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3285 storiesOntology-Grounded World Models for Failure Diagnosis and Closed-Loop Repair in Physical AI Systems
arXiv:2608.13901v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: EV-WM represents candidate quality with feature and event scores, but these scores do not explicitly record an u…
LatentAM: Real-Time, Large-Scale Latent Gaussian Attention Mapping via Online Dictionary Learning
arXiv:2602.12314v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present LatentAM, an online 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) mapping framework that builds scalable latent fe…
A Temporal Barrier Framework for Collision Avoidance in Multi-Agent Autonomous Aerial Vehicles
arXiv:2608.14239v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Operating teams of autonomous aircraft in dynamic, uncertain, and potentially adversarial environments require…
Estimating Dynamic Soft Continuum Robot States From Boundaries
arXiv:2505.04491v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: State estimation is one of the fundamental problems in robotics. For soft continuum robots, this task is par…
Reward Machines for Signal Temporal Logic
arXiv:2608.13625v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Signal temporal logic (STL) provides a formal language for specifying real-time properties of real-valued obse…
THRIVE: Therapeutic Humanoid Robot In Virtual Environment
arXiv:2608.14462v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents THRIVE (Therapeutic Humanoid Robot In Virtual Environment), an at-home rehabilitation platfo…
PRM-as-a-Judge 1.5: A Toolkit for Robot Process Assessment
arXiv:2608.14284v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-grained robotic evaluation matters for understanding embodied models, going beyond binary success rates and…
AgilePE: Autonomous UAV Pursuit-Evasion via Self-Play Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2608.14135v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous pursuit-evasion is a fundamental challenge for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), requiring rapid decis…
FlatLab: A Unified Methodology Framework and Simulation-Based Benchmark for Robotic Manipulation of Flat Objects
arXiv:2608.14049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic manipulation of flat objects is challenging due to the ungraspable configurations and strong variations …
hint$^2$: Hierarchical World Models for Inference-Time Temporal Logic Guidance
arXiv:2608.13678v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A central goal of robot learning is to enable robots to execute rich instructions specified at runtime. Large-sc…
Knowledge-Data-Dual-Driven Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Vehicle Control in Mixed Traffic
arXiv:2608.13878v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In mixed traffic, decision-making for autonomous vehicles (AVs) confronts three interrelated challenges. First, …
Demonstration of Space Robot Teleoperation over a Lossy and Delayed Network using ATMOS
arXiv:2608.14031v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a demonstration showcasing the Autonomy Testbed for Multi-purpose Orbiting Systems (ATMOS), a planar …
PILOT: Privileged Imitation Learning for End-to-End Motion Planning of Autonomous UAVs under Partial Observability
arXiv:2608.14082v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous navigation in cluttered environments is hampered by partial observability and dynamic constraints. Th…
Control-Informed Constraint Adaptation in Minimum-Time Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Racing
arXiv:2608.14448v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous racecars operate at the limits of vehicle dynamics, where small control errors translate into safety-…
Expected Free Energy-based Informative Path Planning for Robotic Mars Exploration
arXiv:2608.14466v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An autonomous robot efficiently exploring an unknown environment, such as looking for water sources on Mars, fac…
Spatiotemporal Tube-Based Safety-Certificate for Autonomous Navigation of Articulated Vehicles
arXiv:2608.14531v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Articulated vehicles are the workhorses of freight transportation, and their autonomous navigation is challengin…
Learning-Guided Sparsification of Dynamic Graphs in Robotic Exploration
arXiv:2604.16509v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many robotic exploration algorithms rely on graph structures for frontier-based exploration and dynamic path…
How robotics is revolutionizing stroke rehabilitation
Eyal Samuel Shachar, the CEO of Bioxtreme, says the growing synergy of robotics, AI, and human-centered care will improve patient outcomes. The post How robotic…
Why robots that can’t communicate naturally won’t be adopted
Gunnar Pétur Hauksson, the co-founder and COO at Treble Technologies, says robotics developers can't overlook the importance of hearing. The post Why robots tha…
How Protolabs turns CAD files into parts in under 24 hours
Protolabs CTO Marc Kermisch explains how AI, simulation, and design for manufacturing turn CAD files into production parts faster. The post How Protolabs turns …
Neros Technologies raises $250M to deploy its defense drones by the end of 2026
Neros is developing its Archer AI and Bandit platform with the hardware and compute required for multi-asset control. The post Neros Technologies raises $250M t…
Robots on Wall Street: Non-traditional paths to public markets for robotics companies
Agility’s SPAC deal shows there is no one route to a robotics public listing, with SPAC mergers, reverse mergers, and traditional IPOs offering different advant…
What does it take for a robot to hold a conversation with a room, not just a person?
By Umar Farooq That was one of the questions at the heart of my last week (20th-24th July) at the Imperial Robotics Summer School, hosted at Imperial College, L…
RoboSynChallenge: Mastering Real-World Dexterity via Generalizing Synthesized Manipulation Skills
arXiv:2608.12416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Achieving generalizable robotic manipulation remains a central challenge in embodied intelligence. Despite rapid…
Attune: A Self-Annotation Tool for Understanding Robot Operator Attention Profiles
arXiv:2608.12650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying robot fleets in complex, real-world environments requires human operators to supervise multiple robots…
Genetic Fuzzy System-Based Multi-Robot Coordination for Planetary Missions
arXiv:2608.12755v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper proposes a decentralized approach for a multi-robot system (MRS) using a genetic fuzzy system to perf…
BrainWAM: Action-Space Coordination of Semantic Priors and Predictive Dynamics for Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2608.12854v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving requires planning under both semantic constraints and predictive dynamics. Existing end-to-en…
HumanoidVLN: A Physics-Grounded Simulator and Benchmark for Vision-Language Navigation Across Diverse Humanoid Embodiments
arXiv:2608.12860v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) for humanoid robots poses challenges existing benchmarks fail to address: biped…
H2R-Bench: Benchmarking Human-to-Robot Manipulation Video Generation in World Models
arXiv:2608.13049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale manipulation data is essential for robot learning, yet collecting robot demonstrations remains expen…
S2-HWM: Sparse Event-Structured Hierarchical World Model for Long-Horizon Surgical Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2608.13103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon surgical robot manipulation is challenging because task rewards are sparse, while meaningful intera…