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Robots at work: warehouses, factories, farms, hospitals, construction sites and the automation reshaping them.
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734 storiesZero-Shot Transfer of Force Map Estimation Across GelSight Mini Sensors
arXiv:2608.18240v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite the rapid industrialization of the touch sensor manufacturing process, most of these sensors are still…
Reproducible Multimodal Affordance Prediction
arXiv:2608.18317v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Affordance prediction is the identification of potential actions an agent can perform on a target object from …
Payload Swing Estimation and Damping Without Payload Parameters for Multirotor UAVs
arXiv:2608.18625v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cable-suspended payload transport by multirotor UAVs is flexible but generates periodic swing disturbance that…
HarvestPoint-ACT: Explicit Target Selection and Harvest-Point Conditioning for Robotic Fruit Harvesting under Occlusion
arXiv:2608.18446v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end imitation learning avoids hand-made robot motion for approaching and grasping, but the policy must st…
The Embodiment Gap in Robot Foundation Models
arXiv:2608.18433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot foundation models (RFMs), including vision-language-action (VLA) policies, are often discussed through a s…
Orienteering Problem with Uncertain Time-Varying Rewards: Framework and Benchmark for Everyday Service Robotics
arXiv:2608.18672v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present the orienteering problem with uncertain time-varying rewards (OP-UTVR), a novel variant of the orient…
Reconstruction of continuum robots by marker-free shape registration of image data using a kinematic model
arXiv:2405.15336v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Continuum robots are slender, flexible manipulators that navigate confined, curved workspaces and are gainin…
Progressive Experience Fusion for Multi-Task World Model Control in Endovascular Navigation
arXiv:2608.18647v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous endovascular navigation could support the delivery of mechanical thrombectomy to underserved areas, b…
Transferable Tool-Tissue Contact Detection from Stereo Depth in Robot-Assisted Surgery
arXiv:2608.18270v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable tool--tissue contact detection can support interaction-aware control and downstream force estimation in…
Pudu Robotics launches new MP2000 autonomous forklift
Pudu Robotics has launched the MP2000, an AI-native autonomous robot designed to transport 2,000 kg loads across complex warehouse environments. The post Pudu R…
Serve Robotics to deploy its autonomous delivery robots with Grubhub
Serve's robot delivery will be available from more than 100 participating Grubhub merchants in Chicago and nearly 200 in Los Angeles. The post Serve Robotics to…
PRISM: Precision and contact-rich Real-world Industrial Skill dataset with Multimodal sensing
arXiv:2608.17962v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent progress in robotic learning has been fueled by large-scale datasets collected in everyday environments. …
EXPO-FT: Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning Finetuning for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2605.25477v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The ability to efficiently and reliably learn new tasks has been a foundational challenge in robotics. Visio…
KAN We Flow? Advancing Robotic Manipulation with 3D Flow Matching via KAN & RWKV
arXiv:2602.01115v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion-based visuomotor policies excel at modeling action distributions but are inference-inefficient, si…
Embodied-Navigator: Point, Think, Memorize, and Align for Efficient Navigation
arXiv:2608.17512v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have significantly advanced embodied navigation, their direct deplo…
Bi-Layer Ant Colony Optimization for Multi-Robot Task Allocation and Routing in Delivery Applications
arXiv:2608.17416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses the multi-robot task allocation (MRTA) problem, which is essential for delivery and logisti…
ORPA: Online Residual Policy Adaptation for Robot Manipulation Control with Human Feedback
arXiv:2608.17323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic manipulation policies trained via imitation learning, such as Action Chunking with Transformers (ACT), c…
Force-Based Offset Estimation for Keyed Peg-in-Hole Assembly Using Local Gaussian Process Regression
arXiv:2608.17691v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Key-keyway assembly tasks impose strict geometric constraints and are highly sensitive to grasp pose deviations …
MM-BEV: Enhancing Timeliness by Computing Where and When it Matters
arXiv:2608.15437v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal bird's-eye-view (BEV) perception combines LiDAR depth accuracy with dense camera semantics, but its h…
GAINS: Leveraging Inconsistent Human Intervention Signals in Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2608.15707v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Correcting robot manipulation policies through human intervention holds great promise for real-world deployment,…
FlexWorm: Primitive-augmented Hybrid Contact-motion Planning for Suction-based Multi-segment Deformable Robots
arXiv:2608.16853v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-segment suction-based soft robots are promising for inspection and maintenance in confined or fragile envi…
Pluralistic Human-Robot Interaction: Designing for Robot Interaction with Diverse Communities
arXiv:2608.16049v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Social robots are being developed for homes, schools, and other environments where they will interact with div…
PerFACT: Motion Policy with LLM-Powered Dataset Synthesis and Fusion Action-Chunking Transformers
arXiv:2512.03444v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep learning methods have significantly enhanced motion planning for robotic manipulators by leveraging pri…
MiDAS: A Multimodal Data Acquisition System and Dataset for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery
arXiv:2602.12407v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Background: Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS) research increasingly relies on multimodal data…
EcoVLA: Energy-Efficient Device-Edge Co-Inference for Vision-Language-Action Models under Real-Time Constraints
arXiv:2608.15502v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising foundation for Embodied AI, but their high inf…
Observation-Constrained Joint-Space Viewpoint Optimization for Robotic Inspection of Cylindrical Cavities
arXiv:2608.16442v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inspection is a core capability in many mobile robotics applications, including industrial facility monitoring, …
MISTac: A Vision-Based Tactile Sensor for Minimally Invasive Surgery
arXiv:2608.14772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Minimally invasive and robot-assisted surgery offer many advantages over traditional open surgery, but deprive s…
ForceU-VLA: A Force-Aware Vision-Language-Action Model for Embodied Ultrasound Scanning
arXiv:2608.15009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied intelligent ultrasound scanning enables the automation and standardization of the ultrasound examinatio…
Language-Guided Generation for Personalized Inspection Planning
arXiv:2506.02917v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose a training-free, Vision-Language Model (VLM)-guided approach for efficiently generating trajector…
Relay-Based Coordination for Energy-Efficient Multi-Robot Pickup and Delivery
arXiv:2509.14127v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We consider the problem of delivering multiple packages from a single depot to distinct goal locations using…