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Daily robotics industry news: humanoids, industrial automation, drones, autonomous systems and the companies building them.
Daily robotics industry news: humanoids, industrial automation, drones, autonomous systems and the companies building them.
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1858 storiesTransBiolab: A Real-World Multi-View Dataset of Cluttered Transparent Biomedical Objects
arXiv:2607.21071v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous biomedical laboratories increasingly rely on visual perception to recognize, localize, and manipula…
i2Nav-Robot: A Large-Scale Indoor-Outdoor Robot Dataset for Multi-Sensor Fusion Navigation
arXiv:2508.11485v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate and reliable navigation is crucial for autonomous unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). However, current…
Socially Consistent Multi-Robot Navigation Using Decoupled Planning and Trajectory Coordination
arXiv:2607.20772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The successful integration of mobile robots in human-centric environments requires navigation that is not only s…
Self-Supervised Bio-Inspired Robotic Trajectory Planning with Obstacle Avoidance
arXiv:2607.20743v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trajectory planning is a fundamental problem in robotics, requiring the generation of collision-free and efficie…
Deep Reinforcement-Learning-Guided Model Predictive Control for Preventing Overtakes in Autonomous Racing
arXiv:2607.20973v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses defensive blocking in autonomous racing, where a vehicle must prevent a faster opponent fro…
Uber co-founder raises $1.7B for new robotics startup ATOMS
Travis Kalanick, the former CEO of Uber, said with ATOMS, he hopes to create physical automation to transform industry. The post Uber co-founder raises $1.7B fo…
Holiday Robotics raises $105M for its FRIDAY wheeled humanoid
Holiday's robot features a wheel-based mobile base, an upper body for dexterous manipulation, and hot-swappable batteries. The post Holiday Robotics raises $105…
Ropedia raises $22M to scale data collection for training robots
Ropdeia's HOMIE is a head-mounted device, equipped with a 360º camera view, that captures first-person data for training robots. The post Ropedia raises $22M to…
AMD unveils Kria module for real-time control, unified memory for robots
AMD has launched the Ryzen AI Embedded X100 and Kria AI SoM, bringing unified memory and real-time control to challenge NVIDIA in robotics. The post AMD unveils…
Optimal Placement of Docking Stations and Resident AUVs for Subsea Pipeline Inspection
arXiv:2607.19944v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A two-stage mixed-integer linear programming framework is introduced for subsea pipeline incident response pla…
Extreme-RGMT: Continual Learning of Highly Dynamic Skills for Robust Generalist Humanoid Control
arXiv:2607.20110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans can progressively acquire highly dynamic motor skills while preserving reliable everyday motor abilities.…
Distributed Acoustic Localization Array Deployed Using a Soft Everting Vine Robot
arXiv:2607.20392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft robot exteroception is increasingly being explored for a variety of field applications. In this work, we pr…
SOPD-SocialNav: Selective On-Policy Distillation for Vision-Language Social Navigation
arXiv:2607.19850v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models have shown strong potential for social robot navigation by leveraging rich semantic under…
Towards Miniature Humanoid Tele-Loco-Manipulation Using Virtual Reality and Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607.20399v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Full-sized humanoid robot capabilities have grown exponentially in recent years, aiming towards general-purpose …
Effort-Based Criticality Metrics for Evaluating 3D Perception Errors in Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2603.28029v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Criticality metrics such as time-to-collision (TTC) quantify collision urgency but do not distinguish …
SeededGrasp: Language-Guided Grasping in Complex Scenes with Multiple Embodiments
arXiv:2607.20207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Practical robotic grasping in complex scenes requires both 3D spatial reasoning and alignment with task-specific…
V2F: Vision-Informed Grasp Force Prediction for Damage-Aware Robotic Handling of Date Fruits
arXiv:2607.19804v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a vision-informed grasp force prediction framework for robotic handling of date fruits. Addr…
Morphing MILR: Design and control of a cable-driven limbless robot with rolling joints for maneuvering in complex environments
arXiv:2607.19714v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Limbless robots offer exceptional mobility in confined and cluttered environments due to their slender bodies an…
Defer to Plan: Adaptive Multi-Agent Fusion for End-to-End V2X Driving
arXiv:2607.19774v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vehicle-to-everything-aided autonomous driving (V2X-AD) significantly enhances driving performance through infor…
What Matters in Humanoid General Motion Tracking? An Empirical Study
arXiv:2607.19903v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid general motion tracking requires policies that can follow diverse whole-body references while maintaini…
Distributed Motion Planning with Safety Guarantees for Self-Reconfiguring Robotic Boats
arXiv:2607.20352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aquatic self-reconfigurable robots must assemble into desired shapes while ensuring safe interactions among mult…
EgoRecovery: Acquiring Failure Recovery Ability Through Human Recovery Demonstration
arXiv:2607.19745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust embodied robots should be able to recover from failures and retry tasks in order to operate reliably in u…
Unified Prediction and Planning via Conflict-Aware Disjoint Parameter Training
arXiv:2607.19971v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate motion prediction of surrounding agents and safe motion planning are two closely coupled key tasks for …
Milo, a Fully Autonomous Indoor/Outdoor Robotic Guide Dog
arXiv:2607.19530v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many Blind and Low-Vision (BLV) people rely on guide dogs for moment-to-moment navigation, such as staying on pa…
PGTT: Phase-Guided Terrain Traversal for Perceptive Legged Locomotion
arXiv:2510.18348v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: State-of-the-art perceptive Reinforcement Learning controllers for legged robots typically either (i) impose…
Learning Personalized Safety Interventions for Haptic Human-Robot Shared Control
arXiv:2607.19534v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Haptic feedback provides an implicit channel for communicating safety intentions during human-robot shared contr…
Dynamic Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery in Robotic Cellular Warehousing Systems
arXiv:2606.05669v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic Cellular Warehousing Systems (RCWS) give rise to multi-agent pickup and delivery (MAPD) processes in…
Closing the Lab-to-Store Gap: A Data-Efficient Post-Training and Experience-Driven Learning VLA Framework for Retail Humanoids
arXiv:2607.20345v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Closing the gap between benchmark performance and reliable real-world operation remains a central challenge for …
ModPack: An Extensible Teleoperation Interface for Bimanual Mobile Manipulation
arXiv:2607.19479v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing teleoperation systems are often tailored to specific robot hardware and task domains, limiting their sc…
Robots Acquire Manipulation Skills in Seconds from a Single Human Video
arXiv:2607.20033v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The ability to acquire skills rapidly and effortlessly while retaining those already mastered is essential for r…