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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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413 storiesRobotic Contextual Awareness for Human-Robot Collaboration and Environmental Understanding
arXiv:2607.10372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The transition of autonomous mobile robots from controlled industrial settings to dynamic, human-centric environ…
Self-Healing Visual Recovery for Autonomous Ground Vehicles Using Camera-Only Visual Odometry
arXiv:2607.11686v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-cost unmanned ground vehicles are often used in indoor places like warehouses, inspection corridors, and far…
Artificial Foveated Perception for Mitigating Shortcut Learning in Robotic Foundation Models
arXiv:2607.10655v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic foundation models have recently made substantial progress in multi-task capability, cross-embodiment tra…
A Risk-Field Enhanced Closed-Loop Digital Twin Framework for Autonomous Driving Safety Validation
arXiv:2607.09772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving systems require reliable safety validation before real-world deployment. However, large-scale…
Closed-Loop Control with Rule-Aligned Small Language Models and Multi-Agent Self-Correction
arXiv:2607.09713v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A key step toward autonomous industrial operation is the ability to create and reconfigure control policies fr…
BucketKD: A Safety-Aware Bucket-Based Knowledge Distillation Framework for End-to-End Motion Planning
arXiv:2607.10565v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end motion planning has emerged as a promising paradigm in autonomous driving, directly mapping raw senso…
Wearing A Coat: Dual-Arm Robot-Assisted Dressing with Differentiable Clothing Simulation
arXiv:2607.10999v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The development of assistive robots for dressing tasks serves to augment human convenience and improve the quali…
Breaking the 15% Barrier: A Real-World Data-Driven System for Proactive Social Robot Triggered by User Nonverbal Cues
arXiv:2607.11633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Service robots in retail stores increasingly rely on cascaded speech pipelines (STT-LLM-TTS), yet many customer-…
Robust Fleet Sizing for Multi-UAV Inspection Missions under Synchronized Replacement Demand
arXiv:2604.15890v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-UAV inspection missions require spare drones to replace active drones during recharging cycles. Existi…
LLM-Centric Agentic AI for UAV Swarms: Architecture, Enabling Technologies, and Open Problems
arXiv:2607.09756v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms have significant potential for applications such as Search and Rescue (SAR)…
Hydra++: Real-Time Hierarchical 3D Scene Graph Construction With Object-Level Shape Estimation
arXiv:2607.09455v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 3D scene graphs provide a hierarchical abstraction of environments by encoding spatial entities, such as objec…
How Mobile Gas Sensor Trajectories Govern Hydrogen Leak Detection: A Safety Gap in Manual Leak Inspection of Hydrogen System Components
arXiv:2607.09527v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The integrity of hydrogen infrastructure relies on reliable leak detection, performed almost exclusively via man…
CORAL-AUV: CFD Oriented Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
arXiv:2607.09557v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine grain control and positioning of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) is critical for sampling, maintenanc…
Why robotics teams need virtual gyms before deployment
To address environmental and task variability, robots can benefit from 'virtual gyms' to bridge the sim-to-real gap, says SoftServe. The post Why robotics teams…
ZAPS-DA: Zero-Phase Action Policy Smoothing with Decoupled Actor for Continuous Control in Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2605.30612v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Continuous control policies trained with off-policy reinforcement learning frequently exhibit high-frequency…
SkillPlug: Unsupervised Skill Mining for Few-Shot Adaptation in Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.08354v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning transferable visuomotor imitation policies that generalize across diverse manipulation tasks and adapt …
A Collaborative Reasoning Framework for Anomaly Diagnostics in Underwater Robotics
arXiv:2511.03075v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The safe deployment of autonomous systems in safety-critical settings requires a paradigm that combines huma…
In vivo feasibility study of humanoid robots in surgery
arXiv:2607.07972v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in actuation, control and learning have rapidly pushed humanoid robots from a distant vision tow…
Harness VLA: Steering Frozen VLAs into Reliable Manipulation Primitives via Memory-Guided Agents
arXiv:2607.08448v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language-conditioned manipulation requires both precise contact-rich control and robust reasoning over language,…
ForSight Robotics’ road to performing a fully robotic cataract surgery
ForSight Robotics' JASPER Platform assists surgeons with cataract surgeries, while still leaving the power in the surgeon's hands. The post ForSight Robotics…
Beyond da Vinci: Why versatile humanoid robots are the next frontier in surgery
For the first time, teleoperated humanoid robots successfully performed surgeries during a UC San Diego preclinical trial. The post Beyond da Vinci: Why versati…
Towards Reliable Aerial Ground Vehicle Collaboration: An Integrated Planning and Autonomy Framework for Field Deployment
arXiv:2607.07350v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Limited flight endurance significantly restricts the operational range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in lon…
Context-Aware Force Estimation for Deformable Tool Manipulation in Robotic Environmental Swabbing via Few-Shot Continual Adaptation
arXiv:2607.07574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic surface swabbing requires sustained interaction between a compliant tool and heterogeneous environments,…
Dynamic Object Detection and Tracking in Construction: A Fisheye Camera and LiDAR Sensor Fusion Model
arXiv:2607.06896v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust dynamic object detection and tracking are essential for enabling robots to operate safely and effectively…
End-to-End LLM Flight Planning with RAG-based Memory and Multi-modal Coach Agent
arXiv:2607.06964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bridging the gap between human pilot intent and autonomous flight operation is critical for real-world electric …
MiLSD: A Micro Line-Segment Detector for Resource-Constrained Devices
arXiv:2607.06600v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Line segment detection is a key building block in visual SLAM, 3D reconstruction, and industrial inspection. R…
A Continual Learning Framework for Adaptive Control of Modular Soft Robots
arXiv:2607.06740v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft robots have attracted significant attention in applications such as medical intervention, rehabilitation, a…
Exploring Human-Robot Collaboration: Analysis of Interaction Modalities in Challenging Tasks
arXiv:2605.13380v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This work compares three interaction modalities for human-robot collaboration: passive, reactive, and proact…
Hilti-Trimble-Oxford Dataset: 360 Visual-Inertial Benchmark with Floor Plan Priors for SLAM and Localization
arXiv:2607.06464v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated progress monitoring on construction sites is an active area of research and development. Robot and hum…
OrchardBench: A Physically-Grounded, GPU-Parallel Apple-Orchard Simulation Benchmark for Agricultural Robotics
arXiv:2607.06337v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic tree-fruit harvesting is a flagship problem for agricultural automation, but progress is bottlenecked by…