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How drone developers are navigating changing regulatory landscapes to help farmers
Before the FCC put restrictions on foreign-made robots, it had already set similar restrictions on drones last year, noted Hylio. The post How drone developers …
Building and programming autonomous robots at the York Micromaze Hackathon
From 25–27 August, UK RAS STEPS members came together at the University of York’s Institute for Safe Autonomy for a three-day Micromaze Robot Hackathon. Working…
How to select the right rack and pinion system for high-precision linear motion
Sponsored by GAM. Picture a scissor car jack — the one in your trunk for changing a tire. The spinning motion as you turn the crank translates to the linear mot…
HuRo: Robotizing Human Videos for Scalable VLA Pretraining
arXiv:2609.10706v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human video datasets have emerged as a compelling alternative to expensive real-robot data, offering rich divers…
Beyond Noise Steering: Dual-Latent Space Reinforcement Learning for Generative Robot Policy
arXiv:2609.11270v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained generative robot policies learn expressive action priors from demonstrations. However, existing reinf…
2AM: Grounding Agent-Side Memory as Guidance for Steerable Action Models in Long-Horizon Manipulation
arXiv:2609.11308v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon robot manipulation requires memory, but not necessarily inside the action policy. To address such t…
Morphology-Aware Human Motion Retargeting for Wheeled-Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
arXiv:2609.11357v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-to-humanoid retargeting has largely been studied on legged platforms, while comparatively few wheeled-huma…
FARM: Reading Failure Signals from the Internal Predictive States of a Frozen Robotic World Model
arXiv:2609.11445v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable robot deployment requires online failure monitoring, yet existing monitors mainly derive risk from prox…
Memory as Plans: World-Action Modeling with Memory-Grounded Planning
arXiv:2609.11561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mainstream robotic policies often adopt a Markovian formulation, but many complex real-world manipulation tasks …
SEED-UMI: Sharing the Exoskeleton between human and robot for onE-to-one Dexterous demonstration
arXiv:2609.11753v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitation learning for dexterous hands is bottlenecked by the difficulty of collecting contact-rich demonstratio…
UniMPA: A Unified Memory-Prediction-Action Model via Action-Grounded Transition Modeling
arXiv:2609.11875v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have improved robotic manipulation, yet observation-to-ac…
FastMap: Real-Time Semantic Map Completion via Bitwise Masked Modeling
arXiv:2506.07350v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Semantic map completion, which predicts the layout of unobserved regions from partial observations, is a cri…
CMoE: Contrastive Mixture of Experts for Motion Control and Terrain Adaptation of Humanoid Robots
arXiv:2603.03067v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: For effective deployment in real-world environments, humanoid robots must autonomously navigate a diverse ra…
Wiggle and Go! System Identification for Zero-Shot Dynamic Rope Manipulation
arXiv:2604.22102v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many robotic tasks are unforgiving; a single mistake in a dynamic throw can lead to unacceptable delays or u…
A Multi-Modal Perception Pipeline for Object Detection and Tracking in Autonomous Racing
arXiv:2609.08338v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Object detection and tracking are fundamental components of perception systems for autonomous driving. Achie…
Diagnosing and Dynamically Filtering Occupancy World Models for Active Mapping
arXiv:2609.06820v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Active mapping requires a robot to select camera viewpoints that efficiently reconstruct an unknown 3D scene…
GIF: Agentic Generation of Interactive and Functional Object Compositions for Robot Learning
arXiv:2609.05927v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robot manipulation foundation models require scalable evaluation and data generation across diverse scenario…
Evaluation of Vision-Language Models Across Diverse Coastal Environments
arXiv:2609.10855v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) enable robotic per- ception by associating visual observations with natural-lang…
Rapid Learning of Dexterous In-Hand Pen Writing through Real-Time Jacobian Estimation
arXiv:2609.11775v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous in-hand manipulation of a grasped object with an anthropomorphic hand is an unsolved frontier for robo…
CARLAverse: A Highly Modular, Distributed, and Multimodal Framework for Human-in-the-Loop Simulation
arXiv:2609.11478v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The development of autonomous driving demands comprehensive testing in mixed-traffic scenarios involving vulnera…
CAP: Continuously Adaptive Perception-Blind Humanoid Locomotion via Learned Denoising
arXiv:2609.11553v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid locomotion across complex terrain demands forward-looking exteroception to anticipate obstacles, yet th…
Harness Robotic OS: A Unified Embodied-Agent Runtime for Closed-Loop Quadruped Inspection
arXiv:2609.11225v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous property inspection requires more than robust robot navigation: a deployable system must connect hete…
RIDE: Relocalization-Informed Depth Estimation with 3D Gaussian Splatting
arXiv:2609.11079v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Render--match--PnP relocalization establishes correspondences between query image pixels and 3D map points for c…
LTLDiff: Finite Linear Temporal Logic-Guided Data Generation and Diffusion Policies for Multi-agent Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2609.11043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent robotic manipulation tasks require coordination among agents to satisfy task-level temporal, logical…
Planning along Differentiable Charts of Constraint Manifolds with General-Purpose IK Solvers
arXiv:2609.10905v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Planning trajectories for robot manipulators under kinematic equality constraints restricts feasible motions to …
IMLE-VLA: Fast Single-Step Action Generation for Vision-Language-Action Policies
arXiv:2609.10915v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies leverage pretrained vision-language backbones to achieve strong cross-task…
Testing Between the Test Cases: Proving End-to-End Steering in Conditions You Never Drove
arXiv:2609.10951v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-based automated vehicle testing is challenging because a model that passes every test condition can still fai…
Quasi-static analysis of passive stability in a novel underactuated multi-finger hand
arXiv:2609.11579v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Underactuated robotic hands achieve adaptive and robust grasping with a reduced number of actuators, but predict…
Rhythm: Learning Interactive Whole-Body Control for Dual Humanoids
arXiv:2603.02856v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Realizing interactive whole-body control for multi-humanoid systems is critical for unlocking complex collab…
DCReg: Decoupled Characterization for Efficient Degenerate LiDAR Registration
arXiv:2509.06285v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LiDAR point cloud registration is fundamental to robotic perception and navigation. In geometrically degener…