
MIL-LC: A Robust Magnetometer-Inertial-LiDAR Fusion Multimodal Localization Framework
arXiv:2606.25796v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Localization in challenging environments, such as GNSS-denied, geometrically repetitive, or textureless scenes c…
RAVEN: Long-Horizon Reasoning & Navigation with a Visuo-Spatio-Temporal Memory
arXiv:2606.25206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term robot deployment requires a compact and scalable memory that preserves fine-grained visual semantics, …
ARTOO-DARTU: Studying AR-HRC With AR Obstruction Mitigation During a Warehouse Task
arXiv:2606.25202v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human-robot collaboration (HRC) often requires robot intentions and internal states to be conveyed to users fo…
ReaDy-Go: Real-to-Sim Dynamic 3D Gaussian Splatting Simulation for Environment-Specific Visual Navigation with Moving Obstacles
arXiv:2602.11575v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual navigation models often struggle in real-world dynamic environments due to limited robustness to the …
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Enhanced Event-Triggered Data-Driven Predictive Control for a 3D Cable-Driven Soft Robotic Arm
arXiv:2606.26048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft robots are challenging to control due to their nonlinear and time-varying dynamics. Data-enabled predictive…
SurveilNav: Collaborative Object Goal Navigation with Robot and Surveillance System
arXiv:2606.25119v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the growing deployment of surveillance systems in factories, offices, and homes, integrating them with robo…
From Rubble Simulation to Active Magnetic Mapping: Quantum Sensing for Disaster Response
arXiv:2606.25957v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Locating survivors of building collapses within the first 72 hours is a critical challenge in disaster response,…
Mantis Robotics launches dual-arm, fenceless robot
Mantis said the robot allows for new flexibility in how to configure automation in complex, real-world environments. The post Mantis Robotics launches dual-arm,…
Grounding Generative Policies in Physics: Optimization-Guided Diffusion for Robot Control
arXiv:2606.24208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models sample effectively from high-dimensional, multimodal distributions, but their outputs may viola…
Explaining Failures of Cyber-Physical Systems with Actual Causality
arXiv:2606.24546v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), such as self-driving cars, face increasingly complex demands, a…
Wh0: Generative World Models as Scalable Sources of Egocentric Human Hand Manipulation Data
arXiv:2606.22136v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scaling dexterous manipulation requires generalization across objects, scenes, and tasks, yet existing data …
Critique of Agent Model
arXiv:2606.23991v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: What is an agent? What constitutes agency? With the rise of Large Language Model (LLM) systems marketed as ``c…
From Open Waters to Enclosed Cabins: ProteusVPR for Cross-Scene Visual Place Recognition in Maritime Perception and Cabin Inspection
arXiv:2606.24234v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous robotic inspection in maritime environments presents unique challenges for Visual Place Recognition…
Sim-to-Real Betting on the E-Process: Bringing "simulators" to anytime-valid confidence sequences
arXiv:2606.24038v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This note describes an integration of the sim-to-real performance estimate with betting (from Chen et al.) and t…
ExRobotics launches UL-certified inspection robot for hazardous environments
ExRobotics says its ExR-2.5 inspection robot is certified for safe operations in explosive environments in North America. The post ExRobotics launches UL-certif…