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Robots at work: warehouses, factories, farms, hospitals, construction sites and the automation reshaping them.
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413 storiesHERB: Human-augmented Efficient Reinforcement learning for Bin-packing
arXiv:2504.16595v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Packing objects efficiently is a fundamental problem in logistics, warehouse automation, and robotics. When …
Uncertainty-Aware Velocity Correction for Proprioceptive Vehicle Localization using Evidential Mamba
arXiv:2607.05669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable localization in GNSS-denied environments remains a fundamental challenge for intelligent vehicles, as i…
A Digital Twin Framework for Traffic-Aware UAV Pavement Monitoring in Open-Traffic Conditions
arXiv:2606.20742v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: UAV-based pavement inspection can reduce the cost and risk of road-surface monitoring, but real-world deploy…
EVA-Client: A Unified Data Collection, Inference, and Deployment Framework for Embodied Policies on Real Robots
arXiv:2607.02646v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present EVA-Client, an open-source framework for deployment, data collection, and evaluation of trained manip…
DREAMSTEER: Latent World Models Can Steer VLA Policies During Deployment Without Any Finetuning
arXiv:2607.02865v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained vision-language-action (VLA) policies show promising zero-shot generalization, but often fail under d…
A Vision Based System for Guided and Collaborative Reconstruction of Fragmented Documents
arXiv:2607.03621v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents the development and evaluation of a collaborative system for real-time reconstruction of f…
Language-Guided Grasping under Partial Observation for Mobile Manipulation in Field Inspection and Maintenance
arXiv:2603.07866v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Offshore inspection and maintenance have increasingly been using legged robots for routine sensing, yet many…
CoRE-VLA: Towards Scalable and Robust Vision-Language-Action Modeling via Conditional Routing of Experts
arXiv:2607.03693v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have advanced generalist robotic manipulation, yet real-world deployment rev…
XS-VLA: Coupling Coarse-grained Spatial Distillation with Latent Flow Matching for Lightweight Robotic Control
arXiv:2607.04171v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown strong multimodal understanding and spatial grounding, but their…
RoboDojo: A Unified Sim-and-Real Benchmark for Comprehensive Evaluation of Generalist Robot Manipulation Policies
arXiv:2607.04434v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalist robot manipulation policies have advanced rapidly, yet existing benchmarks remain limited in systemat…
Socially-Aware Autonomous Doorway Traversal and Payload Delivery for Emergency Assistance
arXiv:2607.05315v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this work, we focus on the scenario of a robot-assisted emergency evacuation. We consider two capabilities re…
GaP: A Graph-as-Policy Multi-Agent Self-Learning Harness For Variational Automation Tasks
arXiv:2607.05369v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For robots to work reliably in commercial and industrial applications, can recent advances in agentic coding sys…
Nano-U: Efficient Terrain Segmentation for Tiny Robot Navigation
arXiv:2605.10210v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Terrain segmentation is a fundamental capability for autonomous mobile robots operating in unstructured outd…
iVISION-2DCD: A Long-Term Change Detection Dataset for Large-Scale Outdoor Construction Monitoring
arXiv:2607.03553v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automation in construction is essential for reducing costs and human errors in large-scale projects. We approa…
SilvaScenes: Tree Detection and Species Classification from Under-Canopy Images in Natural Forests
arXiv:2510.09458v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Interest in forestry automation is growing alongside rapid advances in deep learning. In particular, t…
From Fixed to Free Cameras: Calibration-Free View-Robust Vision-Language-Action Model
arXiv:2607.05396v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world robot deployment rarely maintains the training-stage camera setup, where cameras often experience r…
Qantara: Bridge-Flow Training for Multi-Paradigm JEPA Control
arXiv:2607.04978v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) underpin a growing family of latent world models for control …
Layout-independent actuation allocator for fin-actuated marine robots
arXiv:2607.03204v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this study, we propose a layout-independent control allocator capable of zero-shot deployment across diverse …
CableTract: A Co-Designed Cable-Driven Field Robot for Low-Compaction, Off-Grid Capable Agriculture
arXiv:2604.09938v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Conventional field operations spend most of their energy moving the tractor body, not the implement. Yet fea…
Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst: Occlusion-Aware Contingency Planning for Autonomous Vehicles
arXiv:2607.03155v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The deployment of autonomous vehicles in urban environments introduces significant safety challenges, particular…
TiROD: Tiny Robotics Dataset and Benchmark for Continual Object Detection
arXiv:2409.16215v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Detecting objects with visual sensors is crucial for numerous mobile robotics applications, from autonomous …
Closing the Reality Gap: Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Deployment for Dexterous Force-Based Grasping and Manipulation
arXiv:2607.04940v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-like dexterous hands with multiple fingers offer human-level manipulation capabilities but remain difficul…
MOSAIC: Modular Scalable Autonomy for Intelligent Coordination of Heterogeneous Robotic Teams
arXiv:2601.23038v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Mobile robots have become indispensable for exploring hostile environments, such as in space or disaster rel…
Sample-Efficient Pareto Front Modeling for Energy-Aware Reinforcement Learning Using Bayesian Optimization
arXiv:2607.03140v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial automation increasingly demands control strategies that balance operational performance with strict…
SurgAM: Surgical Affordance Map Prediction with Multimodal Feature Fusion for Robot Autonomy
arXiv:2607.04378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surgical automation is being increasingly studied, yet bridging visual scene understanding with autonomous actio…
MorphQuad: Morphable Quadrotor for Superhuman Maneuverability, Manipulation, and Resiliency
arXiv:2607.02764v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Infrastructure maintenance, contact-based inspection, and emergency response can benefit from aerial vehicles th…
SLAM: Structured and Localized Analytic Manifold Adaptation for Lifelong VPR
arXiv:2607.04764v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual Place Recognition (VPR) in lifelong deployment requires continuous adaptation to new environments without…
Context is king: How Avride uses cloud VLMs as a safety net for delivery robots
Avride uses vision-language models, or VLMs, to improve the environmental awareness of its delivery robots. The post Context is king: How Avride uses cloud VLMs…
Simulation Based Reward Function Validation for Multi-Agent On Orbit Inspection
arXiv:2607.01367v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A proposed method for the control of groups of inspection spacecraft is Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MA…
Embodied.cpp: A Portable Inference Runtime of Embodied AI Models on Heterogeneous Robots
arXiv:2607.02501v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied AI models now span vision-language-action (VLA) models and world-action models (WAMs), but practical de…