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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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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
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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
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
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
Acting While Understanding: Asynchronous Semantic-Action Decoupling for Real-Time Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2606.15285v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) have demonstrated strong task understanding and generalization in robotic m…
MimicIK: Real-Time Generative Inverse Kinematics from Teleoperation with FK Consistency
arXiv:2606.15148v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inverse kinematics (IK) remains a critical bottleneck for real-time robot manipulation. Classical numerical solv…
GenZ-LIO: Generalizable LiDAR-Inertial Odometry Beyond Confined--Open Boundaries
arXiv:2603.16273v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: For field robotic missions such as inspection, search-and-rescue, and exploration, light detection and rangi…
AetheRock: An Arm-Worn Robot Teaching System for Force-Guided Vision-Tactile Learning
arXiv:2606.09777v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Force and tactile sensing are indispensable in contact-rich manipulation. However, force-aware robot learnin…
DataLadder: A Simulation-Enabled Interconversion Toolchain for the Embodied Data Pyramid
arXiv:2606.16776v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalist robot policies require trustworthy evaluation and robot-usable training data, but both are difficult …
Inference-time Policy Steering via Vision and Touch
arXiv:2606.14981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inference-time steering adapts pre-trained generative robot policies during deployment by verifying candidate ac…
Understanding and Modeling Perceived Cognitive and Physical Strain Dynamics for Planning-Oriented Human-Robot Collaboration in Prefabricated Construction
arXiv:2606.15494v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-robot collaboration (HRC) in prefabricated construction requires planning approaches that consider not onl…
Reinforcement Learning-Guided Retrieval with Soft Fusion for Robust Multimodal Imitation Learning under Missing Modalities
arXiv:2606.15514v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic systems perceive the world through multiple input modalities -- including visual camera streams and natu…
Automated Digital Twin Construction for Highway Scenarios Using LiDAR Point Clouds and OpenStreetMap
arXiv:2606.16570v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate road environment modeling is fundamental to the simulation and validation of automated driving systems.…