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Daily robotics industry news: humanoids, industrial automation, drones, autonomous systems and the companies building them.
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1860 storiesAce! Motion Planning of Professional-Level Table Tennis Serves with a Robot Arm
arXiv:2607.06989v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Table tennis, a dynamic, compact, and popular sport, has received significant attention as a robotics benchmark …
EvoPlan: Evolutionary Neuro-Symbolic Robot Planning with Spatio-Temporal Guarantees
arXiv:2607.06724v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based robot planners are fluent but cannot guarantee that their plans are executable or safe. Classical PDDL…
Immersive Social Interaction with VR and LLM-Assisted Humanoids
arXiv:2607.07430v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots can extend human presence to remote, constrained, or hazardous environments, but existing teleop…
Vision Language Action (VLA) Models for Unmanned Aerial Robotics and Bimanual Manipulation: A Review
arXiv:2607.06706v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision Language Action (VLA) models unify visual perception, natural-language understanding, and action generati…
Multimodal Voice Activity Projection for Turn-Taking in Social Robots with Voice-Activity-Related Pretrained Encoders
arXiv:2607.07294v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Turn-taking prediction is a key requirement for social robots involved in human-human interaction, particularly …
Event-Centric World Modeling with Memory-Augmented Retrieval for Embodied Decision-Making
arXiv:2604.07392v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous agents operating in dynamic environments increasingly demand decision-making systems that a…
BifrostUMI: Bridging Robot-Free Demonstrations and Humanoid Whole-Body Manipulation
arXiv:2605.03452v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-quality demonstration data are essential for humanoid robot skill learning, especially for whole-body b…
TouchWorld: A Predictive and Reactive Tactile Foundation Model for Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv:2607.07287v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous manipulation in everyday environments requires both anticipation and reaction: a robot must predict ho…
Humanoid Whole-Body Manipulation via Active Spatial Brain and Generalizable Action Cerebellum
arXiv:2605.21133v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this paper, we explore spatial-aware humanoid whole-body manipulation task. Compared with tabletop settin…
WAM-TTT: Steering World-Action Models by Watching Human Play at Test Time
arXiv:2607.06988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Steering robot foundation models (RFMs) toward new task variants or user-preferred behaviors remains challenging…
GeoGS-SLAM: Geometry-Only Gaussian Splatting for Dense Monocular SLAM
arXiv:2607.07452v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dense visual SLAM is a fundamental problem in robotics. Recent advances in 3DGS have demonstrated its potential …
End-to-End LLM Flight Planning with RAG-based Memory and Multi-modal Coach Agent
arXiv:2607.06964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bridging the gap between human pilot intent and autonomous flight operation is critical for real-world electric …
VOTE: Vision-Language-Action Optimization with Trajectory Ensemble Voting
arXiv:2507.05116v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent large-scale Vision Language Action (VLA) models have shown superior performance in robotic mani…
Communicative Efficiency of Single vs. Multi-Axis Robot Neck Motion
arXiv:2607.07390v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Nonverbal communication through head and neck movement is fundamental to human social signalling, yet how roboti…
GemNav: Discrete-Token Visual Robot Navigation using a Multimodal Large Language Model
arXiv:2607.06882v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual navigation policies built on large pretrained models have so far followed a common recipe: a dedicated vi…
Flow-ERD: Agent-type Aware Flow Matching with Entropy-Regularized Distillation for Diverse Traffic Simulation
arXiv:2607.06957v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Realistic and diverse traffic simulation is essential to autonomous driving development. Yet prevailing benchmar…
A Continual Learning Framework for Adaptive Control of Modular Soft Robots
arXiv:2607.06740v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft robots have attracted significant attention in applications such as medical intervention, rehabilitation, a…
PriGo: Test-Time Primitive Guidance to Diffusion and Flow Policies for Adaptive Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.07076v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitation learning has enabled remarkable progress in robotic manipulation, especially with diffusion and flow-b…
CARLA-GS: Decoupling Representation, Reasoning, and Physics Simulation for Autonomous Driving Corner-Case Synthesis
arXiv:2607.07601v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety evaluation for autonomous driving is dominated by rare, safety-critical interactions, motivating simulato…
Manual, Joystick, or Haptic Control? An In Vitro Comparison of Navigation Strategies for Robotic Interventional Neuroradiology Procedures
arXiv:2607.07253v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Objective: To evaluate robotic controller interfaces for interventional neuroradiology procedures in-vitro incor…
DAG-Based QoS-Aware Dynamic Task Placement for Networked Multi-Stage Control Pipelines
arXiv:2605.19887v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current Physical AI (PAI) relies heavily on closed-loop visual-servoing pipelines, whose perception an…
Dual Latent Memory in Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.07608v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mainstream Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models predict actions primarily from the current observation under a Ma…
Smooth Operator: A Real-Time Sampling-Based Algorithm for Kinematic Hand Retargeting
arXiv:2607.07491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advances in learning-based robotic manipulation, such as Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and Video Action Mo…
Zero-Human Demonstration End-to-end Autonomous Driving with Trajectory Scorer
arXiv:2510.24108v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human demonstrations are widely considered the cornerstone of end-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving despite hu…
EmbodiedGen V2: An Agentic, Simulation-Ready 3D World Engine for Embodied AI
arXiv:2607.07459v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present EmbodiedGen V2, a generative 3D world engine for building executable sim-ready environments for embod…
Shared Modular Recurrence in Contextual MDPs for Universal Morphology Control
arXiv:2506.08630v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A universal controller for any robot morphology would greatly improve computational and data efficienc…
NVIDIA and Hugging Face bring new models and frameworks to LeRobot
Hugging Face LeRobot is an open-source robotics library for training, running, and sharing robot datasets, models, policies, and workflows. The post NVIDIA and …
Tickets, geofences, and 1M miles: The new reality of California AV compliance
Guident CEO Harald Braun breaks down the new AV mandates in California mandates and how they will affect the driverless industry. The post Tickets, geofences, a…
ENCY Software and Stäubli Robotics partner to simplify robot programming
ENCY Software and Stäubli Robotics have signed a global agreement to make robot programming more intuitive, faster, and more accessible. The post ENCY Software …
Preference-Calibrated Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2606.03949v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning (HIL-RL) improves sample efficiency in real-robot manipulation thro…