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Robots at work: warehouses, factories, farms, hospitals, construction sites and the automation reshaping them.
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413 storiesVAMP-MR: Vector-Accelerated Motion Planning and Execution for Multi-Robot-Arms
arXiv:2607.13478v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot-arm motion planning is a key challenge in deploying multiple manipulators for industrial tasks such …
GigaWorld-Policy-0.5: A Faster and Stronger WAM Empowered by AutoResearch
arXiv:2607.13960v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) improve robot policy learning by jointly modeling actions and future visual observati…
Industrial Dexterity Benchmark: A Hardware-Software Benchmarking Platform for Industrial Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv:2607.14021v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous manipulation remains a critical bottleneck in industrial automation; tasks such as cable routing, conn…
Layered Risk Mapping for Autonomous Patient Transport in Expeditionary Medical Facilities
arXiv:2607.13497v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In expeditionary medical facilities, routine patient transport imposes a compounding burden of personal protecti…
Exploratory, Communicative, and Deployable: Vision-Driven Embodied Agents for Open-World Mobile Manipulation
arXiv:2607.13653v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world deployment of embodied agents requires active exploration, visual grounding, and interactive intent…
Fire as a Service: Augmenting Robot Simulators with Thermally and Visually Accurate Fire Dynamics
arXiv:2603.19063v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Most existing robot simulators prioritize rigid-body dynamics and photorealistic rendering, but largely negl…
Design, Modeling and Experimental Validation of a Miniature Hybrid Underwater Glider With Large-Range Foldable Deflectable Wings
arXiv:2607.13622v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Miniature hybrid underwater gliders have attracted increasing attention for long-endurance ocean observation and…
Simulation-based planning of Motion Sequences for Automated Procedure Optimization in Multi-Robot Assembly Cells
arXiv:2507.23270v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reconfigurable multi-robot cells offer a promising approach to meet fluctuating assembly demands. However, t…
SPINE: Bridging the Cyber-Physical Gap with Agentic AI
arXiv:2607.13049v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models have given robots a sophisticated brain for complex decision-making, yet deploying that inte…
Deployable Human Preference Alignment in Robotics: Learning Representative Rewards from Diverse Human Preferences
arXiv:2607.12466v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aligning robot policies with human preferences is essential for deployment to diverse end users. In per-user ali…
Edge-Aware Thermal Infrared UAV Swarm Tracking
arXiv:2607.12544v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Thermal infrared (TIR) imaging is essential for UAV swarm operations in visually degraded environments. Howeve…
Practical Judgment, Virtue, and Intuition in the Use of Opaque AI-Enabled Systems
arXiv:2607.12755v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI-enabled systems are seeing increasing deployment across numerous domains, with many being "black boxes" wit…
Contract-Grounded Behavior Tree Synthesis via Coding Agents
arXiv:2607.12220v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthesizing deployable robot behavior trees (BTs) from natural language (NL) requires grounding to ensure every…
LapSurgie: Humanoid Robots Performing Surgery via Teleoperated Handheld Laparoscopy
arXiv:2510.03529v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic laparoscopic surgery has gained increasing attention in recent years for its potential to deliver mo…
Directional Constraints for Efficient Exploration in Safe Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607.12784v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning has revolutionized the landscape of robotic research, allowing robust learning of complex…
Improving Autonomous Nano-drones Performance via Automated End-to-End Optimization and Deployment of DNNs
arXiv:2607.12593v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The evolution of energy-efficient ultra-low-power (ULP) parallel processors and the diffusion of convolutional…
Reducing Temporal Redundancy for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Inference
arXiv:2607.12287v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models exhibit strong generalization for robotic manipulation, yet their high infer…
NVIDIA shares how to evaluate general-purpose robot policies for real-world deployment
RoboLab research powers NVIDIA Isaac Lab-Arena, an open-source simulation framework for large-scale policy setup and evaluation. The post NVIDIA shares how to e…
Replanning Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks with Vision-Language Models via Semantic and Physical Dual-Correction
arXiv:2602.14551v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human-robot collaborative assembly requires robots to interpret ambiguous corrective instructions while prod…
Toward Autonomous Soft Robotic Endovascular Navigation via Imitation Learning
arXiv:2510.09497v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In endovascular surgery, endovascular interventionists push a thin tube called a catheter, guided by a thin …
Diffusion for Long-Horizon Multi-Robot Path Planning in Human-Shared Environments
arXiv:2607.09911v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot path planning in human-shared environments requires a delicate balance between robust inter-robot co…
FlashBEV: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact BEV Transformation with IO-Awareness
arXiv:2607.10071v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bird's-eye-view (BEV) perception is a core component of camera-based 3D understanding in autonomous driving, w…
SmoothTurn: Learning to Turn Smoothly for Agile Navigation with Quadrupedal Robots
arXiv:2603.12842v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Quadrupedal robots show great potential for valuable real-world applications such as fire rescue and industr…
Task Planning for Mobile Manipulation in Retail Stores using Foundation Models with Iterative Re-planning
arXiv:2607.09962v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automation in industries such as retail, warehousing and logistics presents opportunities for greater throughput…
Stop to Decide: Latency-Aware Proprioceptive Navigation Primitives for Mapping-Free Quadruped Inspection
arXiv:2607.11204v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compute-constrained quadrupeds often run their navigation loop far below the controller's design rate: sharing t…
Coverage Path Planning: Classical Foundations, Recent Advances, and Future Directions
arXiv:2607.10649v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coverage path planning (CPP) is a fundamental problem in robot motion planning, whose aim is to produce robot tr…
CSI-Assisted Edge SLAM Testbed Platform for 5G Connected Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles
arXiv:2607.10394v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The evolution from 5G towards 6G reinforces interest in connected robotics, where mobile robots offload comput…
From Sketch Prior to Trajectories: A Mission-Oriented Coordinated Navigation Framework for Indoor UAV Swarm
arXiv:2607.11386v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: UAV swarm for applications, such as indoor inspection, security patrol, and logistics delivery, are often missio…
On the Efficiency of LoRA Fine-Tuning for Vision-Language-Action Models in Industrial Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.10172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying billion-parameter Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models on industrial hardware requires fine-tuning to b…
Think When It Matters: Conditional VLM Reasoning for Social Navigation with RL Policies
arXiv:2607.10991v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As mobile robots become more integrated into everyday human environments, social robot navigation is becoming es…