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Robots at work: warehouses, factories, farms, hospitals, construction sites and the automation reshaping them.
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413 storiesLocker-based Truck-Drone Routing with Integrated Considerations of Pickups, Deliveries, and No-Fly Zones
arXiv:2606.30680v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Truck-drone delivery is an emerging last-mile logistics mode combining the long-haul capacity of trucks with the…
Labimus: A Simulation and Benchmark for Humanoid Dexterous Manipulation in Chemical Laboratory
arXiv:2606.31037v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Laboratory automation has made remarkable progress through robotic platforms and AI-driven scientific reasoning.…
Robust Autonomous UAV Landing on Maritime Platforms via Multimodal Agentic AI and Active Wave Compensation
arXiv:2606.31613v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous aerial inspection of marine infrastructure is frequently compromised by stochastic sea states, intr…
Receptogenesis in a Vascularized Robotic Embodiment
arXiv:2603.09473v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Equipping robotic systems with the capacity to generate $\textit{ex novo}$ hardware during operation extends…
Scenario Generation for Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems Using Real-World Failure Records
arXiv:2606.31131v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: To ensure safe on-road behavior, pre-deployment testing and failure discovery of Autonomous Driving Systems (A…
Breaking the Epistemic Trap: Active Perception Under Compound Uncertainty
arXiv:2605.26627v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deploying reinforcement learning in safety critical domains, from autonomous vehicles to medical decis…
Behavior Uncloning: Distilling Mode Redirection into Policy Weights without Inference-Time Steering
arXiv:2606.29201v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Behavior-cloned policies often learn multiple behavior modes from demonstration datasets, including modes that a…
RocketSmith: Agentic Additive Manufacturing of High-Powered Rockets
arXiv:2606.00097v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: RocketSmith is an agentic system which intelligently automates the DFAM process for the development of high …
A Query-Driven Communication-Efficient Digital Twins Design for Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2606.28384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Digital twins (DTs) have become a potential technology to perform risk-free simulation of physical entities for …
Real-time Rendering-based Surgical Instrument Tracking via Evolutionary Optimization
arXiv:2603.11404v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate and efficient tracking of surgical instruments is fundamental for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive…
WoVR: World Models as Reliable Simulators for Post-Training VLA Policies with RL
arXiv:2602.13977v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) promises to unlock capabilities beyond imitation learning for Vision--Language--…
GaRLILEO: Gravity-aligned Radar-Leg-Inertial Enhanced Odometry
arXiv:2511.13216v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deployment of legged robots for navigating challenging terrains (e.g., stairs, slopes, and unstructured envi…
Critical Interval MSE: Toward Reliable Offline Validation for Robot Manipulation Policies
arXiv:2606.29898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world evaluation is the gold standard for robot policies because it tests them against the physical conditi…
Auditing LLM-Governed Social Robots with Culture-Specific Moral Gradients
arXiv:2606.28345v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-governed social robots increasingly decide who receives real-world assistance first. As prioritization norms…
Trajectory Optimization for Collision-Aware Redundant Robotic Multi-Axis Additive Manufacturing by Constrained Gradient Projection
arXiv:2606.29766v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Redundant robotic multi-axis additive manufacturing (MAAM) enables support-free and conformal fabrication, but t…
DRIVE-Nav: Directional Reasoning, Inspection, and Verification for Efficient Open-Vocabulary Navigation
arXiv:2603.28691v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Open-Vocabulary Object Navigation (OVON) requires an embodied agent to locate a language-specified target in…
BioProVLA-Agent: An Affordable, Protocol-Driven, Vision-Enhanced VLA-Enabled Embodied Multi-Agent System with Closed-Loop-Capable Reasoning for Biological Laboratory Manipulation
arXiv:2605.07306v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Biological laboratory automation can reduce repetitive manual work and improve reproducibility, but reliable…
AERIS: Aerial-Edge Role-Driven Intelligence at Runtime via Orchestrated Language-Model Swarm
arXiv:2606.30151v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Integrating large language models into robotic systems holds promise for enhancing autonomy, yet practical deplo…
CSAR: Containerized System Architecture for Robotics
arXiv:2606.30293v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic applications increasingly rely on distributed computational infrastructures that combine embedded device…
Vision-Language-Action Models: Experimental Insights from a Real-World UR5 Platform
arXiv:2606.30456v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This project investigates whether recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models can be transferred from controlled …
Learning from Mistakes: Rollout-Retrieval Lifelong Policy Learning for Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2606.30537v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving policies should be able to improve continually as deployment exposes them to increasingly div…
LNN-Fly: Continuous-Time UAV Navigation for Robust Obstacle Avoidance under Timing Mismatch
arXiv:2606.28827v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation can achieve impressive agility in simulation, yet its obstac…
MOAR Planner: Multi-Objective and Adaptive Risk-Aware Path Planning for Infrastructure Inspection with a UAV
arXiv:2606.30575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The problem of autonomous navigation for UAV inspection remains challenging as it requires effectively navigatin…
He3-Seeker: Robotic Information Planning for Lunar Helium-3 Distribution Mapping
arXiv:2606.28746v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Lunar helium-3 is a highly valuable strategic resource, pivotal to the advancement of both deep-space exploratio…
AsyncMDE: Real-Time Monocular Depth Estimation via Asynchronous Spatial Memory
arXiv:2603.10438v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Foundation-model-based monocular depth estimation offers a viable alternative to active sensors for robot pe…
Learning to Throw: Agile and Accurate Cable-Suspended Payload Delivery with a Quadrotor
arXiv:2606.27603v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quadrotors offer the agility needed to rapidly transport suspended payloads during time-critical applications, i…
AI-Driven Synthesis for High-Tech System Design: Automating Innovation
arXiv:2606.28126v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This article addresses the combinatorial complexity inherent in modern high-tech system design by presenting a…
Drifting in the Future: Stabilizing Path Following Drifting on High-Latency Vehicle Systems
arXiv:2606.27914v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomously controlling and handling a vehicle at and beyond its stability limit is a mathematically and comput…
MobileManiBench: Simplifying Model Verification for Mobile Manipulation
arXiv:2602.05233v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-language-action models have advanced robotic manipulation but remain constrained by reliance on the l…
SpikeVLA: Vision-Language-Action Models with Spiking Neural Networks
arXiv:2606.27807v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become a dominant paradigm for embodied intelligence. However, most exi…