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Robots at work: warehouses, factories, farms, hospitals, construction sites and the automation reshaping them.
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734 storiesSCALE: Self-uncertainty Conditioned Adaptive Looking and Execution for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2602.04208v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising paradigm for general-purpose robotic control…
Adaptive-Horizon Conflict-Based Search for Closed-Loop Multi-Agent Path Finding
arXiv:2602.12024v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: MAPF is a core coordination problem for large robot fleets in automated warehouses and logistics. Existing a…
AssemLM: A Spatial Reasoning Multimodal Large Language Model for Robotic Assembly
arXiv:2604.08983v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Spatial reasoning is a fundamental capability for embodied intelligence, especially for fine-grained manipul…
From Digital to Physical: Digital Agents as Autonomous Coaches for Physical Intelligence
arXiv:2601.21570v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The field of Embodied AI is witnessing a rapid evolution toward general-purpose robotic systems, fuele…
Low cost, easily manufactured, highly flexible strain and touch sensitive fiber for robotics applications
arXiv:2606.13352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing stretch and touch sensors for robots are generally expensive with respect to at least one of material c…
EMG-Based Adaptation of Anisotropic Virtual Fixtures for Robot-Assisted Surgical Resection and Dissection
arXiv:2606.13340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we address the development of an adaptive assistance system for robot-assisted laparoscopic surge…
From Imitation to Alignment: Human-Preference Flow Policies for Long-Horizon Sidewalk Navigation
arXiv:2606.12603v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous long-horizon sidewalk navigation is essential for micro-mobility applications such as robotic food de…
PLUME: Probabilistic Latent Unified World Modeling and Parameter Estimation for Multi-Finger Manipulation
arXiv:2606.11396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous manipulation with multi-finger hands can be sensitive to physical parameters such as object shape, pos…
A Modular Dual-Camera Pipeline for Micro-Inspection Using Aerial Robots
arXiv:2606.11419v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most existing drone-based inspection systems require the drone to fly dangerously close to the target or follow …
Adversarial Attacks on Learned Policies for Surgical Robotic Tasks
arXiv:2606.11535v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning-based policies are being considered to augment the dexterity of human surgeons in robot-assisted surger…
Point Cloud Segmentation for Autonomous Clip Positioning in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy on a Phantom
arXiv:2606.12048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-risk applications in robotics, such as robot-assisted surgery, present unique challenges. These systems mus…
iPack: Intuitive Bin Packing with Large Language Models
arXiv:2503.08445v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotics and automation are increasingly influential in logistics but remain largely confined to traditional…
SR-LIO++: LiDAR-Inertial Odometry and Quantized Mapping with Caching-Aware Sweep Reconstruction
arXiv:2503.22926v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Addressing the inherent low acquisition frequency limitation of 3D LiDAR to achieve high-frequency output ha…
Learning Ordinal Response Policies in Rank-Based Stochastic Prize-Collecting Games
arXiv:2510.24515v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The Team Orienteering Problem (TOP) generalizes many real-world multi-agent scheduling and routing tasks tha…
GEAR-VLA: Learning Geometry-Aware Action Representations for Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2606.08530v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve strong benchmark performance but still struggle in real-world de…
CHORUS: Decentralized Multi-Embodiment Collaboration with One VLA Policy
arXiv:2606.12352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot collaboration allows robots to efficiently take on a wide range of tasks, from moving a couch throug…
AerialClaw: An Open-Source Framework for LLM-Driven Autonomous Aerial Agents
arXiv:2606.12142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used in inspection, search and rescue, environmental monitoring…
KinematicRL: A Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning Framework For Social Navigation With Kinodynamic Feasibility
arXiv:2606.12042v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has shown promise for social navigation, yet its real-world deployment remains…
Embodied-R1.5: Evolving Physical Intelligence via Embodied Foundation Models
arXiv:2606.11324v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Embodied-R1.5, a unified Embodied Foundation Model (EFM) that integrates comprehensive embodied rea…
Intelligent Automation for Embodied Benchmark Construction: Pipelines, Embodiments, Simulators, and Trends
arXiv:2606.12207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied intelligence now spans navigation, household assistance, manipulation, autonomous driving, aerial agent…
Explore From Sketch: Accelerating UAV Exploration in Large-scale Environments with Prior Maps
arXiv:2606.11708v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous exploration with UAVs in large-scale, topologically complex environments often suffers from low effic…
SAFER-Nav: Enhancing Safety for Visual Robot Navigation via Segmentation-Aware Fine-Tuning
arXiv:2606.11636v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-based navigation models, particularly foundation models, generate viable trajectories from RGB observatio…
Robot Talk Episode 142 – Collaborative robot arms, with Mark Gray
Claire chatted to Mark Gray from Universal Robots about their lightweight robotic arms that work alongside humans. Mark Gray has worked in automation for the la…
Robot Talk Episode 145 – Robotics and automation in manufacturing, with Agata Suwala
Claire chatted to Agata Suwala from the Manufacturing Technology Centre about leveraging robotics to make manufacturing systems more sustainable. Agata Suwala i…
Generative AI analyzes medical data faster than human research teams
Researchers tested whether generative AI could handle complex medical datasets as well as human experts. In some cases, the AI matched or outperformed teams tha…
Restoring surgeons’ sense of touch with robotic fingertips
By Anthony King Modern surgery has gone from long incisions to tiny cuts guided by robots and AI. In the process, however, surgeons have lost something vital: t…
AI-powered robot learns how to harvest tomatoes more efficiently
A new tomato-picking robot is learning to think before it acts. Instead of simply identifying ripe fruit, it predicts how easy each tomato will be to harvest an…
Deepfake X-rays are so real even doctors can’t tell the difference
Deepfake X-rays created by AI are now convincing enough to fool both doctors and AI models. In tests, radiologists had limited success identifying fake images, …
Robot Talk Episode 150 – House building robots, with Vikas Enti
Claire chatted to Vikas Enti from Reframe Systems about using robotics and automation to build climate-resilient, high-performance homes. Vikas Enti is the co-f…
Back to school: robots learn from factory workers
By Anthony King What if training a robot to handle dirty, dangerous work on the factory floor was as simple as showing it how? Czech startup RoboTwin is doing e…