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Robots at work: warehouses, factories, farms, hospitals, construction sites and the automation reshaping them.
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734 storiesGeneralizable Multi-Agent Planning from Signal Temporal Logic Specifications via Diffusion
arXiv:2608.29490v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent systems in the real-world (e.g., drone swarms, autonomous cars, warehouse robots) must satisfy ric…
Agri-Sim: Agricultural Simulation Platform for Embodied Intelligence Evaluation in Greenhouse Robotics
arXiv:2608.29100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agricultural-robot development requires simulation environments that can jointly support realistic scene constru…
DREAM: Deployment-Time Demonstration Generation via Real-to-Sim for Scalable Policy Adaptation
arXiv:2608.29078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have made strong progress in language-conditioned robot manipulation, but im…
Anomaly Detection on Small Industrial Components via Vision-Based Tactile Sensing
arXiv:2608.30506v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated inspection of small industrial components, including sub-centimetre-scale parts where defects are geom…
PAVE: Predictive Alignment and Value-Guided Evolution for World-Action Policies
arXiv:2608.30378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Direct vision-language-action policies generate continuous robot actions efficiently, but standard behavior clon…
Training-Free Action Correction for VLA Model Failures via Language Feedback
arXiv:2608.29967v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models demonstrate strong semantic understanding yet exhibit systematic failures du…
SmoothRL: Online Reinforcement Learning During Asynchronous Execution
arXiv:2608.29768v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying robot policies in the physical world requires satisfying two fundamental desiderata: reliability and s…
AdaVLA: Adaptive Step Flow Matching for Training-free Acceleration of Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2608.29208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, built upon Vision-Language Models (VLMs), have significantly enhanced robot…
Adversarial Calibration Attack on Autonomous Vehicles
arXiv:2608.28778v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous vehicles (AVs) rely on accurate camera-LiDAR calibration for multimodal sensor fusion. In practice, c…
A Degradation-Tolerance Benchmark for Camera-Only End-to-End Driving
arXiv:2608.29005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Camera-only end-to-end (E2E) driving models are nearing deployment, where the camera stream is degraded by blur,…
On Adversarial Attacks In Acoustic Drone Localization
arXiv:2502.20325v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multi-rotor aerial autonomous vehicles (MAVs, more widely known as "drones") have been generating incr…
Zeva: In-Context Causal Learning for Generalizable Embodied Manipulation
arXiv:2608.30880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalizable embodied manipulation remains difficult to achieve through pretraining alone, due to unseen physic…
Autonomously Acquiring Robot Manipulation Skills with Language-Driven Quality-Diversity
arXiv:2608.30983v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quality-diversity (QD) algorithms have been gaining traction in robot learning, where diverse motion primitive l…
Sampling-based Certified Planning with Graphs of Convex Sets
arXiv:2608.29770v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Planners on graphs of convex sets return trajectories that are collision-free by construction, provided the conv…
Failure or Drift? Evaluating Monocular SLAM under Synthetic and Real-World Corruptions
arXiv:2608.30690v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual SLAM is commonly evaluated on clean trajectories, although deployment failures are often caused by adve…
Multi-Group Pipe Routing under Permanent Geometric Occupancy: Problem, Benchmark, and Classical Baselines
arXiv:2608.28697v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Additive manufacturing (AM) enables compact hydraulic components whose internal fluid channels can follow free-f…
Dual Park-Ravani Interpolation of Rigid Motions: Acceleration-Field Continuity and Holonomic Hermite Repair
arXiv:2608.28826v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Park-Ravani construction generates a twice continuously differentiable, frame-invariant spline on SO(3) by e…
Data-Centric Neuromotor Interfaces for Portable Human-Machine Interaction
arXiv:2608.30301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous human-machine interaction requires intuitive and expressive interfaces that can be efficiently deploye…
AGRICAM: A Track-Mounted Crop Pollination Monitoring Robot
arXiv:2608.29237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Insect pollination is critical for global food production, yet monitoring pollinators at commercial farm scale…
Remote Human and Robot Interaction for Greenhouse Gardening Using Virtual Reality
arXiv:2608.27545v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study evaluates the effectiveness of remote human-robot interaction using virtual reality for leaf inspecti…
Picking Bins Empty: A Hierarchical Hybrid Approach with Online Self-Learning of Grasp Points for Reliable Industrial Bin-Picking
arXiv:2608.28175v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bin-picking is a cornerstone of modern manufacturing, yet achieving complete bin clearance without manual interv…
FlowCorrect: Efficient Interactive Correction of Generative Flow Policies for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2602.22056v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generative manipulation policies can fail catastrophically under deployment-time distribution shift, yet man…
Cooperative Risk-Aware Exploration in Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems Using Algorithmic Altruism
arXiv:2608.28409v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot systems are well-positioned for exploration in hazardous environments, but effective deployment requ…
One year in a forest: Analyzing the challenges of autonomous navigation in subarctic environments
arXiv:2608.27628v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Subarctic regions have the potential to see increased deployment of autonomous robots in applications including …
OceanGym: A Benchmark Environment for Underwater Embodied Agents
arXiv:2509.26536v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce OceanGym, the first comprehensive benchmark for ocean underwater embodied agents, designe…
Transformer-Based Autonomous Driving Models and Deployment-Oriented Compression: A Survey
arXiv:2304.10891v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Transformer-based models are becoming a central paradigm in autonomous driving because they can captur…
Receding Fixed-Horizon Optimization for Near-Time-Optimal Trajectory Planning and Control
arXiv:2503.11072v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Time-optimal trajectory planning and control is central for autonomous vehicles, yet its application and rea…
Online Joint Calibration of Steering Offset and Planar LiDAR Extrinsics for Wheeled Mobile Robots
arXiv:2608.26789v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate steering sensing and LiDAR-to-vehicle extrinsics are crucial for reliable path tracking in warehouse mo…
FlashVLA: Streaming Action Decoding for Fast and Asynchronous VLA Inference
arXiv:2608.27384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are increasingly promising for robotic manipulation, yet their real-world de…
Dynamic Haven Selection for Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery in Constrained Warehouses
arXiv:2608.26939v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Space-efficient warehouse layouts often contain single-agent-width aisles and dead-end workstations where robo…