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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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734 storiesContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation in Construction via Zero-Shot Learning: A Diffusion Policy-Guided Adaptive Control
arXiv:2608.22100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Construction robotics and automation offer promising means of improving productivity, alleviating workforce shor…
RACO: Reliability-Aware Coarse-Goal Optimization for Inspection-Oriented UAV Vision-Language Navigation
arXiv:2608.22678v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: UAV vision-language navigation (UAV-VLN) is commonly evaluated as goal reaching, but inspection-oriented deploym…
ROS2SmolVLA: Enabling Small Vision-Language-Action Models for Integration into Industrial-Grade Lightweight Robots
arXiv:2608.23320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial demand changes the paradigms of production. Due to smaller batch sizes and more variations in product…
Reward-Free Continual Adaptation for Resilient Space Robots
arXiv:2608.23452v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Space robots operate in extreme environments where hardware degradation can critically compromise traditional co…
Retrieval-grounded robot program generation and simulation-based correction via Model Context Protocol
arXiv:2608.21417v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flexible manufacturing requires industrial robots to be reprogrammed rapidly as product variants change. This …
Agentic AI for Safety-critical Multi-drone Systems: Challenges and Opportunities
arXiv:2608.21444v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-drone systems are increasingly positioned for safety-critical missions such as search and rescue (SAR) a…
WAM-OPD: On-Policy Distillation for World Action Models
arXiv:2608.22364v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World action models (WAMs) couple visual future prediction with robot action generation, but accelerated stude…
Learning Diffusion Policies for Robotic Manipulation of Timber Joinery under Fabrication Uncertainty
arXiv:2511.17774v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Fabrication uncertainty arising from tolerance accumulation, material imperfection, and positioning errors r…
A Latency-Aware Framework for Visuomotor Policy Learning on Industrial Robots
arXiv:2602.14255v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Industrial robots are increasingly deployed in construction and manufacturing tasks, where the deployment of…
Learning While Deploying: Fleet-Scale Reinforcement Learning for Generalist Robot Policies
arXiv:2605.00416v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generalist robot policies increasingly benefit from large-scale pretraining, but offline data alone is insuf…
Tolerance-Dependent Inspection Disagreement Between a Fixed CMM and a Portable Articulated-Arm CMM
arXiv:2608.21404v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fixed coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) and portable articulated-arm CMMs are often assigned to the same insp…
Privileged Critic Training Enables Sensor-Free Thruster Fault Adaptation in End-to-End RL
arXiv:2608.22976v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fault-tolerant navigation for thruster-actuated robots requires online adaptation to failures that are neither b…
AI Visual Inspection for Garment Production
arXiv:2608.21426v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The garment manufacturing industry is under increasing pressure to improve product quality, reduce costs, and …
A Unified Neural-Aided Alignment and Calibration Method for AUVs
arXiv:2608.22496v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) rely on the fusion of inertial navigation systems (INS) and Doppler veloci…
The next big AI play isn’t apps or humanoids; it’s machines with brains and brawn
For agricultural and construction equipment makers to stay relevant as workforces dwindle, they need to add AI, says Agtonomy's founder. The post The next big A…
EndoLIFT: Language-Disambiguated Latent-Conditioned Rectified Flow for Bidirectional Endoscopic Control
arXiv:2608.20478v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Routine gastrointestinal endoscopy is intrinsically bidirectional: the instrument is advanced to reach target an…
Mining beyond Earth with Space Robots: Exploration, Sampling, and Extraction
arXiv:2608.21358v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Space resource acquisition and utilization, commonly referred to as Space Mining, represent critical pathways fo…
Multi-Modal Traffic Sign Detection with Semantic Attributes for Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2608.20874v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable traffic sign detection is a prerequisite for the global deployment of autonomous driving systems, whe…
SRL-MPC: Shape-Aware Reinforcement Learned Model Predictive Control
arXiv:2608.21175v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe and efficient shape-aware navigation in heterogeneous crowds and robot fleets remains challenging. Traditio…
Scalable Distributed Simulation-Based Testing for Automated Driving Systems
arXiv:2608.20904v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Virtual scenario-based testing is a key enabler for validating automated driving systems (ADS) and intelligent t…
ForeTime-VLA: Causal Future-Token Distillation from a World Action Model for Conveyor-Belt Manipulation
arXiv:2608.20735v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Manipulating moving objects requires a policy to anticipate contact events, yet vision-language-action (VLA) p…
Rapid Manufacturing of Lightweight Drone Frames Using Single-Tow Architected Composites
arXiv:2509.09024v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The demand for lightweight and high-strength composite structures is rapidly growing in aerospace and roboti…
Use a digital twin to explore automation before committing capital
While a digital twin does not replace a systems integrator, it can help manufacturers evaluate robots and plan applications, says RoboDK. The post Use a digital…
How software-defined manufacturing fits into real factory operations
Roby Lynn explains how R2 Labs bridges PLCs, robots, and AI to unify fragmented manufacturing systems. The post How software-defined manufacturing fits into rea…
PVRA: A Pointwise Key-point Voting Framework for Robotic Assembly
arXiv:2608.19968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern computer vision has enabled partial autonomy in robotic assembly manipulation. However, performing autono…
UAV-Based Infrastructure Inspections: A Literature Review and Proposed Framework for AEC+FM
arXiv:2601.11665v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are transforming infrastructure inspections in the Architecture, Engin…
SAGE: Ergodic Control for Autonomous and Adaptive Inspection of Subsea Infrastructure
arXiv:2608.19671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Subsea Christmas Trees (XTs) are underwater structures that use valves for directing oil flow, needing constant …
Backward Layout Search for Sequence-Constrained Robotic Assembly
arXiv:2608.18454v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic assembly layout planning must determine the assembly site and the initial pose of each part while ensuri…
Beyond Placement and Articulation: Usage-Driven Code Scenes for Embodied Interaction
arXiv:2608.18840v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Indoor scene synthesis provides essential environments for embodied AI, robotic manipulation, and simulation-bas…
Autonomous Agricultural Tractor: Integrated Weed Detection and LiDAR Navigation for Precision Paddy Farming
arXiv:2608.19004v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Site-specific weed management in paddy farming offers substantial reductions in herbicide use over conventional …