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Daily robotics industry news: humanoids, industrial automation, drones, autonomous systems and the companies building them.
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3285 storiesHarvestPoint-ACT: Explicit Target Selection and Harvest-Point Conditioning for Robotic Fruit Harvesting under Occlusion
arXiv:2608.18446v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end imitation learning avoids hand-made robot motion for approaching and grasping, but the policy must st…
The Embodiment Gap in Robot Foundation Models
arXiv:2608.18433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot foundation models (RFMs), including vision-language-action (VLA) policies, are often discussed through a s…
GuideFetch: A Task Coordination Framework for Concurrent Navigation and Object Retrieval in Assistive Robot Dogs
arXiv:2608.18292v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Consider a robot guide dog escorting a blind user to an available seat while a second assistive robot dog concur…
Engineering Psychological Safety in Autonomous Vehicles: A Systems-Theoretic Framework for Psychological Safety in Autonomous Vehicles and its Validation in Real-World Scenarios
arXiv:2608.18778v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite rapid technological advances, the societal acceptability of autonomous vehicles (AVs) remains limited …
LT-Mem: Volatility-Aware Spatio-Temporal Memory for Lifelong Scene Understanding
arXiv:2608.19059v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term robot operation in evolving environments requires object-level understanding that persists across repe…
RoboEdit: Turning Human Manipulation Videos into Scalable Robot Experience
arXiv:2608.18948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collecting robot hand-object interaction data is costly and embodiment-specific, yet abundant human-object video…
Dream2Reward: Transition-Alignment Reward Models from Positive Demonstrations for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2608.18787v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning robotic policies requires dense rewards that remain informative when behavior departs from successful d…
Progressive Experience Fusion for Multi-Task World Model Control in Endovascular Navigation
arXiv:2608.18647v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous endovascular navigation could support the delivery of mechanical thrombectomy to underserved areas, b…
LabDex: A Hierarchical Benchmark for Dexterous Manipulation in Laboratories
arXiv:2608.18618v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous laboratories hold great promise for accelerating scientific discovery. To achieve this vision, robots…
Transferable Tool-Tissue Contact Detection from Stereo Depth in Robot-Assisted Surgery
arXiv:2608.18270v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable tool--tissue contact detection can support interaction-aware control and downstream force estimation in…
GAPL: Grounded Action-effect Policy Learning for LLM-Based Trajectory Planning
arXiv:2608.18254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trajectory planning for autonomous driving requires both high-level reasoning and precise low-level control. Lar…
What does Unitree Robotics’ IPO mean for the humanoid industry?
Now that Unitree Robotics has made its IPO, which humanoid robotics companies will follow in its footsteps? The post What does Unitree Robotics’ IPO mean …
Kollmorgen to give a joint-by-joint guide to humanoid motion at RoboBusiness
The talk at RoboBusiness will outline the unique demands of each body zone and the challenges of scaling for production. The post Kollmorgen to give a joint-by-…
Pudu Robotics launches new MP2000 autonomous forklift
Pudu Robotics has launched the MP2000, an AI-native autonomous robot designed to transport 2,000 kg loads across complex warehouse environments. The post Pudu R…
Serve Robotics to deploy its autonomous delivery robots with Grubhub
Serve's robot delivery will be available from more than 100 participating Grubhub merchants in Chicago and nearly 200 in Los Angeles. The post Serve Robotics to…
Robotics roadmaps from around the world spotlight of the month: Japan
Robots have been a prolific theme in Japanese pop culture and media since the 1950s, which includes global icons like the Transformers, Astro Boy, and Doraemon …
Terrain-Aware Local Path Planning with Global DEM Data Integration for Autonomous UGV Navigation
arXiv:2608.17038v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous navigation in complex outdoor terrains presents critical challenges for unmanned ground vehicles (UGV…
PDDL-ART: Autonomous Symbolic Abstraction From Demonstration For Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation Using Vision-Language Models
arXiv:2608.17146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Symbolic planning with PDDL offers a principled framework for long-horizon robot manipulation, but constructing …
Robust Brachiation on a Life-Sized Dual-Arm Robot Using Waypoint-Guided Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2608.17320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Brachiation is a form of locomotion in which primates move primarily using their arms, enabling traversal in env…
HODAgent: Towards On-Demand, Responsive Humanoids for Physical World Human Interaction
arXiv:2608.17584v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose HODAgent, a System-2 embodied agent for humanoid robots in service settings, addressing situated inte…
Collective Ranking of Environmental Signals through Gaussian Belief Propagation in a Patrolling Robot Swarm
arXiv:2608.17690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot patrolling requires a team to visit all areas of an environment at regular intervals, typically mini…
Effector-Centric NMPC of Tiltable-Multirotors for Offset-Free Omnidirectional Aerial Manipulation
arXiv:2608.17819v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aerial manipulation extends robotic operations to previously inaccessible aerial environments. Unlike arm-equipp…
ControlledShifts: Towards Standardizing Robustness Evaluation in Trajectory Prediction Under Distribution Shifts
arXiv:2608.17882v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trajectory prediction is central to safety in autonomous driving, yet learning-based predictors tend to degrade …
PRISM: Precision and contact-rich Real-world Industrial Skill dataset with Multimodal sensing
arXiv:2608.17962v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent progress in robotic learning has been fueled by large-scale datasets collected in everyday environments. …
Optimal control of a swimming robot based on Purcell's microswimmer model
arXiv:2608.17455v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Purcell's swimmer is a well-known planar model of a swimming microorganism, governed by low Reynolds number hy…
LoopVLA: Learning Sufficiency in Recurrent Refinement for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2605.09948v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models typically treat the deepest representation of a vision-lan…
Efficient Dynamic Shielding for Parametric Safety Specifications
arXiv:2505.22104v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Shielding has emerged as a promising approach for ensuring safety of AI-controlled autonomous systems.…
KAN We Flow? Advancing Robotic Manipulation with 3D Flow Matching via KAN & RWKV
arXiv:2602.01115v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion-based visuomotor policies excel at modeling action distributions but are inference-inefficient, si…
PROBE: Manipulation-Grounded Visual Question Answering with VLM Agents
arXiv:2608.17129v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language Models (VLMs) excel at 2D grounding, spatial reasoning and agentic tool-based planning in stat…
Stability Control for Real World Testing in Autonomous Racing
arXiv:2608.17779v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Controlling an autonomous vehicle at the limits of handling is a challenging task. Due to external influences, s…