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413 storiesCross-Platform Control for Autonomous Surface Vehicles via Adaptive Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607.02037v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous surface vehicles vary widely in hydrodynamic and actuation characteristics, yet most controllers are …
Robust Image Processing Techniques for Construction Environment Monitoring Using Underwater Robots
arXiv:2607.01915v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper proposes a robust image processing framework for underwater robot-based construction environment mo…
NEUROSYMLAND: Neuro-Symbolic Landing-Site Assessment for Robust and Edge-Deployable UAV Autonomy
arXiv:2607.02277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe landing-site assessment in unstructured environments remains a key challenge for autonomous UAV deployment,…
Imagining the Sense of Touch: Touch-Informed Manipulation via Imagined Tactile Representations
arXiv:2607.01684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tactile sensing can substantially improve contact-rich robotic manipulation, yet its practical deployment remain…
Episodic-to-Semantic Consolidation Without Identity Drift
arXiv:2607.01988v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-running adaptive intelligent agents face a structural tension between knowledge consolidation and informa…
DL-VINS-Factory: A Modular Framework for Learned Visual Front-Ends in Visual-Inertial SLAM
arXiv:2607.01757v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep-learning features excel in visual matching, yet their practical value in tightly coupled visual-inertial …
CoFL-S: Spatially Queryable Sector Flow Fields for Local Language-Conditioned Navigation
arXiv:2607.02222v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation has increasingly emphasized high-level instruction reasoning, memory, global map cons…
Neuro-Symbolic Safety Guidance for Vision-Language-Action Models via Constrained Flow Matching
arXiv:2607.01378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated promising generalization capabilities across robotic manip…
Lightweight Safe Reinforcement Learning for End-to-End UAV Navigation
arXiv:2607.01794v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the rapid development of autonomous aerial systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deploy…
Reflections from ICRA 2026
From the 1st-5th June, the robots descended on Vienna. The 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA) brought together the top minds…
Robotics Deployment & Automation: Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD Pipelines for Robot Systems (2026 Guide)
Luxonis closes Series A round to scale physical AI perception layer
Luxonis said it plans to scale production of its OAK camera and refine its platform to support robotics and industrial automation. The post Luxonis closes Serie…
Why you should combine robot dexterity with mechanical positioning for complex assembly operations
Experts are recognizing the importance of mechanical positioning and its impact on the machine’s mobility, range and speed. The post Why you should combine robo…
Blattner awards Built Robotics $75M contract for physical AI to help meet energy demand
Blattner has expanded its partnership with Built Robotics to scale autonomous systems for solar construction. The post Blattner awards Built Robotics $75M contr…
DriveVA: Video Action Models are Zero-Shot Drivers
arXiv:2604.04198v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generalization is a central challenge in autonomous driving, as real-world deployment requires robust …
FurnitureVLA: Learning Long-Horizon Bimanual Furniture Assembly with Vision-Language-Action Model
arXiv:2607.01212v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current work on robot furniture assembly mostly focuses on toy-scale settings or single-arm manipulation. We int…
ROSA: A Robotics Foundation Model Serving System for Robot Factories
arXiv:2607.01088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotics foundation models (RFMs) are making general-purpose robots increasingly practical for factory deploymen…
Path Planning in Physically Viable World Models
arXiv:2607.00673v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots deployed in unstructured outdoor environments often plan from scene reconstructions collected before depl…
From Real-Time Planning to Reliable Execution:Scalable Coordination for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Fleets in Industrial Environments
arXiv:2607.00591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the increasing deployment of heterogeneous robot fleets in industrial environments, efficient coordination …
MineRobot: An Actuator-Centered Kinematic Modeling and Solving Framework for Underground Mining Robots
arXiv:2603.22055v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Underground mining robots are increasingly modeled for planning, operator training, and digital-twin w…
Rule-VLN: Bridging Perception and Compliance via Semantic Reasoning and Geometric Rectification
arXiv:2604.16993v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As embodied AI transitions to real-world deployment, the success of the Vision-and-Language Navigation…
RoboWorld: Fast and Reliable Neural Simulators for Generalist Robot Policy Evaluation
arXiv:2607.01060v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video world models are emerging as a scalable alternative for evaluating generalist robot policies, bypassing th…
A Unified Benchmark for RCM-Constrained Visual Servoing: Modeling-Controller Interaction and Robustness Analysis in Laparoscopic Robots
arXiv:2607.00030v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In robot-assisted laparoscopic minimally invasive surgery (MIS), accurate enforcement of the remote center of mo…
Apptronik unveils Apollo 2 and a flagship data collection and training facility
Built as a data collection and training platform, Apollo 2 enables continuous learning through deployment, Apptronik said. The post Apptronik unveils Apollo 2 a…
Hierarchical 3D Scene Graph Construction and Belief-based Planning for Semantic Navigation
arXiv:2606.31071v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic navigation is a fundamental task for embodied agents operating in unseen environments, requiring both…
RhinoVLA Technical Report
arXiv:2606.07383v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong potential for robotic manipulation, but real-time depl…
FalconApp: Rapid iPhone Deployment of End-to-End Perception via Automatically Labeled Synthetic Data
arXiv:2604.25949v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reliable perception for robotics depends on large-scale labeled data, yet real-world datasets rely on heavy …
RRT-Rope: A deterministic shortening approach for fast near-optimal path planning in large-scale uncluttered 3D environments
arXiv:2606.31948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many path planning algorithms have been introduced so far, but most are costly, in path cost and in processing t…
Multimodal Benchmark for Safety Assessment in Industrial Inspection Scenarios
arXiv:2601.21173v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With the rapid development of industrial intelligence and unmanned inspection, reliable perception and safet…
Prompting Robot Teams with Natural Language
arXiv:2509.24575v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents a framework to prompt multi-robot teams with high-level tasks using natural language exp…